― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 7 January 2005 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link
Ha, I never heard this before, but I just remembered that when I first bought a Springsteen record in new wave 1979(I swear this is true) it's because his music *sounded* to me kind of like Elvis Costello (who I loved at the time), though really, the "oh-oh-oh-ohhhhhhh"s's EC was sticking at the end of songs in *Armed Forces* days were more likely inspired by Bruce (who had been doing them for years) than the other way around.
― chuck, Friday, 7 January 2005 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link
Further, I think a vastly greater proportion of Elvis's influence-seeking at that point entailed looking back in time rather than in keeping up with what was going on on American top 40 radio (more Hoagy than Bruce).
― The Mad Puffin, Friday, 7 January 2005 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― chuck, Friday, 7 January 2005 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:44 (nineteen years ago) link
i've always heard all such oh-oh-oh's as distinct ronnie spector homages, though my brain is currently too fried to pinpoint the exact spector moment or moments they're referencing or to even guarantee that one exists. but i think it does.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:54 (nineteen years ago) link
RS: I've heard demo tapes you made in the mid-1970s with your band Flip City. Some of them sound a lot like '72 Bruce Springsteen.
EC: That's who we were copying. When Bruce came to London for "the future of rock & roll" gigs in 1975, we were like, "Who are these johnny-come-latelies?" We'd been digging him for years. I loved The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle. The songs are so operatic. Then he narrowed it down. I learned something from that. When he wanted to get over, he wrote "Born to Run."
― Rob Brunner (RBrunner), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 7 January 2005 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link
I don't think "whoah-oh-oh-oh's" really belong to anybody. Hell, they're all over the Misfits' catalog too (hmmm....who were also from New Jersey!)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link
Yes that is correct, silly me. I sure had a lot to drink last night.
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:24 (nineteen years ago) link
i'm dreading some anti-costello and -springsteen comment following on this post's heels.
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 7 January 2005 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:14 (nineteen years ago) link
That's `cos it's a boring song to begin with. You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still going to be a pig.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:14 (nineteen years ago) link
xxpost:Hell yeah
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Henry A Blacktune (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link
Anyone care to compare/contrast Springsteen with Van Morrison?
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link
See also 10,000 Maniacs. So what was it that Costello was supposed to bring to Springsteen appreciation again?
― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Saturday, 8 January 2005 01:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Saturday, 8 January 2005 02:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Saturday, 8 January 2005 02:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 8 January 2005 03:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 8 January 2005 03:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Saturday, 8 January 2005 03:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Saturday, 8 January 2005 06:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Saturday, 8 January 2005 06:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 8 January 2005 06:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Saturday, 8 January 2005 07:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 8 January 2005 08:46 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh please. Like I haven't ruined other peoples' threads before? `Tis the way of ILX.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 8 January 2005 08:48 (nineteen years ago) link