Bruce Springsteen gets boring...
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Necharsian
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- Posted: 03/12/2013 19:22
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Bruce Springsteen and Meatloaf are similar in that they both make music that my dads boss sang drunk karaoke to over the weekend. good freakin times
Also this thread has reminded me that i havent listened to springsteen in like months. must find time to correct this silly mistake
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revolver94
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- #12
- Posted: 03/12/2013 19:39
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I don't listen to him as much as I used to, but I still think he's great. The only albums I really go back to are the two on my chart, though (Born to Run and Darkness)
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- #13
- Posted: 03/12/2013 21:00
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| an_outlaw wrote: | | I thought Bruce was forever 😕 Perhaps it wasn't the case... |
I've found that over time I drift away from artists or styles but usually come back over time. Even my favorite artists. Maybe it's just a time when you're not into this sound but you'll come back later.
One way to really get into Bruce is to listen to bootlegs. There are a ton of high quality concert recordings out there. The best ones are from the Darkness tour in '78. There are also some good ones of the BITUSA and reunion tours but not quite as high on the sound quality. I went through a period where I didn't listen to albums and only listened to live recordings and that is what cemented Bruce's greatness for me.
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- #14
- Posted: 03/12/2013 21:08
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Couldn't agree more. He has his moments, but I feel like falling asleep about halfway through Born to Run (which isn't a very long album).
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- #15
- Posted: 03/12/2013 22:43
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| swedenman wrote: | | Couldn't agree more. He has his moments, but I feel like falling asleep about halfway through Born to Run (which isn't a very long album). |
Falling asleep is pretty sick
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Robert Anton Wilson
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- Posted: 03/13/2013 14:57
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I think this happens with most artists who have hit songs. That is one of my measure of a good band when you get tired of listening to their hit songs/albums due to overkill you move on to the other songs/albums and realize they can grip you after repeated listen as much as the hits hooked you on first listen.
Born in the USA was his most commercial album and that is what happens to commercial music, when it falls out of disfavor it can fall pretty bad. But less commercial albums often grow on you. Born in the USA is for parties and group listening when you want communal fun but an album like Nebraska is meant to grow.
as for Born to Run, it is a very intense and special album so yes regular listening can make it appear less fresh but shelve it for a while (i.e. years) and see when you take it out if you rekindle with the magic or if it is a gone phase. I know I have done that and what you see on my charts are a lot of albums which after a shelving and forgetting about them have been dusted of and the magic came back. Some albums just did not make it and were reshelved permanently. I was a huge Styx fan back in the days (yeah I know it is shameful to admit nowadays but I never liked Domo Arrigato even when everybody seemed to) but now when I get their albums out I find only a few songs still do it for me (e.g. Suite Madame Blue, crystal Ball) hence not on my list but Born to Run even though I cannot listen to it regularly anymore for the same reasons you mention (maybe less extreme) it still reminds me how great it is every time it gets dusted off.
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Charicature
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- Posted: 03/13/2013 17:00
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| JMan wrote: | | Some people compare him to Meat Loaf. As a huge Meat fan, I have to say his most famous song, Born to Run, is nothing like Meat Loaf. |
Funny, I was listening to my old mix tapes last night (trying to figure out which ones they were) and came across one of my "recording" tapes (for a couple of years I taped the weekly top 40 and dubbed the songs I liked onto another tape). This one was for Mother's Day weekend in 1994 I think, and the highest debut that week, coming in at number 33, was Objects In the Rearview Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are.
I'm glad I forgot about that song quickly and completely - my best friend died just 3 1/2 months after that, and the first verse of that song would have been hard to take if I'd remembered it. 😢
Funny notes from that weekend - Ace of Base's The Sign was trying to stay at #1 for a 10th week, and Smashing Pumpkins' Disarm debuted at #38. Still haven't finished listening to it to see what else was there.
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