Bruce Springsteen

stipe19 wrote:

RedMosquito22 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.

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.

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

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Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets

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.

I've always loved this song ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJQgwqojirs

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.