Thread 128036643

The only Springsteen album worth it's salt. It's like Alan Vega's haunted spirit temporarily possessed his body and proceeded to cut this right after
Any other album by him and I just end up wishing I was listening to Tom Petty instead. Sorry to any fans of "the boss"

>>128036643 (OP)
alan vega could not have written a song like atlantic city

>>128036643 (OP)
>THE DOGS ON MAIN STREET HOWL CAUSE THEY UNDERSTAND
>IF I COULD TAKE ONE MOMENT INTO MY HANDS
>MISTER I AIN'T A BOY, NO, I'M A MAN
>AND I BELIEVE IN THE PROMISED LAND

>>128036741
Fuck yes lad

>>128036643 (OP)
weirdest way to drop alan vega into an analogy. despite springsteen's support of suicide (the band), they don't reflect his own sound at all

>>128037162
Come on, he talked about himself how he owes this entire album to Suicide's influence after he met them around that time. Fucking springsteenfags always think he exists in a vacuum

>>128037162
Come on, he talked about it himself how he owes this entire album to Suicide's influence on him after he met them around that time. Fucking springsteenfags always think he exists in a vacuum

>three bots deep
>sun comes up
>nebraska
https://funwithapurpose.ytmnd.com/

6 more days, Electric Nebraskabros

>>128036643 (OP)
Being a fan of Alan Vega and Suicide is one of the few good things about Springsteen.

>>128037458
it got postponed a week :(

>>128037498
fugg

>>128036643 (OP)
I only really like one of his songs

The song in question is "I'm On Fire"

>>128036643 (OP)
it's not a bad album but it's pretty clear springsteen was cooked by this point. everything he made after it is total trash.

>>128036643 (OP)
He has a lot of good albums

>>128036643 (OP)
this and born in the usa are his best albums

>>128036643 (OP)
My hot take is that Darkness at the Edge of Town is his best and most complete album in terms of presenting a cycle of songs with different emotions and intensities. It's basically about the death of the 1960's in America.

>>128036643 (OP)
Hes a libtard and his music is campy appropriation.

>>128036643 (OP)
summer of 69 is his only good song

>>128039054
the idea there is some zeitgeist of an era or at least that it is more powerful than anything else is silly.
I mean Bruce is a pretty good writer and the starkness of DOEOT is a pretty big change from the romanticism of BTR, but that change really wasn't unique to Bruce's boomer cohort.
Literally every human seems to lose their romantic innocence of their youth when they age.

Bruce's later albums are honestly pretty tedious, he boxed himself into a corner he couldn't get out of without resorting to cliches.

>>128038025
This. Nebraskafags are annoying.

>>128036643 (OP)
Springsteen is post-Cobain, when you sell yourself out to the tabloids, have every one of your songs put to video, do a bazillion interviews, have a bazillion books written about you, make all of your concerts about gay rights or whatever, suddenly your songs have no mystique anymore.
I'm simply not interested in listening to music of a male whore.

>>128040571
>Springsteen is post-Cobain, when you sell yourself out to the tabloids, have every one of your songs put to video, do a bazillion interviews, have a bazillion books written about you
I'm pretty sure Sinatra, Elvis, the Beatles, and Dylan did that first.

>>128039054
Came to post this. Only tryhard hipsters prefer Nebraska.

>>128040579
Cobain is the most overt example, the guy who sneered at corporate rock whilst signing himself up for the major label spot, allowing his face to be put on the glossy magazines whilst pretending you had no idea, the TV spots, the political campaigning in step with the times. Bruce is a whore in the same suit.
The people you mentioned are all whores too. Dylan wrote Blood on the Tracks but he's still a whore.

>>128037458
>>128037498
Bros I'm a bit scared it might not live up to decades of hype and speculation :(

>>128040579
At least they have books written about them, nobody's ever gonna write a book about Billie Eilish.

