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UpForGrabs said:
Brilliant (as if it wouldn't be).

But I don't know. As I said before, I never thought that they'd ever play it again. Part of me thinks they never should have, no matter how awesome Jake sounds. Leave it as a permanent tribute to the Big Man by saying "this is your song, we could never play it without you".
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I see what you're saying, but I think it's good Bruce brought it back, after a long hiatus. There is no obstacle too big for the ESB.
 
I was convinced it was retired for good, very happy to be wrong obviously. Lost in the Flood, hell yes. And then My Lucky Day pops up out of nowhere, for better or worse. The first Working on a Dream track of the tour?

I won't have any of this Sunny Day bashing, everything on The Rising is pure ace. Agreed about Devil's Arcade, Cruyff, just as intense has anything Bruce has out out. But the title trackon Magic is the best of the lot IMO.

Getting harder and harder to watch these amazing vids knowing the chances of an Australia tour are diminishing every day. :(
 
Had to find a recentish youtube of Darlington County - I was curious to know if The Boss changed the lyrics (our pa's each own one of the World Trade Centres) but he's remained faithful to the song.
 
DrVanNostrand said:
I was convinced it was retired for good, very happy to be wrong obviously. Lost in the Flood, hell yes. And then My Lucky Day pops up out of nowhere, for better or worse. The first Working on a Dream track of the tour?

I won't have any of this Sunny Day bashing, everything on The Rising is pure ace. Agreed about Devil's Arcade, Cruyff, just as intense has anything Bruce has out out. But the title trackon Magic is the best of the lot IMO.

Getting harder and harder to watch these amazing vids knowing the chances of an Australia tour are diminishing every day. :(
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You must skip over 'Let's Be Friends (Skin to Skin)' each time then :)
 

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DrVanNostrand said:
The former.
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Wow.

I can honestly say that I've been conversing with Springsteen nuts for over a decade and you're the very first person that I've ever met who doesn't think that song is almost the biggest piece of crap that the guy's ever written.

I mean, I love Springsteen. Neil Young's #1 in my world, Springsteen's a close #2. I feel amazingly passionate about a lot of his songs and will spend the rest of my life listening to his music and trying to get others to see past the Born in the USA persona to see the whole body of work. But man, that song. Well, if there was a poll for the three worst Springsteen songs of all time it would almost be a tie between 'Let's Be Friends (Skin to Skin)', 'Part Man, Part Monkey' and 'Real Man'. The holy trifecta of awfulness.

But that's OK - the guy's written so many blindingly brilliant songs, that he's allowed the odd dud here and there.

But good on you man. That's the essence of popular music right there. One man's famine is another man's fortune.
 
I'm the opposite I guess, I've done almost no conversing with Bruce nuts over the net so I don't have much of an idea which songs have imfamously bad reps, etc.

I think it's great. Smack bang in the middle of some really emotionally intense stuff. I think Bruce nails the vocals, a great choice in female vocalist and the slight touches of saxophone during the doo-doo-doo chorus get me every time. Not ashamed to say I love it. I choose to ingore the fact that it really has nothing to do with the subject matter of the entire album, however. It helps that The Rising is my favourite Bruce album.

For the record, I really can't handle 'Crush on You', 'Mary Queen of Arkanas' and ...(this will be grossly unpopular)... 'The Ties That Bind'. Oh, and yeah, 'Real Man' is godawful.
 
Well Swanny is telling Australia he is a big Boss fan. He will give the John Button Memorial lecture tonight and he will talk about how the Boss has inspired him and his views on public policy. He has put a You Tube video up and its getting air play on the news programs today.

He is a genuine fan as you will see and read about it in the papers and new shows today and tomorrow.

At the 2003 SCG show he was a few rows in front of me. In 2004 I lived in Wavell Heights in Brisbane and I went and had a chat with him at his electoral office a couple of suburbs away in Nundah. We had a chat for about 15 minutes, I wanted to discuss some policy issues with him and we probably talked about the Boss for 5 of those.

From his you tube channel.

Tonight I'm giving the John Button lecture on why I believe in the fair go and in spreading opportunity right throughout our community.

