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Post by mimmihopps on May 5, 2016 5:22:37 GMT -5
Thank you very much again, Sternumman and matt. You both opened my ears for discovering Springsteen. I've just lisetened to "Thunder Road" live from Hammersmith Odeon and I really like it. I want to get to know more about his early years, but first I should start with 2 albums you both recommended. and "Because The Night" with Michael Stipe is as great as Patti's! On side note, I just bought my ticket for Patti's acoustic gig in an open air park in August. Really looking forward to it. There's always good music if you open your eyes and ears. Music is just like air and water for me. |
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Post by matt on May 5, 2016 5:43:26 GMT -5
Thank you very much again, Sternumman and matt. You both opened my ears for discovering Springsteen. I've just lisetened to "Thunder Road" live from Hammersmith Odeon and I really like it. I want to get to know more about his early years, but first I should start with 2 albums you both recommended. and "Because The Night" with Michael Stipe is as great as Patti's! On side note, I just bought my ticket for Patti's acoustic gig in an open air park in August. Really looking forward to it. There's always good music if you open your eyes and ears. Music is just like air and water for me. Her voice is still great - she's one of the greatest singers of all time. Listening to her with Michael Stipe's voice is aural heaven! |
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Post by Sternumman on May 5, 2016 6:16:38 GMT -5
Thank you very much again, Sternumman and matt. You both opened my ears for discovering Springsteen. I've just lisetened to "Thunder Road" live from Hammersmith Odeon and I really like it. I want to get to know more about his early years, but first I should start with 2 albums you both recommended. and "Because The Night" with Michael Stipe is as great as Patti's! On side note, I just bought my ticket for Patti's acoustic gig in an open air park in August. Really looking forward to it. There's always good music if you open your eyes and ears. Music is just like air and water for me. NP Thunder Road is the opening song to his third album Born to Run. On record its with a full band but for that tour he usually opened with it just w/ the piano. |
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Post by Sternumman on May 15, 2016 11:36:41 GMT -5
Wish I had the money to fly to Spain to see one show with those crowds.
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Post by matt on May 15, 2016 12:14:41 GMT -5
Springsteen's autobiography is out in September. Will be fascinating considering he is very private.
Also, Johnny Marr's autobiography will be released in the same month! Great month all round for the music bios!!
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Post by matt on Jun 10, 2016 16:51:16 GMT -5
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Post by Sternumman on Jun 11, 2016 17:12:04 GMT -5
mimmihopps Did you ever get around to listening to those albums?
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Post by mimmihopps on Jun 12, 2016 5:15:39 GMT -5
mimmihopps Did you ever get around to listening to those albums? No not yet. Thanks for reminds me. I'll try my best to give a listen to the albums you recommended. Give me some more time, then you'll hear what I think of them. |
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Post by mimmihopps on Jun 14, 2016 11:55:44 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2016 14:56:20 GMT -5
I can hear Bruce Springsteen while I´m in my house.
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Post by Manualex on Jun 14, 2016 14:59:49 GMT -5
I can hear Bruce Springsteen while I´m in my house. is he playing in the basement? |
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Post by mimmihopps on Jun 16, 2016 11:35:49 GMT -5
Sternumman, I got "Darkness on The Edge Of Town" and "Nebraska" in my CD player and I'm going to listen to both albums this weekend.
