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Title: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: michigancat on September 25, 2007, 08:21:46 AM
Honestly.
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: chum1 on September 25, 2007, 10:13:30 AM
Spearheaded grassroots rock portion of disco backlash?
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: michigancat on September 25, 2007, 10:14:23 AM
Spearheaded grassroots rock portion of disco backlash?

That kind of makes sense.  I've worked a lot with old blue-collar dudes, and they get REALLY PISSED if you suggest they listened disco.  It's funny.
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: mjrod on September 25, 2007, 10:28:50 AM
He had been a singer since the 70's.   

Don't know why people like him.  He's had a couple of good songs, but nothing I thought was really that good.

Helped Courtney Cox become famous.
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: KSt8er on September 25, 2007, 12:12:41 PM
He made some of the, if not the, most soulful rock and roll and his songs carry emotion seldom few ever could.  That and Clarence can play a mean SOB'n sax.  Seriously, the dude is an icon for a reason.  May not be your cup o tea is all.  The radio, like they always do, beat some of them to death but there are plenty of great tunes not played on the radio. 
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: ECN on September 25, 2007, 12:49:20 PM
its a new jersey thing.
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: michigancat on September 25, 2007, 01:35:55 PM
its a new jersey thing.

But I can almost understand the Bon Jovi success.
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: pissclams on September 25, 2007, 01:42:33 PM
Kool And The Gang were also from New Jersey, as was Frank Sinatra.
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: michigancat on September 25, 2007, 01:44:20 PM
Kool And The Gang were also from New Jersey, as was Frank Sinatra.

Again, I get their success.

Little T and One Track Mike seem like they're ARE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little-T_And_One_Track_Mike) from Jersey.
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: Kat Kid on September 25, 2007, 01:50:19 PM
BORN IN THE U-S-A, I WAS...BORN IN THE U-S-A!
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: ECN on September 25, 2007, 04:20:55 PM
its a new jersey thing.

But I can almost understand the Bon Jovi success.

my sister and i were actually discussing this the other day. my brother in law is from NY, and grew up on the east coast. when she goes back there for holidays, she says that BJ and BS are all over the place, still...like billboards, posters..etc.

we said..must be a jersey thing..and he said...pretty much.

its funny. because up until a few years ago, i still imagined them all wearing stone washed jeans still.

and they do. also, they think kansas has all dirt roads.

true story.
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: michigancat on September 25, 2007, 04:24:26 PM
^Kansas probably has the most extensive dirt road system in the country.
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: greasd up deaf guy on September 25, 2007, 05:29:03 PM
Born to Run=one of the most critically overrated albums of all-time.
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: ECN on September 25, 2007, 05:40:09 PM
nebraska is a great song though.
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: cyclist on September 25, 2007, 07:41:54 PM
BORN IN THE U-S-A, I WAS...BORN IN THE U-S-A!

Question:

Was MJ born in East LA ?

:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: cyclist on September 25, 2007, 07:43:37 PM
Seriously though,

The "Boss"  spoke to my generation.  New Jersey or not, I like his music.

Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: ECN on September 25, 2007, 07:44:37 PM
my generation had pure crap.

Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: cyclist on September 25, 2007, 07:46:30 PM
my generation had pure crap.



QFFT
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: ECN on September 25, 2007, 07:51:07 PM
i guess thats why i turn to:

the doors
beatles
pink floyd
zep....etc...when it comes to making a statement on how to write a damn song.


Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: WorldWideBalla21 on September 25, 2007, 07:56:18 PM
My Uncle played guitar w/ Mr. Springsteen.
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: cyclist on September 25, 2007, 08:06:29 PM
My Uncle played guitar w/ Mr. Springsteen.

Really ?

8) 8) 8) 8)
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: WorldWideBalla21 on September 25, 2007, 08:09:11 PM
My Uncle played guitar w/ Mr. Springsteen.

Really ?

8) 8) 8) 8)

He's the one who had that song "jack and Diane" right?
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: cyclist on September 25, 2007, 08:12:27 PM
My Uncle played guitar w/ Mr. Springsteen.

Really ?

8) 8) 8) 8)

He's the one who had that song "jack and Diane" right?

Cripes !

That is John Couger Mellencamp, you dolt !


:curse: :curse: :curse: :curse:
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: ECN on September 25, 2007, 08:13:21 PM
LOL.

cyclist..remember..balla is just a child....

but LOL all the way
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: cyclist on September 25, 2007, 08:16:44 PM
LOL.

cyclist..remember..balla is just a child....

but LOL all the way

Sorry balla !

:blush: :blush: :blush: :blush:
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: ECN on September 25, 2007, 08:18:48 PM
no...i meant he won't know what a dolt is.
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: cyclist on September 25, 2007, 08:19:50 PM
no...i meant he won't know what a dolt is.

:loly: :loly: :loly: :loly:
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: WorldWideBalla21 on September 25, 2007, 08:38:25 PM
My Uncle played guitar w/ Mr. Springsteen.

Really ?

8) 8) 8) 8)

He's the one who had that song "jack and Diane" right?

Cripes !

