― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Piers, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― chuck, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:09 (nineteen years ago) link
[Why the fcuk did I put that "and" there?]
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:09 (nineteen years ago) link
Frankie Goes to Hollywood definitely did a better cover version of "War" by Edwin Starr than Bruce did, that's for sure. (They did theirs *first*, so I always wondered whether they influenced *him*, just like Suicide and the Dictators -- who he apparently shared studio time with in early days -- respectively may or may not have influenced the spare screaming mass-murder songs on *Nebraska and his rhyming of "growing up" with "throwing up" on his debut album)
― chuck, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― chuck, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:15 (nineteen years ago) link
I WILL NOT APOLOGIZE!
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:20 (nineteen years ago) link
Re FGTH being overproduced as well, absolutely and we wouldn't have it any other way! Their Born To Run version seemed so much more wound up and excited than the original. But, you know, respect to Bruce and all that.
― Piers, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― chuck, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― chuck, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― deej ., Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link
xpost:My bad. It was "Trapped." I just can't get on the good foot on this thread.
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:46 (nineteen years ago) link
but sometimes even the truth contains typos.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:51 (nineteen years ago) link
The album that got me over my indie Bruce fear was Nebraska. That album gets better with every listen. Just stunning. Darkness would seem to be my next best step. I can get them all cheap on vinyl easy peasy.
― stew, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:51 (nineteen years ago) link
well ain't that the pot calling the kettle black! Precisely.
Search is slow, otherwise I would post the link where Momus hollas for fcc.
Something else readers of this thread might enjoy: Max Weinberg's drummer interview book- The Big Beat.
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link
there i go, spouting the truth again.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:56 (nineteen years ago) link
Still, I figure that Darkness on the Edge of Town is his best album overall, with '78-'80 being his peak.
(xp: Bruce LPs on used vinyl are like $3-4 each [The River around $6] and definitely key to the experience.)
― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:56 (nineteen years ago) link
But wait...
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Where the hell do you think I was during that time period? Your argument holds less water than a rusty colander.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:20 (nineteen years ago) link
Your argument holds less water than a rusty colander.I think I was going more for a Sieve of Eratosthenes approach.
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:37 (nineteen years ago) link
I hated Born to Run for years .. only in the last two or three have I decided that it's a pretty good tune except for that horrible, misplaced sax solo. I'm glad my reflexes made me shut it off over the past 20 years, but I kinda like it now - although I would never put it on intentionally.
xpost.. (Ken L is one of my favorite ILM posters these days...)
― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:56 (nineteen years ago) link
"Trapped" is awesome. As is everything Springsteen did from '78 to '81. Ever heard the song he wrote for Donna Summer, "Protection?" Great great great.
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― J (Jay), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:13 (nineteen years ago) link
no.Alex asked "who enjoys this overproduced crappy glop" and matos answered by raising his hand (I think).
― deej., Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:14 (nineteen years ago) link
Everything I say on this thread is a lie, including this.
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― J (Jay), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:25 (nineteen years ago) link
i haven't heard this song in ages! i love it tho
― dyl, Wednesday, 26 August 2020 03:06 (three years ago) link
I think it might be in the doc, where they play the minor version of it? Anyway, the minor didn't work, obviously.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 August 2020 05:10 (three years ago) link
Yes, Springsteen talks about it in doc. Some interviews online with Miami Steve about it as well.
― Isinglass Ponys (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 11:20 (three years ago) link
ONE! TWO! THREE! FOUR!
THE HIGHWAY’S JAMMED WITH BROKEN HEROES ON A LAST CHANCE POWER DRIVEEVERYBODY’S OUT ON THE RUN TONIGHTBUT THERE’S NO PLACE LEFT TO HIDE
if for whatever reason you cannot fuck with this kind of awesomeness then i cannot help you
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 01:27 (eleven hours ago) link
otm
― whiney on the moon (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 01:37 (eleven hours ago) link
It's the most direct descendant of Like a Rolling Stone, but filtered through suburban 50s teenage greaser angst. Rebel with a Cause: Getting the Fuck Out of Here. At nearly 48, no song quite connects me to the rush, hope, romanticism, and desperation of being young. Fuck tha haters.
