Bruce Springsteen

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  • No Coder
    No Coder Brisbane Posts: 1,126
    Love The Boss...he is only 2nd to PJ for me, but I was into him before PJ. I love all of his work, but especially dig the acoustic solo stuff- love Ghost of Tom Joad album!! His career is Epic, with no signs of any letdown. My only gripe with his career, is IMO I would have made Lucky Town and Human Touch into 1 album- 14 songs long. They are just about the only albums where I skip a couple of songs.
    Absolutely loved The Rising when it was released, just a brilliant album.
    Very hard to pick favourites, but Tunnel of Love, Nebraska, Born to Run and GOTJ are the albums I listen to the most.
    With the EV solo tour in Oz, I haven't given The Promise an in depth listen yet, but at first glance, sounds awesome.
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me

    *BEC, Brisbane, March 1995
    *BEC, Brisbane, March 1998
    *BEC, Brisbane, November 2006
    *QSAC, Brisbane November 2009
    *EV Solo, QPAC, Brisbane March 10 and 12 2011
    *Big Day Out, Gold Coast, 19 Jan 2014
    *EV Solo, QPAC, Brisbane, 22,23 & 25 Feb 2014
  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,597
    stipe19 wrote:
    This is a perfect thread for the Other Music Forum
    Eddie Vedder has said if it wasnt for Bruce he might not be where he is today. So maybe if it wasnt for Bruce there wouldnt be an Other Music Forum

    I love this response! I have a couple employees wondering why the boss is laughing at his desk. Well done. :lol:
    ___________________________________________

    "...I changed by not changing at all..."
  • clashman
    clashman Posts: 320
    Do you still say your prayers little darlin’ do you go to bed at night
    Prayin’ that tomorrow, everything will be alright
    But tomorrow’s fall in number in number one by one
    You wake up and you’re dying you don’t even know what from

    Well they shot you point blank you been shot in the back
    Baby point blank you been fooled this time little girl that’s a fact
    Right between the eyes baby, point blank right between the pretty lies that they tell
    Little girl you fell

    point blank, trapped, bobby jean, state trooper, straight time, badlands, adam raised a coin, growin up, drive all night, the river, outlaw pete....man, that dude has so many gems!
  • Owl
    Owl Posts: 1,062
    clashman wrote:
    point blank, trapped, bobby jean, state trooper, straight time, badlands, adam raised a coin, growin up, drive all night, the river, outlaw pete....man, that dude has so many gems!


    I was amazed to read some of my very favourites among those you mentioned :thumbup:

    Btw, speaking of State Trooper, has anyone watched/listened to this Cornell's version?
    More like Bruce's style, but still good, imo.
  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S4Hul4HW9E 8-)

    The times are tough now, just getting tougher
    This old world is rough, it's just getting rougher
    Cover me, come on baby, cover me
    Well I'm looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me
    Promise me baby you won't let them find us
    Hold me in your arms, let's let our love blind us
    Cover me, shut the door and cover me
    Well I'm looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me

    Outside's the rain, the driving snow
    I can hear the wild wind blowing
    Turn out the light, bolt the door
    I ain't going out there no more

    This whole world is out there just trying to score
    I've seen enough I don't want to see any more,
    Cover me, come on and cover me
    I'm looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me
    Looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me




    1984 :D perfection
  • Lanternjaw
    Lanternjaw Posts: 553
    I'm a huge Bruce fan and, IMHO, his greatest song was Backstreets... performed as it was during the 1978 Darkness tour. During the Darkness tour he only had 4 albums worth of material so he would stretch Backstreets with an 'interlude' that was never really seen again after that tour:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=526FDxMxojw (link to clean audio of Backstreets performed at the Agora Ballroom in Cleveland -- my favorite rendition. I've got a boot of the whole show I'll share with anyone interested -- just send a PM)

    One soft infested summer me and Terry became friends
    Trying in vain to breathe the fire we was born in
    Catching rides to the outskirts tying faith between our teeth
    Sleeping in that old abandoned beach house getting wasted in the heat
    And hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
    With a love so hard and filled with defeat
    Running for our lives at night on them backstreets

    Slow dancing in the dark on the beach at Stockton's Wing
    Where desperate lovers park we sat with the last of the Duke Street Kings
    Huddled in our cars waiting for the bells that ring
    In the deep heart of the night to set us loose from everything
    to go running on the backstreets, running on the backstreets
    We swore we'd live forever on the backstreets we take it together

    Endless juke joints and Valentino drag where dancers scraped the tears
    Up off the street dressed down in rags running into the darkness
    Some hurt bad some really dying at night sometimes it seemed
    You could hear the whole damn city crying blame it on the lies that killed us
    Blame it on the truth that ran us down you can blame it all on me Terry
    It don't matter to me now when the breakdown hit at midnight
    There was nothing left to say but I hated him and I hated you when you went away

    Laying here in the dark you're like an angel on my chest
    Just another tramp of hearts crying tears of faithlessness
    Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see
    Trying to learn how to walk like heroes we thought we had to be
    And after all this time to find we're just like all the rest
    Stranded in the park and forced to confess
    To hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
    We swore forever friends on the backstreets until the end
    ---- 1978 interlude begins

    Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    Thanks for putting this up lanternjaw. :)
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  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    pjhawks wrote:
    "Poor man wanna be rich
    rich man wanna be king
    and the king ain't satisfied until he rules everything"

    Awesome lyric from Badlands which to me really captures the whole capitalistic ideas in America.
    7/2/06 - Denver, CO
    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    I've recently been hooked on 'The Ties That Bind"

    Happy Birthday, Bruce! :wave:
    7/2/06 - Denver, CO
    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • I've always loved this song ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJQgwqojirs
    My last message to you ~

    You're right. You are a monster! You are sick! Get help!

    At least, I am not a fuck-up! A lying fuck-up!
  • red mos
    red mos Posts: 4,953
    I always was a casual Springsteen fan until my parents took me to see him live. Saw him on the WOAD tour with two best friends (also huge fans).

    I think my fave Springsteen song has to be either:

    "Human touch"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lb9XxRNKBg

    "the river"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6R7jTPehgo

    "spirit in the night"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIVbLsU9IR8
    PJ: 10/14/00 06/09/03 10/4/09 11/15/13 11/16/13 10/08/14
    EV Solo: 7/11/11 11/12/12 11/13/12
  • Huge Springsteen fan. Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, and The Boss have been my 3 favorite bands for, like, ever.

    Happy Birthday, Bruce! Glad someone bumped this thread to recognize the birthday of one of the most brilliant rock singers/songwriters/musicians of our time.

    My favorite Springsteen song is Thunder Road - the lyrics to that song are breathtaking. But really, like PJ, Bruce Springsteen has no bad songs....and what I listen to is dictated only by my own mood - not the quality of Springsteen's songs.
  • ilockyer
    ilockyer Posts: 2,272
    PKTrekGirl wrote:
    Huge Springsteen fan. Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, and The Boss have been my 3 favorite bands for, like, ever.

    Happy Birthday, Bruce! Glad someone bumped this thread to recognize the birthday of one of the most brilliant rock singers/songwriters/musicians of our time.

    My favorite Springsteen song is Thunder Road - the lyrics to that song are breathtaking. But really, like PJ, Bruce Springsteen has no bad songs....and what I listen to is dictated only by my own mood - not the quality of Springsteen's songs.

    Oh he does, Pony Boy on Human Touch is absolutely dire.
    The secret to a happy ending is knowing when to roll the credits