read that as "would love springsteen to cover papa roach"
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Monday, 27 February 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
papa don't encroach
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 27 February 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2012/02/29/147585148/one-day-only-song-premiere-listen-to-bruce-springsteens-rocky-ground
Springsteen with old gospel sample and current gospel choir and singer and rapper! Streaming just today Wednesday. Eh, it's ok
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 12:37 (twelve years ago) link
He and the band sounded great on Fallon.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 12:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.hulu.com/watch/333762/late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-bruce-springsteen-wrecking-ball
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 12:45 (twelve years ago) link
That song has still not won me over
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 13:23 (twelve years ago) link
Me neither, really. But I think the band sells it well. Same with "We Take Care of Our Own," which I don't really like, either.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
Rage's guitarist sat in Friday night on Fallon's show with Springsteen on his Pogues type # "Death to My Hometown." Energetic, yes, memorable-- not really.
Pareles and Caramanica in the NY Times discuss the lyrics and sometimes the music of the new album. Pareles is mostly enthusiastic, but then ends in part with this:
Though I like it better than “Magic” or “Working on a Dream,” I’m not touting it up there alongside his first seven albums — seven albums! — or “The Rising.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/arts/music/pareles-and-caramanica-on-springsteens-wrecking-ball.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=arts
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 4 March 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
That pretty much sums it up. Though I'd like to know what record Bruce could possibly release that anyone would tout up there alongside his first seven albums. Oh, shit, wait - is Pareles not counting "Tunnel of Love?" Because there is no way the new one is anywhere close to that album.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 4 March 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
Actually, Backstreets has the clip of him doing "Death," "Jack of All Trades," "E Street Shuffle" and a surprise appearance with, um, Neil Young.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 4 March 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
I got about six tracks into the new one and gave up. Really not very good, kinda laboured-sounding.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Sunday, 4 March 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
whats the ILM consensus on 'magic'? i thought it was a pretty solid album, some great tracks (radio nowhere, your own worst enemy, girls in their summer clothes) although not on a par with the classic stuff
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Sunday, 4 March 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
"Radio Nowhere" is the only Springsteen single I've liked since "Streets of Philadelphia."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 4 March 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
Dunno about ILM, et al, but I liked "Magic" just fine.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 March 2012 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
the new single is pretty awful. it's so obvious that lyrically, bruce is trying for something ambiguous, multivalent -- but it's just boring and meaningless. and the melody is about as good as the melodies of nearly all his tracks since 1988, that is to say, not terribly memorable.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 5 March 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
he's just taken his criticism far too much to heart, and for the past decade+ he's been writing a lot of Big Songs designed for exegesis, but in the dullest of ways.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 5 March 2012 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
Neil Young kind of already beat the boss to the 'wrecking ball' although I think Emmy Lou Harris' does the best version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZLOtcUXq_k
I think one thing that oddly puts Springsteen into his own box was that the guy was so infatuated with keyboards and saxophone where many rock and roll fans were obsessed with the guitar. I think it made his classic peroid music a bit more unique and not tied as much to fashion of the time, but in a way also kind of separates it from some fans as it was such a look back sound even when it was contemporary and at least with 'rock' the guitar kind of won the war.
― earlnash, Monday, 5 March 2012 03:55 (twelve years ago) link
Huh?
Anyway, Bruce is as guitar rock as it gets, and he was only into keyboards in the sense that he was into organ and piano. The synths didn't crop up til much later. His problem as of late is not one of intent but execution. He just hasn't found a way to sound the way he needs to sound.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 March 2012 12:50 (twelve years ago) link
Also, he's in his '60s.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 March 2012 12:58 (twelve years ago) link
A great Bruce Springsteen song with a rap, delivered by gospel singer-cum-M.C. Michelle Moore.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ROCKY ROAD")
SPRINGSTEEN: (Singing) Stars have faded. The sky is still. Sun is in the heavens, and a new day is rising.
MICHELLE MOORE: (Rapping) You use your muscle and your mind, and you pray your best that your best is good enough. The Lord will do the rest. You raise your children, and you teach them to walk straight and sure. You pray that hard times, hard times come no more. You try to sleep. You toss and turn. The bottom is dropping out. Where you once had faith, now there's only doubt. You pray for guidance, only silence now meets your prayers. The morning breaks. You awake, but no one is there.
― buzza, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9EbOXYenJY
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
1) At least Springsteen doesn't rap himself
2) It's really not as bad as it reads (see also: a huge quantity of hip-hop that doesn't always translate to the page)
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUYnoWqct0
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
Listening to the whole thing (still streaming at NPR). These songs'll make a great show in 10,000-50,000 arenas.
― "marvellously inoffensive" (Eazy), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
just as $9 hot dogs will make a great dinner in the same
― meticulously showcased in a stunning fart presentation (contenderizer), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
Also interesting that he's going more toward Irish barnstompers and ballads than gospel and blues.
― "marvellously inoffensive" (Eazy), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
(pubthumpers, or whatever you call them)
Maybe part of the inspiration for this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCY8kaUSZq8
(March 2011)
― "marvellously inoffensive" (Eazy), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
"Death To My Hometown" is an extraordinarily powerful song for anyone to pull off at this stage of the game. Coming from a 62-year-old stadium rocker, it's miraculous. Definitely the album's highpoint IMHO.
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
OK, the Homer post was unfair. This is better than I expected.
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
His last tour typically ended with this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qoqsDL0gBk&feature=related
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
Fwiw, Springsteen's dad was Dutch/Irish.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 23:35 (twelve years ago) link
It's a parallax -- you dig?
― buzza, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.springsteeninireland.com/
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
This record is about 1000 times better than I imagined.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 23:55 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ Exactly. I suspect it'll be forgotten soon enough, but it's easily his best since "The Rising," which itself took several years of sticking around to prove it would stick around.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 23:59 (twelve years ago) link
huh, i really like "rocky ground," wasn't expecting that
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
digging this
― iatee, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 00:27 (twelve years ago) link
dammit you people, i may have to listen to this.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 00:28 (twelve years ago) link
BUT I DON'T WANNA LISTEN TO THIS
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
i kind of don't, since i listened to the last one and immediately regretted it.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 00:34 (twelve years ago) link
I don't like the way his voice sounds when he sings anymore, it bums me out.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
I dig his voice, I regret the production
― iatee, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
but it's easily his best since "The Rising,"
I'm not a fan of The Rising. It's probably my least favorite of the six he's released in the last ten years.
By the way, how crazy is it that he's released six albums in the last ten years.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 01:36 (twelve years ago) link
Death to My Hometown rages about a community toppled without a shot being fired by “the robber barons.” But it sounds almost cheery, with penny whistle and accordion leading a jaunty march down Main Street and Springsteen even adopting an Irish accent.
lmao
― buzza, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 01:39 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UASyS-jUKKI
― buzza, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
I'd have fonder memories The Rising had it been released an EP. Man is that thing long
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 01:42 (twelve years ago) link
i agree w/ vegemitegrrrl. he's been singin' kinda "shouty" since Magic (but it worked on Radio Nowhere) at least and i wish he'd stop it
― epigram addict (outdoor_miner), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 01:45 (twelve years ago) link
loooool at Bruce's brogue
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 01:51 (twelve years ago) link
“the robber barons.”
stealin' me pot o' gold!!!
― buzza, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 01:53 (twelve years ago) link