― 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
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:33 (nineteen years ago) link
ilm is so testy lately!!!
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:36 (nineteen years ago) link
ilm is so testy lately!!!Must be all that post-holiday testosterone.
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:44 (nineteen years ago) link
"I wanted to make a record that would sound like Phil Spector. I wanted to write words like Dylan. I wanted my guitar to sound like Duane Eddy". I hated it. I couldn't stand to listen to it. I thought it was the worst piece of garbage I had ever heard. I told Columbia I wouldn't release it. I told 'em I'd just go to the Bottom Line and do all the new songs and make it a live album".
― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:26 (nineteen years ago) link
What, where?
I love me the Frankie version very much. And that is all I will say.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:37 (nineteen years ago) link
Well, yeah. That's what makes them precursors.
― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Bruce's "1-2-3-4" vs. Holly's orgamzogroans.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:40 (nineteen years ago) link
As a bit of trivia, John Peel mentioned on more than one occaision that he couldn't stand Springsteen, said he had asked for a Peel session and John turned him down. Although I did buy the single of "Hungry Heart" when I was a kid, I must say today I would not be caught dead buying a Springsteen record or listening to one. Also Fiendish, I marvel at how you can rate Dylan worse than Brooce. Not that I'm a big Dylan fan at all, but it does puzzle me.
― Bimble..., Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:50 (nineteen years ago) link
Burned-out Single songs:
Rolling Stones - Start Me Up, Jumpin' Jack FlashJimmy Buffet - MargaritavilleSister Sledge - We Are familyVan Morrison - Brown-Eyed GirlThe Police - RoxanneSteppenwolf - Born To Be WildLed Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven, Rock-n-RollKool & the Gang - CelebrationDexy's Midnight Runners - Come On EileenLynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird & Sweet Home AlabamaQueen - We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions & Bohemian RhapsodyRoy Orbison - Pretty WomanGeorge Thorogood - Bad To The BoneJimi Hendrix - Purple Haze, Hey Joe, Foxey LadyDon Henley - Boys Of SummerSister Sledge - We Are FamilyDerek & The Dominoes - LaylaBachman Turner Overdrive - Takin' Care Of BusinessThe Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I GoDire Straits - Sultans Of SwingAll covers and remixes of the above songs
Burned-out Groups:
All Village People songsAll James Brown songsAll Motown songsAll Foreigner songsAll Bob Seger songsAll Beach Boys songsAll Boston songsAll Bee Gees songsAll AC-DC SongsAll Doobie Brothers hit songsAll Eagles songsAll Bad Company songsAll Steve Miller Band songsAll Pat Benatar songs
Songs/"Artists" that just plain SUCK!:
Bette Midler - Wind Beneath My Wings (A close 2nd for worst song ever)Journey (Steve-I'm-such-a-wimp!-Perry ruined this band)Chicago (Peter-I'm-a-wimp-too!-Cetera ruined the band)Stevie Nicks (extremely irritating voice & repetitive lyrics)Celine Dion (we ALL know why)Bon Jovi (Bad pop music masquerading as hard rock. Just plain despicable!)Lionel Ritchie (extreme schmaltziness)Eddie Money (Was this guy a tard?)Tom Petty (Bland music with chorus lyrics derived from Bartlett's Quotations)Bruce Springsteen (Bland music with schmaltzy lyrics sung by a man who just stubbed his toe)David Bowie (Alot of people like him, he's a "legend". I think he sucks!)Pearl Jam (Bland Alt Rock with unintelligible gravelly lyrics)Any song with the word "Jump" in the titleAny song with the name "Jane" in the title (EXCEPT Lou Reed's classic "Sweet Jane")Any song ever played on any "Adult Contemporary" radio station
Worst song ever:Labelle - Lady Marmalade (extreme screeching and caterwauling)
― Paul Bass, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― stew, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 14:16 (nineteen 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