― trunk's full of pearl and lonestar (PBKR), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 13:28 (three years ago) link
All the lore is classic, not least that Springsteen really had no idea what he had on his hands. Hence the tale of him sitting on it for 6 months, not sure what to do with it, convinced he ripped it off from somewhere. Or my fave illustration, the classic Main Point '75 boot, where "Born to Run" comes third (!) in the set.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARuCO6RGAJU&list=RDARuCO6RGAJU&start_radio=1
First comment, btw: "This is the version where you still hear the 'minor' chord that Van Zandt via Springsteen gets removed from the final recorded version. Van Zandt later expressed being 'undecided' about whether he (they) had made the right decision or not! Judge for yourself!"
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 August 2020 13:52 (three years ago) link
Weird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARuCO6RGAJU
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 August 2020 13:53 (three years ago) link
I love that boot, because you can here how small of a venue it is and, together with the intro by Ed Sciaky, Bruce just sounds like some minor local bar band with a loyal following (which I guess he is on some level).
― trunk's full of pearl and lonestar (PBKR), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 14:16 (three years ago) link
*hear*
Main Point is the one thing by Bruce that I'd keep if I could keep no other.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 14:57 (three years ago) link
I would probably agree. The "Incident on 57th Street" with the violin that kicks off the album is my favorite thing he has ever done. It amplifies the melodrama of the album version.
― trunk's full of pearl and lonestar (PBKR), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 16:34 (three years ago) link
yeah that's my favorite bruce song & that's my favorite version of it
― Joey Corona (Euler), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link
that version is so beautiful
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 26 August 2020 17:10 (three years ago) link
?Meeting Across the River" is my fave, with "throw that money," acoustic guitar for "on the bed---she'll see I wasn't just talkin'---and I'm gonna go out walkin'...", trumpet solo, "Heyyy Eddie can you get us a ride..."piano, trumpet
― dow, Wednesday, 26 August 2020 17:35 (three years ago) link
Bruce Springsteen – vocals Roy Bittan – piano Richard Davis – double bass Randy Brecker – trumpet
― dow, Wednesday, 26 August 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
("Acoustic guitar" may have been how I heard bass of the late great Richard Davis at some points.)
― dow, Wednesday, 26 August 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link
"Late"? He's not dead yet.
― Isinglass Ponys (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 17:51 (three years ago) link
Hoped you'd say that! At this point, I just assume, esp. w venerable jazzers.
― dow, Wednesday, 26 August 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
Jazz guys can live pretty long these days.
― Isinglass Ponys (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 18:33 (three years ago) link
Listening to this album again and I'm struck as always by how much it's basically two distinct EPs with identical structures/sequencing. I've never met another album that gives me such a vivid sense of "End of side one, now get up and turn the record over" even when I'm listening to it on my phone.
― Lily Dale, Saturday, 21 May 2022 16:46 (one year ago) link
I heard the title track in a shopping centre a couple of weeks ago.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 21 May 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
it sure beats most of the crap of today!
― xzanfar, Saturday, 21 May 2022 18:22 (one year ago) link
The key to this song is to see it performed live.
Seriously, it is hard not to be a Springsteen fan after seeing him perform.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 21 May 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
Is this the only Springsteen recording with wah-wah guitar on it?
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 21 May 2022 19:52 (one year ago) link
I like it okay, but not as much as his first album, his fourth one, and probably a couple others by him. (also not as much as many, many john cougar mellencamp, bob seger, thin lizzy, boomtown rats, and iron city houserockers albums.) (it is probably better than *bat out of hell* and *slippery when wet,* though.)― chuck, Tuesday, January 4, 2005 6:58 PM (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
*chef kiss*
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 22 May 2022 01:23 (one year ago) link
loool
have to respect the joe grushecky shoutout tho
― mookieproof, Sunday, 22 May 2022 01:41 (one year ago) link
xhuxk’s kiss
― Apollo and the Aqueducts (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 May 2022 01:47 (one year ago) link
For the “Jungleland” instrumental section before “in the parking lot” it often seems like he shouts “sax!” and then proceeds to play a guitar solo.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 February 2024 17:21 (two months ago) link
Unless Nils plays it
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 February 2024 17:22 (two months ago) link
Not to be confused withhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WXgHkujfI0
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 February 2024 17:27 (two months ago) link
I think Springsteen plays all the guitars on that album.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 17 February 2024 17:28 (two months ago) link
Actually I was talking about live versions, sorry
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 February 2024 17:44 (two months ago) link
Hammersmith Odeon ‘75 he calls for that solo by saying “Something!” a few times.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 February 2024 17:54 (two months ago) link