sad i didn't get to vote. would have voted darkness #1. bruuuuuuuuuuuuuce imo.
― horseshoe, Monday, 25 February 2013 23:52 (eleven years ago) link
can't believe darkness didn't win
ominous sign for what lies ahead
― iatee, Monday, 25 February 2013 23:53 (eleven years ago) link
WiESS beating Nebraska is a bad omen for this
Didn't know the voting on this was done already--whoops
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Monday, 25 February 2013 23:53 (eleven years ago) link
I still havent heard "The Wild, The Innocent..."
― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Monday, 25 February 2013 23:54 (eleven years ago) link
I was getting the impression in the talkback that ppl didn't like Darkness much? I'm hopeful it gets loads of love because it RULEs
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 February 2013 23:54 (eleven years ago) link
all the voters for brooding brooce were too busy brooding :(
― iatee, Monday, 25 February 2013 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
ban all brooders imo
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 February 2013 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
non-voting brooders i mean
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 February 2013 23:56 (eleven years ago) link
darkness is usually the fanboy favorite I think
― iatee, Monday, 25 February 2013 23:56 (eleven years ago) link
Darkness is amazing but Born To Run is a very close #2 for me so i'm happy with the results. if anything I assumed Darkness would win just because it seems less divisive than BTR, i imagine there are more Bruce fans that are just kind of 'over' Born To Run and a lot of the songs on it.
― luaka boppa flame (some dude), Monday, 25 February 2013 23:58 (eleven years ago) link
for comparison: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN ALBUMS POLL
― inste grammophon (rogermexico.), Monday, 25 February 2013 23:58 (eleven years ago) link
nebraska is the hipster fav and all the hipsters on ilx are gone or I guess they're just old now
― iatee, Monday, 25 February 2013 23:59 (eleven years ago) link
id have voted for bitusa myself with darkness 2nd
― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
Darkness has a couple of my all-time favorites but it's hard to get past ADAM RAIIIISED A CAIIIIIIIIIIN
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
i like nebraska fine but i think al said somewhere on ilx that having it as your favorite springsteen album makes it seem like you're not that into the whole springsteen thing, which i think is otm.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:02 (eleven years ago) link
xpost but that guitar! it melts u face!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:03 (eleven years ago) link
Nebraska became a favorite after a fan segment got turned off by the "overblown" BITUSA. As recently as 2000 I was still bumping into fans who thought BITUSA's popularity made assessment impossible.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:04 (eleven years ago) link
'i dont like springsteen but i like nebraska' - me until 2004
― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:05 (eleven years ago) link
i appreciate "Adam" and its place in the album more than i used to, but even when i hated it that didn't stop Darkness from being my favorite Bruce album
― luaka boppa flame (some dude), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:07 (eleven years ago) link
BITUSA's rep is definitely better now than it was 10 years ago. the early E Street reunion tours seemed to be very much about getting back to the '70s catalog and downplaying BITUSA -- did they ever start playing more from that album in recent years?
― luaka boppa flame (some dude), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:08 (eleven years ago) link
really the crime and tragedy here is the TUNNEL OF LOVE snub. should be top 3 at least.
― inste grammophon (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:08 (eleven years ago) link
It topped my poll. Then again, "i dont like springsteen but i like nebraska' - ILX until 2007"
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:09 (eleven years ago) link
er, TOL
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:10 (eleven years ago) link
tol is the new nebraska tho I don't think very many people say "I don't like springsteen but I like tol"
― iatee, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:11 (eleven years ago) link
wait is that what alfred was trying to say
― iatee, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:13 (eleven years ago) link
haha yes
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:14 (eleven years ago) link
even with BITUSA's correct repositioning in the canon, TOL's claque is a lot louder than BITUSA's.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:15 (eleven years ago) link
"TOL didn't sell as many copies, but everyone who bought it formed an ILX thread."
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:16 (eleven years ago) link
hipsters in 2025 will refuse to listen to anything but 'the rising'
― iatee, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:16 (eleven years ago) link
I love all you TOL'ers but that album is like Heijera for me with Joni Mitchell.
The *sound* on TOL is like a razor wire fence to my brain. I just can't relax into it. There's a couple of songs I like but even after re-listening a couple of weeks ago I was still making that being-force-fed-broccoli-face after a while :)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
HIDDEN PREDICTORS: I generally approve of broccoli.
― inste grammophon (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
what's unattractive about it?
xpost
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
The River is the real fanboy pick, Darkness is too obvious
― Euler, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
I think they're tied but it's def that era
― iatee, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
the river has the advantage of having more songs
i had tol #1, darkness #2
― balls, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:52 (eleven years ago) link
xxpost Alfred: it's the synthy/fretless-bass sound I think. It just sounds really dated to me. And I guess a lot of that is maybe I don't have any really good nostalgia for other albums that sound like this? Like maybe it's my last frontier music-wise that I have not really reckoned with.
