tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post3753572729552744891..comments2024-03-02T07:40:22.786+03:00Comments on Only Solitaire blog: Bruce Springsteen: Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-57520935850648272892015-06-10T12:26:11.536+03:002015-06-10T12:26:11.536+03:00Only today I listened to For You for the first tim...Only today I listened to For You for the first time and it confirms what I wrote above: Bruce S and Manfred M would have been a very interesting team. There are very few originals I like indeed: Countdown, Time is Right and to a lesser extent Fat Nelly are at the moment the only ones I can think of.MNbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01427385535099104405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-35740513638939600982015-06-05T22:18:18.931+03:002015-06-05T22:18:18.931+03:00Oh and just in case anyone is wondering what Manfr...Oh and just in case anyone is wondering what Manfred Mann albums these tunes are on...<br /><br />Bruce Springsteen - For You (Chance)<br />Bruce Springsteen - Blinded By The Light (The Roaring Silence) <br />Bruce Springsteen - Spirit In The Night (Nightingales And Bombers)Teddy Pighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03660335158038390871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-17181857922741579292015-06-04T01:20:43.305+03:002015-06-04T01:20:43.305+03:00For the record... I like every Manfred Mann's ...For the record... I like every Manfred Mann's Earth Band cover of Springsteen... There is at least I believe one livey well orchestrated Springsteen cover per album from them for a long stretch. Anyway, yeah I like them better than the originals from Springsteen himself but to balance it all out I dislike most of Manfred Mann's original songs so um there is that.Teddy Pighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03660335158038390871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-20940465822112196852015-06-03T16:12:14.975+03:002015-06-03T16:12:14.975+03:00VM? How I hate these initial abbrev's^^. You d...VM? How I hate these initial abbrev's^^. You don't mean Van Morrison, do you? That would be bizarre :)Manfrednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-44400740388364462802015-06-03T01:27:48.010+03:002015-06-03T01:27:48.010+03:00There's no doubting the relentless sincerity t...There's no doubting the relentless sincerity that surrounds the Boss's music (who came up with that name anyway?). And the E Streeters were a show all on their own, even with everything on full blast 90% of the time. They could be surprisingly supple. <br /><br />"Mystery-free?" Yeah, I'll buy that. The thing about BS that always turned me off was the posing: One minute he's a white soul brotha, next he's a nerdy intellectual wannabe, then a teeth-grinding, sweat-bleeding working man, then a cool Goodfella, etc etc etc... Maybe VM (another of Bruce's costumes) was guilty of the same thing, but at least you could buy his "mad poet" persona and write it off as part of his artistic madness. Bruce? He's just not that f***ed up. I once heard a story about how he was thrown out of college because he was "too bizarre." Bizarre? That's a word I've never associated with Springsteen. Crazy, Overbearing, Over-everything, annoying...that's more like it.JimmADerbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13331334978761537408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-47905904277881762792015-06-02T22:30:15.733+03:002015-06-02T22:30:15.733+03:00If you ever have a few hours to kill and enjoy peo...If you ever have a few hours to kill and enjoy people arguing for paragraphs at a time, read this http://starling.rinet.ru/music/brucec.htm#intro . I'm not joking when I say nothing made people hate George (with the possible exception of his Zeppelin reviews) than his review as Bruce as an artist, and his review of Born to Run.<br /><br />I love Springsteen personally, but I'm interested to see what GS thinks this time around.Dereknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-80903697021131659992015-06-02T19:51:09.975+03:002015-06-02T19:51:09.975+03:00the two best songs the Earth Band ever recorded.the two best songs the Earth Band ever recorded.MNbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-47753321445035848852015-06-02T19:50:05.722+03:002015-06-02T19:50:05.722+03:00"Manfred Mann's Earth Band managed to cor..."Manfred Mann's Earth Band managed to correct that mistake"<br />Even more ironically - imo the two best songs Bruce S ever wrote and the two songs the Earth Band ever recorded are exactly Spirits in the Night and Blinded by the Light. After several decades of pop/rock the "what if" game becomes attractive. One of my first is "what if Bruce S had replaced his E Street Band with the Earth Band, had become the main song writer but left the arrangements to Manfred M and co?<br /><br />"Frantically strummed guitars; aggressively punched drums; pianos and saxes going at full power nearly all the time,"<br />Yeah, that'w what the fans seem to think. But a silly headbanger like me always found Bruce seriously lacking in these respects.MNbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-1864080875990504732015-06-02T17:48:01.138+03:002015-06-02T17:48:01.138+03:00Oh dear, here we go... Brings me back to those tim...Oh dear, here we go... Brings me back to those times when I read BS's reviews on "Only Solitaire", discovering that the relation between Bruce - the idol and George Starostin - the music critic is one of the most painful, complicated and convulted of all the relations ever known to a mankind.<br />This here album is quite charming and harmless although he really should have dumped that "Mary Queen of Arkansas" down in the toilet where she belongs. "It's hard to be a saint in the city" is the best track for me - an overall nice groove with an interesting melody and idealistic lyrics. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com