Bruce Springsteen...
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danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
Probably me. It's well-known that I actually like his music, but have just taken it on myself to pretend not to like him because of his neck muscles and the way the veins on his temples stand out when he sings.are you levelling that suggestion at any one here?
Paul Russell
Psychogeographer
I didn't know that about Reagan. I just remember at the time when I "admitted" to being a Bruce fan I got sick of people going "yuck, Born in the USA, going on about how great America is, what a moron"!
Downbound train is great. I was gazing at Born in the USA in HMV yesterday and wondering if I could afford to spend £5... I still think the LP suffers from the booming riffing synths though on some songs. Would have been better with them turned down/off and replaced by guitars. Sadly Bruce has never asked me for production advice
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hiraethified
Where did you see him play?
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Downbound train is great. I was gazing at Born in the USA in HMV yesterday and wondering if I could afford to spend £5... I still think the LP suffers from the booming riffing synths though on some songs. Would have been better with them turned down/off and replaced by guitars. Sadly Bruce has never asked me for production advice
off the top of me head, aren't the synths only on Dancing in the Dark? (e2a: no, are they fuck)
I agree it could do without them,. Still a cracking song tho.
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
quite like some old Bruce,
The River, Nebraska and bits of BitUSA
it really annoyed me that Bruce would always pick a girl
out of the audience to dance when playing "Dancing in the dark" ,
as seen in the video. all a bit stomach-churning 80's showbiz emotion...
oh well, he's pretty good and "born in the usa" still gets shoved
on at guilt free vinyl sessions round my way
The River, Nebraska and bits of BitUSA
it really annoyed me that Bruce would always pick a girl
out of the audience to dance when playing "Dancing in the dark" ,
as seen in the video. all a bit stomach-churning 80's showbiz emotion...
oh well, he's pretty good and "born in the usa" still gets shoved
on at guilt free vinyl sessions round my way
Numerous TV concerts, especially that "classic" they were always wheeling out on BBC2 from the E Street Band at their "peak" - so feel free to explain you can't possibly "get it" if you weren't there
bouncer_the_dog
Well-Known Member
Sigh.. so easy to be negative all the time...
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
TV concerts are TV concerts, not real. Who'd say they saw Nirvana just cos they got a video of them on 'Unplugged'?
Paul Russell
Psychogeographer
"no are they fuck"
Off the top of my head as well, but quite a few of the songs have synth "riffs". Doesn't the title track have a big fuck off DAH, DAH, DAH, DAH, DAH, DAAAH riff?!
Random five good Bruce tracks
Stolen Car
Rosalita
The Promised Land
Thunder Road
Born to Run
Only saw him live once -- Wembley Stadium on the Born in the USA tour -- so probably a bad time and bad place, but it was excellent. I remember the songs from Darkness on the Edge of Town being great.
I never saw Otis Redding at Monterey, but I feel qualified to say it looked fucking amazing based on the footage I've seen.
of course, it's not the same as the live experience but I still think you can make a reasonably educated guess about whether you'd have enjoyed it or not.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
damn, so close. I had a bet with meself you were gonna say Hendrix. Not far off.
Anyone you didn't like beforehand whose stage show looked impressive on TV? i honestly can't think of one
Also, pretty much all the Bruce 'shows' I've seen on TV - including the 'classic' one - are actually studio gigs, not proper live ones. Which tend to be rather different.
ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
yeah - I like that one. One of those sort of things he's supposed to do well that's actually good
I hate Tom Petty. I don't know why, I just think he's shit. I was really pleased when he broke his hand and couldn't play - Am I a bad person for that?
So. your argument is the best recreation our recording tecnology has to offer of what an event was like is no help in making a value judgement on it at all?
...yeah but you had to be there when they were actually mixing the record to really get it man...
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hiraethified
You're surely not arguing that watching a gig on TV adds up to anything like the real thing are you?
Most live performances look shit on TV, that's why I rarely bother to watch them - even when it's bands I really like. If I judged bands on their TV appearances alone, there'd be a lot less CDs in my collection.
(* a rare exception would be Radiohead's performance at Glastonbury in the 90s which is one of the very few live gigs I could bare to watch through on TV. If it was that good on tele, it must have been awesome live).
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
don't be daft. The argument is that a TV experience is a very very different one from the live one. It might be the 'best recreation' possible, but that doesn't mean it is particularly good (or bad, or anything else). It's different.
Your attempt at an analogy with the recording process is just silly.
damnhippie
shark sandwich
are you levelling that suggestion at any one here?
with deadly accuracy
nah, the comments on the thread mostly have some level of explanation, at least.
damnhippie
shark sandwich
you know you love it really, bulgy veins and all
Voley
🐭
You've used the same argument against people that weren't at Glastonbury but thought it looked shit from the TV coverage. You can't have it both ways.
foo
dirtysweet
Hurrah! I WIN an argument on the Internet!
Don't I get a badge or something?
It's a bit of an anticlimax tbf.
i just couldn't be arsed, really. I could ask you to cite specific examples and then debate them. Or point out that Glastonbury is a different proposition than a stadium and the atmosphere much harder to get through the TV. Stuff like that. I would have won in the end too. But you have a fairly empty life and it's good to throw the odd crumbs from one's table from time to time
ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
Indeed it is a different thing. It does not invalidate the opinion that people don't like Springsteen based on the countless hours of footage available to review THAT would be silly.
the analogy was made in order to demonstrate the ridiculousness of your position
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
Hurrah! I WIN an argument on the Internet!
Don't I get a badge or something?
It's a bit of an anticlimax tbf.
Yes you get a prize. I still have the Iglu & Hartley CD that no-one wanted on the recycle thread. The jewel case has nice rounded corners and it makes a good coaster.
On second thoughts I should send it to El Jefe for losing
