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.)
― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:56 (nineteen years ago) link
But wait...
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Where the hell do you think I was during that time period? Your argument holds less water than a rusty colander.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:20 (nineteen years ago) link
Your argument holds less water than a rusty colander.I think I was going more for a Sieve of Eratosthenes approach.
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:37 (nineteen years ago) link
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...)
― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:56 (nineteen years ago) link
"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.
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― J (Jay), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:13 (nineteen years ago) link
no.Alex asked "who enjoys this overproduced crappy glop" and matos answered by raising his hand (I think).
― deej., Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:14 (nineteen years ago) link
Everything I say on this thread is a lie, including this.
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― J (Jay), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:33 (nineteen years ago) link
ilm is so testy lately!!!
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:36 (nineteen years ago) link
ilm is so testy lately!!!Must be all that post-holiday testosterone.
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:44 (nineteen years ago) link
"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".
― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:26 (nineteen years ago) link
What, where?
I love me the Frankie version very much. And that is all I will say.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:37 (nineteen years ago) link
Well, yeah. That's what makes them precursors.
― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Bruce's "1-2-3-4" vs. Holly's orgamzogroans.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:40 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Bimble..., Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:50 (nineteen years ago) link
Burned-out Single songs:
Rolling Stones - Start Me Up, Jumpin' Jack FlashJimmy Buffet - MargaritavilleSister Sledge - We Are familyVan Morrison - Brown-Eyed GirlThe Police - RoxanneSteppenwolf - Born To Be WildLed Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven, Rock-n-RollKool & the Gang - CelebrationDexy's Midnight Runners - Come On EileenLynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird & Sweet Home AlabamaQueen - We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions & Bohemian RhapsodyRoy Orbison - Pretty WomanGeorge Thorogood - Bad To The BoneJimi Hendrix - Purple Haze, Hey Joe, Foxey LadyDon Henley - Boys Of SummerSister Sledge - We Are FamilyDerek & The Dominoes - LaylaBachman Turner Overdrive - Takin' Care Of BusinessThe Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I GoDire Straits - Sultans Of SwingAll covers and remixes of the above songs
Burned-out Groups:
All Village People songsAll James Brown songsAll Motown songsAll Foreigner songsAll Bob Seger songsAll Beach Boys songsAll Boston songsAll Bee Gees songsAll AC-DC SongsAll Doobie Brothers hit songsAll Eagles songsAll Bad Company songsAll Steve Miller Band songsAll 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 titleAny 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)
― Paul Bass, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― stew, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 14:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Triomphe, Le Chien Qui Insulte N'Importe Qui (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 14:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― David Allen (David Allen), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 14:47 (nineteen years ago) link
Paul Bass, you are PUNKbut misguided, cloth-eared, andcorny to the MAXXX
― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link
Speaking of montage music, "Bonzo Goes To Bitburg" in "School Of Rock" evokes similar feelings for me (leaving aside the debate about the quality difference between the two songs).
― alex in montreal, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 15:01 (nineteen years ago) link
That said, I've always suspected Bruuuuce of being a genius who works on two levels: he knows he can get your garden-variety classic-rock fan to pump his fist in the air and sing drunkenly along to an anthemic chorus. But he also knows that he has some really quite eloquent and crystal-perfect lyrics--a delicacy that some proportion of his fans are missing in their sweaty frenzy.
I have no proof of this, but I think he knows that he's casting pearls before swine a large part of the time. More like irony than condescension: I think he loves the trucker AND the intellectual in equal measure, but in different ways.
Not too long ago I saw a video of him playing live, and I thought I saw a twinkle in his eye that spoke untold volumes. He sang the line "a close band of happy thieves," then looked as if he were thinking, "You know, I just tossed that line off, and it's really apt and articulate. I'm a fucking poet, and half this audience doesn't notice or care. And I'm at peace with that."
Maybe I'm imagining it. Heck, I probably am imagining it. But that's my theory and I'm sticking to it.
― The Mad Puffin, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 15:28 (nineteen years ago) link
This morning while feeding the offspring breakfast, I was subjected to another moldy Bruce oldie, fuckin' "Tenth Avenue Freeze-out". WILL THE TORTURE NEVER END?
Q104 must have some iron-clad condicle in its by-laws that prevents the station from playing anything recorded after 1982 with the lone exceptions being Nevermind by Nirvana and Achtung Baby by U2.
Supposedly, "Hungry Heart" was written for the Ramones (and fuckin' imagine that!), but Springsteen was convinced to keep it for himself.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link
But the less-over-the-top things, like "Atlantic City" or the totally underrated "I'm on Fire" rank among my favorite pieces of music. Much of Nebraska acts as a counterweight to the saxophonic sludge of the rest of Mr. Springsteen's career.
― The Mad Puffin, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 15:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link
darkness on the edgeis stripped-down and is my favespringsteen of them all
― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― stew, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 15:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link
Not to be confused withhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WXgHkujfI0
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 February 2024 17:27 (two months ago) link
I think Springsteen plays all the guitars on that album.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 17 February 2024 17:28 (two months ago) link
Actually I was talking about live versions, sorry
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 February 2024 17:44 (two months ago) link
Hammersmith Odeon ‘75 he calls for that solo by saying “Something!” a few times.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 February 2024 17:54 (two months ago) link