Coverinfo
Bruce performed the song 3 times:
Always together with Mike Ness :
Bruce joins Social Distortion at the
Sea.Hear.Now Festival, produced by Danny Clinch of Between The Sets and C3 Presents.
Mike Ness joins for the tour's sole "Bad Luck", in a repeat of 2009 at the LA Sports Arena.
Mike Ness (of Social Distortion) guests on the tour's only "Bad Luck" and "The Rising".
Songinfo
"
Bad Luck" is a punk rock song and the second track from Social Distortion's fourth studio album Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell which was released in 1992. It was the album's first single.
Other cover versions
Bruce on the artist
2020-04-24 SiriusXM Studio, New York City, NY
Bruce plays this song during his second 'From His Home to Yours': For the next hour or so, I will be your DJ for your dancing and listening pleasure. I hope you've all been … staying home, because outside the world is roiling.
"This next cut is from one of my favorite punk bands since … probably since the '80s. This is from Mike Ness, who I think is one of the great voices of rock 'n' roll. Great writer. Great bandleader. Great band. Social Distortion."
Springsteen has long been a major fan of Southern California punk/rave band Social Distortion. He touted their album
Somewhere Between Heaven And Hell as his favorite record of the year in a Rolling Stone interview in 1992.
Bruce had 4 performances with lead singer Mike Ness :
Lyrics
Some people like to gamble
But you, you always lose
Some people like to rock 'n' roll
You're always singing the blues
You got a nasty disposition
No one really knows the reason why
You got a bad, bad reputation
Gonna hang down your head and cry
Y'got bad, bad luck
Bad, bad luck
Y'got bad, bad luck
Bad, bad luck
Thirteen's my lucky number
To you it means stay inside
Black cat done crossed my path
No reason to run and hide
You're looking through a cracked mirror
No one really knows the reason why
Your enemies are getting nearer
Gonna hang down your head and cry
Y'got bad, bad luck
Bad, bad luck
Y'got bad, bad luck
Bad, bad luck
Some people go to church on Sundays
Others, they pray at home
You tell them that there ain't no God
That they're better off standing alone
You're always scratching at the eight ball
No one really knows the reason why
You get to the top and then you fall
Gonna hang your head down and cry
Y'got bad, bad luck
Bad, bad luck
Y'got bad, bad luck
Bad, bad luck
Y'got bad, bad luck
Bad, bad luck, c'mon give it to me
Bad, bad luck
Bad, bad luck, c'mon give it