BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

SO PSYCHED!

so is bob costas!!!

broooooooooooooooooooose

IT'S GONNA ROCK SO HARD GUYS!!

he will have a lot to live up to after last year but yes i am way siked

wait was prince last year? whenever prince was.

prince was 2 years ago. last year was tom petty.

f that

i'm surprised this hasn't happened before! or has it?

i hope he only sings songs from nebraska

ha!

i always thought of springsteen as more of a baseball guy, cause of glory days i guess

which is weird cause baseball is the only sport that new jersey doesnt have a major league team in

he wants to show that bongiovi punk who's boss

i saw springsteen at giants this summer, and except for the tiny bit of mid-80s stuff i knew best, it was kinda... boring?

when i saw him in 2003 "at giants" he was fucking revelatory, 3 hours of non-stop rocking. cant really think of a better concert experience tbh.

gabbneb please go away

Gabb sounds like the people who complained in Little Rock when Springsteen played here. "He didn't play 'Dancing in the Dark'!"

Dude played "Mary, Queen of Arkansas" live for the first time in 30 years, and folks went home unhappy because Courtney Cox didn't jump up on the stage.

i saw the exact tour gabbneb did last summer and it was not at all boring in any way shape or form, and included tons of shit from the albums the ppl know best and had an awesome rock version of reason to believe. my conclusion is that bruce was purposefully boring at gabbneb's concert because gabbneb was there and why waste energy if you are just going to be dissed by dave matthews fans.

dave matthewsspin doctors fans.

Just another halftime show I'll skip. Maybe I'll switch over to the Puppy Bowl at halftime. Whatever happened to the Bud Bowl?

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Vince Verhei: So Bruce Springsteen is the Super Bowl halftime act. Yippee, another adult contemporary rocker whose career peaked 20 years ago. I will never forgive Janet Jackson for Nipplegate. Not only did she end a great halftime show by completely erasing it from history, she ruined Super Bowl halftimes for people under 50 forever. (Except for Prince. That was awesome.)

Mike Tanier: Take back everything you said about Springsteen now or I come to Seattle and kick your butt!!!

mike tanier otm!

lol xpost schef otm

tom petty singing american girl was ok but then i left to go smoke. i'm sure he's no springsteen, and he's definitely no prince.

i thought petty seemed really feeble.

AMERICA IS AWESOME JUST LOOK
http://206.47.170.43/music_v1_1/images/bruce-springsteen-pogal-400.jpg

xpost i was outside smoking! it was during the part of the night where our host was still putting up the pretense of making ppl smoke outside. this was dropped during the 4th quarter.

i know this is the springsteen thread, and i am a huge boner for springsteen, but prince at halftime was one of the television highlights of my life

it rained during purple rain, guys

he played a foo fighters song

also i probably shouldnt admit this here but the u2 halftime show made me sort of emotional

lol "i am a huge boner"

the prince show was amazing; i think even crazy people who hate bruce springsteen can agree.

the foo fighters song was wtf-y, though. i teared up during purple rain!

all superbowl halftime shows should feature uncomfortable poorly thought out collaborations - like it shouldnt be springsteen - it should be bruce springsteen featuring katy perry and a v special surprise guest (lil wayne) performing an updated medley of springsteen hits!

yeah that was the highlight of that super bowl basically, the redeeming factor between hours of fumbling and ridiculousness and rex grossman.

xpost you are nuts

and if u disagree you dont understand or love what america is all about and fu

i know someone who was a dancer in a halftime show. the one with MISS DIANA ROSS.

the u2 halftime show was ruined for me when bono ripped open his leather jacket and revealed that it was lined with an AMERICAN FLAG. the fact that i was the only one who seemed to be bothered by this was a huge crazypills moment for me.

also i'm really glad everyone's on the same page re: bruce here~

love this headline--http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17013425/--tho it should be "Some see phallic imagery in Prince’s show, others are blind"

god i know. i used to adore u2 to an embarrassing degree but has bono had a stroke or something? i blushed for him that night.

xpost

i should come clean, i was weirdly moved by the jacket gesture at the time though 6 or whatever years later it strikes me as massively retarded

it was sort of jeremy shockey of him, i think.

also, he's IRISH

doesnt mean he cant love america 4 eva

we were all sort of jeremy shockey for those 6 months after 9/11

It wasn't as bad as Kid Rock's "flancho".

