Yes, I do.
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
Tunnel of Love is maybe Bruce's least gruff release of all, though.
What Prince did on Around the World he did far better on the two albums that followed.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
btw Richie's singles:
Say You Say Metitle trackLove Will Conquer AllBallerina GirlSe LaDeep River Woman
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
"Tunnel of Love" is possibly the only Springsteen song I unequivocally love. "True Colors" after that.
― clemenza, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
that has nothing to do with how ATWIAD compares to albums that are not Parade or SOTT
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
Say You Say Metitle track
...that's where I stop caring.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
how can "tunnel of love" be the only Springsteen song you love?
― horseshoe, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
"Ballerina Girl" brought the lols when I was a kid, just because I couldn't believe I was hearing a song on the radio where someone was clumsily singing the phrase "balleriiiina gurl"
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
One Step Up and Brilliant Disguise eclipse everything else on Tunnel imo, but the rest of it ranges from very good to perfectly acceptable...which is a different line than every other album in this list toes.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
tunnel of love is fantastic
― horseshoe, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
i am listening to this cyndi lauper album right now and i like it fwiw
i intend to skip "true colors," of course
TOL is my favorite Springsteen album, by some distance.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
"Love Will Conquer All" is the only Richie song I like from that roster.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
Prince
― Artful Dodderer (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
I always feel sorry for the bridge to "Say You, Say Me", trapped in that horrifying shitshow of a dirge
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
I have never understood Springsteen fandom. Dude is the musical equivalent of the color beige to me.
^^^
I just write it off as some east coast thing. I don't know anyone born in California who gives a shit about Bruce.
― Artful Dodderer (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
sort of want to start a bruce springsteen geography poll now
― horseshoe, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
If we're talking about what is almost implicit - biggest drop in quality after a culture-conquering 1985 Grammy nod record - then perhaps that underscores why the Prince is such a disappointment. I mean, I'm not sure what could have followed "Purple Rain," but this is the only record of the above bunch that willfully, erratically flouts expectations.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
I had the cassette of Tunnel of Love as a teenager. for some reason the only song I can remember from it is "Spare Parts"
xp
― Artful Dodderer (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
xpost There may be some truth to that! But I don't know what Californians give a shit about at all. Huey Lewis?
yeah i am trying to think of californians who love bruce and am coming up empty. but i don't know that many californians.
― horseshoe, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
California was Bruce's kryptonite! When he moved out there it all went sour. Then he moved back to New Jersey, married a Jersey girl, and got his mojo back.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
Of course Californians love him. Who else would have nominated him?
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
If we're talking about what is almost implicit - biggest drop in quality after a culture-conquering 1985 Grammy nod record - then perhaps that underscores why the Prince is such a disappointment
I still say True Colors is. It's as if she decided to follow up SSU with an Atlantic Starr album.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
But True Colors is just bad, not a perverse change in direction.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
(Not that change in direction is bad, either: ToL stands in stark contrast to BitUSA.)
it's all Tupac and the Beach Boys out here
― Artful Dodderer (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, SSU is really the only Lauper album where everything works. The ones that followed had great singles (sometimes), but so so so much filler.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
Tupac and Beach Boys: the world's most specialized satellite radio station.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5WP2exZurfc
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnDR8OngS1U
haha but it is! A Kelly-Steinberg ballad? A Marvin Gaye cover (not an obscurity btw)? The adult contemporary tameness of the whole thing?
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
Man, tracklist of "Private Dancer" is as nuts as "She's So Unusual."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
so obv "around the world in a day"
― der Truthahn des Giftes (Eisbaer), Friday, 24 February 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, February 24, 2012 11:32 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i kinda feel like EVERY prince record, at least when he mattered, is erratic and flouts expectations, even the good ones. when i finally heard Around The World after seeing it kicked around for years i was like damn, this may not be top tier but it's totally of a piece with his output of that era.
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
If you can access this link, Billboard ran a front page story a week after ATWIAD's release about the frustration from programmers who didn't get a single and record store owners who weren't selling as many copies because Prince refused to release a single.
He relented the following week, hence "Raspberry Beret."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
in the Twin Cities they just played the song "Paisley Park" on repeat until "Raspberry Beret" came out
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
it's so surreal to think about a major artist dropping an album without an advance single, which i guess was a little more common back then, living in the era of yearlong singles campaigns before the release date
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
Oh hai, remember me? I'm The King of Limbs.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 24 February 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
i mean like an artist whose singles people actually care about and play on the radio
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
Just realized now this is for albums, not songs--my post way above referred only to songs.
― clemenza, Friday, 24 February 2012 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
Was "Raspberry Beret" a video before it was a single?
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
xps dance around it all you want, but Radiohead is still a major artist despite having no radio presence. I think something like that happens about as often now as it did in the 80s (which is, to say, rarely).
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 24 February 2012 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
i know it's always been somewhat rare. i just mean that pre-SoundScan first week sales weren't everything so not having a blitz of advance singles wasn't necessarily a Radiohead-style act of defiance. even something as deliberately engineered to be a blockbuster as Born In The U.S.A. just had its first single released exactly a month before the album.
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
05. James Brown - “Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine” 517 votes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdyf8SuoGI0
was this the first time the word "sex" was used in a hit song title?
― Artful Dodderer (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
man if this single had appeared on Dancing on the Ceiling...
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
haha oops
― Artful Dodderer (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
Cyndi would have fun with that track
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
not to mention Tina.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
I don't hear songs like "Rosalita" and "Hungry Heart" as being beige. They're kind of shiny.
― timellison, Friday, 24 February 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
We would not have "Tambourine" had it not been for “Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine”
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Friday, 24 February 2012 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
Around The World in a Day by a wide margin
― cool teach-in bro (buzza), Saturday, 25 February 2012 06:56 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know anyone born in California who gives a shit about Bruce.
Hello there
― all the other twinks with their fucked up dicks (billy), Saturday, 25 February 2012 07:11 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 1 March 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
poor Lionel
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 March 2012 00:27 (twelve years ago) link