Bruce Springsteen - SHIT!

[devogue]

I've always felt that Springsteen is overrated. His major hits are shit, he just makes a load of noise and even his "Americana", the sort of folksy softer stuff, is mind-numbingly boring shit. God, I've tried to get in to it but I think he should just put on his Versace suit jeans and head back to his mansion trailor.

[Rum]

Quite so.

[normal]

I didn't even try, so I'm better off!

[Animavore]

I only know two, shit, songs.

[Bella Fortuna]

I only like a couple very early ones of his. Everything else is shit.

[tattuchu]

Never had much use for him but I wouldn't call him shit. Here are some songs I particularly like from early, middle and late in his career:

"Candy's Room"


"Tunnel of Love" (couldn't find a studio version)


"Radio Nowhere"
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtrOYsNC ... WU2oawACzg[/youtube]

[devogue]

Well said everybody!

[/waits for Gallstones... ]

[klr]

Hmmm .... while I like a certain amount of his music, I have to admit that I too think he's somewhat overrated.

Des is going to be pissed off, as everyone is basically agreeing with him. No chance for drama here.

EDIT:

Well said everybody!

[/waits for Gallstones... ]

Wait, does GS like Da Boss?

[tattuchu]

Here's another nice one:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3ZMfPXg ... ure=relmfu[/youtube]

[Coito ergo sum]

Darkness was a great album....

[tattuchu]

And who can't love this one?
He seems to have reinvented himself of late. His newer stuff, at least what I've heard of it, seems particularly inspired.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8PB1a1c ... ure=relmfu[/youtube]

[Coito ergo sum]

Some of it's a Jersey thing.... [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H626Q3X ... re=related[/youtube]

Sandy the fireworks are hailin' over Little Eden tonight
Forcin' a light into all those stoned-out faces left
stranded on this forth of July
Down in town the circuit's full with switchblade lovers
so fast so shiny so sharp
As the wizards play down on Pinball Way on the boardwalk way past dark
And the boys from the casino dance with their shirts open
like Latin lovers along the shoreChasin' all them silly girls
Sandy the aurora is risin' beh ind us
The pier lights our carnival life forever
Love me tonight for I may never see you againHey Sandy girl
Now the greasers they tramp the streets or get busted for
trying to sleep on the beach all night
Them boys in their spiked high heels ah Sandy their skins are so white
And me I just got tired of hangin' in them dusty arcades
bangin' them pleasure machines
Chasin' the factory girls underneath the boardwalk where
they promise to unsnap their jeans
And you know that tilt-a-whirl down on the south beach drag
I got on it last night and my shirt got caught
And that Joey kept me spinnin' I didn't think I'd ever get off
Oh Sandy the aurora is risin' behind us
The pier lights our carnival life on the water
Runnin' down the beach at night with my boss's daughter
Well he ain't my boss no more Sandy
Sandy the angels have lost their desire for us
I spoke to 'em just last night and they said they won't
set themselves on fire for us anymore
Every summer when the weather gets hot they ride that road
down from heaven on their Harleys they come and they go
And you can see 'em dressed like stars in all the cheap
little seashore bars parked making love with their
babies out on the Kokomo
Well the cops finally busted Madame Marie for tellin'
fortunes better than they doThis boardwalk life for me is through
You kmow you ought to quit this scene tooSandy the aurora's rising behind us
The pier lights out carnival life forever
Oh love me tonight and I promise I'll love you forever

And,


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh62AVsS ... 06B7EA1665[/youtube]

The rangers had a homecoming in harlem late last night
And the magic rat drove his sleek machine over the jersey state line
Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a dodge
Drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain
The rat pulls into town rolls up his pants
Together they take a stab at romance and disappear down flamingo lane

Well the maximum lawman run down flamingo chasing the rat and the barefoot
Girl
And the kids round here look just like shadows always quiet, holding hands
From the churches to the jails tonight all is silence in the world
As we take our stand down in jungleland

The midnight gangs assembled and picked a rendezvous for the night
They'll meet `neath that giant exxon sign that brings this fair city light
Man there's an opera out on the turnpike
There's a ballet being fought out in the alley
Until the local cops, cherry tops, rips this holy night
The streets alive as secret debts are paid
Contacts made, they vanished unseen
Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades hustling for the record machine
The hungry and the hunted explode into rocknroll bands
That face off against each other out in the street down in jungleland

In the parking lot the visionaries dress in the latest rage
Inside the backstreet girls are dancing to the records that the d.j. plays
Lonely-hearted lovers struggle in dark corners
Desperate as the night moves on, just a look and a whisper, and they're gone

Beneath the city two hearts beat
Soul engines running through a night so tender in a bedroom locked
In whispers of soft refusal and then surrender in the tunnels uptown
The rats own dream guns him down as shots echo down them hallways in the
Night
No one watches when the ambulance pulls away
Or as the girl shuts out the bedroom light

Outside the streets on fire in a real death waltz
Between flesh and what's fantasy and the poets down here
Don't write nothing at all, they just stand back and let it all be
And in the quick of the night they reach for their moment
And try to make an honest stand but they wind up wounded, not even dead
Tonight in jungleland

More lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/bruce+springsteen/#share

[devogue]

Des

[devogue]

And who can't love this one?
He seems to have reinvented himself of late. His newer stuff, at least what I've heard of it, seems particularly inspired.

I like the intro, then he starts singing and instantly ruins it. The melodies of the verse and chorus are entirely predictable, the harmony is predictable, the meter is predictable, the tempo is predictable.

It's just dull.

And he sounds like an old pervert.

[klr]

Des

I could have sworn I typed "Dev" ...