I mean, I dig Paul Simon's Graceland and that's a fretless bass free for all so I know that immediately makes me a hypocrite. I guess with Bruce on TOL, with the exception of Brilliant Disguise, there's no songs that can rise up enough to me lyric-wise to hook me into the music. Or vice versa. I come in lost and and I stay lost.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:53 (eleven years ago) link
i have 2 tol tracks in my top 3, 4 on my ballot overall
― balls, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:55 (eleven years ago) link
my #1 is from tol
i guess what i'm saying guys is i like tol
― balls, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
ALOT
@VegemiteGrrl I think Tunnel of Love has some of Springsteen's best lyrics:It's the same thing night on nightWho's wrong baby who's rightAnother fight and I slam the door onAnother battle in our dirty little warWhen I look at myself I don't seeThe man I wanted to beSomewhere along the line I slipped off trackI'm caught movin' one step up and two steps back
I had it at #4, although it only slipped a couple of songs onto my ballot.
― funk79, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 01:00 (eleven years ago) link
there's fretless bass on TOL?
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 01:01 (eleven years ago) link
Springsteen played most of them on TOL; the only one that stands out is "All That Heaven Will Allow"s and maybe "Valentine Day."
I'm full of shit really is the truth of it.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 01:03 (eleven years ago) link
no! Let's listen to "Two Faces" together. I need the company.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
Tunnel Of Love has a pretty garish and dated sound, even just compared to BITUSA, so i can't fault anyone for being turned off by it, even if i think it's rewarding to be able to listen past it.
― luaka boppa flame (some dude), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 01:10 (eleven years ago) link
veg what's yr take on leonard cohen's i'm yr man?
― balls, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 01:10 (eleven years ago) link
it's kind of a shame that Bruce seems to have mostly done Tunnel himself so a lot of what you hear on the album are first drafts, so that you'll never hear really stark Nebraska-style demos of any of those songs (and i imagine he doesn't revisit them much on acoustic tours) xp
― luaka boppa flame (some dude), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
he did quite well on those first drafts though -- they sound like fully fledged songs. To me "dated" means the songs were okay/mediocre/terrible at the time and we've become aware of it thanks to our own age
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 01:18 (eleven years ago) link
Genuinely surprised that "The Ties That Bind" didn't make it!
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, March 6, 2013 12:50 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The Ties That Bind was #31.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, March 6, 2013 12:53 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ahh i was thrown off because it's missing from the spotify playlist for some reason
― some dude, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
i'm kind of shocked Jackson Cage didn't get one vote, i'vealways adored it and yet stuff like Ramrod and You Can Look which i can totally take or leave got multiple
― Jamie_ATP, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
xxpost
*anticipates furiously*
― inste grammophon (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
My crucial ballot:
1. “Tunnel of Love”2. “Badlands”3. “Nebraska”4. “She’s the One”5. “Radio Nowhere”
Call it a reluctant compliment. I've skipped polls where I couldn't even get that many songs together, either because I knew very few or just didn't like the artist. Springsteen and U2 were the shortest ballots I submitted. I really, really love #1, like all the rest.
― clemenza, Thursday, 7 March 2013 00:16 (eleven years ago) link
I just whiffed on it, I guess. It's there now.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
can we get a straight-up list of the results?
― mookieproof, Thursday, 7 March 2013 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
Was just thinking that after Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney die, Weird Al is probably third in line as most beloved guy in music. Probably.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 March 2013 01:03 (eleven years ago) link
You're forgetting Zamfir.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
Man, I did totally forget about Zamfir. Is he still alive or did he retire on that next level Master of the Pan Flutes infomercial shit?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 March 2013 01:06 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, Zamfir is only 71. Best sentence ever in his wiki:
Although Zamfir is considered the most important person to popularize the pan flute worldwide, he has also received significant criticism, mostly for his propinquity with easy listening and kitsch
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 March 2013 01:08 (eleven years ago) link
propinquity!
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Thursday, 7 March 2013 01:09 (eleven years ago) link
I have never used the word "propinquity," and feel a little ashamed to say I didn't even know such a word existed--belongs on some future Alanis Morissette album.
― clemenza, Thursday, 7 March 2013 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
it does not mean what they think it means
― inste grammophon (rogermexico.), Thursday, 7 March 2013 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
"And isn't it propinquitious?Don't you think?It's like 10,000 Zamfirs, when all you need is a Vangelis."
― clemenza, Thursday, 7 March 2013 01:15 (eleven years ago) link
Hmm, that's interesting. I think propinquity could work, at least sort of metaphorically, even if they mean it like propensity, predilection or any number of other words that start with P.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 March 2013 01:18 (eleven years ago) link
propinquitous people popularizing panflutes, painfully.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 7 March 2013 01:35 (eleven years ago) link
There was a band called Propinquity whose album was rereleased via Numero -- it's pretty good but I bought it for like $4 so it's $4 good.
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Thursday, 7 March 2013 01:49 (eleven years ago) link
Internet down today, just catching up.
WOW to LL's TOL story.