I'll be talking about how culture inspires us, for John Button it was literature, for me it was music, and in particular the music of Bruce Springsteen. His music is about the ordinary people who can get left behind if we don't ensure that our whole community grows together and has a voice in our national debate and a stake in our prosperity.

My speech is titled a 'Land of Hope and Dreams' because that's what I think our country is, with its optimism and its very bright future. And it's the Gillard Labor Government which will keep fighting to make sure they are hopes and dreams for all in our country, not just a fortunate few.
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There are 3 articles in the SMH. They all have the same embedded video about Swan and the boss.A

The Boss 40 years on driving Australian public policy. Who would have thunk that!!

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...ry-swan-channels-the-boss-20120731-23d4z.html
THE Treasurer, Wayne Swan, will intensify his assaults on the billionaires Clive Palmer, Andrew Forrest and Gina Rinehart tonight by accusing them of using the pillars of Australian democracy as personal playthings and seeking to expand the wealth divide by keeping more for themselves.

All while channelling rock icon Bruce Springsteen, who the Treasurer cites as his greatest inspiration and whom he credits with foretelling the decline of middle America as the economic foundations shifted, long before the economists.

In the John Button Memorial Lecture to be delivered in Melbourne, Mr Swan will say Springsteen's early albums, which were inspired by the decline of his native New Jersey, were relevant to Australia should Tony Abbott become the prime minister and govern for his billionaire friends. ''Don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here,'' his speech notes say.​
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http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...-swan-channels-the-boss-20120l 731-23d4z.html

But being a Redgum fan as well I liked Clive Palmer's response
Mr Palmer also said that when he was looking for musical inspiration, he listened to the Australian folk band Redgum.

"Unlike the Treasurer, I don't go to the United States for inspiration ... he should remember he's the Australian Treasurer, not the US secretary of the treasury," Mr Palmer said.​
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2nd article

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...ry-swan-channels-the-boss-20120731-23d4z.html

3rd article

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...e-boss-against-the-bosses-20120731-23d8o.html
 
DrVanNostrand said:
I'm the opposite I guess, I've done almost no conversing with Bruce nuts over the net so I don't have much of an idea which songs have imfamously bad reps, etc.

I think it's great. Smack bang in the middle of some really emotionally intense stuff. I think Bruce nails the vocals, a great choice in female vocalist and the slight touches of saxophone during the doo-doo-doo chorus get me every time. Not ashamed to say I love it. I choose to ingore the fact that it really has nothing to do with the subject matter of the entire album, however. It helps that The Rising is my favourite Bruce album.

For the record, I really can't handle 'Crush on You', 'Mary Queen of Arkanas' and ...(this will be grossly unpopular)... 'The Ties That Bind'. Oh, and yeah, 'Real Man' is godawful.
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YOU DON'T LIKE TIES? WHAT THE? I urge you to listen to the show from MSG in November of 2009. Trust me.

Bruce opened with a pre-show solo acoustic for fans waiting in the pit, wow!:
1. I’ll Work For Your Love
2. Leap Of Faith
3. No Surrender
4. For You
5. Blinded By The Light

Main Set Start Time: 7:53 p.m.

Setlist
1. ROCKIN’ ALL OVER THE WORLD
2. Night
3. Out In The Street
4. Loose Ends
5. We Take Care Of Our Own
6. Prove It All Night (1978 Intro)
7. Wrecking Ball
8. Death To My Hometown
9. My City Of Ruins
10. Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street?
11. Be True
12. Jack Of All Trades
13. Downbound Train
14. Because The Night
15. Lonesome Day
16. Darlington County
17. Light Of Day
18. Shackled And Drawn
19. Waitin’ On A Sunny Day
20. BACK IN YOUR ARMS
21. The Rising
22. Badlands
23. Land Of Hope And Dreams
24. We Are Alive
25. Born In The USA
26. Born To Run
27. DETROIT MEDLEY
28. Glory Days
29. Dancing In The Dark
30. Tenth Avenue Freeze Out
31. I DON’T WANT TO GO HOME
32. HIGHER AND HIGHER
33. Twist And Shout

End Time: 11:49 p.m.
HOLY SHIT.​
 

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Bloody amazing set list + pre show stuff by the Boss in Helsinki at the Olympic Stadium. Maybe he was inspired to do a world record.