That is John Couger Mellencamp, you dolt !


:curse: :curse: :curse: :curse:

Oh, then it was John Melloncamp he played w/. Sorry I'm not into oldies.
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: WorldWideBalla21 on September 25, 2007, 08:39:47 PM
LOL.

cyclist..remember..balla is just a child....

but LOL all the way

I'm living on my own, how am I a child?
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: ECN on September 25, 2007, 08:42:14 PM
(compared to cyclist...dirt is a child)


shhhhhhh
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: cyclist on September 25, 2007, 08:45:06 PM
(compared to cyclist...dirt is a child)


shhhhhhh

My dirty little secret comes out yet again !

:yikes: :yikes: :yikes: :yikes:
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: ECN on September 25, 2007, 08:46:56 PM
thought he signed out.

(http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/8310/semfootinmouthwc5.gif)
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: chum1 on September 25, 2007, 09:11:29 PM
Born to Run=one of the most critically overrated albums of all-time.

The Boss totally sings his heart out on the "Born to Run" track.  He gives it absolutely everything he's got.  I'm not the biggest fan, but I guess I kind of respect that or something.

my generation had pure crap.

Radiohead?  Nirvana?  You're pure crap!   :D
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: fatty fat fat on September 25, 2007, 09:13:10 PM
I like "the rising" and "secret garden"
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: ECN on September 25, 2007, 09:25:16 PM
Born to Run=one of the most critically overrated albums of all-time.

The Boss totally sings his heart out on the "Born to Run" track.  He gives it absolutely everything he's got.  I'm not the biggest fan, but I guess I kind of respect that or something.

my generation had pure crap.

Radiohead?  Nirvana?  You're pure crap!   :D

chum,

nirvana, sTp, radiohead. yes. those are the few. but the crap outnumbered the good.
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: chum1 on September 25, 2007, 09:29:30 PM
the crap outnumbered the good.

That's always true.  You had it good.  And I don't care who you are, you have to admit that "Appetite for Destruction" is a great &@#%ing album.
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: cyclist on September 25, 2007, 09:30:08 PM
(http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/51376VK8WVL._AA240_.jpg)

Few albums are as fueled by hope, possibility, and the lure of the open road as Born to Run, a virtual concept album about small-town Jerseyites in search of a better life via hot-rodding out on the turnpike, scoring some small-time hustle, or blowing out of town altogether, either across the river to New York City or west for parts unknown. Songs like "Jungleland," "Thunder Road," "Backstreets," and the title track are epic productions, both sonically and lyrically, borrowing from Phil Spector, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, and West Side Story. When Born to Run was released in 1975, it earned then-unknown Springsteen the rare honor of simultaneous covers on both Time and Newsweek. The attention was warranted then, and it still is now. --Daniel Durchholz
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: ECN on September 25, 2007, 09:32:03 PM
the crap outnumbered the good.

That's always true.  You had it good.  And I don't care who you are, you have to admit that "Appetite for Destruction" is a great fracking album.

yes! i was in 4th grade when that dropped, and my brother, played it for me. loved it. still do.

Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: waks on September 25, 2007, 09:33:05 PM
My Uncle played guitar w/ Mr. Springsteen.

Really ?

8) 8) 8) 8)

He's the one who had that song "jack and Diane" right?
:lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: cyclist on September 25, 2007, 09:41:59 PM
Born to Run:

In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway american dream
At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines
Sprung from cages out on highway 9,
Chrome wheeled, fuel injected and steppin out over the line
Baby this town rips the bones from your back
Its a death trap, its a suicide rap
We gotta get out while were young
`cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run

Wendy let me in I wanna be your friend
I want to guard your dreams and visions
Just wrap your legs round these velvet rims
And strap your hands across my engines
Together we could break this trap
Well run till we drop, baby well never go back
Will you walk with me out on the wire
`cause baby Im just a scared and lonely rider
But I gotta find out how it feels
I want to know if love is wild, girl I want to know if love is real

Beyond the palace hemi-powered drones scream down the boulevard
The girls comb their hair in rearview mirrors
And the boys try to look so hard
The amusement park rises bold and stark
Kids are huddled on the beach in a mist
I wanna die with you wendy on the streets tonight
In an everlasting kiss

The highways jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive
Everybodys out on the run tonight but theres no place left to hide
Together wendy well live with the sadness
Ill love you with all the madness in my soul
Someday girl I dont know when were gonna get to that place
Where we really want to go and well walk in the sun
But till then tramps like us baby we were born to run

Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: dr00d on September 26, 2007, 01:14:41 AM
the crap outnumbered the good.

That's always true.  You had it good.  And I don't care who you are, you have to admit that "Appetite for Destruction" is a great fracking album.

yes! i was in 4th grade when that dropped, and my brother, played it for me. loved it. still do.



