Springsteen Poll

[East Side Dave]

<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Let's decide this shit once and for all! I fucking love the guy! But&nbsp;a lot of folks hate him...well, that's fair! He can be an asshole! (i sill love 'im)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Edit: no option for &quot;i don't care&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; this poll is for Bruce-Haters and Bruce-Lovers even if that last part sounds gay!!</p>
<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by East Side Dave on 2-10-06 @ 8:59 PM</span>

[East Side Dave]

Forgot to vote in my own poll...Love! 100%! Close the thread, Mikey!!!!!!

[Hottub]

<p>Bruce peaked right after &quot;Born to Run&quot; (coincidentally, not to far after Fezzie peaked)</p><p>After that, some cool stuff on&nbsp;the stupid Born in the USA album,&nbsp;but not a perfect album.</p><p>&quot;Nebraska&quot;.....</p><p>SEEEYA!!!</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Hottub on 2-10-06 @ 8:58 PM</span>

[spot]

I voted "like" I like all the early stuff..up to Nebraska.

[tele7]

I just saw a Bruce show from 1975 on PBS or something.&nbsp; He was unreal!&nbsp; I am still a Bruce fan to this day.&nbsp; He is the real deal.&nbsp; At least he did'nt pull a Rod Stewart and release a crap album of old standards.&nbsp; I'll take a pass on Hungry Heart though.

[ADF]

I hate all of it.&nbsp; Barf.<br />

[torker]

He lost me at about <em>Born in the USA</em>.&nbsp; <em>Candy's Room</em> and <em>She's the One</em> are two of my all time favorite songs.&nbsp; His guitar work on the song<em> Human Touch</em> is pretty awesome.&nbsp;

[p1ckl3dpunk]

Bah, Springsteen sucks. I'm in Oklahoma and I know that.

[WhistlePig]

I respect his talent but I've never cared for him myself.

[Hottub]

<p>WP, start with Born to Run, and work backwards.</p><p>&nbsp;Trust me!</p>

[Death Metal Moe]

<p>I voted just &quot;Dislike.&quot;</p><p>I will not hate on the man.&nbsp; He's a real musical tallent and he's become a world renouned musician.</p><p>But I never really cared for his Folk/Rock shit and I HATE the fact that if you're from Jersey you're supposed to love this meatball.</p><p>He's not the legend people make him out to be but he's doing very well for himself so good for him on that note.&nbsp; Also, good for him that he's an original song writer and good musician.</p>

[Mr.Pants]

At least he's better than Bon Jovi.

[FUNKMAN]

<p>Dave,</p><p>I took your poll but don't take&nbsp;that the wrong way...<img src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/laugh.gif" border="0" /></p><p>i still like Bruce even though sometimes he takes himself too seriously.&nbsp;I think The River is my favorite and Factory. I used to drive my pop to work when he was on midnights at the Colgate Plant in Jersey City and i would just watch him go past the guard shack and down the street towards the river and disappear into one of the buildings. There was steam coming out of the sewer plates and i remember how it seemed he was entering a different world from where i was on&nbsp;other side of the gate...</p>

[TheMojoPin]

<p><em>Nebraska </em>is easily one of the few albums I'd have buried with me when I die.</p><p>Everything else of &quot;The Boss&quot; just makes me wonder why he was more famous than Meatloaf.&nbsp; <em>Born To Run</em> sounds like the great lost 'Loaf album with just a tiny bit less bombast.</p>

[HBox]

<strong>Death Metal Moe</strong> wrote:<br /><br /><p>But I never really cared for his Folk/Rock shit and I HATE the fact that if you're from Jersey you're supposed to love this meatball.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[Snoogans]

i voted hate, he sings like bob dylan with strep throat<br />

[bobrobot]

<p><strong><font color="#000099">I like some of the early stuff, but he lost me when he became the jingoistic macho man. This is a dicey topic in my family cause my cousin is 1 of his lawyers. I once wrote a parody of Born in the USA where Brucey was the son of God, it was called Born in a Manger, my cousin didn't talk to me for about a year after that!</font></strong></p><p><strong><font color="#000099">Has anyone else here ever heard the rumor that Bruce slept w/ David Bowie in 1974? Bowie even recorded 3 Springsteen tunes for Young Americans, then shelved them..,. (bad break up???)</font></strong></p><p><img height="314" src="http://216.219.201.98/images2/DavidBowieEdSciakyBruceSpringsteen1974.jpg" width="443" border="0" /></p><p>&nbsp;David Bowie, Ed Sciaky, Bruce Springsteen @ Sigma Sound Studio, 1974 </p><p>&nbsp;(this is where Young Americans was recorded)&nbsp;</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by bobogolem on 2-11-06 @ 12:54 AM</span>

[Hottub]

<p>Sweet tap-dancin' Jesus, Mojo!</p><p>First of all, Nebraska is an ego stroking, yeah, I wanna go back to being Dylan again, abrortion of a record!</p><p>&nbsp;Not unlike &quot;Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ&quot;. which I love, even though &quot;Dillonesque&quot;, not pompous or self-serving.&nbsp; Though Manfred Mann chose to cover a couple of tracks.</p><p>Yeas, I know. Manfred Mann sucks!!</p><p>Go to The Wild, The Innocent, and the E-Street Shufffle to appreciate not just Bruce, but the E-Street Band.</p><p>Born to Run album, no coment. The record speaks for itself.</p><p>And then Darkness On the Edge of Town. The last REAL Bruce album! An iPod favorite~</p>

