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New Springsteen single out tomorrow

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by EStreetJoe, Jan 18, 2012.

  1. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Bruce Springsteen ain't goin' back to make another edition of "Darkness On The Edge of Town," however much some corporate-slurping critics would wish him to.
     
  2. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    How about making something that sounds like he still gives a shit, or that he spent more than 15 minutes writing it? Would that be unreasonable?
     
  3. Webster

    Webster Well-Known Member

    Disagree. There have been some amazing songs just in the post-Tracks era.

    LOHAD
    Mary's Place
    My City of Ruins
    Long Time Comin'
    Devils & Dust
    How Can a Poor Man Stand such Times and Live (Ok 90% his).
    Long Walk Home

    All of those songs are in my top 25 and two are in my top 10.
    The only songs on Tracks which stand with those songs and were not otherwise released are Santa Ana and maybe Zero and Blind Terry
     
  4. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    No love for TV Movie? Philistine! :)
     
  5. Magic In The Night

    Magic In The Night Active Member

    You've got to be kidding right? Most of the time tickets are gone in a few minutes, if not seconds, in every venue. You certainly couldn't have tried to go to a concert if you really believe no one buys tickets to his shows.

    Also, don't understand why people who clearly don't like Springsteen feel the need to post on this thread.
     
  6. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    I don't think he's questioning that people will buy tickets; obviously, they will. I believe the suggestion was that no one is buying a ticket to see him play *this.* They're going to see him play older stuff.

    And is this only a place for genuflection? I think Springsteen is responsible for three of the greatest rock albums of all time. My first date with my wife was a Springsteen concert. I own virtually everything he's ever released, along with a whole lot of live recordings I've picked up here and there. Should I be required to pretend this song is good? Because it's not. Sorry.
     
  7. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    Sorry I did not get the memo that this thread was for only positive Springsteen comments. My sincere apology.

    Just for the record I like Springteen's music- mostly the early stuff before he started to interject his politics into his work. Still like his music / don't care much for his politics.

    I do feel his albums are more target marketed for commercial gain more that most diehards will accept.
     
  8. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    You clearly haven't been paying attention to the posts I have been making on Springsteen threads on this board since 2002 or whenever the fuck I registered.

    Been a Springsteen fan since 1978, saw him for the first time at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto in January, 1980 (might have the been the same week as Reagan's inauguration), my iPod is full of bootlegs.

    My point here is unlike his albums from his debut probably through The Rising, nobody will hear his one, and think "Fuck, I love this, I have to see this guy!"

    His recent albums aren't getting him any new fans, the people who snap up those tickets in no time flat are people like you and me who have been following him for years and think that the next big tour might be the last one.

    This song is pedestrian as was Working On A Dream. And like a lot of other fans, when he plays these songs live I will go out for a piss or more beer.
     
  9. Magic In The Night

    Magic In The Night Active Member

    Again Huggy, I have to disagree that he's not making new fans. I went to five shows on the last tour and saw PLENTY of people waaaayyy younger than me and these were late teens and early 20s who weren't there with their parents. I personally know three teenagers who are huge fans, big enough to hang out on the Springsteen message board and I've become Facebook friends with two of them, even though their politics are very different than mine ... and Bruce's. I think Magic was an excellent album and people went to shows because of that. Working on a Dream was just something he put out to support touring after the Super Bowl. This album, we don't even know yet, because only one song on the album is out so it's hard to judge the entire album at this point just off the song titles. And I happen to like the song but obviously I'm in the minority on here.

    I really wish all the people who don't like Bruce, don't like his new stuff or whatever else would just NOT GO to his shows. It would be a helluva lot easier to get tickets and/or better seats for those of us who do.

    Oh, and Boom: I'm guessing Bruce doesn't like YOUR politics.
     
  10. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    Why - I plan on voting for Obama. I trust Bruce will be also.
     
  11. Magic In The Night

    Magic In The Night Active Member

    I'm guessing so. Unless he plans a write-in. It will be interesting if he gets out on the trail for him again this time.
     
  12. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    Just to make sure I follow this: because I think his last album was shit (along with most of Human Touch and Lucky Town) and this single doesn't hold out much hope for the new album I shouldn't be allowed to go see a guy whose career I have followed very closely for 30+ years so it makes it easier for you to get tickets and go nuts for songs that will probably make up 10% of a setlist any given night?

    I know I live in Canada, that North American bastion of socialism, but that doesn't seem too democratic to me.
     
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