Thursday, August 25, 2005

None but the Brave

An awesome song by Bruce Springsteen. It's been rattling around in my head all day, I recommend that you listen to it....

20 comments:

d.K. said...

Steakbellie,
Wow, what album is that from - I can't place it and I'm a HUGE Bruce fan. ("Born to Run" is the best album ever released in the history of the world, IMHO.)

steakbellie said...

I'm pretty sure it's on 'The Essential Bruce Springsteen'

I'm a Darkness on the Edge of Town kinda guy...

Anonymous said...

Nebraska!

Anonymous said...

Not anymore.

My first big exposure to Springsteen was Born in the USA...one of the most commercially driven, over-produced pieces of crap ever made. That, coupled with the bizarre cult-like, "The Boss Can Do No Wrong" behavior of his fans turned me off his music for years and years. Then I heard the Nebraska album and it was really great, stripped down, lyricly solid music. Now I think he's an extremely talented guy who periodically cashes in and, as a result, has a fanbase of actual music lovers mixed with a disproportionally large collection of bleating sheeplike morons.

My mind is still not made up on which kind of fan you are, Steakbellie! :)

steakbellie said...

You've soiled this sacred place....

I'll accept that you change and mature over time. Your shift to the left. Your new photography subject matter. I'll even consider your 'claim' that you excercise regularly (who IS this guy?)

But I have a DAMN hard time accepting that you've listened to Bruce in Ernst....after hour upon hour of ridicule that you've heaped upon me and Mr Springsteen.

and as far as my own commitment, there are only 3 bands that survived my great (somewhat insane zealotlike) purging of Secular Music. The Alarm, The Smithereens's and Bruce Springsteen.

Your own 'enlightenment' was delayed because you would never let me play the tapes! I had 'Greetings from Asbury Park', 'The Wild, The Innocent , and the E Street Shuffle', 'Darkness on the Edge of Town' and 'Born to Run' all within your grasp....

This is all too much, I need a beer.....

d.K. said...

I'm probably one of those bleating sheeplike morons... but I don't listen to any of his post 1993ish stuff. I can listen to 'Born to Run' and 'the River' over and over and over again (and I do). He was 25 when Born to Run was released. It's my favorite album by anyone-- I love every song on it.

Anonymous said...

In my iTunes as I write this is Springsteens "Greatest Hits" (which I consider to be a dubious collection of quality and mass-market appeal), a live performance (which has a top-notch version of Darkness on the Edge of Town, among others), Nebraska (solid through and through!), and Passaic Night. So there.

I never liked that Clarence guy either.
His guitarist makes a great mobster too.

DK - you're not a sheep. Its a cult! Pick the songs you like and stop holding the lighter up to everything else! :)

steakbellie said...

i think we have to acknowledge that Springsteen is actuall a Folk Singer and that his explorations have sometimes crossed paths with Pop and Rock Culture.

Most of his music tells a story with dialouge to-boot. He deals Social Issues...
Work
Love
Lust
Loss
Aids
Cancer
9/11
Police Brutality
and treats his concerts more like a self-excorcism, than a payday.

Anonymous said...

I rufuse to allow you the final word here!
I submit that you know nothing of Bruce Springsteens thoughts or mindset and therefore can never truly know how he treats his concerts. and would like to point out that he never wrote a song about AIDS until Hollywood paid him to.

steakbellie said...

wrong again BUCKO!!! he had already written the lyrics. He only had to put them to music for the movie...

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.lasso?id=1051

"Demme asked Springsteen for a rock song to open his movie. Bruce started writing it based on lyrics he had previously written about the death of one of his friends, but it did not work over a rock beat. Springsteen sent what he came up with to Demme, considering it an unfinished demo. Demme loved it and felt it was perfect for his movie just as it was."

Furthermore...I went to the same High School as Bruce, and it is undisputable that I had the same locker as him.
Locker A-167
36-7-18
the fume residual of our dirty socks co-mingled.

I'd love to use the word 'Gestalt' here.

Anonymous said...

Still, he never actually wrote the song (lyrics and music) until it was payday. Until then, it was a private musing.

His dirty socks mean nothing. Nothing, I say!

I consider this matter closed and anything further you say to be superfluous and unnecessary and, as such, not part of this conversation.

steakbellie said...

thats funny because I already considered this matter closed, and this is an automated response letting you know your feeble argument will not be read by human eyes.

and to further add

"I Win, I Win, Infinity."

Anonymous said...

What? You say something?

steakbellie said...

nope, I dont even know that you're still replying to this post.

Anonymous said...

What post?

steakbellie said...

did you fart? it kinda smells funny here...

Anonymous said...

Maybe.

steakbellie said...

I'm wait until you stop commenting here, and then I'll just add one more....

Anonymous said...

OK, so I just watched Springsteen on PBS. They aired a bunch of his New York City show. So anyway, I changed my mind.

steakbellie said...

what so now you hate him again? Flip-Flopper!