>>128040664
Of course it won't
The band already admitted it was worse than a bunch of hastily recorded demos in a bedroom
I still want to hear it

>>128040695
there's a lot of books about Billie Eilish, that's the point, it doesn't mean anything substantial and only serves to dilute your material.

>>128040571
>post-Cobain
>preceded Cobain

Anyone else really enjoy the Streets of Philadelphia album on Tracks II?

>>128040664
The early version of Born in the USA is amazing, so I'm hopeful.

>>128040571
He got in the zone and had to stay there, but he’d done five albums before anyone cared and his musics good so he is less whorish

>>128036643 (OP)
True. I can’t stand anything else he’s ever created, but Nebraska is the strange outlier in his discography.

>>128036643 (OP)
>>128041559
What do you guys think of Ghost of Tom Joad

>>128041565
Tom Joad, Youngstown, and Highway 29 are all time greats

>>128041565
His last truly great album to me. I also enjoy the bootlegs from his solo tour at the time a lot.

>>128036643 (OP)
Based OP
>>128037421
This
>>128037619
The Seegar Sessions was his last kino, where felt like he was truly alive
https://youtu.be/OG1ctA7FXyU

We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions [Columbia, 2006]
We shall overkill, he means. Never have his Howard Keel tendencies, or maybe now they're Paul Robeson tendencies, tripped him up so bad. The idea is to big up the music and play the jokes you don't ignore like you're working a Roman amphitheater. I'm glad to have met the anti-war lament "Mrs. McGrath" and Sis Cunningham's "My Oklahoma Home," and sort of hope young people deprived of music appreciation funding will now hear "Erie Canal," "Froggie Went A-Courtin'," "John Henry," and "Jesse James." Only are young people really ignorant of these songs? And how many of them buy Springsteen albums anyway? Amping up his strange bluegrass-Dixieland hybrid like E Street is just around the corner, he sings his lungs out. But in folk music, lightness is all--and only newbies and John Hammond Jr. lean so hard on the cornpone drawl. B

>>128043379
>We shall overkill, he means.
Oh Bob, behave.

I'm probably the biggest Brucefag on /mu/ and I can admit that he's basically spent after Tunnel of Love and the Christic shows. Not all musical careers have to last a lifetime; there's a clear and obvious arc to Bruce's fifteen years of vital music, culminating in the mid-'80s supernova.

These occasional detours like Seeger, Streets of Philly, Tom Joad, Western Stars... he wants to branch out so bad, and there are some nice songs here and there but the golden years cast such a tremendous shadow.

>>128043573
>Not all musical careers have to last a lifetime; there's a clear and obvious arc to Bruce's fifteen years of vital music
Frank Sinatra or Miles Davis were such a rarity, most have a decade or so and they're spent.

>>128043573
Didn't stop Rolling Stone Mag from giving all shitty late career Springsteen albums five stars.

>>128039054
>>128040619
so we're pretending BTR is inferior, is that the current Way of /mu/? seems tryhard

>>128044128
most overt conflict-of-interest ever
amazing they got away with that

Ghost of Tom Joad is pretty good too.

>>128036659
he wrote even better songs

>>128045785
Springsteen's rabbi Jon Landau was writing for Stone since the 60s.

>>128046536
Bruce is not a Jew, lol. although he did consent to be a Jew's mouthpiece.

>>128036643 (OP)
MISTER STATE TROOPER
PLEASE DON'T STOP ME

>>128045499
BTR is for boys
Darkness is for men

>>128047057
I mean there was a seven year gap between the two albums so he did obviously sound older/more adult on Darkness than he did on BTR.

Nebraska this Nebraska that but never The Ghost of Tom Joad

>>128047081
The Rage version is superior don't @ me.

The Ghost of Tom Joad [Columbia, 1995]
his gift for social realist literature exceeds his gift for political music ("The Ghost of Tom Joad," "Across the Border") *

>>128047074
What? BTR came out mid-'75; Darkness was mostly cut in '77 and released in spring of '78.

For me, it's Asbury Park.

>>128047228
Wild & Innocent mogs as far as his early stuff goes