― Mark, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― DeRayMi, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 23:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
"candy's room" is the grebtest song ever written about being in love w. a prostitute when you sound a bit like david bowie
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 23:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 23:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 23:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 23:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
Is this a new genre? Cos that'd be fucking incredible.
I still love Bruce Springsteen. Put on Rosalita and you will see me go insane.
― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 03:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 03:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 03:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 03:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 03:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 03:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 05:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― alext (alext), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 11:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― H (Heruy), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 12:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― the ponefix, Wednesday, 20 November 2002 13:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 16:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Yancey (ystrickler), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 16:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― piscesboy, Wednesday, 20 November 2002 16:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 17:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
Yeah, new album is weak. Basically just an excuse for the live shows, though, which according to what I've heard remain wonderful.
Found this at the near start of the thread, dunno if Ned can be bothered to talk about it now:
La Bruce just collectively calls to my mind a stunted bastard vision of music that presumes he was the sole carrier of the 'spirit of rock and roll truth' that the Beatles and Stones 'started' in the sixties.
Odd, because Springsteen's own views are the exact opposite- he was always far less interested in The Beatles and The Rolling Stones than he was in Phil Spector and James Brown.
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 20:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kris (aqueduct), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 20:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
Though he always does look really tense and "real rock" when he performs.
It used to be such that every time I got drunk, the evening would end with me and a gentleman companion in the group deciding to put on Dancing in the Dark and imitating the Boss & Courteney Cox dance. This has thankfully not occured in a long time now.
― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 20:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
Ah, to explain my sense further -- there I wasn't referring to exact sound (I hope) so much as the role he seems to be in. I don't like universal idolatry, but personal, and so much around Bruce is "my god, the genius is among us all again! DO YOU SEE!" insistence that just makes me hate him even more. Like I said above in that quote, I don't get the sense that he believes that garbage (if he takes Dave Marsh at all seriously, though, that's a pisser).
And as for the music itself, a lot of people love Phil Spector and James Brown. In my mind, that doesn't give them a free pass for their own efforts. ;-)
My only realization about Bruce recently has been when I finally heard Bat Out of Hell and realized I loved that a hell of a lot more than any Springsteen I've heard.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 21:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Curtis Stephens, Wednesday, 20 November 2002 21:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Curtis Stephens, Wednesday, 20 November 2002 21:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kerry (dymaxia), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 22:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― man, Wednesday, 20 November 2002 22:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 12:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 12:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 22:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
Yeah, Nebraska is a pretty OK album, but I recall at the time that it was more noteworthy as an advertisement for Tascam's portastudio than as any kind of artistic breakthrough.
Even so, I'll give him a "Get Out Of Dud Free" card for this, which I think is pretty goddamn cool.
― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 23:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 23:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― maryann (maryann), Saturday, 22 November 2003 08:55 (twenty years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 22 November 2003 10:55 (twenty years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 22 November 2003 11:26 (twenty years ago) link
― sucka (sucka), Saturday, 22 November 2003 13:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Saturday, 22 November 2003 13:56 (twenty years ago) link
He could have quite after Born to Run and still be classic classic classic. That album is one of the great moments in pop music history, and a cultural icon (in the States at least).
Even if you don't like his music, he's still classic.
― Debito (Debito), Saturday, 22 November 2003 16:18 (twenty years ago) link
And it is about time people start liking "Born In The USA" again. Just because the album sold zillions doesn't make it a bad album.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 22 November 2003 18:15 (twenty years ago) link
― maryann (maryann), Saturday, 22 November 2003 21:46 (twenty years ago) link
Of course the adulation is typically overboard. But what do you expect for someone who has had, at least at moments, near-Madonna-level pop smarts and still gets content, even poetry, into his lyrics?
One of the differences between him and "heartland rock" - r&b. A greater proportion of it, at least. Who else (besides the aforementioned Californians) has had such a sound during the same period at remotely similar levels of popularity?
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 22 November 2003 22:23 (twenty years ago) link
but he loses that card for this, the final page of the aforementioned document, in which mr. springsteen proves he can't spell "asbury park."
― fact checking cuz, Sunday, 23 November 2003 16:48 (twenty years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 23 November 2003 16:53 (twenty years ago) link
i otherwise kinda like springsteen, so perhaps i'm not the best to answer this, but i'd say his career mathematically boils down to this:
1. great singer2. damn good songwriter (despite a huge drop-off in the '90s)3. fair-to-average, overrated bar-band backing (playing mostly hackneyed arrangements)4. poor production (i like "born to run" just fine, but after that it's just so completely lacking in punch and warmth i can't believe he's ever been lauded for it)
"nebraska" discards with (3) and (4), leaving him playing entirely to his strengths. and as it happens his songwriting hit a peak at the same time. i'd say it's far and away his best.
― fact checking cuz, Sunday, 23 November 2003 17:16 (twenty years ago) link
i'd have to guess anyone owns the record knew, what with him screaming those lyrics out for the entire length of the song, not to mention the fact that he included a lyric sheet. that'd be 15 or 20 million people right there.
― fact checking cuz, Sunday, 23 November 2003 17:19 (twenty years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 23 November 2003 17:30 (twenty years ago) link
― fact checking cuz, Sunday, 23 November 2003 17:57 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 23 November 2003 18:05 (twenty years ago) link
This thing is from the same universe as that Lou Reed live with The Toys albums.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 March 2024 13:42 (two weeks ago) link
The Tots, not The Toys. American Poet.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 March 2024 16:00 (two weeks ago) link
Springsteen joined Mellencamp onstage last night at NJ PAC for "Pink Houses":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qo_-W4lBe4
― birdistheword, Monday, 11 March 2024 19:47 (two weeks ago) link
Bruce looking lithe, limber and ready to get back on the road.
Wait, hold up, is that Lisa Germano?! She's back!!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 March 2024 21:50 (two weeks ago) link
Yes it is! I saw Mellencamp at the Beacon and he was awesome. At one point, he let a kid get on stage and let HIM sing one of his hits while he walked off for what seemed like a smoke.
― birdistheword, Monday, 11 March 2024 23:12 (two weeks ago) link
Tour resumes tonight, Bruce lookin' good!https://scontent-ord5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/432766426_949567229858904_5539654209860653751_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=VIQrTwEDuDIAX-pUF_u&_nc_ht=scontent-ord5-2.xx&oh=00_AfAb_AU3DFryU1mnOECcjxasUkZHb2Bs1-l5gM3TKWfI8A&oe=65FE75E5
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 21:13 (one week ago) link
hottest silver fox in town
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 22:51 (one week ago) link
Some nerd livestreamed the whole show, if you want to watch it:
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1083363189561218&id=1182636260&mibextid=qi2Omg
More or less the same set, slight tweaks.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 16:22 (one week ago) link
Had no idea he was even on tour!
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 16:58 (one week ago) link
Interesting:https://pitchfork.com/news/bruce-springsteen-movie-starring-jeremy-allen-white-in-the-works/
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 08:05 (yesterday) link
The Bruce
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 14:28 (yesterday) link
The movie is just gonna be him floating down a river in a canoe listening to the songs on a boom box. Would watch!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 15:10 (yesterday) link
Love that Bruce is getting back in the habit of popping up on stage with other musicians. Somebody leaked the news yesterday, and I think he flies home between shows anyway, but Bruce flew east from Cali to play with Zach Bryan in Brooklyn yesterday.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 March 2024 13:05 (four hours ago) link
I'm not familiar with the song they played together "Sandpaper."
― Indexed, Thursday, 28 March 2024 13:12 (four hours ago) link
I think it's new.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 March 2024 13:33 (four hours ago) link