Springsteen is no “boss”
a pathetic dixie chik replacement.
Bruce needs to shut up, period.
Bruce Springsteen: irrelevant since 1987
“he sings: “Who’ll be the last to die for a mistake/The last to die for a mistake/Whose blood will spill, whose heart will break/Who’ll be the last to die for a mistake.”
I don’t know who will be last but my vote is locked in on who should be next.
Someone needs to tell bad-a$$ lite that while he was “Born in the U.S.A.” no one’s looking to him to defend it.
Adam Sandler’s wicked SNL parody ruined him for me. What a loser.
Another reason toi restrict my listening to jazz and R & B. Never liked Springsteen anyway.
Hey there’s always country music if you want more respect for the military.
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_popmachine/2007/09/why-tommy-tuton.html
Tommy 'Tutone' Heath's letter to Springsteen's manager When Pop Machine last spoke with Tommy Heath, leader of the 1980s band Tommy Tutone, he hadn’t yet heard Bruce Springsteen’s new single, “Radio Nowhere,” in its entirety, but plenty of folks had been telling him about its similarity to Tommy Tutone’s 1982 hit “867-5309/Jenny.”
What he had heard were the short snippets of both songs on Pop Machine, and based on that, with the caveat that he’d still have to hear all of “Radio Nowhere,” Heath said he’d consider legal options.
I was a monster Springsteen fan in the '70's and his live shows then were still some of the best I've ever seen. Then in the '80's he started getting liberal preachy and stumming woody guthrie while complainting. By the '90's he had turned into holier than thou liberal Saint Bruce (in his mind). I want a rocker not a bore.
Springsteen is still alive?
Huh.
Now he sits in his $10 million Rumson mansion writing rants against capitalism. The hypocrisy is too much. What a shame. Makes me miss the early days even more.
Where were all of these “anti-war” types when Clinton was bombing Yugoslavia?
Me too - although I think I've seen him six times at least. His politics have become impossible to overlook though as it now permeates his music.
>>Who’ll be the last to die for a mistake
Those words sound familiar. (From pres. debate 9/30/04)—
LEHRER: All right, new question. Two minutes, Senator Kerry.
Speaking of Vietnam, you spoke to Congress in 1971, after you came back from Vietnam, and you said, quote, “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”
Are Americans now dying in Iraq for a mistake?
KERRY: No, and they don’t have to, providing we have the leadership that we put — that I’m offering.
Gee, a washed-up rock star coming out with an anti-war album, how original. /s
Umm, isn’t he shutting up and singing here. This is after all a song.
In any case if a band or artist is good enough to listen to, their views really aren’t enough to get me to stop listening.
Arcade Fire remain one of the best bands on CD and probably the best band I have seen live despite the singer dedicating a song to “Governor Bush”.
I am not anymore entitled to my opinions than they are to theirs. And I’m not going to begrudge them for having a larger platform to spout those opinions.
>> Sadly, I use to like the Boss. I’ve seen hime three times in concert and he always puts on a great show.
I, too, liked Springsteen ... though my musical tastes tend to run more to heavy metal/ hard rock than classic rock. The music industry is populated by mostly liberal wackos ... though, this is amazingly less true in heavy metal/ hard rock than in the classic rock genres. Most of the metal guys are politically ambivalent.
I don’t have a political litmus-test before listening to a group ... so long as they’re not so over-the-top liberal that its distracting. Overall, I’d just prefer it if they’d shutup.
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