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Post by Sternumman on Jun 18, 2016 3:01:49 GMT -5
Sternumman, I got "Darkness on The Edge Of Town" and "Nebraska" in my CD player and I'm going to listen to both albums this weekend. Hope you like them or at least come away with a different perspective of who he is as an artist. |
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Post by mimmihopps on Jun 18, 2016 9:39:02 GMT -5
Sternumman, I got "Darkness on The Edge Of Town" and "Nebraska" in my CD player and I'm going to listen to both albums this weekend. Hope you like them or at least come away with a different perspective of who he is as an artist. I finally listened to Nebraska today and I thank you and matt for recommending this album because I absolute love it. This album changed my view and thought about Springsteen. I really like "Atlantic City", "Highway Patroolman", "State Trooper", "Reason To Believe" and "Mansion on The Hill" of course! I'll be honest, I wouldn't go to see him in a huge stadium, but I'm enjoying every song on this album. To me he's no longer the man with a huge American flag, but the artist that I see similar to Billy Bragg. Next one is "The Darkness on the Edge of Town", then I'd like to listen to the album "River" too. |
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Post by Sternumman on Jun 18, 2016 11:17:08 GMT -5
Hope you like them or at least come away with a different perspective of who he is as an artist. I finally listened to Nebraska today and I thank you and matt for recommending this album because I absolute love it. This album changed my view and thought about Springsteen. I really like "Atlantic City", "Highway Patroolman", "State Trooper", "Reason To Believe" and "Mansion on The Hill" of course! I'll be honest, I wouldn't go to see him in a huge stadium, but I'm enjoying every song on this album. To me he's no longer the man with a huge American flag, but the artist that I see similar to Billy Bragg. Next one is "The Darkness on the Edge of Town", then I'd like to listen to the album "River" too. I'm glad you liked it. Atlantic City and Reason to Believe are two of my favorite songs. Atlantic City is definitely best as an acoustic song but it's also pretty good with the whole band as a rock song too. It's also really good played with his other band as a folk song with a completely different arrangement. I love the River too just know going into it it's the first album he went pop on trying to cross into the mainstream. It's a double album of bar room rock, pop, rock a billy, and slower personal songs. It's the album sandwiched between Darkness and Nebraska and is a big contrast from the other two. It was his first number one album and had his first top ten song, Hungry Heart which he wrote for the Ramones, so when he released Nebraska after it was a big surprise. |
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Post by matt on Jun 18, 2016 13:00:48 GMT -5
Hope you like them or at least come away with a different perspective of who he is as an artist. I finally listened to Nebraska today and I thank you and matt for recommending this album because I absolute love it. This album changed my view and thought about Springsteen. I really like "Atlantic City", "Highway Patroolman", "State Trooper", "Reason To Believe" and "Mansion on The Hill" of course! I'll be honest, I wouldn't go to see him in a huge stadium, but I'm enjoying every song on this album. To me he's no longer the man with a huge American flag, but the artist that I see similar to Billy Bragg. Next one is "The Darkness on the Edge of Town", then I'd like to listen to the album "River" too. If you like the intimate dark atmosphere, then Nebraska is undoubtedly his best album. He's done three acoustic albums - Nebraska, Ghost of Tom Joad and Devils and Dust from 2005. All similar in mood, but Nebraska remains the defining acoustic album of his. I suspect he's making an acoustic album for his next album as the E Street Band are reportedly not involved, hence why he is doing the River anniversary tour as a way to give fans the chance to see them before the next album. |
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Post by mimmihopps on Jun 18, 2016 13:03:26 GMT -5
I finally listened to Nebraska today and I thank you and matt for recommending this album because I absolute love it. This album changed my view and thought about Springsteen. I really like "Atlantic City", "Highway Patroolman", "State Trooper", "Reason To Believe" and "Mansion on The Hill" of course! I'll be honest, I wouldn't go to see him in a huge stadium, but I'm enjoying every song on this album. To me he's no longer the man with a huge American flag, but the artist that I see similar to Billy Bragg. Next one is "The Darkness on the Edge of Town", then I'd like to listen to the album "River" too. I'm glad you liked it. Atlantic City and Reason to Believe are two of my favorite songs. Atlantic City is definitely best as an acoustic song but it's also pretty good with the whole band as a rock song too. It's also really good played with his other band as a folk song with a completely different arrangement. I love the River too just know going into it it's the first album he went pop on trying to cross into the mainstream. It's a double album of bar room rock, pop, rock a billy, and slower personal songs. It's the album sandwiched between Darkness and Nebraska and is a big contrast from the other two. It was his first number one album and had his first top ten song, Hungry Heart which he wrote for the Ramones, so when he released Nebraska after it was a big surprise. I love "Atlantic City" with different arrangement! Thanks again! I only know 2 songs from album "The River" - Hungr Heart and The River. First I'm going to listen to "Darkness..." tomorrow, then try to get The River afterwards. This is one of the greatness of this forum as we can share and recommend (new) music to each other. |
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Post by mimmihopps on Jun 20, 2016 5:56:16 GMT -5
Sternumman matt, I listened to "The Darkness on the Edge of Town" last night. Although I love the darkness of "Nebraska", this album taught me an another artistic side of Springsteen. I like "Adam Raised A Cain", "Racing In The Street" and the title song.
