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La Dispute said:
I'm considering going.

Love their first few albums and like the last couple.

I know Bruce is a big fan. Played The 59 Sound live with them at some point didn't he?

Can certainly see the influence.
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It would be interesting to see just how many Gaslight fans discovered them through the '59 Sound vid with Bruce at Hyde Park. That what happened to me, I kept noticing this video popping up on the side whenever I watched anything related to Bruce on Youtube and was blown away when I finally clicked on it. I really like the No Surrender duet on the Hyde Park DVD, Brian does a good job with it.

They're a poor man's Springsteen, but I like them a lot. Catchy tunes and Brian Fallon writes a great song, (but his voice can certainly be hit and miss).

I may have a spare ticket to the Wednesday night gig if anyone's interested.
 
Cruyff14 said:
I think BToR is more definitive. Or even BITUSA.
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Born To Run is a better overall album.

But if I want someone to understand, musically, the Springsteen 'ethos' then the three albums I mentioned earlier go close to covering it.

But in the end, every Bruce album has its own vibe and should be listened to.
 

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jpkennedy said:
Wrecking Ball is a bloody great album I reckon. I really like it. I was surprised when I first listened to it. My favourite tracks are Land of Hope and Dreams and Wrecking Ball. Wrecking Ball is especially great live.
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Wrecking Ball is epic, isn't it? Especially live, woah!

Death To My Hometown is what grabbed me when I first listen to Wrecking Ball last February. Probably that and the title track are my favourites on the album. However, the best song is probably This Depression.

Prefer the Reunion Tour version of LOHAD.
 
pjcrows said:
Born To Run is a better overall album.

But if I want someone to understand, musically, the Springsteen 'ethos' then the three albums I mentioned earlier go close to covering it.

But in the end, every Bruce album has its own vibe and should be listened to.
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BToR is still probably better musically IMO. That's just me though.
 
paddy18 said:
It would be interesting to see just how many Gaslight fans discovered them through the '59 Sound vid with Bruce at Hyde Park. That what happened to me, I kept noticing this video popping up on the side whenever I watched anything related to Bruce on Youtube and was blown away when I finally clicked on it. I really like the No Surrender duet on the Hyde Park DVD, Brian does a good job with it.

They're a poor man's Springsteen, but I like them a lot. Catchy tunes and Brian Fallon writes a great song, (but his voice can certainly be hit and miss).

I may have a spare ticket to the Wednesday night gig if anyone's interested.
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I was pretty aware of Bruce, but that certainly made me take a bit more notice. Definitely saw heap of influence.

I think a poor man's Springsteen is a fair comment. Lyrically they are almost identical (not in quality but in themes, use of metaphor, storytelling, appeals to nostalgia etc) and they've taken much of the sound.
 
Cruyff14 said:
Downbound Train is just amazing IMO, well maybe not amazing but it is a darn good song. I am more of a music than lyrics kind of guy, and that intro is one of my favourites. I love the outro too, good to see Bruce jam out. And the emotion he puts into the song is something great.
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From your reply to one of my posts some 20 or so pages back in this thread where I bagged Downbound Train.

You've turned me. After seeing it live at RLA2, I thought that it looked pretty easy to play on the guitar and after learning it in about 5 minutes, I pretty much haven't stopped playing it since. Anyone passing me in the carpark at Hanging Rock would have heard it.

Consider me converted. While it remains pretty ordinary lyrically, you're indeed correct about that intro. I even pulled the electric and my amp out tonight, which will have annoyed the neighbours no end.
 
paddy18 said:
From your reply to one of my posts some 20 or so pages back in this thread where I bagged Downbound Train.

You've turned me. After seeing it live at RLA2, I thought that it looked pretty easy to play on the guitar and after learning it in about 5 minutes, I pretty much haven't stopped playing it since. Anyone passing me in the carpark at Hanging Rock would have heard it.

Consider me converted. While it remains pretty ordinary lyrically, you're indeed correct about that intro. I even pulled the electric and my amp out tonight, which will have annoyed the neighbours no end.
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Told ya!

Love that intro, don't really like the studio version, sounds heaps better live.

And sorry I didn't message you at HR. Had reception twice for about 5 minutes and that was it.
 
Cruyff14 said:
Wrecking Ball is epic, isn't it? Especially live, woah!

Death To My Hometown is what grabbed me when I first listen to Wrecking Ball last February. Probably that and the title track are my favourites on the album. However, the best song is probably This Depression.

Prefer the Reunion Tour version of LOHAD.
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I really like the Barcelona version of LOHAD, which nearly my favourite Bruce live thing I've seen (apart from the final 3 minutes of Tenth on the Live in NYC DVD). He replicated that version of LOHAD at RLA1, complete with magic fingers.
 

