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
i hope the video stars Barry Pepper
― da croupier, Sunday, 7 October 2007 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Mr. Hoos keeps talkin' bout Nebraska. I'm afraid to dispute it, I don't know it anyway. But Hoos is usually on to something good.
― Bimble, Sunday, 7 October 2007 15:03 (sixteen years ago) link
But he admits he hasn't heard it yet, Bimble.
― JN$OT, Sunday, 7 October 2007 15:04 (sixteen years ago) link
"Terry's Song"
Well they built the Titanic to be one of a kind, but many ships have ruled the seas They built the Eiffel Tower to stand alone, but they could build another if they please Taj Mahal, the pyramids of Egypt, are unique I suppose But when they built you, brother, they broke the mold
Now the world is filled with many wonders under the passing sun And sometimes something comes along and you know it's for sure the only one The Mona Lisa, the David, the Sistine Chapel, Jesus, Mary, and Joe And when they built you, brother, they broke the mold
When they built you, brother, they turned dust into gold When they built you, brother, they broke the mold
They say you can't take it with you, but I think that they're wrong 'Cause all I know is I woke up this morning, and something big was gone Gone into that dark ether where you're still young and hard and cold Just like when they built you, brother, they broke the mold
[harmonica bridge]
Now your death is upon us and we'll return your ashes to the earth And I know you'll take comfort in knowing you've been roundly blessed and cursed But love is a power greater than death, just like the songs and stories told And when she built you, brother, she broke the mold
That attitude's a power stronger than death, alive and burning her stone cold When they built you, brother
It actually might be genius to wrap an acoustic "nobody like you" coda around the phrase "broke the mold." That this guy was SO UNIQUE that he had to whip out the most trite phrase imaginable to capture it. That he TRULY DESERVED it.
― da croupier, Sunday, 7 October 2007 15:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Turns out its about the death of his "long-time assistant."
― da croupier, Sunday, 7 October 2007 15:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Hoos hasn't heard Nebraska yet?! Dude, that's impossible.
― Bimble, Sunday, 7 October 2007 15:11 (sixteen years ago) link
My longwinded thoughts about his new album (which I don't like much) are toward the bottom of this thread, if anybody is at all interested:
Rolling country 2007 thread
― xhuxk, Sunday, 7 October 2007 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I still have not heard Nebraska despite its various accolades.-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, October 5, 2007 6:00 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link
-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, October 5, 2007 6:00 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link
― JN$OT, Sunday, 7 October 2007 15:33 (sixteen years ago) link
But good lord dude, he claimed to be listening to it on the drunk thread!
― Bimble, Sunday, 7 October 2007 15:37 (sixteen years ago) link
The lyrics quoted here are some of the worst abuses of English I've ever read, in any context, by anybody. Seriously. Is that what he really sings on this record? That's horrifying.
― unperson, Sunday, 7 October 2007 15:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Terry's Song": Jeez, that really reads like its fucking over-wrought; I'm kinda simultaneously dreading it and facinated by it! In other words: "same as it ever was."
― JN$OT, Sunday, 7 October 2007 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
oops, missing a " at the beginning there.
― JN$OT, Sunday, 7 October 2007 16:05 (sixteen years ago) link
These titles and lyrics: did Springsteen get into a broken transporter with Robbie Robertson?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 00:37 (sixteen years ago) link