Anybody listen to the new Bruce track?
eight six seven five three oh nye-ee-en
it's ok.
i forgot how much i liked this thread.
― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 26 August 2007 01:34 (sixteen years ago) link
I bought this a few weeks ago
http://991.com/newGallery/Bruce-Springsteen-Live-1975-1985---283030.jpg
So good.
― jim, Sunday, 26 August 2007 01:47 (sixteen years ago) link
It's like that "Brucing" craze that erupted in the Berlin gay clubs back in the day, where everyone used to wear a bandana and denim jacket and pull anguished, sincere, meaningful faces to the latest Springsteen records.
Tell me about this in more detail please.
― Cunga, Sunday, 26 August 2007 03:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I was completely surprised by "Radio Nowhere," because I'd feared some of the Seeger Sessions vibe might creep over into his new stuff. The difference is totally night and day, though. I'm actually looking forward to the whole record now (and I'm def going to try and see him live again with the E Streeters).
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 26 August 2007 04:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Sooooo... Magic leaked a few days ago. I think it's kind of fucking amazing, much better than The Rising. Anybody else listened to it? "Livin' In The Future" could be a forgotten single from The River, for chrissakes!
― Davey D, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link
OH man, I am so excited.
The Rising had some good songs but it's not exactly something I'm dying to listen to all the time. He hasn't made a great rock record since Born In The USA so this is really great news. I love Radio Nowhere. When he wants to, the guy can make some of the best sounding music of anyone.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:07 (sixteen years ago) link
He hasn't made a great rock record since Born In The USA
TUNNEL OF LOVE DUDE, TUNNEL OF LOVE
― max, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
"Radio Nowhere" is pretty in all, with its Tommy Tutone guitar hook, but it says NOTHING AT ALL except that the radio scares Bruce but he's not about to get all Tom Petty about it.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link
*pretty and all
the new song is funny, the sax break reminds me of the backwards bagpipes on "Under The Milky Way"
― da croupier, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:19 (sixteen years ago) link
seeing the video for "Human Touch" on VH1 Classic was REAL funny
― da croupier, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:20 (sixteen years ago) link
bruce should figure out a really ridiculous haircut for this album, or at least shave it all off.
"Radio Nowhere" is one of the weaker tracks on the new album, IMHO.
― Davey D, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
a co-worker says a friend of his was once making a documentary about ashbury park and while walking around some abandoned warehouses on (the darkness on) the edge of town he thought he heard some noise and opened a large door to discover Bruce and a band rocking out inside. after a minute, some security guys ran over and told him to get out of there.
LEGENDS OF BRUCE.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, it's totally pimp that he's releasing it on vinyl a week earlier than the CD.
― Davey D, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Kick a can in Ashbury Park and out comes BROOSE.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Also: "Radio Nowhere" IS "Human Touch."
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link
That's a lie and you know it!
― Davey D, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Not the thing about kicking a can. That's true.
you guys know its asbury, right?
― max, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:53 (sixteen years ago) link
woooops
― da croupier, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:54 (sixteen years ago) link
'magic' is great, certainly the best full album of his since....i don't know what.
― akm, Thursday, 4 October 2007 16:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Magic is a genuine bore, but boring in a different way than D&D and Tom Joad were.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 4 October 2007 18:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Kick a can in Ashbury Park and out comes BROOSE. Hence the term "Bruce Juice."
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 4 October 2007 19:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Bruce Juice: Taste The Myths of America
― Cunga, Thursday, 4 October 2007 23:49 (sixteen years ago) link
<i>'magic' is great, certainly the best full album of his since....i don't know what.</i>
Since "Tunnel of Love," or perhaps "The River!"
I really love it, I gotta say.
― Davey D, Friday, 5 October 2007 00:17 (sixteen years ago) link
fuck
I can deal with the hits, but mostly I love Nebraska and really like Tom Joad - is Magic worth checking out?
― milo z, Friday, 5 October 2007 02:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I still have not heard Nebraska despite its various accolades.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 5 October 2007 03:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd say the first half is his best album half, anyway, since Tunnel of Love. The second half is dicey.
― Mark Rich@rdson, Friday, 5 October 2007 03:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I really don't know how anyone can listen to this album without laughing.
― da croupier, Sunday, 7 October 2007 14:33 (sixteen years ago) link
GYPSY BIKER! DEVIL'S ARCADE! RADIO NOWHERE!
― da croupier, Sunday, 7 October 2007 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link
I have a hard time believing this album was made after 1991.
― da croupier, Sunday, 7 October 2007 14:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Mix and match the titles and you get what sounds on paper like an Electric Six album: "Gypsy Arcade," "Radio Biker, "Nowhere Devil."
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 7 October 2007 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Tru dat.
Frankie's Diner's Over on the edge of town Neon sign spinnin' round Like a cross over the lost and found
Fluorescent lights Flicker above Bob's Grill Shaniqua brings a coffee and asks "fill?" And says "penny for your thoughts now my poor Bill"
She went away She cut me like a knife Had a beautiful thing Maybe you just saved my life
In just a glance Down here on Magic Street Love's a fool's dance I ain't got much sense but I still got my feet
And the girls in their summer clothes In the cool of the evening light The girls in their summer clothes Pass me by
― da croupier, Sunday, 7 October 2007 14:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Are the titles really any worse than the ones on Human Touch, though? (Still haven't heard this 5 star masterpiece, btw.)
― JN$OT, Sunday, 7 October 2007 14:42 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, but try telling Jeff Porcaro that the Pearl Jam guy's going to produce you.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 7 October 2007 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link
The Human Touch ones, aside from "Soul Driver," are more commonplace cliches like "Cross My Heart," "A Man's Job," "Roll Of The Dice," "Real World," etc. The new one's got "Long Walk Home," "Last To Die" and "Your Own Worst Enemy" but its more obviously self-parodying.
― da croupier, Sunday, 7 October 2007 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link
or self-paradistic, as I'm not sure he's in on it.
― da croupier, Sunday, 7 October 2007 14:45 (sixteen years ago) link
paradistic = parodistic + parasitic
― da croupier, Sunday, 7 October 2007 14:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Well yeah, but that's really been Bruce's biggest problem since the dawn of the '90s, I'd say.
― JN$OT, Sunday, 7 October 2007 14:49 (sixteen years ago) link
has he ever bought a new car?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 7 October 2007 14:50 (sixteen years ago) link
A downtown window flushed with light Faces of the dead at five (faces of the dead at five) A martyr's silent eyes Petition the drivers as we pass by
― da croupier, Sunday, 7 October 2007 14:50 (sixteen years ago) link
you can really hear the parentheses on the track
― da croupier, Sunday, 7 October 2007 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I kinda dig some of the instrumental breaks on this, Max Weinberg's a pro.
― da croupier, Sunday, 7 October 2007 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link
They should have just recorded all the grand backing tracks and let us write our own overwraught americana over it
I'll cite Christgau's remarks on Undercover: "What do people hear in this murky, overblown, incoherent piece of shit?"
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 7 October 2007 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
OH THE JESUS ON MY DASHBOARD HE AIN'T SLEPT IN FORTY DAYS AND I'M HOPING FOR A MIRACLE, THAT CRIME ISN'T ALL THAT PAYS
― da croupier, Sunday, 7 October 2007 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link
see Bruce should write about that rather than how it's gonna be a long walk home
― da croupier, Sunday, 7 October 2007 14:56 (sixteen years ago) link
ohhh the devil's arcade is war
― da croupier, Sunday, 7 October 2007 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link