how come you never hear of anyone else named springsteen ... surely there must be someone else with this surname, besides bruce

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his dad, at a pinch ...

i wonder if bruce's album sales have gone up significatnly with bands like the killers and the hold steady making certain era bruce sounds popular again.

the boss doesn't quite have the packaging those groups have.

and the actual substance in his songs is probably not working to his benefit in that regard too.

pgoj, i'm interested in hearing this song, can you put it on the email perhaps?
im a fan of the 'i'm on fire' song myself, but maybe that's just me being el mushy dork face.

Nebraska is a great album from start to finish

quiet and haunting

the recent box set reissue of 'born to run' is a must have. you get a great remaster of the album, a dvd of a gig from london (possibly the 75 show pgoj is talking about - not sure) and a great little doco on the making of the album. bloody brilliant.

sharptooth: It's probably a bit too long to upload?

tihstar: That DVD of the London gig is what I'm listening to now... in CD form.

great show... the stripped back version of 'thunder road' that kicks things off gives me chills.

ahhh so much bruce love.

I have tow great concert's on DVD - one from the 78 Darkness tour and one from the 80 River tour.

I will burn and send down to you Peli.

Born to add -- from Sesame Street - best Springteen take off ever.

on youtube

I love how they Boss-ify that muppet.

for years I only knew stringsteen as "that guy whose TV hits poster was always magnetised to my aunty's fridge"

er.,., springsteen

That sesame street video is brilliant!

"They seem to think we're disturbing the peace, but we won't let 'em make us sad/'cause kids like us, baby we were born to add!"

i've sent it to the two springsteen men in my life fya, you know they'll love it.

it's great how the melody is from Jungleland rather than Born to Run too.

Yer, but sometimes it takes a good producer to just ''turn the tape on''.

And even so, it still sounded great.

I'm not much of a fan of the rising - though devils and dust was pretty decent - but the modus operadi for that record as dictated by bruce was to just do simple arrangements of minimal instrumentation.

but the full band stuff brendon has produced (ie this and the rising) soudn terrible.

Some really good songs on the new record.

some really fucking average production.

done by a really fucking average producer.

seriously - the dude makes average sounding records

hair plugs? bruce, so it aint so!

critical listen through headphones...o'brien, i may have you killed.

it sounds 'big'. i think that was the aim. everything on it is couched around the boss, and i'm sure that was the intention too.

and when clarence kicks in on ''radio nowhere'' tell me the hairs don't rise up on the back of yr neck as you get yr air-sax going on.

but there's born to run big, and this.

but yes, what...a clarence sax solo remains one of the fine things in rock.

but there's born to run big, and this.

i think the big difference btw the 'big' likes of ''born to run'' and ''magic'' is that the former is very much a 'band', but the latter is very much 'bruce' then the band as a secondary thought.

i think it's awesome. better than ''the rising'', which was too flabby. but it doesn't touch ''devils and dust'', which i think is brilliant. i can defo see why peeps are comparing it with ''darkness...'' or ''the river''.

its very 'darkness' to me. but still a bit smooth.

reckon some of it will grow some individuality after they've played it live for a year.

fingers crossed we get to see them head down under in 08.

say we'll either be first or last.

i am patient.

definitely last i would think.

imagine if he brought the seeger sessions band out for blues n roots though. phwoar.

My Springsteen love manifested itself rather embarrisngly at Vegas last Saturday

my mother has just called and read me the letter from my aunty joy who lives in philadelphia, but who had just come back the izod arena in new jersey - the venue formerly known as meadowlands.

she'd just seen 'isnt it that bruce springsteen you like?'

two and a half hour show, lights came up, nobody left, so they played another 20-minute encore.

weeps

republican america is now turning on Bruce

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/10/30/clear-channel-is-attempting-to-silence-bruce-springsteen/

Clear Channel is attempting to silence Bruce Springsteen
By: John Amato on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 at 3:30 PM - PDT

(Radio Nowhere)

Here we go again. The Dixie Chicks redux! Bruce has the #1 record in all the land called ” Magic,” but Clear Channel has sent out a memo saying:

Alas, there’s a hitch: Radio will not play “Magic.” In fact, sources tell me that Clear Channel has sent an edict to its classic rock stations not to play tracks from “Magic.” But it’s OK to play old Springsteen tracks such as “Dancing in the Dark,” “Born to Run” and “Born in the USA.”

land of the free eh?

Springsteen fans need to see this.

Can anyone tell me whether it was 7 shows Bruce played in '85 or was it 13? I was 15-16 at the time and remember it was some phenomenal run of shows...

Whats the new album like??

Anyone ?

patchy. some really good stuff, some very average.

what's the good stuff?

the slower stuff is good. there's a song off 'The Wrestler'. I think the album is OK.