GNR ftw dood!
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: KSt8er on September 26, 2007, 03:43:39 PM
SPIRIT IN THE NIGHT

Crazy Janey and her mission man were back in the alley tradin' hands
`long came Wild Billy with his friend G-man all duded up for Saturday night
Well Billy slammed on his coaster brakes and said anybody wanna go on up to Greasy Lake
It's about a mile down on the dark side of route eighty-eight
I got a bottle of rose so let's try it
We'll pick up Hazy Davy and Killer Joe and I'll take you all out to where the gypsy angels go
They're built like light
and they dance like spirits in the night (all night) in the night (all night)
Oh, you don't know what they can do to you
Spirits in the night (all night), in the night (all night)
Stand right up now and let it shoot through you

Well now Wild young Billy was a crazy cat and he shook some dust out of his coonskin cap.
He said, "Trust some of this it'll show you where you're at, or at least it'll help you really feel it"
By the time we made it up to Greasy Lake I had my head out the window and Janey's fingers were in the cake
I think I really dug her `cause I was too loose to fake
I said, "I'm hurt." She said, "Honey let me heal it".
And we danced all night to a soul fairy band
and she kissed me just right like only a lonely angel can
She felt so nice, just as soft as a spirit in the night (all night)
In the night (all night). Janey don't know what she do to you
Like a spirit in the night (all night), in the night (all night)
Stand right up and let her shoot through me.

Now the night was bright and the stars threw light on Billy and Davy
dancin' in the moonlight
They were down near the water in a stone mud fight
Killer Joe gone passed out on the lawn
Well now Hazy Davy got really hurt, he ran into the lake in just his socks and a shirt
Me and Crazy Janey was makin' love in the dirt singin' our birthday songs
Janey said it was time to go
So we closed our eyes and said goodbye to gypsy angel row, felt so right
Together we moved like spirits in the night, all night
Baby don't know what they can do to you
Spirits in the night, all night
Stand right up and let it shoot right through you

THE RIVER

I come from down in the valley
where mister when you're young
They bring you up to do like your daddy done
Me and Mary we met in high school
when she was just seventeen
We'd ride out of that valley down to where the fields were green

We'd go down to the river
And into the river we'd dive
Oh down to the river we'd ride

Then I got Mary pregnant
and man that was all she wrote
And for my nineteenth birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat
We went down to the courthouse
and the judge put it all to rest
No wedding day smiles no walk down the aisle
No flowers no wedding dress

That night we went down to the river
And into the river we'd dive
Oh down to the river we did ride

I got a job working construction for the Johnstown Company
But lately there ain't been much work on account of the economy
Now all them things that seemed so important
Well mister they vanished right into the air
Now I just act like I don't remember
Mary acts like she don't care

But I remember us riding in my brother's car
Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir
At night on them banks I'd lie awake
And pull her close just to feel each breath she'd take
Now those memories come back to haunt me
they haunt me like a curse
Is a dream a lie if it don't come true
Or is it something worse
that sends me down to the river
though I know the river is dry
That sends me down to the river tonight
Down to the river
my baby and I
Oh down to the river we ride



DOWNBOUND TRAIN

I had a job, I had a girl
I had something going mister in this world
I got laid off down at the lumber yard
Our love went bad, times got hard
Now I work down at the carwash
Where all it ever does is rain
Don't you feel like you're a rider on a downbound train

She just said "Joe I gotta go
We had it once we ain't got it any more"
She packed her bags left me behind
She bought a ticket on the Central Line
Nights as I sleep, I hear that whistle whining
I feel her kiss in the misty rain
And I feel like I'm a rider on a downbound train

Last night I heard your voice
You were crying, crying, you were so alone
You said your love had never died
You were waiting for me at home
Put on my jacket, I ran through the woods
I ran till I thought my chest would explode
There in the clearing, beyond the highway
In the moonlight, our wedding house shone
I rushed through the yard, I burst through the front door
My head pounding hard, up the stairs I climbed
The room was dark, our bed was empty
Then I heard that long whistle whine
And I dropped to my knees, hung my head and cried

Now I swing a sledge hammer on a railroad gang
Knocking down them cross ties, working in the rain
Now don't it feel like you're a rider on a downbound train


Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: steve dave on September 26, 2007, 03:49:27 PM
My Uncle played guitar w/ Mr. Springsteen.

Really ?

8) 8) 8) 8)

He's the one who had that song "jack and Diane" right?
:lol: :lol:

QFT   :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: dr00d on September 26, 2007, 04:30:27 PM
"what we have here is............

..........a failyeh to commun-cate."

*whistles intro*

What's so civil about war anyways...  8)
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: kougar24 on September 26, 2007, 05:52:03 PM
That is John Couger Mellencamp, you dolt !

"If John Mellencamp ever wins an Oscar, I am going to be a very rich dude."

(http://www.elisanobe.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/office_kevin_malone.jpg)
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: cyclist on September 26, 2007, 08:11:22 PM
That is John Couger Mellencamp, you dolt !

"If John Mellencamp ever wins an Oscar, I am going to be a very rich dude."

(http://www.elisanobe.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/office_kevin_malone.jpg)

mmmmmmkkkkkaayy ?

:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:
Title: Re: Why is Bruce Springsteen popular?
Post by: ECN on September 30, 2007, 07:33:35 PM
gee, youll never guess who plays to commercial during the giants/eagles game.