[JustJon]

<p>Where is the &quot;completely overrated&quot; option?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The man is talented.&nbsp; No one has disputed that here, but what's with all the Jersey love?&nbsp; He writes songs about wanting to get the fuck out, moved to Cali as soon as he was able, and New Jersey goes ape shit for him.&nbsp;</p>

[hereintheUK]

<p>I love him, despite been in the Royal Albert Hall in london last year when he told us to &quot;shut the fuck up&quot; you gotta love him for that at least.</p><p>&nbsp;By the way I have uploaded 20 Bruce videos to you tube if you want to check them out.</p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search=mrchappelow&search_type=search_videos&search=Search">http://www.youtube.com/results?search=mrchappelow&amp;search_type=search_vide os&amp;search=Search</a></p>

[badorties]

i'm more in the 'eh' section ...

can't most of it -- overplayed, outdated cock-rock anthems ... but there are a few songs that aren't too bad

[Death Metal Moe]

<strong>JustJon</strong> wrote:<br /><p>Where is the &quot;completely overrated&quot; option?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The man is talented.&nbsp; No one has disputed that here, but what's with all the Jersey love?&nbsp; He writes songs about wanting to get the fuck out, moved to Cali as soon as he was able, and New Jersey goes ape shit for him.&nbsp;</p><p>Thank you.</p>

[Mr.Pants]

I want to hear Born in a Manger.

[furie]

i'm indiffrent, but i guess i fall on the dislike side.

[TheMojoPin]

<strong>Hottub</strong> wrote:<br /><p>Born to Run album, no coment. The record speaks for itself. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Yeah, it sounds like a skinnier version of Meatloaf.</p><p>I can only tolerate the darker, stripped down version of Springsteen.&nbsp; <em>Nebraska</em>, <em>The Ghost of Tom Joad</em>, and <em>Devils &amp; Dust</em>.&nbsp; The rest of it hits me like a wave of overproduced, bombastic, musical theater rejects.</p><p>Hey, diff'rent strokes...</p>

[ChrisTheCop]

<p>yeah, hate is too strong a word, even after 41 shots. so i voted dislike.</p><p>Never really liked his songs...well...song, really. isnt it all the same, but with different ramblings?</p><p>He is however the source of perhaps the only reason I've ever laughed at a Robin Williams routine; Elmer Fudd singing <em>Fire.</em></p>

[FUNKMAN]

<p>i used to love singing along to Racing In The Streets...</p>

[bobrobot]

yeah, hate is too strong a word, even after 41 shots. so i voted dislike. <p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong><font color="#000099">Hmmm... I consider &quot;41 Shots&quot; to be the 1 brave &amp; truthful&nbsp;moment in his entire career. For a guy who emulated Dylan, he really turned out to be more about profit than protest.</font></strong></p><p><img src="http://www.geocities.com/youth4sa/dialloprotest.jpg" border="0" /></p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by bobogolem on 2-11-06 @ 10:44 PM</span>

[FUNKMAN]

<p>Murder Incorporated is actually a pretty good jam tune for people just jammin around...</p><p>singing it's a bitch but the distorted chord progression and easy changes are nice!</p>

[Mike Teacher]

<p>Yeah, it sounds like a skinnier version of Meatloaf.</p><p>=</p><p>Check out the liner notes to 'Bat out of Hell' and it becomes a bit clearer why it often sounds like Springsteen, as it's Max Weinberg and Roy Bittan of the E St. band playing drums and piano, respectively, on much of BooH.</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Mike Teacher on 2-12-06 @ 2:04 AM</span>

[FUNKMAN]

<strong>Mike Teacher</strong> wrote:<br /><p>Yeah, it sounds like a skinnier version of Meatloaf.</p><p>=</p><p>Check out the liner notes to 'Bat out of Hell' and it becomes a bit clearer why it often sounds like Springsteen, as it's Max Weinberg and Roy Bittan of the E St. band playing drums and piano, respectively, on much of BooH.</p><p><span class="post_edited">This message was edited by Mike Teacher on 2-12-06 @ 2:04 AM</span> </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>and who is ripping them leads my friend?</p><p>Todd is The Man!</p>

[FUNKMAN]

<h3><a name="BAT OUT OF HELL">Bat Out Of Hell</a></h3><p>Guitars: Todd Rungren<br />Piano: Roy Bittan<br />Keyboards: Jim Steinman, Roy Bittan, Todd Rungren<br />Bass: Kasim Sultan<br />Drums: Max Weinberg<br />Percussion: Jim Steinman, Todd Rungren<br />Synthesizer: Roger Powell<br />Motorcycle Guitar: Todd Rungren<br />Background Vocals: Rory Dodd, Ellen Foley, Todd Rungren, Kasim Sultan</p><p>edit: all the boys from Utopia representing except Wilcox....</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by FUNKMAN on 2-12-06 @ 2:22 AM</span>

[JohnnyCash]

I love Springsteen. Though I think he peaked on his first record.

[SatCam]

http://home.att.net/~sl.schofield2/springsteen/the_wild_the_innocent_and_the_e_street_shuffle/The_wild_the_innocent_and_the_E_Street_shuffle.jpg

One of the greatest albums ever