Someone on Greasy Lake commented

200€ for a 45' of Madonna?
naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.... 50€ for 4 HOURS of Springsteen is BETTER
 
50 Euro? That's just awesome.

I'll Work For Your Love! Must track this down, lovely tune.

Yeah, Cruyff, the Ties chorus is like fingernails on a blackboard to me, haha. :thumbsu: Which shows are you going to? Really making me think I should have taken off to Europe as well instead of doing NZ next year.
 
RussellEbertHandball said:
Well Swanny is telling Australia he is a big Boss fan. He will give the John Button Memorial lecture tonight and he will talk about how the Boss has inspired him and his views on public policy. He has put a You Tube video up and its getting air play on the news programs today.
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Swan was on the 7.30 Report talking about his Springsteen fandom and host Leigh Sales asked him how much influence an American rocker who did his best work in the mid 70s and 80s would have on current day Australia.

FFS I know the tax dollar is stretched at ABC but a little research wouldn't go astray. Swan put Leigh straight directing her to The Boss's Wrecking Ball album.
 

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RussellEbertHandball said:
Well Swanny is telling Australia he is a big Boss fan. He will give the John Button Memorial lecture tonight and he will talk about how the Boss has inspired him and his views on public policy. He has put a You Tube video up and its getting air play on the news programs today.
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Thought it was corny, inappropriate and drawing a long bow to cite escape-themed Springsteen tracks in reference to this country. Atlantic City in particular is a gritty and desperate narrative of a doomed man, with opening verses that aren't readily accessible except to natives of New Jersey. But maybe there's a universal pertinence to politics in the lines

So honey last night I met this guy
And I'm gonna do a little favor for him

And Swan has rightly been taken to task.

NJ to Swan: you weren't born in the USA
 
Swan might be a fan but I feel that he's trying to use the Boss to buy a few cheap votes. Jingoistic clap trap!
 
Whilst the Boss's stuff has political overtones especially Nebraska and Wrecking Ball albums and certain songs like Livin the Future about John Kerry's loss in 2004 election the early stuff is mainly about getting out of small town New Jersey and seeing the big world and whilst like all songs are open to interpretation, they aren't about the decline of New Jersey and that is where Swan got the metaphor wrong.

Good on Governor Christie for giving him a boot up the date. The bloke took on the mafia as NJ attorney general, he wasn't going to give Swan a pass on bagging New Jersey.

The Boss has come out in the last couple of years and said his work has been about judging the distance between the American dream and the American reality. Swan should have talked about that, not stuff from the 70's. Although he got the use of - poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and the king ain't satisfied until he rules everything - to attack the billionaries, as the correct metaphor, but the rest is BS.

When Obama presented Bruce with the Kennedy Center Honors award in 2009, he quoted Bruce - "I've always believed that people listen to your music not to find out about you, but to find out about themselves."

As someone in the Australian wrote the Born to Run album probably influenced Swan because he wanted to get out of Joh Bejelke Petersen's Queensland - Baby this town rips the bones from your back, it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap, we've gotta get out while we're young - and Thunder Road's -So Mary climb in, it's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win - and he did he went with his new (1st) wife (his Mary so to speak) to Canberra and became a political staffer to Mick Young.

Swanny should have watched Obama's speech at the Kennedy Kennedy Center Honors awards presenation in the white house speech, to help craft his.

 
Got tickets to see The Boss in New Jersey on Sept 22 when I'm over there.

Should be great to see him in his home state. I can't wait. :thumbsu:

I've been listening a lot to Nebraska, as much as I love his rocked up tunes there's something about Springsteen's more stripped back pieces that really grab me.
 
d33my said:
Got tickets to see The Boss in New Jersey on Sept 22 when I'm over there.

Should be great to see him in his home state. I can't wait. :thumbsu:

I've been listening a lot to Nebraska, as much as I love his rocked up tunes there's something about Springsteen's more stripped back pieces that really grab me.
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Damn you!

Atlantic City full band version >>>>> Nebraksa version

Sept 22 is the day before his birthday!
 

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