"Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen -- who really enjoys this overproduced crappy glop?

xpost:
My bad. It was "Trapped." I just can't get on the good foot on this thread.

but sometimes even the truth contains typos.

The album that got me over my indie Bruce fear was Nebraska. That album gets better with every listen. Just stunning. Darkness would seem to be my next best step. I can get them all cheap on vinyl easy peasy.

well ain't that the pot calling the kettle black!
Precisely.

Search is slow, otherwise I would post the link where Momus hollas for fcc.

Something else readers of this thread might enjoy: Max Weinberg's drummer interview book- The Big Beat.

there i go, spouting the truth again.

Still, I figure that Darkness on the Edge of Town is his best album overall, with '78-'80 being his peak.

(xp: Bruce LPs on used vinyl are like $3-4 each [The River around $6] and definitely key to the experience.)

But wait...

Where the hell do you think I was during that time period? Your argument holds less water than a rusty colander.

Your argument holds less water than a rusty colander.
I think I was going more for a Sieve of Eratosthenes approach.

I hated Born to Run for years .. only in the last two or three have I decided that it's a pretty good tune except for that horrible, misplaced sax solo. I'm glad my reflexes made me shut it off over the past 20 years, but I kinda like it now - although I would never put it on intentionally.

xpost.. (Ken L is one of my favorite ILM posters these days...)

"Trapped" is awesome. As is everything Springsteen did from '78 to '81. Ever heard the song he wrote for Donna Summer, "Protection?" Great great great.

no.
Alex asked "who enjoys this overproduced crappy glop" and matos answered by raising his hand (I think).

Everything I say on this thread is a lie, including this.

ilm is so testy lately!!!

ilm is so testy lately!!!
Must be all that post-holiday testosterone.

"I wanted to make a record that would sound like Phil Spector. I wanted to write words like Dylan. I wanted my guitar to sound like Duane Eddy". I hated it. I couldn't stand to listen to it. I thought it was the worst piece of garbage I had ever heard. I told Columbia I wouldn't release it. I told 'em I'd just go to the Bottom Line and do all the new songs and make it a live album".

What, where?

I love me the Frankie version very much. And that is all I will say.

Well, yeah. That's what makes them precursors.

Bruce's "1-2-3-4" vs. Holly's orgamzogroans.

As a bit of trivia, John Peel mentioned on more than one occaision that he couldn't stand Springsteen, said he had asked for a Peel session and John turned him down. Although I did buy the single of "Hungry Heart" when I was a kid, I must say today I would not be caught dead buying a Springsteen record or listening to one. Also Fiendish, I marvel at how you can rate Dylan worse than Brooce. Not that I'm a big Dylan fan at all, but it does puzzle me.

Burned-out Single songs:

Rolling Stones - Start Me Up, Jumpin' Jack Flash
Jimmy Buffet - Margaritaville
Sister Sledge - We Are family
Van Morrison - Brown-Eyed Girl
The Police - Roxanne
Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild
Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven, Rock-n-Roll
Kool & the Gang - Celebration
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird & Sweet Home Alabama
Queen - We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions & Bohemian Rhapsody
Roy Orbison - Pretty Woman
George Thorogood - Bad To The Bone
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze, Hey Joe, Foxey Lady
Don Henley - Boys Of Summer
Sister Sledge - We Are Family
Derek & The Dominoes - Layla
Bachman Turner Overdrive - Takin' Care Of Business
The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go
Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
All covers and remixes of the above songs

Burned-out Groups:

All Village People songs
All James Brown songs
All Motown songs
All Foreigner songs
All Bob Seger songs
All Beach Boys songs
All Boston songs
All Bee Gees songs
All AC-DC Songs
All Doobie Brothers hit songs
All Eagles songs
All Bad Company songs
All Steve Miller Band songs
All Pat Benatar songs

Songs/"Artists" that just plain SUCK!:

Bette Midler - Wind Beneath My Wings (A close 2nd for worst song ever)
Journey (Steve-I'm-such-a-wimp!-Perry ruined this band)
Chicago (Peter-I'm-a-wimp-too!-Cetera ruined the band)
Stevie Nicks (extremely irritating voice & repetitive lyrics)
Celine Dion (we ALL know why)
Bon Jovi (Bad pop music masquerading as hard rock. Just plain despicable!)
Lionel Ritchie (extreme schmaltziness)
Eddie Money (Was this guy a tard?)
Tom Petty (Bland music with chorus lyrics derived from Bartlett's Quotations)
Bruce Springsteen (Bland music with schmaltzy lyrics sung by a man who just stubbed his toe)
David Bowie (Alot of people like him, he's a "legend". I think he sucks!)
Pearl Jam (Bland Alt Rock with unintelligible gravelly lyrics)
Any song with the word "Jump" in the title
Any song with the name "Jane" in the title (EXCEPT Lou Reed's classic "Sweet Jane")
Any song ever played on any "Adult Contemporary" radio station

Worst song ever:
Labelle - Lady Marmalade (extreme screeching and caterwauling)

"Late"? He's not dead yet.

Hoped you'd say that! At this point, I just assume, esp. w venerable jazzers.

Jazz guys can live pretty long these days.

Listening to this album again and I'm struck as always by how much it's basically two distinct EPs with identical structures/sequencing. I've never met another album that gives me such a vivid sense of "End of side one, now get up and turn the record over" even when I'm listening to it on my phone.

I heard the title track in a shopping centre a couple of weeks ago.

it sure beats most of the crap of today!

The key to this song is to see it performed live.

Seriously, it is hard not to be a Springsteen fan after seeing him perform.

Is this the only Springsteen recording with wah-wah guitar on it?

I like it okay, but not as much as his first album, his fourth one, and probably a couple others by him. (also not as much as many, many john cougar mellencamp, bob seger, thin lizzy, boomtown rats, and iron city houserockers albums.) (it is probably better than *bat out of hell* and *slippery when wet,* though.)
― chuck, Tuesday, January 4, 2005 6:58 PM (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

*chef kiss*

loool

have to respect the joe grushecky shoutout tho

xhuxk’s kiss

For the “Jungleland” instrumental section before “in the parking lot” it often seems like he shouts “sax!” and then proceeds to play a guitar solo.

Unless Nils plays it

Not to be confused with
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WXgHkujfI0

I think Springsteen plays all the guitars on that album.

Actually I was talking about live versions, sorry

Hammersmith Odeon ‘75 he calls for that solo by saying “Something!” a few times.