My Ballot:
40: State Trooper36: Candy's Room33: Atlantic City30: Something In The Night28: Spirit In The Night26: Cadillac Ranch25: Johnny 9924: The Promised Land23: Incident On 57th Street22: Darkness On The Edge of Town21: Cover Me20: Kitty's Back19: Livin' In The Future18: The Ties That Bind 17: Sherry Darling16: Open All Night15: She's The One14: Gypsy Biker13: Meeting Across The River12: Held Up Without A Gun
― Vol. 3: The Life & Times of E. "Boom" Carter (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 7 March 2013 05:05 (eleven years ago) link
I equal-weighted my ballot so it's presented chronologically.
Biggest revelation for me: Tunnel of Love. I remember some of the singles (even voted for 1) but never owned the album. Gonna have to do something about that.
Biggest disconnect with other voters: Nebraska. It may be heresy on this thread but, try as I might, Nebraska doesn't do much for me. Tried again with the results rollout. Still not getting it.
Growing Up Spirits in the NightFor YouBlinded by the Light4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)Incident on 57th StreetRosalitaNew York City SerenadeKitty's BackShe's the OneThunder RoadTenth Avenue Freeze OutBackstreetsCandy's RoomRacing in the StreetsPoint BlankMy HometownDancing in the DarkTougher Than the RestStreets of Philadelphia
Albums:
Wild InnocentBorn to RunGreetingsDarknessBorn in the USA
― that's not my post, Thursday, 7 March 2013 07:07 (eleven years ago) link
Because of this thread, I wrote this about Racing in the Street. Not quite what I wanted, cos I had to bash it out in a 20-min window. Hat tip to zachlyon for the Camaro observation.
― Trans-Europe Stopping Train (ithappens), Thursday, 7 March 2013 07:41 (eleven years ago) link
wonderful article!! i expect royalties.
― This is called money bags. (zachlyon), Thursday, 7 March 2013 08:18 (eleven years ago) link
tbh i never even noticed the crystals reference. but i'm horrible with that sort of thing.
― This is called money bags. (zachlyon), Thursday, 7 March 2013 08:20 (eleven years ago) link
Great piece. 20 minutes! Gravitas only slightly undermined by the linked video being by sgtpepperspeepee.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 7 March 2013 08:59 (eleven years ago) link
I think the only reason he put the Camaro first was so that it would scan and rhyme.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 7 March 2013 08:59 (eleven years ago) link
sssssshhhhhhh
― This is called money bags. (zachlyon), Thursday, 7 March 2013 09:18 (eleven years ago) link
xpost Fortunate to be a very quick writer. Been thinking about the song all poll, so I knew what I was going to say. No blank paper in my head.
― Trans-Europe Stopping Train (ithappens), Thursday, 7 March 2013 11:23 (eleven years ago) link
Roy Bittan's piano picking out a phrase adapted from the Crystals' Then He Kissed Me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0GfHJGmLQ8
Would pay to see Bruce do anything, but a whole Phil Spector set would be ... wow ...
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 March 2013 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
Huh, just saw this, which is not so hot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve1BUGpatDk
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 March 2013 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
But what a lovely song this one is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiD378AgSds
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 March 2013 14:54 (eleven years ago) link
Kathryn Jean Lopez @kathrynlopez
i confess, if @chucktodd asked me "Bon Jovi or Springsteen," I would not answer "Springsteen, of course"
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 March 2013 15:18 (eleven years ago) link
Hi - can someone put up another link to the Spotify. xx
― kraudive, Friday, 8 March 2013 00:28 (eleven years ago) link
Jamie, could you post the whole list?
― g simmel, Friday, 8 March 2013 14:23 (eleven years ago) link
great piece ithappens
― iatee, Friday, 8 March 2013 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks for the nice words.
― Trans-Europe Stopping Train (ithappens), Friday, 8 March 2013 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
Clarence's family suing his doctors for malpractice.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 8 March 2013 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
― iatee, Monday, February 25, 2013 6:11 PM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
tbh this is mostly me. i like nebraska quite a bit, and then out of nowhere i started listening to tunnel of love obsessively, over the last year. that's my favorite now. "brilliant disguise" was the way in, but almost the entire album is very good. i do like a few other springsteen songs (no one is going to deny something like 'dancing in the dark') but in general i like when the e street band is either not there or they tone it down a little
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 8 December 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
I would like to distance myself fromthe 2013 VG who all but dismissed Tunnel of Love in its entiretyhttps://tenor.com/wq8K.gifi am here to say that i have revisited TOL since that time and love it start to finish. My ears, they seem to work now
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 September 2020 02:20 (three years ago) link
https://media1.tenor.com/images/4c7118532426337f032fe0750baa43cb/tenor.gif
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 September 2020 02:21 (three years ago) link
welcome to the fold
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 25 September 2020 02:38 (three years ago) link
<3
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 September 2020 03:03 (three years ago) link
Hooray!
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 25 September 2020 03:37 (three years ago) link