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Post by Sternumman on Jun 20, 2016 7:32:54 GMT -5
Sternumman matt, I listened to "The Darkness on the Edge of Town" last night. Although I love the darkness of "Nebraska", this album taught me an another artistic side of Springsteen. I like "Adam Raised A Cain", "Racing In The Street" and the title song. I'm glad you liked some of it. It's my favorite album of all time. I'd say the closest album to it in sound is Born to Run. That album is just more produced and romantic. Darkness was made after a long three year battle with his manager fighting over his contract were he wasn't allowed to record. So tonally it's a lot bleaker. Some of its hard to make it though. If you do listen to it again I'd recommend pulling up the lyrics. The title track gets my every time. It's one of my favorite songs ever. Adam Raised A Cain kicks ass. It's almost punk. Candys Room is my other favorite from that album. Racing in the Streets is regarded as one of his best songs. There is an alternate version he released a few years ago from a boxset that I prefer but some people think is blasphemous. Prove It All Night on the record doesn't have the punch as it did live but I also think it's one of the best songs on the record. The live version piano ntro was used as the melody for Patti Smiths Frederick the following year. |
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Post by mimmihopps on Jun 20, 2016 13:12:27 GMT -5
Sternumman matt, I listened to "The Darkness on the Edge of Town" last night. Although I love the darkness of "Nebraska", this album taught me an another artistic side of Springsteen. I like "Adam Raised A Cain", "Racing In The Street" and the title song. I'm glad you liked some of it. It's my favorite album of all time. I'd say the closest album to it in sound is Born to Run. That album is just more produced and romantic. Darkness was made after a long three year battle with his manager fighting over his contract were he wasn't allowed to record. So tonally it's a lot bleaker. Some of its hard to make it though. If you do listen to it again I'd recommend pulling up the lyrics. The title track gets my every time. It's one of my favorite songs ever. Adam Raised A Cain kicks ass. It's almost punk. Candys Room is my other favorite from that album. Racing in the Streets is regarded as one of his best songs. There is an alternate version he released a few years ago from a boxset that I prefer but some people think is blasphemous. Prove It All Night on the record doesn't have the punch as it did live but I also think it's one of the best songs on the record. The live version piano ntro was used as the melody for Patti Smiths Frederick the following year. Maybe it's just me, but I felt his anger in "The Darkness..."". Patti's "Frederick" was written for her late husband, Fred Sonic Smith. I remember the first his song I ever heard was Born To Run and I think this song (for somehow) describes what he is. |
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Post by idleroses on Jun 20, 2016 13:43:27 GMT -5
If you liked Nebraska listen to The Ghost of Tom Joad record, it's stunning.
It was a small town bank it was a mess
Well I had a gun you know the rest
Money on the floorboards, shirt was covered in blood
And she was cryin', her and me we headed south
On Highway 29
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Post by Sternumman on Jun 20, 2016 13:57:51 GMT -5
I'm glad you liked some of it. It's my favorite album of all time. I'd say the closest album to it in sound is Born to Run. That album is just more produced and romantic. Darkness was made after a long three year battle with his manager fighting over his contract were he wasn't allowed to record. So tonally it's a lot bleaker. Some of its hard to make it though. If you do listen to it again I'd recommend pulling up the lyrics. The title track gets my every time. It's one of my favorite songs ever. Adam Raised A Cain kicks ass. It's almost punk. Candys Room is my other favorite from that album. Racing in the Streets is regarded as one of his best songs. There is an alternate version he released a few years ago from a boxset that I prefer but some people think is blasphemous. Prove It All Night on the record doesn't have the punch as it did live but I also think it's one of the best songs on the record. The live version piano ntro was used as the melody for Patti Smiths Frederick the following year. Maybe it's just me, but I felt his anger in "The Darkness..."". Patti's "Frederick" was written for her late husband, Fred Sonic Smith. I remember the first his song I ever heard was Born To Run and I think this song (for somehow) describes what he is. There is definitely anger throughout the album. There is an album that he released a few years ago to coincide with the Darkness anniversary that contains 20 unreleased songs from that session and a lot of them are upbeat. They just didnt fit the tone of the album he was going for. I had never heard Frederick until a couple of weeks ago. I heard another song that used the live version of Prove It All NIght piano intro and the article said Patti Smith used the intro too for Frederick. |
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Post by Sternumman on Jun 20, 2016 14:01:42 GMT -5
If you liked Nebraska listen to The Ghost of Tom Joad record, it's stunning. It was a small town bank it was a mess Well I had a gun you know the rest Money on the floorboards, shirt was covered in blood And she was cryin', her and me we headed south On Highway 29 I love Nebraska but besides the title track and Youngstown I could never get into the GOTJ album. |
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Post by Francis Xavier Cross on Jul 18, 2016 13:06:34 GMT -5
¡SPOILER ALERT!
Bruce Springsteen was dead the whole time!
God bless.
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