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paddy18 said:
I really the Barcelona version of LOHAD, which nearly my favourite Bruce live thing I've seen (apart from the final 3 minutes of Tenth on the Live in NYC DVD). He replicated that version of LOHAD at RLA1, complete with magic fingers.
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The arrangement is different.
 
paddy18 said:
From your reply to one of my posts some 20 or so pages back in this thread where I bagged Downbound Train.

You've turned me. After seeing it live at RLA2, I thought that it looked pretty easy to play on the guitar and after learning it in about 5 minutes, I pretty much haven't stopped playing it since. Anyone passing me in the carpark at Hanging Rock would have heard it.

Consider me converted. While it remains pretty ordinary lyrically, you're indeed correct about that intro. I even pulled the electric and my amp out tonight, which will have annoyed the neighbours no end.
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And you should check out these guys videos, he's very good.

 
I love how Working on a Dream is nowhere to be seen on the flowchart. Life Itself and Kingdom of Days are gems, however.

Cruyff14 said:
Greetings From Asbury Park
The Wild, The Innocent And The E-Street Shuffle
Born To Run
Darkness On The Edge Of Town
The River
Nebraska
Born In The USA
The Rising
Magic
Wrecking Ball
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Sub out Nebraska for Tom Joad, and I'm on board with this. Tunnel of Love is pushing The River very hard as well.

If live albums count, Hammersmith Odeon '75 cannot be left out.

Wrecking Ball is great, so much different stuff going on, yet most of the subject matter is along similar lines, and its totally unique in the catalogue with all the loops and electronic stuff going on. First non-E Street album to be toured by the ESB, yes?

Magic would be even better without the shit compressed production. Brendan O'Brien must have fluked The Rising (very well produced) for Bruce to keep him on. WOAD is too loud as well, although nothing was going to save crap like QOTS, This Life and Good Eye.
 

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DrVanNostrand said:
I love how Working on a Dream is nowhere to be seen on the flowchart. Life Itself and Kingdom of Days are gems, however.



Sub out Nebraska for Tom Joad, and I'm on board with this. Tunnel of Love is pushing The River very hard as well.

If live albums count, Hammersmith Odeon '75 cannot be left out.

Wrecking Ball is great, so much different stuff going on, yet most of the subject matter is along similar lines, and its totally unique in the catalogue with all the loops and electronic stuff going on. First non-E Street album to be toured by the ESB, yes?

Magic would be even better without the shit compressed production. Brendan O'Brien must have fluked The Rising (very well produced) for Bruce to keep him on. WOAD is too loud as well, although nothing was going to save crap like QOTS, This Life and Good Eye.
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Wrecking Ball is the ESB.
 
Cruyff14 said:
Wrecking Ball is the ESB.
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Wrecking Ball wasn't an ESB album, a few of them played some parts but it was a session band album essentially. I remember reading something about the producer and he mentioned that he was amazed at how the ESB just took the songs to another level once they got hold of it.
 
Netti said:
Wrecking Ball wasn't an ESB album, a few of them played some parts but it was a session band album essentially. I remember reading something about the producer and he mentioned that he was amazed at how the ESB just took the songs to another level once they got hold of it.
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Said to Cruyff14 on Sunday night back at his place that Bruce should take the new large ESB and go into the studio and re-record Greetings from Asbury Park and The Wild The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle.

Some of those songs have changed so much - for the better - as he has refined them and with extra muso's they would be put down for posterity the way they should be played.

I suspect that radio would now play them despite many of the being 7-8 minutes long. i prefer listening to live version of most of those songs and if Bruce and the ESB could record them the way they play the songs live, without the crowd noise, then I reckon he will have a couple of hit albums on his hand which he missed out 40 years ago with and might sell a combined 40-50 million CD's.

A good example of that is Incident on 57th Street. It's actually a pretty good version on his album compared to many other song on the first two albums eg Rosalita.

I was in Row S of the seats so about 15m back from where the seats started and about 35m from Bruce and the main stage. When Incident was played on Sunday Night I made a deliberate effort for about 30 seconds to look at the crowd all around me - took a 360 degree look and probably looked at 1,000 people. You could tell that many, ie the majority didn't know the song, but the majesty of the words and the brilliance of the music had them totally focused on the stage as Bruce had them wrapped up in the palm of his hands.

I suspect many will go and seek out the song and may or may not track it down. A new recording on a re-released album might fill that gap for those fans and he might find a new audience altogether.
 
RussellEbertHandball said:
Said to Cruyff14 on Sunday night back at his place that Bruce should take the new large ESB and go into the studio and re-record Greetings from Asbury Park and The Wild The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle.
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I'd be up for the first part of that equation.

But if anyone dares touch the greatest album of all time... Imma be all like

*shakes fists angrily*
 

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