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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 18, 2016 11:53:36 GMT -5
At risk of being booted from the thread, I...don't like Springsteen, Billy Joel, or Journey. I saw Foreigner live, though, and they were good! I like Springsteen, Billy Joel, Journey, & Foreigner. Yeah, I said it. Maybe it's due to a potassium deficiency.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2016 12:08:01 GMT -5
Luckily, Wire have a new one out. Some 38 years after I first heard them (memory tells me their classic debut LP, my favorite album ever, was one of 8 I acquired the same day I bought my first & still only stereo in late 5/78) they're about as good as ever. Nice antidote to unwanted thoughts of Journey, Foreigner, Starship & other radio Velveeta.
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Post by shaxper on May 18, 2016 12:30:17 GMT -5
At risk of being booted from the thread, I...don't like Springsteen, Billy Joel, or Journey. With Springstein, the stuff that got radio play is probably his worst. You've got to listen to the tracks and albums that people don't play. Darkness on The Edge of Town is an album worth hearing. Billy Joel and Journey are just far far too overplayed for some to be able to judge them fairly. I like some of Joel's early stuff, but find much of what he writes obnoxious. Journey is largely terrible with the exception of Anyway You Want It, Don't Stop Believing, and Faithfully.
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Post by shaxper on May 18, 2016 12:31:30 GMT -5
My favorite ever cover of that song, which (I suspect) influenced how he chooses to sing it now:
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Post by Prince Hal on May 18, 2016 16:56:35 GMT -5
With Springstein, the stuff that got radio play is probably his worst. You've got to listen to the tracks and albums that people don't play. Darkness on The Edge of Town is an album worth hearing. Agreed, agreed, agreed. He is up there with Dylan and the Beatles. And no band is better (or tighter) than the E Street Band.
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Post by Gene on May 18, 2016 18:43:41 GMT -5
Springsteen is take him or leave him, but Billy Joel and Journey are the absolute bottom of the barrel.
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Post by Prince Hal on May 18, 2016 19:11:12 GMT -5
My favorite ever cover of that song, which (I suspect) influenced how he chooses to sing it now: He varies it up I think. What I find interesting is the video I posted was from 1975, the year the song was released, and yet it's so different from the studio version already. I think it's more likely that the Hammersmith version probably influenced Tori Amos's cover. Springsteen's been changing up "Thunder Road" since he first recorded it.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2016 19:17:58 GMT -5
On my phone, from Springsteen, I have: Spirit in The Night Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) Thunder Road Tenth Avenue Freeze Out Backstreets Born to Run Jungleland Badlands The Promised Land Prove it All Night Hungry Heart Out in the Street The River Dancing in The Dark Murder Incorporated I may also add Blinded By the Light at some point. You have good taste in Bruce Springsteen ... Excellent!
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Post by berkley on May 18, 2016 19:18:17 GMT -5
Best 80s music I've heard recently:
(the whole album, but that was just the title track)
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Post by Rob Allen on May 18, 2016 19:31:43 GMT -5
Here's a Springsteen parody from the old Uncle Floyd Show - the late Craig "Mugsy" Calame as "Bruce Stringbean":
He also did songs as "Willie Half-Nelson", "Pot Roast", "Bob Dilly", "Neil Yuck", "Tom Waste" and "John Jaguar Melon-hand"
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 18, 2016 19:41:40 GMT -5
Did someone say great music from the 80s?
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Post by Spike-X on May 19, 2016 4:09:41 GMT -5
He varies it up I think. What I find interesting is the video I posted was from 1975, the year the song was released, and yet it's so different from the studio version already. I think it's more likely that the Hammersmith version probably influenced Tori Amos's cover. Springsteen's been changing up "Thunder Road" since he first recorded it. Earlier, in fact - Wings For Wheels, as the song was originally known, featured a bunch of different lyrics, and a salsa-style instrumental break in the middle.
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Post by the4thpip on May 19, 2016 7:58:58 GMT -5
Am I sick for wanting more soul diva covers of Springsteen tracks? I want Aretha to do 10th Avenue Freeze out, Diana Ross could do a haunting Point Blank and Gladys could slay The River. So far, all we got was Pointer Sisters and Natalie Cole, and they were both more pop at the time.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2016 9:27:24 GMT -5
*sigh* The main impression I carry of Robert Earl Keen is suffering probably the worst sinus attack of my life during his show in Auburn the night before my birthday in 2003. I've taken a store-brand Claritin every morning since then.
Happily, no such unpleasantness occurred when he played Montgomery about 4 years ago.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 19, 2016 9:45:29 GMT -5
*sigh* The main impression I carry of Robert Earl Keen is suffering probably the worst sinus attack of my life during his show in Auburn the night before my birthday in 2003. I've taken a store-brand Claritin every morning since then. Happily, no such unpleasantness occurred when he played Montgomery about 4 years ago. I missed him last time he was through Idaho. Hopefully next time around.
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