Red Mosquito

Gods' Die wrote:

Lament wrote:

Man in Black wrote:fanboy post is a fanboy post.

No, he's right, only a fanboy would think it possible for an artist to release 17 excellent songs over an eight album span.

2.125 excellent songs per album? Get off the Boss's dick, fanboi. You lap up everything he farts!

I shouldn't be reading this in the middle of a team meeting. I can't stop laughing and trying to hold it in is making it worse.

Blaine Ryan wrote:I think his albums from The Wild, the Innocent, & the E-Street Shuffle to Tunnel of Love are the best consecutive run of material by any solo artist

Have you been introduced to Mr. Tom Waits?

Gods' Die wrote:

Blaine Ryan wrote:I think his albums from The Wild, the Innocent, & the E-Street Shuffle to Tunnel of Love are the best consecutive run of material by any solo artist

Have you been introduced to Mr. Tom Waits?

Waits is my favorite artist. But "consecutive" is the key word there. I'm not huge on Franks Wild Years, The Black Rider, or Bad as Me.

Blaine Ryan wrote:

Gods' Die wrote:

Blaine Ryan wrote:I think his albums from The Wild, the Innocent, & the E-Street Shuffle to Tunnel of Love are the best consecutive run of material by any solo artist

Have you been introduced to Mr. Tom Waits?

Waits is my favorite artist. But "consecutive" is the key word there. I'm not huge on Franks Wild Years, The Black Rider, or Bad as Me.

Yeah, I skip the theatrical ones when counting Waits's.

And the Stones might have only had a 4 record run, but it's the most brilliant run in my book. Though Bruce did have quite a nice run himself.

Hatfield wrote:

Gods' Die wrote:

Lament wrote:

Man in Black wrote:fanboy post is a fanboy post.

No, he's right, only a fanboy would think it possible for an artist to release 17 excellent songs over an eight album span.

2.125 excellent songs per album? Get off the Boss's dick, fanboi. You lap up everything he farts!

I shouldn't be reading this in the middle of a team meeting. I can't stop laughing and trying to hold it in is making it worse.

Haha...I hate when people say someone can "fart" into a microphone and people would still like it. Though Harmless argued a month or so ago that that would be listenable experimental music. Apparently it's not hyperbole and there are a faction of fans who seek out the flatulence records.

Gods' Die wrote:

Blaine Ryan wrote:

Gods' Die wrote:

Blaine Ryan wrote:I think his albums from The Wild, the Innocent, & the E-Street Shuffle to Tunnel of Love are the best consecutive run of material by any solo artist

Have you been introduced to Mr. Tom Waits?

Waits is my favorite artist. But "consecutive" is the key word there. I'm not huge on Franks Wild Years, The Black Rider, or Bad as Me.

Yeah, I skip the theatrical ones when counting Waits's.

And the Stones might have only had a 4 record run, but it's the most brilliant run in my book. Though Bruce did have quite a nice run himself.

I actually really love Goats Head Soup, assuming that's not one of your four (for most folks it's Beggars-Exile). I don't know that I could rank the Stones' output over Bruce's overall, but I probably like Exile just as much as my favorite Springsteen records, if not more.

I have a friend who self-released an album of his farts on cassette in the 90s.

Blaine Ryan wrote:

Gods' Die wrote:

Blaine Ryan wrote:I think his albums from The Wild, the Innocent, & the E-Street Shuffle to Tunnel of Love are the best consecutive run of material by any solo artist

Have you been introduced to Mr. Tom Waits?

Waits is my favorite artist. But "consecutive" is the key word there. I'm not huge on Franks Wild Years, The Black Rider, or Bad as Me.

Frank's really grew on me over the years....it started out as an oddity (lol) and with time (outside variable) and age (mine) became a favorite. Black Rider I ***LERVE***

Gods' Die wrote:

Lament wrote:

Man in Black wrote:fanboy post is a fanboy post.

No, he's right, only a fanboy would think it possible for an artist to release 17 excellent songs over an eight album span.

2.125 excellent songs per album? Get off the Boss's dick, fanboi. You lap up everything he farts!

we're going to have to subtract The Rising, which leaves the new, extremely debatable total at 2.00 per album.

Man in Black wrote:we're going to have to subtract The Rising, which leaves the new, extremely debatable total at 2.00 per album.

Nah. We'll keep it and all just agree that you're wrong. Any non-Man in Black posters in this thread have an issue with that?


Didn't think so.

I will say this: Bruce makes the best faces when he takes a guitar "solo".

It's not contrived.

At all.

McParadigm wrote:I totally blame The Rising for Unthought Known. The endless repetition of a base melody, the slow build up (complete with thumping kick drum), the sudden gear shift as it hits the bridge/solo section, and then the return to the quiet/build thing....

In short:

You're not saying that Bruce falls victim to one songwriting cliché after another, are you?

So whats the verdict on the new Ghost of Tom Joad? I just heard it for the first time this morning and i honestly can't tell if i love it or hate it yet.

Is it like the live version from NYC with Morello making 4-5 minutes of police siren noises?

Pretty much....the High Hopes version clocks in at well over 7 minutes and is just filled with Morello wanking.

I don't feel that any of the new versions improve on anything; in fact, I listened to the originals shortly after and much prefer them. I find this release quite forgettable but a very clean record production-wise.

Anyone listened to the streams of High Hopes yet?

http://www.cbs.com/shows/the_good_wife/springsteen

Monkey_Driven wrote:Anyone listened to the streams of High Hopes yet?

http://www.cbs.com/shows/the_good_wife/springsteen

Are they any different than the leak?

oasisfan35 wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:Anyone listened to the streams of High Hopes yet?

http://www.cbs.com/shows/the_good_wife/springsteen

Are they any different than the leak?

Hadn't heard the leak (been away from computers a lot with the holidays).

4 tracks in and this release feels rather forgettable.

Has there been any word on Morello touring Australia again next month? As much as I enjoyed those shows I hope he doesn't as I heard High Hopes and TGOTJ twice last tour.

edit: he appears to be touring with the E St Band all through 2014.