"go try" this other guy who sucks? what lol
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 21 November 2022 12:32 (one year ago) link
Did we ever poll the songs on Born to Run?
I don't think so!
Really the singer is feeding this poor girl such a banquet of self-mythologizing nonsense as to make one weep. The message is: "Trade in these wings on some wheels...It's a town full of losers/I'm pulling out of here to win." Quiet good deeds and unheralded personal sanctity are for suckers
I suppose this is a helpful warning for anyone who had "Thunder Road" confused with Middlemarch.
― Lily Dale, Monday, 21 November 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
Supposedly the earliest available performance of BtR:
That sounds like it might be Carter, based on the bit at 2:45 -- Weinberg sometimes attempted it, but soon gave up. Doesn't sound like Max.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 21 November 2022 17:17 (one year ago) link
And that's DEFINITELY Carter on the '74 "Jungleland."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 21 November 2022 17:19 (one year ago) link
Quiet good deeds and unheralded personal sanctity
we should do a pox songs about quiet good deeds and unheralded personal sanctity
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 21 November 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
Miller's got an unconventional take on Springsteen; the other two songs he writes about in his book are "Candy's Room" and "Girls in Their Summer Clothes", probably not general top three fan favourites.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 21 November 2022 21:30 (one year ago) link
*raises hand*
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 November 2022 21:50 (one year ago) link
Meaning I’m a huge fan of “Candy’s Room.”
I’m not minding Scott Miller’s contrarian take tbh.
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 November 2022 21:52 (one year ago) link
"Candy's Room" is one of those songs even people I know that don't like Springsteen like. He doesn't have many songs like it.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 21 November 2022 21:53 (one year ago) link
The funny thing is that blurb is from a playlist of the best songs of 1975 (fitted between "Better Off Dead" by Elton John and "Poker" by Electric Light Orchestra)! Although occasionally he'll include a song less out of musical excellence than to make a point about the historical context.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 21 November 2022 23:12 (one year ago) link
"Better Off Dead" from Captain Fantastic? Haven't thought about that one in ages.
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 November 2022 23:27 (one year ago) link
Thunder Road come on
― treeship., Tuesday, 22 November 2022 00:54 (one year ago) link
You ain’t a beauty but hey you’re alright