SchoonerWharf wrote:ConchRepublican wrote:After a second listen . . . I'm glad I cancelled my order. That's $10.00 I put towards on Slack Key Guitar Masters Vol. 1 as well as a couple of Bruddha Iz CDs.
Much better spent.
I love Bruce, but I'm not following him down this path. Maybe I'll meet him further on up the road.
then you are, with all due respect, a complete buffoon.
I despise Bruce's politics. I love the mans music and thenew album which I have all but worn out this weekend is brilliant. Not good, not really good, but brilliant. It blows away The Rising, which I also enjoyed, and is as close to late 70's Bruce as you will ever get. Its absolutely mindblowing. The lyrics, the unlisted track the E Street Band in fine form. Its so nice to have one of your musical heroes actually deliver on an album.
I cant wait to hear it all live.
If you call yourself a Springsteen fan and don't love this album then you really arent a Springsteen fan. Its that good.
buf·foon /bəˈfun/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[buh-foon] - noun
1. a person who amuses others by tricks, jokes, odd gestures and postures, etc.
2. a person given to coarse or undignified joking.
Hmmm . . . I'll choose to not take that personally even though I don't know why.
I usually hate when people throw out their credentials but here's where I'm coming from:
I have been listening to Bruce since I first heard Born to Run in the late 70's. I have worn out the album and 2 tapes. I like some of Greetings and E Street Shuffle. Loved Darkness, liked the River. Thought Nebraska was OK and Born in the USA was good, but not great. The better songs were not the hits.
I loved Tunnel of Love. I thought the two non E Street albums were wrongly panned and really enjoy Human Touch and the old 60s and 70s R&B and rock sounds he brought back. Lucky Town was OK, sounded a little too rough around the edges to me though in some spots.
Tracks, unimpressed. Some good things, but for most, there's a reason they didn't make the records in the first place. I loved the Rising, but then maybe being from New York and in the City on 9/11, it had a different message to me. Although parts of the Rising I will not listen to, like the song about the suicide bomber. I didn't get the Seeger Sessions so I can't comment, although some of the songs I've heard are OK and sound fun.
Magic to me was anything but. Touted as a straight ahead guitar rock and roll record, I got bar band music that was, to me, mid tempo drivel. Badly sung, boring musicianship which offered nothing new or exciting. Perhaps he has written something worth listening to, but at least present it in a pleasing way. Just because Dr. Zhivago is a great work doesn't mean I'm going to learn Russian to read it in it's original form. Make it accessable to me please. I listened 3 times on line and have been listening to the Bruce station on Sirius, and it does nothing for me. Boring.
When I hear straight ahead rock and roll guitar record, I'm thinking Candy's Room, It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City, Human Touch, Night, She's the One, Badlands, Sherry Darling, Out in the Street, Leap of Faith, Trapped, Because the Night, Lonesome Day or even Mary's Place, which sounds more like Southside Johnny than Bruce, even then, I'll take it. Give me something that gets me going, moving air guitar, sax or piano.
As for politics, the reason why I don't respond with a school yard "no, YOU're a buffoon" is because I, like you, strongly disagree with his positions, so, we must agree on something. Although . . . nevermind.
I will say though, there's a reason why there are different types of music, and taste in such does not make one a buffoon. It's just what they prefer, even if it's N SYNC, Britney or what other, popular music is out there which people deem disposable.
Different strokes dude, different strokes . . .
yes, let's. Going saturday night, hoping for a great show 
, which I could have done without. It was a great show, I am thinking of catching another show, maybe NYC, who knows. ![[smilie=battingeyes.gif]](./images/smilies/battingeyes.gif "battingeyes"){kind=small}
