RevMatt wrote:90's era Springsteen. Lucky Town excellent Human Touch fair to middling The Ghost of Tom Joad given the amount of artists who have covered the title track and the amount of movies it has been in, I'd say excellent though not as good as Nebraska Misc: "The Streets of Philadelphia", "Secret Garden", "Murder Incorporated", "Blood Brothers", "This Hard Land", "High Hopes", "Without You" Excellent
More blasphemy: 90's era Bruce is better than post Nebraska eighties Bruce.
A few good nuggets to be sure (Youngstown, Streets of Phila, Land of Hope & Dreams, Freehold come to mind), but on the whole I'd prefer to forget his 90's stuff.
not positive but I think Murder Inc and This Hard Land are Born in the USA outtakes.
RevMatt wrote:90's era Springsteen. Lucky Town excellent Human Touch fair to middling The Ghost of Tom Joad given the amount of artists who have covered the title track and the amount of movies it has been in, I'd say excellent though not as good as Nebraska Misc: "The Streets of Philadelphia", "Secret Garden", "Murder Incorporated", "Blood Brothers", "This Hard Land", "High Hopes", "Without You" Excellent
More blasphemy: 90's era Bruce is better than post Nebraska eighties Bruce.
A few good nuggets to be sure (Youngstown, Streets of Phila, Land of Hope & Dreams, Freehold come to mind), but on the whole I'd prefer to forget his 90's stuff.
not positive but I think Murder Inc and This Hard Land are Born in the USA outtakes.
Could be, but he did lay down tracks for those songs in the nineties. I don't know if he added to the eighties tracks or started over from scratch.
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take the best stuff from Lucky Town and from Human Touch and you have a pretty solid album. Nothing groundbreaking but it would not be anywhere near as reviled as those two alone
For some reason Tom Joad as an album hasn't held up all that well for me. I used to love it but now many of the songs just don't hit my ear like they once did. I wouldn't turn it off or anything, just not as into it as I once was. Tom Joad the song, however, is top-shelf stuff to me
Son, this ain't a dream no more, it's the real thing
whatwouldcooleydo? wrote:take the best stuff from Lucky Town and from Human Touch and you have a pretty solid album. Nothing groundbreaking but it would not be anywhere near as reviled as those two alone
For some reason Tom Joad as an album hasn't held up all that well for me. I used to love it but now many of the songs just don't hit my ear like they once did. I wouldn't turn it off or anything, just not as into it as I once was. Tom Joad the song, however, is top-shelf stuff to me
I remember going to the record store at midnight to pick up copies of both Lucky Town and Human Touch. My opinion was and remains that Human Touch was mediocre but Lucky Town rocked. I think both of those albums were reviled because 1) he did not use East Street and 2) he was in a very happy and positive place in his life which, until that point, was a first for Bruce when he was writing an album. Sadness and depression have always been Bruce's muse.
I have nowhere else to go. There is no demand in the priesthood for elderly drug addicts
whatwouldcooleydo? wrote:take the best stuff from Lucky Town and from Human Touch and you have a pretty solid album. Nothing groundbreaking but it would not be anywhere near as reviled as those two alone
For some reason Tom Joad as an album hasn't held up all that well for me. I used to love it but now many of the songs just don't hit my ear like they once did. I wouldn't turn it off or anything, just not as into it as I once was. Tom Joad the song, however, is top-shelf stuff to me
I wouldashouldacoulda said that. But i didnt. So thanks for taking care of it, wwcd.
Dividing stuff into calendar eras is convenient but it's not really how people live their lives, or make their music, is it? No question the blowing up of the band caused a considerable and out of proportion backlash among the boss's fandom. The 2 albums didn't get a fair hearing at the time, but it's been a while by now so i think judgments can be made and i'll stick w/ wwcd's. I also saw that tour which was the 2d worst springsteen performance i've ever seen, "topped" only by the tom joad tour.
"Youngstown" is great, but to my mind totally inseparable from Nils Lofgren. Hey! Better get back to the underrated guitarists thread, lol.
What used to be is gone and what ought to be ought not to be so hard
sactochris wrote:I have always thought Polly Jean was lame.
this is definitely in the right thread
no doubt. pj harvery has mad skills. (vocals. writing. presence. uniqueness. creativity. attitude. depth. confidence.rock ability)
Joelle: Have you seen Hal Hartley's The Book of Life? Polly Jean plays Magdalena (Mary Magdalene). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167059/ I second the PJ Harvey recommendation. Check out her Peel Sessions album.
I don't get the Replacements. They have some good songs, but all of their records sound terrible. Way overproduced. I wasn't around to see them live, so maybe I just missed out.
Duke Silver wrote:I don't get the Replacements. They have some good songs, but all of their records sound terrible. Way overproduced. I wasn't around to see them live, so maybe I just missed out.
