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.
"Highway Patrolman" by Bruce Springsteen
My name is Joe Roberts I work for the state
I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number 8
I always done an honest job as honest as I could
I got a brother named Franky and Franky ain't no good
Now ever since we was young kids it's been the same come down
I get a call over the radio Franky's in trouble downtown
Well if it was any other man, I'd put him straight away
But when it's your brother sometimes you look the other way
Me and Franky laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood
Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"
I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother would
Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good
Well Franky went in the army back in 1965 I got a farm deferment, settled down, took Maria for my wife
But them wheat prices kept on droppin' till it was like we were gettin' robbed
Franky came home in '68, and me, I took this job
Yea we're laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood
Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"
I catch him when he's strayin', teach him how to walk that line
Man turns his back on his family he ain't no friend of mine
Well the night was like any other, I got a call 'bout quarter to nine
There was trouble in a roadhouse out on the Michigan line
There was a kid lyin' on the floor lookin' bad bleedin' hard from his head there was a girl cryin' at a table and it was Frank, they said
Well I went out and I jumped in my car and I hit the lights
Well I must of done one hundred and ten through Michigan county that night
It was out at the crossroads, down round Willow bank
Seen a Buick with Ohio plates behind the wheel was Frank
Well I chased him through them county roads till a sign said Canadian border five miles from here
I pulled over the side of the highway and watched his taillights disappear
Me and Franky laughin' and drinkin'
Nothin' feels better than blood on blood
Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"
I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother would
Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good
(c)1982
Well, it's too late now - he's already got your money from back when you first bought them. The proper thing to do is to take all your old Springsteen albums and make high-quality digital rips of the tracks, convert them all to MP3, and share those MP3s on the P2P network of your choice. That way, you can help keep today's youth from making the same mistake you made way back when...
:^)
Bruce Springsteen is the single most over-rated performer and lyricist in the HISTORY of rock music. Springsteen has always been pap at its absolute worst. Always has been considered great, yet if Springsteen really had any talent he'd have been Warren Zevon.
The first song I listened to upon GWB winning re-election was REM's "What's the Frequency Kenneth?" I listened to this in "honor" of both REM and Dan Rather.
Little. Very. Little.
How can you stay awake through all of that?
Well...I disagree! Elvis is the most overrated musician because he wasn't a musician. Loose BedSpring is definitely in the top 5 though.
I liked his old album "The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle"...
Wild Billy's Circus Story was a great song/story
"I had to explain to the clueless zit magnet who she was, and gave up after the second try."
LOL, I can imagine that scene! I hope you wrote a letter to corporate HQ to make your point clear.
I said Springsteen was the most over-rated "performer and lyricist." Elvis, of whom I am not/was not a fan (was 18 when he died) was a "performer." He was neither a musician or a lyricist.
When I first heard the BS song "Rosalita," I remember thinking "How can anyone take this clown seriously?" To me, Springsteen's songs - most of them, anyway - just lay there doing nothing. "Tunnel of Love," "Darkness on the Edge of Town,".....I mean, really! It's over-hyped, poorly written, over-produced, music performed with a banal mediocrity that is laughable. It borders on the ridiculous.
Give me some energy in my music! Give me some buzz!
it's a great song.
It had been well know for over twenty years that "Born in the USA" was not a patriotic song.
Like I said, I was a kid growing up listening to it. And really wasn't into politics at that time.
Yeah. You are right. It's not a patriotic song. And I was a fool for all these years, cause I never listened passed the chorus of the song. But it's nice to know that I'm not the only one who made this mistake. I'm in the company of Ronald Reagan here. In 1984, Reagan used this song as the theme of his campaign and played it during his rallies. That is until Springsteen, who backed Mondale, demanded him to stop.
If I ever see Mick Jagger up onstage campaigning for some leftoidical whacko, I just might consider suicide.(psyche!)
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)
Hey, same with me! I no longer listen to Bruce either and have seen him perform in concert.
Bruce claims to be anti-war, but the real source for his negative view on our military operations might be the fact that he failed his military physical when they drafted him during the Vietnam War.
I love Vivaldi (The Summer movement of the Four Seasons is my most favorite piece of music in the world), but I sure liked Born to Run a lot...
But mostly, I listen to a weird combination of Celtic music, Bluegrass, classical (particularly Baroque), and '80s technopop.
It's all good.
Last weekend my husband and i attended a John Mellencamp/John Fogerty concert. Not one word about politics from either of them. I'm guessing they may know by now that that doesn't play well with America.
;-)
I turned one of my stepsons onto classical music too...he swiped my copy of the four seasons! He uses Beethoven on his answering machine!
The other one, though, can't seem to get past whiney boy Emo....
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