Posted: September 7, 2007 6:07 pm
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Please and thank you. Posted: September 7, 2007 6:46 pm
Wasn't it Bush Sr. that played it as their victory song?Dr.Corona wrote:If only you'd have been Ronnie Reagan's Campaign Manager R2 you could have warned him!!RinglingRingling wrote:but if you put a reggae beat, and steel pan music in there....BrianM wrote:Someone please tell me which part of these lyrics are not depressing, because apparently I am stupid and clueless according to the resident music snob. I had never heard the extra verse about his Dad, but it's even more depressing than the rest of the song.
Glory Days Lyrics
Artist(Band):Bruce Springsteen Review The Song (0)
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(w/ extra verse)
I had a friend was a big baseball player
back in high school
He could throw that speedball by you
Make you look like a fool boy
Saw him the other night at this roadside bar
I was walking in, he was walking out
We went back inside sat down had a few drinks
but all he kept talking about was
Chorus:
Glory days well they'll pass you by
Glory days in the wink of a young girl's eye
Glory days, glory days
Well there's a girl that lives up the block
back in school she could turn all the boy's heads
Sometimes on a Friday I'll stop by
and have a few drinks after she put her kids to bed
Her and her husband Bobby well they split up
I guess it's two years gone by now
We just sit around talking about the old times,
she says when she feels like crying
she starts laughing thinking about
Chorus
My old man worked 20 years on the line
and they let him go
Now everywhere he goes out looking for work
they just tell him that he's too old
I was 9 nine years old and he was working at the
Metuchen Ford plant assembly line
Now he just sits on a stool down at the Legion hall
but I can tell what's on his mind
Glory days yeah goin back
Glory days aw he ain't never had
Glory days, glory days
Now I think I'm going down to the well tonight
and I'm going to drink till I get my fill
And I hope when I get old I don't sit around thinking about it
but I probably will
Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture
a little of the glory of, well time slips away
and leaves you with nothing mister but
boring stories of glory days
Chorus (repeat twice)
kinda like "Born in the USA".. not exactly the best campaign theme song if your people have actually listened to the lyrics.
Posted: September 9, 2007 1:35 pm
I'm not a big fan of "Glory Days", but I did enjoy Jimmy's version at the 9/2 Gillette show, where he changed the lyrics to his friend being a Red Sox prospect and blowing curveballs past Yankees and making them look like fools.
Maybe it's just me
I do like how Jimmy "Buffetizes" some songs, and makes them his own, like Scarlett Begonias, Brown Eyed Girl and Southern Cross, but I wouldn't put Glory Days in that category. I hope it doesn't get added to the setlist on a regular basis. Keep it as a once or twice a concert season kinda thing.
Maybe it's just me
I do like how Jimmy "Buffetizes" some songs, and makes them his own, like Scarlett Begonias, Brown Eyed Girl and Southern Cross, but I wouldn't put Glory Days in that category. I hope it doesn't get added to the setlist on a regular basis. Keep it as a once or twice a concert season kinda thing.
Posted: September 20, 2007 10:51 pm
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Posted: September 20, 2007 10:53 pm
Jimmy-we know you love it-it just isn't one of our favorites, and definitely is not a concert closing song.
Posted: September 20, 2007 11:25 pm
Please, no more Glory Days, PLEASE! 
Posted: September 20, 2007 11:50 pm
Still not a fan of Jimmy doing Glory Days.
Maybe if he got the words right it would be okay.
On another note I finally got to hear the Pirate/Redemption Song medley tonight and did not like it. Pirate did not flow well into it and it seemed out of place. I'd rather them do the whole song if they are gonna include it.
Just my opinion though and we know what those are like
I'm really not a G.O.P (Grumpy Old Parrot)
Maybe if he got the words right it would be okay.
On another note I finally got to hear the Pirate/Redemption Song medley tonight and did not like it. Pirate did not flow well into it and it seemed out of place. I'd rather them do the whole song if they are gonna include it.
Just my opinion though and we know what those are like
I'm really not a G.O.P (Grumpy Old Parrot)
Posted: September 21, 2007 7:16 am
Skip it.
Posted: September 21, 2007 10:00 am
I haven't heard him play it so it's hard to make a judgement on keep it or not but I have always liked the song as done by Bruce Springsteen.
As I have said before about other setlist postings. I wish he would continue to mix it up and even lessen the SYKBH on the list. So if he wants to add a cover or 10, go ahead but I also wish he'd add a few more of his own older things.
As I have said before about other setlist postings. I wish he would continue to mix it up and even lessen the SYKBH on the list. So if he wants to add a cover or 10, go ahead but I also wish he'd add a few more of his own older things.
Posted: September 21, 2007 10:00 am
Disagree, her current show can't s*** enough, but I think she is a very good actress.LIPH wrote:She dances as bad as she acts.pbans wrote:yep, that's the one!!!!!!aeroparrot wrote:But do you guys do the Elaine Bettis dance.SchoolGirlHeart wrote:SPEW!!!pbans wrote:If I were to pick an up tempo JB song to replace this one.....it would most definitely be Lage Nom Ai......I can't sit still listening to it at home on the stereo.....can only imagine the hideous white girl dance that I could do listening to it live!!
Yeah... hideous white girl dancing here, too..... As my sister puts it, I was absent when the rhythm gene was handed out.....
Posted: September 21, 2007 10:10 am
I am a big Boss fan, but Glory Days is not one of my favorites. Springsteen can take himself a bit too seriously at times, but I enjoy his stuff quite a bit. I think there are a few dubious choices on this summers list by Jimmy. Opening with On the Road Again? The reefers are great, but they have butchered this song a couple of times, particularly the first Gillette show. Anyway, I would replace Glory Days with Ragtop Day. BTW, I really like Jimmy's version of Mexico.
Posted: September 21, 2007 10:55 am
Glory Days ala Buffett is possibly the worst thing I have ever heard by anyone live ever. It's not a Springsteen thing its just merely the way it sounds "thrown" together by Buffett and the band.
It's not like I have real choice on the matter but you asked for my opinion.
It's not like I have real choice on the matter but you asked for my opinion.
Posted: September 21, 2007 1:47 pm
Obviously the song "speaks" to Jimmy. There has to be some heart-felt reason for him to continue to DO this song and he wants to "use" it to get a message out to his audience.
Posted: September 21, 2007 1:57 pm
its terrible and a wasted position in the setlist that should be dedicated to playing a jimmy buffett song!!now theres an idea!!play 27 jimmy buffett songs at a jimmy buffett concert
Posted: September 21, 2007 2:00 pm
Its a lousy song when Bruce sings it and even worse covered by JB. I agree with most that there has to be alternative either within JB's repertoire or elsewhere
Posted: September 21, 2007 2:01 pm
Love this idea!!!changingchannels wrote:its terrible and a wasted position in the setlist that should be dedicated to playing a jimmy buffett song!!now theres an idea!!play 27 jimmy buffett songs at a jimmy buffett concert
Posted: September 21, 2007 2:34 pm
Duke Ellington: "If it Sounds good, it is good"
Your choice
Sounded good to me last night, Jersey boy that I am
Your choice
Sounded good to me last night, Jersey boy that I am
Posted: September 21, 2007 3:43 pm
No need to sugar coat it........hate the song and not a fan of Bruce. 
Posted: September 21, 2007 3:55 pm
Send it packing, along with OTRA and SBs!!!
Posted: September 21, 2007 4:06 pm
I think I posted this once...but after hearing it again last night.... I still hate it! 