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This is allegedly from a 1990 Rolling Stone article. | |
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Wow! great & descriptive response
You are right Born is pretty bleak on a lot of tracks... I mean maybe it's cause they sound more upbeat.... that they don't seem as bleak.
I feel Hungry Heart has a dark ..eerie edge cause songs like The river & Fade Away come after it & it's like the calm before the storm in many way's.
And i forget Columbia was big in the 70's so i guess independent would be a stretch & it seems after his success people went to checkout his old albums. Cause every album from his debut all the way to Tunnel Of Love(Minus Nerbaska) Are multi-platinum Pistols sounded like "Fuck off," wheras The Clash sounded like "Fuck Off, but here's why.."- Thedigitialgardener
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Well we have to put it in perspective that the bleakness in the lyrics and the optimistic production were a way to get people to buy the record. | |
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that's it
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[Edited 10/10/12 13:22pm] My Legacy
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True
P.S I recall you saying you really liked that cover of Bruce & his back Bruce Pistols sounded like "Fuck off," wheras The Clash sounded like "Fuck Off, but here's why.."- Thedigitialgardener
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lol I did say that. And anybody who thinks Bruce's ass didn't sell records is lying through his teeth.
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Yes. The (mostly) upbeat music is in contrast to much of the lyrical content:
Born in the U.S.A. Vietnam vet returns home and can't find employment. Brother killed in action.
Cover Me "The times are tough, man / Just gettin' tougher..."
Darlington County Two dudes head down south, looking for work and chicks (not necessarily in that order). One disappears for a week and, as the narrator's leaving town, he sees him "handcuffed to the bumper of a state trooper's Ford".
Working on the Highway Dude hooks up with a minor and ends up working on a chain gang.
Downbound Train Begins "I had a job, I had a girl / I had somethin' goin', mister, in this world". All three gone before end of Verse I.
I'm on Fire Narrator, controlled by lust, tries to entice another man's woman.
No Surrender A song that laments ageing.
Bobby Jean Narrator's best childhood friend leaves home unannounced and he never hears from him (her?) again.
I'm Goin' Down The end of a relationship.
Glory Days Narrator bumps into former sports star from his high school days, who just wants to relive the past. Spends the occasional Friday night drinking with his neighbor - a faded beauty queen and divorced mother - "after she put her kids to bed". Parting message of the song? "...Time slips away / And leaves you with nothin', mister, but / Borin' stories of / Glory days".
Dancing in the Dark Narrator (depressed, ageing and "livin' in a dump like this") searches for some connection.
My Hometown Due to racial unrest and an eventually depressed economy, the hometown in question's main street has become "whitewashed windows and vacant stores". Narrator considers leaving and takes his young son on what is possibly one last spin around the place. | |
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Thanks. I remember reading that article. Shows you that time can cloud the mind. I do know that, since then, Prince has attended several Bruce shows and spoke highly of him during his recent View appearance. Didn't he also drop a little Born in the U.S.A. into one of his live medleys in the early-'90s? | |
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Not as an artist, anyway. Manfred Mann's Earth Band scored a #1 with a heavily revised version of Bruce's Blinded by the Light and the Pointer Sisters took Fire to #2. | |
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Damn I must've missed that. I didn't know he wrote Blinded by the Light! | |
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Virtually a different song:
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By the way, did you know that Bruce guested with Prince on the Purple Rain tour? Played guitar on Baby, I'm a Star, in L.A.:
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Sure, and I don't doubt that Prince's respect for Bruce has continued to grow, too, now that they are not "competitors" and he's had time to absorb the larger picture of bruce's career. My Legacy
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Ah gotcha! | |
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Said it a million times and I'll say it again, with Prince and Michael making a joke out of anyone else in terms of sales and artistry Bruce was the only white guy to balance out the situation in this fucked up country. In an era when Heavyweight champ Larry Holmes and White Hope Gerry Cooney still garnered death threats and real fear of rioting it was necessary. BITUSA was not a great album it was a good album, Bruce has 4 or 5 albums that are better in my opinion. The key was timing and a willing artist who for the first time was ok with writing 3 minute pop songs which pissed off his true fans, who called the Dancing In the Dark video "Disco Bruce". Still a very good album compared to anyone else but compared to Darkness, the other Born, no can't even touch those. | |
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Columbia was never "independent". That's the label Johnny Mathis started on in the 1950's. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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oh and don't forget one of the absolute, top five greatest riffs in rock history courtesy of Roy Bittan and lets not forget the rest of the band who could match bruce all the way for passion. American music needed a golden whiteboy and Poison, Ratt, let's see, Eddie Monday etc.., would never make the cut. | |
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And Sinatra, in the '40s. | |
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Right. | |
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black folks so scared mighty whitey going to get them if they talk shit. Don't worry, say that shit, no one will come through the door. | |
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What Titty thought was probably much ado about nothing... | |
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Uh...no. I'm silent, because I'm not getting into it any further. I have my reasons for not saying things, so you can stop "assuming" things to be nonsense. I should have never commented on this thread, I had no clue people would be wondering what I have to say about this, or anything else. الحيوان النادلة ((((|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|)))) ...AND THAT'S THE WAY THE "TITTY" MILKS IT!
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![]() ![]() Pistols sounded like "Fuck off," wheras The Clash sounded like "Fuck Off, but here's why.."- Thedigitialgardener
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I'm still brought up on this thread, huh? God Damn.... الحيوان النادلة ((((|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|)))) ...AND THAT'S THE WAY THE "TITTY" MILKS IT!
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Then you shouldn't have said nothing, then we wouldn't be talking about it four pages earlier, hmm? | |
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I've seen that picture eons ago. Prince & Bruce, last I checked, respected each other. | |
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See reply #112. [Edited 10/10/12 15:56pm] الحيوان النادلة ((((|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|)))) ...AND THAT'S THE WAY THE "TITTY" MILKS IT!
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Was it or was it not a racial thing | |
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We nknow Prince didn't really care for Bruce's music, but has Bruce ever said anything Prince? | |
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