"Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen -- who really enjoys this overproduced crappy glop?

ONE! TWO! THREE! FOUR!

THE HIGHWAY’S JAMMED WITH BROKEN HEROES ON A LAST CHANCE POWER DRIVE
EVERYBODY’S OUT ON THE RUN TONIGHT
BUT 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

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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.

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!"

Weird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARuCO6RGAJU

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).

*hear*

Main Point is the one thing by Bruce that I'd keep if I could keep no other.

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.

yeah that's my favorite bruce song & that's my favorite version of it

that version is so beautiful

?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

Bruce Springsteen – vocals
Roy Bittan – piano
Richard Davis – double bass
Randy Brecker – trumpet

("Acoustic guitar" may have been how I heard bass of the late great Richard Davis at some points.)

"Late"? He's not dead yet.

Hoped you'd say that! At this point, I just assume, esp. w venerable jazzers.

Jazz guys can live pretty long these days.

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.

I heard the title track in a shopping centre a couple of weeks ago.

it sure beats most of the crap of today!

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.

Is this the only Springsteen recording with wah-wah guitar on it?

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*

loool

have to respect the joe grushecky shoutout tho

xhuxk’s kiss

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.

Unless Nils plays it

Not to be confused with
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WXgHkujfI0

I think Springsteen plays all the guitars on that album.

Actually I was talking about live versions, sorry

Hammersmith Odeon ‘75 he calls for that solo by saying “Something!” a few times.