wait so this song opened with sex in the caaaaarrrr?
― maffew12, Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:02 (four years ago) link
Lily Dale, you could be helping here - at least sketch out a verse, sheesh.
― Saint Buffy (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
I am the Jon Landau of this song. I don't help, I just provide highbrow criticism.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
I think sex in the caaaaaaarrrr was a false ending? (To be followed by ONE TWO THREE FOUR! and the verse about the Jersey Devil.)
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
ok.
A figure in green haunted my dreamMaybe a man, maybe a ladyMy sister heard a siren screamGypsy said "that was your maybe"
Rhonda was stuck in betweenBlood in the mist out by the beachVanished behind a smokestack screenThe cops arrived, she was out of reach
― Saint Buffy (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link
[unintelligible moaning]
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:17 (four years ago) link
AND THEN WE HAD SEX IN THE CAAAAAARRRR! <sax solo>
― Saint Buffy (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:19 (four years ago) link
SEX IN THE CAAAAAARRRR!SEX IN THE CAAAAAARRRR!SEX IN THE CAAAAAARRRR!SEX IN THE CAAAAAARRRR!SEX IN THE CAAAAAARRRR!SEX IN THE CAAAAAARRRR!
All right!
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link
Keep it rockin' boys!
― Saint Buffy (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:23 (four years ago) link
How are you all doing these without using the word "sir"?
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link
Sex In The Car, Sir
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
<Nils does a dance on a trampoline>
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:43 (four years ago) link
Out from under the shadows of the pulasky skywaySpeeding past the Sbarro sign at the Walt Whitman rest areaWe can ride this turnpike all night but the ride ain't freejust tell me what exit and I'll punch your ticket baby
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, October 10, 2019 12:42 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
I feel like it should actually be "Burnin' past the Sbarro sign..."
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:47 (four years ago) link
Fair point, it's not really Springsteen unless something's on fire.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
or he gave away the g's
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
I put those g's in Sir Sbarro's sign, honey, and then I torched it
― maffew12, Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
And she said "Honey you should know by now that pizza's no good!"as she lit a cigarette and flicked the ashes on my hood
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 10 October 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
Another American job lost to high tech outsourcing
― maffew12, Thursday, 10 October 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
Saw her in the Sbarro's by the dynamoJust a-twirlin' that pizza dough
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 10 October 2019 19:40 (four years ago) link
The bar band there was hoppingI got lost in Rhonda's worldRedemption was the toppingAs the pizza slowly twirled
― Saint Buffy (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 10 October 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
They closed down the Sbarro's 'cross the railroad trackRalph went out looking for pizza and never came back
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 10 October 2019 20:10 (four years ago) link
Everybody knows a hungry Ralph
― maffew12, Thursday, 10 October 2019 20:38 (four years ago) link
https://frinkiac.com/meme/S04E17/509675.jpg?b64lines=V2VsbCB0aGV5IGJsZXcgdXAgdGhlIApjaGlja2VuIG1hbiBpbiBQaGlsbHkgbGFzdCAKbmlnaHQKCgoKCgoKCi4uLm1tbW1tLi4uY2hpY2tlbi4uLg==
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 10 October 2019 20:46 (four years ago) link
Meet me tonight at Panera Bread
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 10 October 2019 20:56 (four years ago) link
no dude that's mark kozelek
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 10 October 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
his songs are even easier to parody because he pretty much writes them as parodies of their own style to begin with
I had to listen to "The Promise" earlier - Bruce's most self-referential song? That 2-disc lost album sort of thing they put out with the Darkness box is nice, but the 3 year gap (lawsuit-imposed?) between Born to Run and Darkness probably did him a lot of good in the long run.
― maffew12, Thursday, 10 October 2019 21:07 (four years ago) link
IS THERE SEX IN THE CAAAAAARRRR?YES THERE"S SEX IN THE CAAAAAARRRR!
― nickn, Thursday, 10 October 2019 21:16 (four years ago) link
That killed me because Bruce has never directly sang about sex, eh?
--
https://the-niche.blog/2018/04/16/the-top-ten-horniest-bruce-springsteen-songs/
On Badlands: "Any given lyric in this song could be about overthrowing American capitalism or getting gloriously, generously rawed. Or both!"
― maffew12, Thursday, 10 October 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
Because The Night Belongs To Fuckers
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 10 October 2019 21:32 (four years ago) link
that list of horny springsteen songs is glaringly missing "candy's room."
and the ILM springsteen song is glaringly missing a river. or lake. or some body of water.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 10 October 2019 21:34 (four years ago) link
good point.
