Bruce Springsteen

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Any fans of the boss here? He’s not the style of music I listen to the most, but my friend gave me some of his music to listen to. It’s pretty good, especially his older stuff.
 
I like some of his songs. My husband used to be a very big fan when The Boss started out. But then, as usual, politics got in the way when he couldn’t resist using his fame to trumpet his support of his causes.

Favorites: Thunder Road, Independence day. (If I should fall behind) Wait for me.
 
I’m of two minds about Broose. He was incredibly overexposed and overhyped while I was growing up, as was the whole crew of soundalike acts that got famous after him (Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, Meat Loaf etc). His stuff was also pitched at working-class factory worker types so it was a bit hard for anybody who was college-bound to listen to that stuff with a straight face when it came out. I had to admit that he did write some good songs, even though I was much more interested in listening to college underground indie and punk. I lost interest about the time he wrote the theme song for the Tom Hanks AIDS movie. As Irishmom said he started getting political and that was boring.

I find it much easier to enjoy Springsteen many years down the line now that he’s no longer being touted as the greatest songwriter since Dylan or whatever boring hype that was and I don’t have to listen to an annoying local disc jockey play his songs five times in a row.

Also, I have to say that when my husband dropped dead, this video expresses exactly how I felt for several weeks thereafter. Life looked and felt like this. I probably played the video 100 times.

Now that I look at it more in my sane mind, I think it would benefit from some people making hand shadow bunnies on the wall behind Brooose.

 
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He was never one of my favorites but I liked his 70s albums. Like with much rock music I’m sick of most of his music and rarely listen anymore. There are some gems though I’d still listen to - Thunder Road, Racing in the Street, Darkness on the Edge of Town, Incident on 57th Street, and some others.
 
I went to one of his concerts in Philadelphia maybe sixteen or seventeen years ago. It was terrible. Several times he had to stop to ask his wife for the words to the song. Never again was what we took from that concert.
 
That’s a shame, but I’m glad you posted so I won’t be tempted in a weak moment to spend ridiculous sums on a ticket to one of his shows.
 
He played all his new post 9/11 stuff and none of his old music, which is what everyone wanted.
 
He really can’t sing anymore either. Until I watched some old videos, I forgot that he didn’t always sound so hoarse and tuneless.

I would go see Billy Joel before Springsteen any day.
 
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BJ played with McCartney at Yankee Stadium about 10 years back. He was fat but he could still put on a good show. As did Sir Paul, who forgot the lyrics once or twice and missed a couple high notes but acquitted himself very well overall.
 
I remember that and wishing I was there! Seems like it will be one of those shows people will look back on and think wow, those two stars together! Imagine!
 
My 74 year old sister has seen him twice and loved his concerts. She was not a big fan at the time, but I think she is now.
 
This is one of his more painful songs. That and 41 Shots.


He’s before my time, but what I gather from family members that are older the Seventies was the Best of Times and it was the Worst of Times. (the song comes out in the early 80’s but refers to the Vietnam War). I’m grateful to be an innocent kid of the nineties after the fall of the Berlin Wall in the eighties and watching it on TV.

Life got complicated after 2000 with two major recessions Y2K and 2008. God bless America and all Americans of whatever denomination and region of America. I pray for more innocent times, more jobs for the average American, and a more prayerful life for all Americans. May this country find unity among our divisions and differences.
 
Back in the 80s there was a period where I loved some of his songs and would put them on reply.
 
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