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Re: Bruce Springsteen
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He's had his moments on record. Not for north of thirty years, though.
In timeless moments we live forever
You can't play a tune on an absolute
Negative Capability...when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason”
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K wrote:John talking to himself again?
What am I, chopped liver?
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Re: Bruce Springsteen
The Wild, The Innocent & The E.Street Shuffle.
Darkness On The Edge Of Town.
Born To Run.
My Top 3.
Darkness On The Edge Of Town.
Born To Run.
My Top 3.
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Re: Bruce Springsteen
The statue of liberty , with a guitar!
If I jerk- the handle jerk- the handle you'll thrill me and thrill me
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Re: Bruce Springsteen
He needed to take drugs, then he'd be better.
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No. He takes drugs.
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Which ones? Maybe acid specifically.
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No visible Beatles influence?
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He says he pretty much doesn't!
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There are details in his autobiography about antidepressant medication.
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You know what I meant...
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I was listening to Greetings From Asbury Park the other day. You could get why he made such a big impact - the epic, cinematic scale of the music, the windswept romanticism, the exuberant playing of the East Street Band. But every song basically sounded the same.
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The Modernist wrote: But every song basically sounded the same.
How long have you lived with the album, G?
I ask that because i think that people who hear the whole thing for the first time, or even for the first few times, can be left with that impression due to Springsteen's singing style in particular on this one and also Lopez' drumming style.
When it's had a longer time to sink in though, and you dig deeper into the songs, there is quite a bit of tempo shifting from track to track, and often within the songs, as well as some interesting arrangement work with the vocals and the rhythms used.
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'Lost In The Flood' is beautiful; there are people who call themselves poets and work with words for decades who never get close to the feeling and sound of the lyrics put together here by a 23-year old NJ kid.
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The Modernist wrote:I was listening to Greetings From Asbury Park the other day. You could get why he made such a big impact - the epic, cinematic scale of the music, the windswept romanticism, the exuberant playing of the East Street Band. But every song basically sounded the same.
Maybe your vinyl got stuck G?
The production you can criticise, the vocal/lyrical stylings may not be your preferred choice, even the songs may not be very good in your eyes. But I cannot honestly see how you can say the songs all sounded the same?! The suite of three songs on side two are so dramatically different from eachother for starters.
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I lose interest after Nebraska. Up to that point he’s mostly very good and sometimes great.
The Wild, The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle is wonderful and side two, especially, is absolutely stellar. Magnificent music, full of romance and magic. He was never better. Lopez and Sancious leave and something was lost but Born To Run still had the romance and youthful spunk and the Spectorian backdrop is wonderful at times. It’s just a great rock n roll album which contains at least three Bruce masterpieces (Thunder Road, Born to Run and Jungleland). Possibly 4 with Backstreets. On Darkness we have grown up Bruce, he’s 30 something and working in a factory by day and dreaming of escape at night. I prefer young Bruce but these songs about working class life and its failed dreams still have the power to move but it’s not a world I wish to visit very often. The River is a misstep. At a push you could get a good single album out of it but there’s a lot of filler. Nebraska is something I admire rather than love but its spooked and haunted songs have something. It was a ballsy move.
He’s a stellar live performer. Very generous and engaging. One of the greats.
The Wild, The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle is wonderful and side two, especially, is absolutely stellar. Magnificent music, full of romance and magic. He was never better. Lopez and Sancious leave and something was lost but Born To Run still had the romance and youthful spunk and the Spectorian backdrop is wonderful at times. It’s just a great rock n roll album which contains at least three Bruce masterpieces (Thunder Road, Born to Run and Jungleland). Possibly 4 with Backstreets. On Darkness we have grown up Bruce, he’s 30 something and working in a factory by day and dreaming of escape at night. I prefer young Bruce but these songs about working class life and its failed dreams still have the power to move but it’s not a world I wish to visit very often. The River is a misstep. At a push you could get a good single album out of it but there’s a lot of filler. Nebraska is something I admire rather than love but its spooked and haunted songs have something. It was a ballsy move.
He’s a stellar live performer. Very generous and engaging. One of the greats.
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Goat Boy wrote:He’s a stellar live performer. Very generous and engaging. One of the greats.
I've had the enormous pleasure of seeing him live sixtimes now. He's never been less than very good and on at least three occasions, he has been 'incendiary' brilliant. Along with Prince, he's the greatest, most natural live performer I've ever been fortunate enough to witness. His Ricoh Arena show at Coventry 18 months ago was mind boggling - he had a football stadium rocking and feeling like an indoor show at somewhere like Brixton Academy. That shouldn't be possible to do but he most certainly achieved it that night.
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fange wrote:The Modernist wrote: But every song basically sounded the same.
How long have you lived with the album, G?
I ask that because i think that people who hear the whole thing for the first time, or even for the first few times, can be left with that impression due to Springsteen's singing style in particular on this one and also Lopez' drumming style.
When it's had a longer time to sink in though, and you dig deeper into the songs, there is quite a bit of tempo shifting from track to track, and often within the songs, as well as some interesting arrangement work with the vocals and the rhythms used.
To answer your question - I haven't! I was listening to "It's so hard to be a Saint..", as someone had picked it in the cup. Youtube then started playing other tracks from the album so I decided to listen to the whole thing. The song constructions sounded pretty much the same to me as did the arrangements; it was like he was rewriting the same song.
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Jonny Spencer wrote:fange wrote:I've got my quad pants on and i'm ready for some Cock.
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