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4) Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street

She said “man the dope’s that there’s still hope”

From one fun song, straight on to another. Entry number 4 sees the fifth entry from the Greetings From Asbury Park album. Again, like most of the songs on Greetings, the rhyming is heavy and the lyrics are bizarre. From wizard imps, to sweat side pimps, to Broadway Mary, to the lucky young matador, this is a true gem of a track.

Only heard the original for the first time upon writing this entry and the final lines of the song are truly weird with the music that accompanies it as opposed to live version. It almost comes to a sudden halt to let Bruce finish off singing and that’s the end of it. Completely different to the live versions where they keep jamming and play an outro that goes for a minute or so. Very strange indeed.

It’s a song that goes well on a summers day when you just don’t give a damn.

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Haven't been back here for some time but this top 10 is a total fizzer...its like the arty farty types who decide to pick the most obscure songs and highlight them as an artists best work.

There were plenty of songs that were in the 50-30 range that should have made the top ten.

Each to their own I suppose.:(
 
What, like all the mainstream stuff that only the radio plays?

So Rosie/Incident/Flood are obscure? Oh dear. You talk to any hardcore Bruce fan and they will almost most certainly be in their top 10.

The beauty of Springsteen is that his catalogue is so vast no top 10 will be identical.

What songs, out of curiosity?
 

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Sorry I don't conform to 80s mainstream pop when making a countdown.

Incident/Rosie etc are true musical masterpieces. The former especially.

And it's not bias when you find many countdowns often don't have Hungry Heart/Glory Days/BIT USA/Dancing In The Dark etc in the top 10.

Have you actually listened to songs like Jungleland or Backstreets? Racing In The Street et al?

How are we to know how these songs would have faired if they were released?
 
Sigh. Another case of musical snobbery. A song can't be good because it was in the top 40. Just because it charted doesn't make it a crap song. Glory Days is a brilliant song. Just because it was released as a single it doesn't make it not good.
 
I'm not saying that. But everyone has their own tastes. If Glory Days is brilliant, what is Incident? What is Racing in the Street? What is Darkness? What is Thunder Road? Jungleland? Backstreets?

But just because songs weren't released as singles, does't make them crap either.
 
I may disagree with where Cruyff14 has the order of songs but I think his idea of a great Bruce Springsteen song is pretty close to mine, I reckon.

I would not have Glory Days in my top 40 Springsteen songs, or Born in the USA.

He did not become a legend with FM radio friendly hits. He was a great word smith, amazing live performer and a genuine rock superstar as far as I was concerned well before he hit the mainstream. That is not musical snobbery, but rather my opinion which seems similar to Cruyff14.
 
riteo said:
Really depressing to see how big this thread is compared to the Tom Waits thread.

Springsteen :o Where's the Neil Young thread?
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Use the search function.

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?t=260189&highlight=neil+young+albums&page=7

I am a Tom Waits fan. I am a Bruce Springsteen fan and Neil Young is my favourite artist of all time. I don't think they are mutually exclusive. Given that Neil just handed Tom Waits his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame award and Neil has played live with Bruce Springsteen, I don't think he does either.
 

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JimDocker said:
I may disagree with where Cruyff14 has the order of songs but I think his idea of a great Bruce Springsteen song is pretty close to mine, I reckon.

I would not have Glory Days in my top 40 Springsteen songs, or Born in the USA.

He did not become a legend with FM radio friendly hits. He was a great word smith, amazing live performer and a genuine rock superstar as far as I was concerned well before he hit the mainstream. That is not musical snobbery, but rather my opinion which seems similar to Cruyff14.
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Thank you.

Glory Days, BIT USA, and the like are your typical run of the mill pop songs. Not that great lyrically, nothing special musically, but very catchy. Hell, Glory Days isn't even in this countdown, nor is Hungry Heart (sorry Ron) and Dancing In The Dark was 37 I think. He has penned many better songs than those.

If I had the choice between listening to Glory Days or Incident On 57th Street, I know which one I would pick without a shadow of a doubt.

How much of Springsteen's catalogue have you actually heard Noddy?
 
Cruyff14 said:
Thank you.

Glory Days, BIT USA, and the like are your typical run of the mill pop songs. Not that great lyrically, nothing special musically, but very catchy. Hell, Glory Days isn't even in this countdown, nor is Hungry Heart (sorry Ron) and Dancing In The Dark was 37 I think. He has penned many better songs than those.

If I had the choice between listening to Glory Days or Incident On 57th Street, I know which one I would pick without a shadow of a doubt.

How much of Springsteen's catalogue have you actually heard Noddy?
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A lot. I have a fair bit of his music. My housemate is also a mad Springsteen fan. It's about all he plays. To me it's funny that you have Dancing in the Dark in the top fifty but not Glory Days. I think DITD is a horrid song.
 
Gasometer said:
Haven't been back here for some time but this top 10 is a total fizzer...its like the arty farty types who decide to pick the most obscure songs and highlight them as an artists best work.

There were plenty of songs that were in the 50-30 range that should have made the top ten.

Each to their own I suppose.:(
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Chill dude. You ever thought that to someone who's devoted enough and has the time to do a Countdown like this that there is no such thing as 'obscure'?

Or did you want the top ten to just be:

Dancing in the Dark
Glory Days
I'm On Fire
Brilliant Disguise
Born to Run
Human Touch
Hungry Heart
Streets of Philadelphia
Secret Garden
Born in the USA

Not that I'm agreeing with many of Cruyff's choices (I finished a top 101 Springsteen songs countdown earlier this year and if you think his choices are obscure, then you'd hate to see my list), but if you don't like it - come up with something different then.

Commercial success is no guarantee of quality. Just look at the charts these days.
 

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