Really pleased he's finally gotten around to recording 'LoHaD', always loved that song on the Live in NYC album.
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Thursday, January 19, 2012 10:09 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^^
― Planned Perrintweet (some dude), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
A+ display name, some dude
― Famous porn scenes like "shake that bear" (Phil D.), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
eh not crazy about the new song. does sound like he's going for maximum possibility of republican co-option.
― tylerw, Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
The right wing will be so myopic about the phrase "we take care of our own." It can easily mean soldiers and unborn babies but not poor people in their mindset.
He's a cool rocking daddy looking out for his fellow 1%ers.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
this is unfortunate
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
Eh, it's an election year. He'll make his leanings clear. Could be a Ron Paul / Tea Party theme, though.
― do you not like slouching? (Eazy), Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
barf
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
in theusa
― do you not like slouching? (Eazy), Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
Barf In The USA
i'm sure that brooce will come out as a heavy democrat supporter next year, but that song just seems like he's fishing for newt or someone to start saying "WE TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN" and then the boss can come out and say NO.
lol xp
― tylerw, Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
next year? this year, i mean.
I can't imagine anybody mistaking this for a Springsteen endorsement of any GOP idea or candidate. But it is fun to try.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
from the good ol' days when the GOP assumed Springsteen was on their side
The next day, George Will, who also saw Springsteen at the Capitol Center, checked in with his nationally syndicated column. Will had attended the show at the invitation of Max Weinberg and his wife Becky, who had mysteriously found him amusing on ABC-TV's This Week with David Brinkley. (They also invited Sam Donaldson, who didn't show; so much for liberalism in broadcast journalism.) In the course of a clumsy encomium, Will managed to contort the experience beyond recognition, ending in a burst of free market bluster: "If all Americans--in labor and management, who make steel or cars or shoes or textiles--made their products with as much energy and confidence as Springsteen and his merry band make music, there would be no need for Congress to be thinking about protectionism." In other words, if you find slapping bumpers onto compact cars less fulfilling than singing rock and roll songs in front of adoring masses, fuck off. Will's column did not note that he had left the concert one song into the second set, though not before he finally unknotted his ugly yellow bowtie.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
I've seen Bruce booed (as opposed to Bruuuuced) at least twice for speaking his mind, once at MSG during the "41 Shots" imbroglio, the other a couple of summers ago at the Harley Davidson 105th anniversary celebration. Generally, though, his political foes know how to compartmentalize (see: the Boss vs. Chris Christie).
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 19 January 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
omg @ land of hope and dreams! actually excited for this!
― Bruce K. Tedesco (zachlyon), Thursday, 19 January 2012 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
it sucks that this song has neu-bruce production but I think it's really good
― iatee, Friday, 20 January 2012 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
I dig the idea of a conservative rocking out to this and then hearing the line 'From the shotgun shack to the Superdome'
― iatee, Friday, 20 January 2012 03:45 (twelve years ago) link
really this is amazing troll work
― iatee, Friday, 20 January 2012 03:46 (twelve years ago) link
Officially touring with a horn section.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
ooooOOOOooooo
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
Witness, the power of horns:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxgPBILzBDk&feature=fvst
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2012/02/bruce_springsteen_announces_tw.html
At least one from Southside Johnny's band
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
look at that guy! jesus christ. omg. he doused himself in water!
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
I hope the Boss busts out the bolo tie again.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 February 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
Better the bolo than shirtless with overalls, but I am sympathetic to most of his looks at least through Tunnel of Love.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Thursday, 9 February 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x8zBzxCwsM&feature=player_embedded
other than the strings and a lot of the video, this is actually better than i was expecting.
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 10 February 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
Video ends with scores of dejected fans shut out from buying Bruce tix: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204573704577187410568254898.html
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 10 February 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
Hmm, lots of the new songs (I guess the album has leaked, too) have looped drums and gospel singing. But the lyrics are pretty specific about contemporary class warfare. Interesting Trojan horse approach, slick music, direct lyrics.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
wait if the music is accessible and the lyrics are unambigous, what is the Trojan horse aspect?
― some dude, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
The music is sort of big and slick, but the lyrics sneakily not strident. Ergo, the catchy stuff gets played on the radio/embraced by the masses, despite being subversively pro-99%.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
but the masses ARE part of the 99%.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
But the masses don't give a shit about the political aspect of that reality. Which is why we have Republicans.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
I hope I'm not picking on you, but how are "slick" music and "direct" lyrics an example of subversion or a Trojan horse approach? I can understand how the booming beat lent a jingoistic fervor to the chorus of "Born in the USA," but otherwise slick music and direct lyrics have been staples of pop music since, I dunno, forever.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, in one post the lyrics are "pretty specific" and "direct," in another they're "sneak[y]" and "subversive"....i haven't heard the record so i don't know which is more correct but your inconsistent choice of words just made me scratch my head
― some dude, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
The new stuff I've listened to is outight poppy, not just generically "pop," which is where I hear the subversion. And I'm up for some examples of directly, explicitly *political* lyrics in pop music. I don't think it happens that often, but maybe I'm too tired to think of examples.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
Haven't heard it but I guess what Josh is saying is that the lyrics are not only direct but anti-establishment. It's not a staple of pop music to have anti-establishment lyrics set to radio-friendly tunes.
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, this. Sorry for being unclear.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
The country-folk stomper "Shackled and Drawn" has lyrics that could have almost come from the Woody Guthrie songbook: "Gambling man rolls the dice, workingman pays the bill/ It’s still fat and easy up on banker’s hill/ Up on banker’s hill, the party’s going strong/ Down here below we’re shackled and drawn."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/exclusive-stream-bruce-springsteens-new-song-shackled-and-drawn-20120221
You'll find examples in lots of country music (e.g. Brad Paisley's "Welcome to the Future"). Springsteen's done it himself: "My Hometown," "Radio Nowhere," "Badlands."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
Radio Nowhere and Badlands are pretty oblique, I think. My Hometown is explicit, yeah, but it's also totally downbeat and hardly what I'd consider "poppy." Paisley is a good example, I guess, but even he is kind of cagey about what he's singing about, equating the wonder of playing video games on his phone with having a black president.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
"My Hometown" is a pop ballad. I mean, it hit #6.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
Popular is not pop. And by then Bruce could have recorded the Pledge of Allegiance and charted.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
Popular is not pop
oh ok
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
Is this "country-folk stomper" song poppy? I don't have access to it right now.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
Eh, I think it's poppy. At least, it sounds sort of upbeat.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
And Alfred, I don't know if you were teasing or not, but do you mean that charting alone automatically conveys popness? Like, if it charts, it's definitively pop? I mean, I'm not saying that's wrong, but I guess I don't really believe that.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
who produced this? it sounds like shit modern rock
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
Some shit modern rock guy! Seriously, like the worst dude ever.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
Dude who produced Lifehouse, Jars of Clay and some other red-flag shit.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
dude if you're gonna say that anything Bruce can do now will ever straddle a subversive/meaningful pop divide more than Born In The U.S.A. did then you're just wrong
― TERMAINTOR 2 (some dude), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link