Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

[belboid]

I think it's his I'm-more-street/edgier/working class-than-yow aspect that gives me the cringes.

I've never, in my 25 odd years following Brucie, seen him portray himself in that way at all. Occasionally crap newspaper articles try and do so, but never the man himself. Indeed, I'd be fairly sure he'd piss himself laughing if anyone called him 'street' or 'edgy' to his face.

 

[sojourner]

I've never, in my 25 odd years following Brucie, seen him portray himself in that way at all. Occasionally crap newspaper articles try and do so, but never the man himself. Indeed, I'd be fairly sure he'd piss himself laughing if anyone called him 'street' or 'edgy' to his face.

its the songs and the way he sings them. so, for me, he does. obviously to a big fanboy such as yourself, he doesn't

each to their own

 

[FoxyMKII]

What is Street or Edgy about this?

Crazy Janey and her mission man were back in the alley tradin' hands
`long came Wild Billy with his friend G-man all duded up for Saturday night
Well Billy slammed on his coaster brakes and said anybody wanna go on up to Greasy Lake
It's about a mile down on the dark side of route eighty-eight
I got a bottle of rose so let's try it
We'll pick up Hazy Davy and Killer Joe and I'll take you all out to where the gypsy angels go
They're built like light
and they dance like spirits in the night (all night) in the night (all night)
Oh, you don't know what they can do to you
Spirits in the night (all night), in the night (all night)
Stand right up now and let it shoot through you

Well now Wild young Billy was a crazy cat and he shook some dust out of his coonskin cap.
He said, "Trust some of this it'll show you where you're at, or at least it'll help you really feel it"
By the time we made it up to Greasy Lake I had my head out the window and Janey's fingers were in the cake
I think I really dug her `cause I was too loose to fake
I said, "I'm hurt." She said, "Honey let me heal it".
And we danced all night to a soul fairy band
and she kissed me just right like only a lonely angel can
She felt so nice, just as soft as a spirit in the night (all night)
In the night (all night). Janey don't know what she do to you
Like a spirit in the night (all night), in the night (all night)
Stand right up and let her shoot through me.

Now the night was bright and the stars threw light on Billy and Davy
dancin' in the moonlight
They were down near the water in a stone mud fight
Killer Joe gone passed out on the lawn
Well now Hazy Davy got really hurt, he ran into the lake in just his socks and a shirt
Me and Crazy Janey was makin' love in the dirt singin' our birthday songs
Janey said it was time to go
So we closed our eyes and said goodbye to gypsy angel row, felt so right
Together we moved like spirits in the night, all night
Baby don't know what they can do to you
Spirits in the night, all night
Stand right up and let it shoot right through you

 

[sojourner]

What is Street or Edgy about this?

oh the ironing

 

[FoxyMKII]

oh the ironing

 

[Kaka Tim]

Overblown, dull rock thudder. Wrote some decent songs way back when - but has always been musically turgid. Never could understand the reverence given to him.

 

[El Jefe]

Overblown, dull rock thudder. Wrote some decent songs way back when - but has always been musically turgid. Never could understand the reverence given to him.

Exactly. He seems like a decent bloke, but to be honest i see about this much difference >> << between Bruce and Meat Loaf.

 

[sojourner]

this much difference >> << between Bruce and Meat Loaf.

Meatloaf KNOWS he's taking the piss. BS doesn't realise everyone else* is taking the piss









* barring fanboys who will no doubt immediately come to his aid

 

[El Jefe]

Meatloaf KNOWS he's taking the piss. BS doesn't realise everyone else* is taking the piss

Yeh, what i mean is the kind of lyrics Steinman wrote for Bat Out Of Hell aren't far from all that "draped over the hood of my chevy baby, by the way did you know I'm a working class catholic fella' stuff.

But yeh, the difference is that Steinman/ Meat Loaf are being deliberately OTT

 

[zenie]

Where is Hollis?

 

[editor]

But yeh, the difference is that Steinman/ Meat Loaf are being deliberately OTT

Well, that and the fact that Springsteen was doing his thing years before Steinman/ Meat Loaf decided to get all "inspired" by it.

The dire 'Bat Out of Hell' was released in Oct 1977 - 4 and a half years after 'Greetings from Asbury Park' and a whole two years after Born To Run.

What is Street or Edgy about this?

Where did he claim to be 'edgy' when he wrote that song?

 

[danny la rouge]

arse

Correct.

This is the reason rock and roll needed a shot in the arm, and frankly if this was the future of rock and roll, it deserved to die.

 

[Dr. Furface]

Exactly. He seems like a decent bloke, but to be honest i see about this much difference >> << between Bruce and Meat Loaf.

You sad fucker.

 

[Mr Retro]

The dire 'Bat Out of Hell'

How can the hairs on the back of your kneck not stand from the opening genius of:

"The sirens are screaming and the fires are howling way down in the valley tonight"

 

[Detroit City]

Fantastic stuff! What a performer. Kicks arse etc. etc.

I saw them in 1986 at the Pontiac Silverdome in front of 90,000 people. One of the best concerts I've been to ever. They played for 3+ hours.

 

[Lisarocket]

Well the crowd at the Emirates Stadium last night seemed to be enjoying him. The roar coming from there was louder than when Arsenal score

 

[FoxyMKII]

IMO Springsteen is not about the records, although there are a couple of good ones, he is about the live show. I got into him not by listening to albums and then going to a gig but by being given a gig ticket and blown away by the power of the performance. I'll freely admit there is a (large) percentage of his audience who seem to evangelize him, and I don't think thats healthy, I'll also quite happily agree that some of his stuff is completely OTT. However I don't think either of those things detracts from the infectiousness of seeing a band tighter than most on stage having fun an wanting their audience to too.

 

[belboid]

The roar coming from there was louder than when Arsenal score

well, thats not hard.