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I can't stand Bruce Springsteen.

tommymctom wrote:I can't stand Bruce Springsteen.

I disliked him as recently as six months ago, I'd say. Now I love him.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

tommymctom wrote:I can't stand Bruce Springsteen.

I disliked him as recently as six months ago, I'd say. Now I love him.

To be honest I've never really given him a shot beyond his hits, but I haven't really enjoyed what I've heard.

tommymctom wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

tommymctom wrote:I can't stand Bruce Springsteen.

I disliked him as recently as six months ago, I'd say. Now I love him.

To be honest I've never really given him a shot beyond his hits, but I haven't really enjoyed what I've heard.

Ha, that's exactly what I would have said six months ago. It wasn't until something pushed me to take a deep dive into his albums that I "got" him. I actually listened to Greetings from Asbury Park through Born in the U.S.A. in chronological order, and it was a really compelling and enjoyable experience.

That guy from the Hold Steady needs to shut up about hardcore already

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

tommymctom wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

tommymctom wrote:I can't stand Bruce Springsteen.

I disliked him as recently as six months ago, I'd say. Now I love him.

To be honest I've never really given him a shot beyond his hits, but I haven't really enjoyed what I've heard.

Ha, that's exactly what I would have said six months ago. It wasn't until something pushed me to take a deep dive into his albums that I "got" him. I actually listened to Greetings from Asbury Park through Born in the U.S.A. in chronological order, and it was a really compelling and enjoyable experience.

If was going to download one album and then base my entire opinion of "The Boss" on it, which one would you recommend?

tommymctom wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

tommymctom wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

tommymctom wrote:I can't stand Bruce Springsteen.

I disliked him as recently as six months ago, I'd say. Now I love him.

To be honest I've never really given him a shot beyond his hits, but I haven't really enjoyed what I've heard.

Ha, that's exactly what I would have said six months ago. It wasn't until something pushed me to take a deep dive into his albums that I "got" him. I actually listened to Greetings from Asbury Park through Born in the U.S.A. in chronological order, and it was a really compelling and enjoyable experience.

If was going to download one album and then base my entire opinion of "The Boss" on it, which one would you recommend?

Ah shit, that's a tricky question. Listening to Greetings from Asbury Park kind of instantly redefined my view of him, as it is a very intimate, poetic, lyric-based album that didn't sound like all the anthems I'd heard on the radio. However, Born to Run is really his magnum opus (even though I like BITU more) - the lyrics, the production, the whole energy of that album is really something else. I'd heard "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" and "Born to Run" many times before, but I had never really heard them until I started paying attention during this career run-through.

So I guess if you want something that might surprise you based on what you've already heard, try Greetings. If you want to hear the man at the peak of his musical powers, check out BTR.

tommymctom wrote:If was going to download one album and then base my entire opinion of "The Boss" on it, which one would you recommend?

Darkness on the Edge of Town.

tommymctom wrote:I can't stand Bruce Springsteen.

Bruce Springsteen is right up there with Pink Floyd on the list of acts who are great for helping a person get started as a music obsessor, but nowhere near compelling enough to survive the onslaught of creative forces that come after them.

tommymctom wrote:I can't stand Bruce Springsteen.

Trust your instincts on this, 'mctom. The Boss sucks.

McParadigm wrote:Bruce Springsteen is right up there with Pink Floyd on the list of acts who are great for helping a person get started as a music obsessor, but nowhere near compelling enough to survive the onslaught of creative forces that come after them.

Pink Floyd are wonderful, though my interest drops off virtually wholesale after Animals and I didn't seriously listen to them until relatively recently (perhaps five years ago, give or take).

I'm currently downloading Greetings and Darkness. I'll try to give them a good listen this weekend.

2 great albums there.

Lost in the Flood is one of my Top 5 all time songs.

I 'got' Bruce on Nebraska and the The Rising. Greatest Hits and BTR follwoed but Greetings was the absolute start of the slippery slope.

Have fun with those albums. Darkness is a masterpiece.

The season of being satured with mentions of Benji and Lost in the Dream has begun.

The Wild, The Innocent, and The E Street Shuffle is great. Perhaps 4 of the 7 songs going over 7 minutes turns people off.

I would probably take it over Born to Run but my rec is everything from the first album to Tunnel of Love is worth exploring

rick malone wrote:The Wild, The Innocent, and The E Street Shuffle is great. Perhaps 4 of the 7 songs going over 7 minutes turns people off.

I would probably take it over Born to Run but my rec is everything from the first album to Tunnel of Love is worth exploring

That's the one Bruce album I don't like at all. I think it's a mess. It's this awkward in-between of Greetings and BTR; he's piling this big, overstuffed orchestration on top of compositions that mostly still adhere to the intimate nature of Greetings. The stellar production of BTR isn't there to pull all of the instruments and layers together into a whole; it just sounds like musical chaos to me, and not in an interesting way. The music detracts from the songs.

Bob Dylan's "Series of Dreams" is a really fantastic song.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Bob Dylan's "Series of Dreams" is a really fantastic song.

It really is. And it was deemed too big a track for Oh Mercy. And it was the correct decision.

LetMeSleep wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Bob Dylan's "Series of Dreams" is a really fantastic song.

It really is. And it was deemed too big a track for Oh Mercy. And it was the correct decision.

Which album is it from? Is there more Dylan that sounds like this? I crave more.