We kiss, my heart's pumpin' to my brainAnd the blood rushes in my veins, the fire rushes towards the skiesI go driving, driving deep into the nightI go driving deep into the light, in Candy's eyes...
i'm gonna take a shower
― maffew12, Thursday, 10 October 2019 21:42 (four years ago) link
There's that song on "Devils & Dust" about a prostitute in Reno that's about as explicit as Bruce has ever gotten, or for that matter could be.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 October 2019 23:08 (four years ago) link
my. goodness.
― maffew12, Thursday, 10 October 2019 23:31 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5PoIrcyd34
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 10 October 2019 23:49 (four years ago) link
It's also missing the part where he listens to the radio. We have so much work to do.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 10 October 2019 23:55 (four years ago) link
The buildup and release in the beginning of “somewhere in the night” was my first big OH WOW Bruce moment (outside of “tunnel of love” and certain BitUSA singles). Now I love all the classic stuff
― brimstead, Friday, 11 October 2019 00:05 (four years ago) link
By the moonlit lake, there's a teenage punkJackin' off into a ball cap which is full of spunkMeanwhile a Chevy roars across the bridge over the riverAnd the old faded mine worker does some more damage to his liver
― Saint Buffy (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 11 October 2019 00:16 (four years ago) link
Willows weep and hangdogs creep like barflies crawling down the streetWhile the lights from the swamps glow bright with high pomp for the girls we're trying to meetThe wheels on the car spin fast to go far from the places we want to escapeBut the draw of the dump smells strong of gas pumps and we all pass out from the heat
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 October 2019 00:27 (four years ago) link
A+
― Saint Buffy (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 11 October 2019 00:32 (four years ago) link
"Pink Cadillac" also belongs on the list of horny songs. I love that Springsteen wrote a song about a black Cadillac and a song about a pink Cadillac, and the black Cadillac is a metaphor for death and the pink Cadillac is a metaphor for vaginas. That is some sophisticated symbolism right there.
― Lily Dale, Friday, 11 October 2019 01:01 (four years ago) link
I was thinking about adding a verse about driving Dow. To philly with a girl from basking ridge and stopping on the way to make it under the Trenton makes bridge.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 11 October 2019 02:33 (four years ago) link
I don't know, that sounds a bit too happy. Better throw in a state trooper or two.
― Lily Dale, Friday, 11 October 2019 05:51 (four years ago) link
Red Headed Woman from the Not Unplugged album is pretty frisky:
Listen up stud, your life's been wastedtill ya got down on your knees and tasteda red headed woman, a red headed womanit takes a red headed woman to get a dirty job done
Tight skirt, strawberry hairtell me what you got baby waitin under therebig green eyes that look like, sonthey can see every cheap thing that you've ever done
Well I don't know how many girls you dated manbut you ain't lived till you had your tires rotatedby a red headed woman, a red headed womanit takes a red headed woman to get a dirty job done
― Cow_Art, Friday, 11 October 2019 09:41 (four years ago) link
That's one I always try to forget ever happened. Bruce in couch-jumping mode. I'm glad you enjoy going down on your wife, Bruce, but please stop writing songs about it.
"Secret Garden" is fairly explicit too - "she'll let you in her mouth/ if the words you say are right" - and I don't much like that one either. I feel like something happened to his way of writing about sex when he got married, where he's more explicit but also more self-conscious and awkward about it.
― Lily Dale, Friday, 11 October 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link
Speaking of horny Bruce, this performance of the e.street shuffle was a bit startling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81QcctmsodI
― Lily Dale, Friday, 11 October 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link
He's on Graham Norton, along with Robert DeNiro.
That's a chat show lineup!
― Mark G, Friday, 11 October 2019 22:28 (four years ago) link
Latest official live archive release is 10/23/99, in Los Angeles, a show that changed up a lot of the reunion set (for example, nothing from BitUSA!). I saw a chunk of reunion tours, and each time I remember telling the person I was with, man, he is so incredible it's hard to believe that in '98/'99 he was about 20 years past his '78 peak as a performer, when he was even better. And of course we are now another 20 years past him being 20 years past his peak ... and he was still pretty good on the 2016 tour!
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 13 October 2019 19:32 (four years ago) link
Josh in Chicago, can you explain something to me? Why is it, exactly, that '78 is generally agreed to be his peak? I have only videos to go on, and I think his '78 performances are amazing, but I can't quite see what makes them so much better than the River tour or the Born in the USA tour.
― Lily Dale, Monday, 14 October 2019 06:48 (four years ago) link
smaller venues
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Monday, 14 October 2019 06:50 (four years ago) link