True in the studio stuff. But live is another story. There's an absolutely blistering solo on "Because The Night" on the famous Cleveland boot from 1975 (or is it '78? Can't recall...). I was taken aback first time I heard it since you don't really encounter anything close to that sound on his studio output. But the guy can really turn it up a notch when he's on stage.
― PB, Thursday, 1 September 2005 02:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Maybe a fembot fudge-packing faggot like alex in nycwould prefer Frankie goes to hollywood'sversion...
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― internet comedy novice (Matt Chesnut), Thursday, 1 September 2005 03:43 (eighteen years ago) link
I haven't heard much Bruce live but this sounds entirely right...
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― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 03:27 (eighteen years ago) link
such a brilliant song...the production is awesome and really helps the song...that "1, 2, 3, 4" move takes my breath away every single time
― Tape Store, Friday, 28 March 2008 05:30 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^. Fuck the haters, once the "1,2,3,4" comes in I start hollering "The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive!"
― youcangoyourownway, Friday, 28 March 2008 05:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Jersey Schmuck anthem, "Born to Run."
not all of us New Jerseyans like Springsteen very much, you know!
― Eisbaer, Friday, 28 March 2008 06:31 (sixteen years ago) link
then there's this from upthread:
he prospect of being compared to Springsteen, whose panavision scenarios - replete with so much obvious romantic, rock-mythology imagery of a kind quite antithetical to Costello's writing - fills Elvis with anguish and dread. "Springsteen always romanticising the f----- street," he complains, with no little justification. "I'm bored with people who romanticise the f------- street. The street isn't f--------- attractive.
this almost makes springsteen sound proto-gangsta ... though i guess that the first 2 springsteen albums have a sort of almost wu-tang vibe to them (if you squint your ears a bit).
― Eisbaer, Friday, 28 March 2008 06:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Album's overproduced, yeah, but Springsteen & The E-Street Band live 1978-1979 = A+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
― StanM, Friday, 28 March 2008 06:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd still like to know what Tunnel of Love has to do with Bacharach.
And yeah, Springsteen winning non-fans over in a live setting is no news.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 28 March 2008 07:45 (sixteen years ago) link
And leave Costello alone. You'd think he'd dissed Robyn or something.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 28 March 2008 09:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Because it's so much more "street" to only release your new album on vinyl and digital format and name it after a "chic" restaurant in New York that Diana Elvis can afford to eat at, innit?
Note also that he has been reduced to supporting the Police on their next (NEXT?) tour. That wouldn't have happened back in '78.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 28 March 2008 11:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't understand how anything as muddy-sounding as this album could be labelled as "overproduced".
I actually have a problem with the production here for the completely opposite reason.
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 28 March 2008 13:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Born To Run sounds nothing like Mud.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 28 March 2008 13:41 (sixteen years ago) link
He meant mudvayne
― filthy dylan, Friday, 28 March 2008 13:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Beautiful song.
― dell, Friday, 28 March 2008 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Sometimes, this is the best record ever made, by anyone. This is one of those times.
― Matt DC, Monday, 5 May 2008 02:53 (fifteen years ago) link
one of the crappiest records of all-time. overproduced tuneless ballads and there is also something about springsteen's voice i don't like at all here.
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 5 May 2008 12:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I think people who hate this record are dead punk and hard.
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 5 May 2008 12:20 (fifteen years ago) link
<i>makes Meat Loaf sound like fuckin' Wire. All those gloopy keyboards and honking saxes and overblown crescendos</i>
this opinion has never made me any friends.
― marc h., Monday, 5 May 2008 12:29 (fifteen years ago) link
dammit, neither has forgetting to use BBcode
― marc h., Monday, 5 May 2008 12:30 (fifteen years ago) link
You have to consider the influence of Springsteen's more epic tunes on great bands like Deacon Blue.
― Bodrick III, Monday, 5 May 2008 12:54 (fifteen years ago) link
It's like a motor-oil smeared wedding cake waiting to be toppled.
I know that's (inexplicably) not supposed to be a compliment, but it totally is.
― Sara Sara Sara, Monday, 5 May 2008 13:47 (fifteen years ago) link
I heard this tune at a bah a few weeks ago, and it seemed so similar to "Boho Rhap."
― Veronica Moser, Monday, 5 May 2008 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Sara Sara Sara otm otm otm
― deej, Monday, 5 May 2008 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link
hating this song is a one-way ticket to coolville so kiu dudes
― max, Monday, 5 May 2008 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link
max I would like to join your dadrock defense brigade, is there a t-shirt or uniform I should acquire and wear?
― Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 5 May 2008 20:26 (fifteen years ago) link
I just finished reading James Miller's Flowers in the Dustbin. He marks the hyping of Springsteen leading up to the release of Born To Run as a milestone in the decline of rock and roll - the moment when the tail started to wag the dog - ie., rock-journo hype about an "important" new artist makes them seem fleetingly important.
― o. nate, Monday, 5 May 2008 20:29 (fifteen years ago) link
tradeshow polo tucked into blue jeans xp
― max, Monday, 5 May 2008 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link
"DAD" on the front, "ROCK" on the back.
― contenderizer, Monday, 5 May 2008 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I hate when people turn liking or disliking Springsteen into a class issue.
― Kath, Monday, 5 May 2008 20:35 (fifteen years ago) link
the album isn't as good as the river or darkness but it's alright
― akm, Monday, 5 May 2008 20:39 (fifteen years ago) link
the production of the title tune seems to be an intentional attempt to do a phil spector Wall of Sound; it doesn't really work though
i learned some stuff from "flowers in the dustbin." but he literally ends the book in 1977, and more or less pronounces pop music dead at that point. which makes some of his pronouncements, such as that above, kind of hard to take seriously.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 5 May 2008 20:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, I don't necessarily agree with him, and I wasn't old enough in '74-75 to remember what the Springsteen hype was like, though if Born To Run was being held up as the Highway 61 Revisited or Sgt. Peppers of the '70s, it's easy to see how some might have felt underwhelmed.
― o. nate, Monday, 5 May 2008 21:01 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1975/1101751027_400.jpg
http://www.rockandrollplanet.com/images/610_bruce_newsweek.JPG
― Mark Rich@rdson, Monday, 5 May 2008 21:57 (fifteen years ago) link
i still like this song and album.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 5 May 2008 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I love the song, and it's a great album too. I don't really get why people don't dig at least the song (overproduced? I guess if Orbison on Monument is overproduced). But a big part of it seems to be the usual hipster anti-hype, and that's just bullshit.
― Euler, Monday, 5 May 2008 22:31 (fifteen years ago) link