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I just threw away all my Bruce Springsteen stuff today.

Posted on 11/10/2004 10:03:21 PM PST by Nascardude

Well, I was cleaning out my closet and the attic today and I have thrown out all of my old Bruce Springsteen albums and all my Springsteen memorabilia. It truly sucks. Because growing up as a kid, I was such a huge Springsteen fan. I went to several concerts of his and I would listen to his songs by the hour. So much that my parents wold be sick of it. But after what he did and said about President Bush this year, I can no longer listen to his music or support him in anyway. I thought about writing him a letter to tell him all this. But then I was like, he's too far left wing and too rich to care. So I gave it up.


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To: Nascardude

Liz Wurtzel,

is that you hon?


41 posted on 09/11/2005 7:52:38 PM PDT by wardaddy (OK.....it was my fault.)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

Centuries later as great as Vivaldi/Bach were in their days is like tossing around Lincoln/Jefferson around.

It can't be done, centuries later.


42 posted on 09/11/2005 8:02:53 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: quantim

Time tends to weed out the bad stuff. I have a book which is a collection made in the 1880s of favorite songs from the 19th century. Very few of them made the cut into the 20th....

There is good stuff that gets lost along the way, but for the most part, it is essense of good stuff.

A lot of what I like to listen to that is 20th century will be forgotten in another 50 years. We already see the sieving process happening on oldies stations...


43 posted on 09/11/2005 8:16:24 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: MojoWire
Really, though, I have always been under the impression that The Stones were somehow too good for politics...Besides, if you read between the lines of their songs, somehow they seem like conservatives (or is that just my imagination running away with me)

I guess you haven't heard "Sweet Neocon" yet.

from FoxNews.com:
Maybe you've heard that a new song by the Rolling Stones takes a whack at President Bush. In "Sweet NeoCon," the Stones sing: "You call yourself a Christian/I think you're a hypocrite/You say you're a patriot/I think you're a crock of s--t."

That much has been printed and discussed. But that's not all.

"Sweet NeoCon" has plenty more bang for the buck. The rest of the lyrics take direct aim at the Republican administration.

Story continues here, about halfway down the page: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,168240,00.html

44 posted on 09/11/2005 8:35:00 PM PDT by cf_river_rat ("The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it." Alexander Woolcott)
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The rest of the lyrics take direct aim at the Republican administration.

I had always pegged the Stones as more conservative than liberal, especially when reading inbetween their lyrics. (think back to Brown Sugar, When the Whip Comes Down, most all of Exile on Main Street)

But either Jaggar has gone senile, or he is making some krass move to appeal to the young Bush hating punksters who unfortunately make up the bulk of the CD buying crowd these days.

Bottom line: as much as I have loved the Stones over the years, I have lost all respect for them (not that they care, I'm sure)

I refuse to go see them play this tour, and I wont buy anything connected with the stones.

I hope the Bigger Bang album is a miserable failure and takes the Stones down a peg or two.

It's really killing me to write these things, but I am not one of those who can separate the music from the person.

GWB's policy of terrorist containment (yes, that includes the Iraq war) is much more important to the life of my children and grandchildren than some pithy song sung by a bunch of rockers, I dont care how cool they were in their heyday. (Really, I can't believe I'm saying this).

I only wish I would meet Jaggar and Richards face to face somehow, so I could tell them what idiots they've become.

45 posted on 09/12/2005 7:36:58 AM PDT by Edit35
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To: MojoWire

Eloquently stated. I agree with you.

Keith Richards has stated that he tried to discourage Jagger from putting Sweet Neocon on the album, but Mick insisted. Too bad.


46 posted on 09/12/2005 12:22:38 PM PDT by cf_river_rat ("The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it." Alexander Woolcott)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum
Time tends to weed out the bad stuff.

Not often enough.  The same Stones crap still goes 24/7 on many oldies stations.  The 'B' side of sooo-o-o-o-o much great stuff from previous eras never is played.

But it will.  This history will come about in our lifetimes.

The left won't understand when a re-invented 'swing band' circa the 40's tops the charts...and the raunchy, pierced, tattooed, and the talentless does not understand why.

Just food for thought. 

47 posted on 09/12/2005 6:06:22 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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