TS: http://www.u2station.com/news/archives/2.4.02.jpg v. http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:fuCzabpulzzh2M:http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2004/02/01/image597169x.jpg

vs http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Video/070207/n_most_superbowl_070207.300w.jpg

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would marry Springsteen, then and now

TOTALLY

me 2 probably

did u know i used to get made fun of in highschool for loving bruce? wish i knew u guys then <3 <3 <3

one of my final school projects (in the "poetry unit" of my english class lol) was making a music video for "born to run" with my best friend.

ha i was about to post, "i'm sure max would, too"

i don't mean to sound like someone who posts on ilm but i always suspect people who say they don't like bruce are lying. i cannot understand such people.

xposts

poetry unit

POETRY UNIT

also bruce

see i mean this is why high school just didn't work out for me. "poetry unit"

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(also yeah, i agree with horseshoe. most ppl who say this are lying or they just purposefully hate him because of what he "represents" but then if you force them to give him a chance they're like "yeah that is just fine")

also, max, clearly you went to high school with some Jersey self-haters.

i went to high school in princeton which is basically connecticut if you think about it

i sold my extra 2003 springsteen tickets to my gym teacher ^_^

i was supposed to go to the msg show in 2003 but had BOY TROUBLES.

ok i am actually not a bruce fan. i have nothing against him but.. i don't like rock music very much

i'm like really, really into a few bruce albums. which is why i was disappointed that the show was kinda boring.

the part with just him and his wife was really touching, tho, in a very stagey way

well i wanted to hear darlington county too but i'm not crying about it

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Actually it looks like it is just about Bruce Springsteen-who totally sucks.

you know who totally sucks

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bill magill sucks that's who

sux whores lol

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hey bill magill why dont you go eat a big ol dick you fat piece of loser shit

positive vibes dudes

sorry its been an emotional morning

Bruce sucks (except prior to like 1985).

seriously i am suggest banning every single person who comes on here who does not understand the fucking concept of this thread! take it to ilm where you can freely say bullshit like "i love the hold steady!" and then say "bruce springsteen sux!" they like that kind of thing there.

say bullshit like "i love the hold steady!" and then say "bruce springsteen sux!"

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I apologize for having a wrong opinion!

you can have a wrong opinion just take it to "wrong opinion land" and don't hurt our awesome brothread

thanks for the apology

w/apologies to david r, mb we should just ban everyone who has opinions abt music

^^^ resolute leadership in a shaky time

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xpost that would hurt discussion of the musical entry songs before major nfl games

w/apologies to david r, mb we should just ban everyone who has opinions abt music

aw man and I was going to start cutting and pasting my reviews in the game threads! fuck u guys I'm going home ;_; ;_; u_u

it's ok dude as long asy ou leave it on wrong opinions land we're all ok

well I didn't but now I kinda want to!

j/k I'll just limit my wrongness to football

"hey bill magill why dont you go eat a big ol dick you fat piece of loser shit"

ha ha ha!

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...palin

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i'm seeing Bruce Rock for Barack, lol

New FREE show for Barack this Saturday in Philly!
http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/paspringsteen

(if you're a PA resident or student)

right - so for those PA citizens...

Nice SXSW keynote: We live in a post-authenticity world

Finally got around to revisiting Born in the USA, and surprisingly I loved it without reservation.

I was going to listen to it in light of that Pitchfork article, but I got caught up in other records, and in the meantime famed Columbia exec Walter Yetnikoff died. Never heard of the guy so all the crazy stories about him were new to me. Anyway, I bring that up because as soon as I put it on, I remembered Yetnikoff's comments about hearing it for the first time, and I really thought about what that would be like: it's 1984, you're a label exec, and this record lands on your desk, completely new and ready for company review. No one outside of Bruce's camp has heard it. There's no baggage or anything. Somehow that helped me really zero in on the words, and I came away with a much greater appreciation for the album.

Springsteen has been down on it for being too grab bag rather than a cohesive statement, but I think that may help - sometimes a concept can burden an album, where everything's got to have its place in a pre-designed narrative. In this case we just run the full gamut of material, and naturally they all feel like they flow through the same characters and occupy the same community. To me, that's enough for cohesiveness. And the stories are brilliantly detailed. Just about everything that catches a character's eye is perfect. I know it was fashionable to knock it for being pop or sounding dated, but so what? That's kind of what I like about it - having ultra-catchy, slick pop songs like these carrying these lyrical details and these types of stories.

Another thing I realized is how much I don't like the videos. Springsteen got top talent to direct them, but they do seem reductive and corny in retrospect. That really sank in with "Dancing in the Dark" - again thinking like I've never heard this before, the words rise up to the surface and it kind of feels like it's a guy at home alone in the dark, twitching with energy and anxiety, dying to get out of his rut, out of his life, etc. I guess that video helped sell it, but it seems miles in the opposite direction of what it really evokes.

shit, wrong forum

Bill Magill was the worst poster in ILX history.

Springsteen stills sucks :)