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HOW BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN CAME OF AGE ON ‘BLINDED BY THE LIGHT’
UltimateClassicRock ^ | February 23, 2021 | Dave Lifton

Posted on 02/24/2021 1:02:56 PM PST by nickcarraway

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I thought it was how he ripped of Van Morrison. (If you hear his original version)
1 posted on 02/24/2021 1:02:56 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Can’t stand the guy


2 posted on 02/24/2021 1:03:52 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: nickcarraway

For those interested, Amazon prime video has a bunch of documentaries about specific albums under the umbrella name “classic albums”.

I highly recommend searching it. They cover the album, track by track, and even use the multitrack mixer to remove or solo instruments. It’s quite interesting.

The one on Don McClain’s “American Pie” was amazing, and I expected it to be boring. And Bat out of Hell was a favorite.


3 posted on 02/24/2021 1:06:39 PM PST by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: LeoWindhorse

He truly rolled up like a douche in the middle of he night. ( I know, different , and better, song)


4 posted on 02/24/2021 1:06:52 PM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: nickcarraway

I always hear “wrapped up like a douche”.


5 posted on 02/24/2021 1:06:56 PM PST by 9422WMR (Lie, cheat, steal. It’s how the democRATS operate. )
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Damn! Now I have that song in my head.


6 posted on 02/24/2021 1:07:04 PM PST by READINABLUESTATE (CENSORSHIP = VIOLENCE)
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No one cares


7 posted on 02/24/2021 1:07:18 PM PST by stanne
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To: nickcarraway

He was blinding by the police car lights.


8 posted on 02/24/2021 1:07:55 PM PST by Meatspace
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I guess things went over my head.

I remember Manfred Mann’s version of it, and at that age I frankly didn’t understand the lyrics, or the symbolic hidden meanings.


9 posted on 02/24/2021 1:09:17 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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I like Springsteen’s first 4.5 albums. Things started to go awry about halfway through The River. Since then, he is mostly really bad. He’s fake Americana for fake Americans.


10 posted on 02/24/2021 1:10:43 PM PST by cdcdawg (“we have to bring these people in.”)
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One of the top mis-heard lyrics of all time:

"Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a douche, you know they rolled her in the night."

11 posted on 02/24/2021 1:11:09 PM PST by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: cdcdawg

He went out for a ride and he never went back


12 posted on 02/24/2021 1:13:33 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Sooooo tired of this pain in the a@@ constant fe- male nag.

The “concert” for obamaumao inaug... the “saviour of our nation” love fest he gave (total utter BS) with... the Card Carrying Communist... Pete Seeger. That did it for us— what a waste of opportunistic fakea@@ air.

Typical jersey shore jerkin pork.. jerk. A lifetime of it from his “free” asbury park “album”. If one wants a rock icon and have them be demonrats, at least make them Southern. Like the Allman Brothers Band (both Allmans from Nashville originally by way of Capricorn Records in Macon, GA- creator of several other legendary and highly talented performers and players).

Another way to look at this clownsteen is to see him trying to upstage Roy Orbison. didn’t work out well- Roy being a giant of a writer and performer. “Any thing you want— you got it!”.


13 posted on 02/24/2021 1:14:15 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: nickcarraway

Well said.


14 posted on 02/24/2021 1:14:57 PM PST by cdcdawg (“we have to bring these people in.”)
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Springsteen strikes me as a deeply unhappy and misanthropic person.


15 posted on 02/24/2021 1:17:42 PM PST by nickcarraway
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I’m still glad he was arrested for DUI, even with the charges now dropped. Gave him a taste of what his hated enemy Trump went through with Mueller.


16 posted on 02/24/2021 1:20:38 PM PST by BobL
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He’s doing political hack propaganda with Obama.

He is part of the junta.


17 posted on 02/24/2021 1:24:03 PM PST by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: cdcdawg
“Born to Run” was his most iconic album but “The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle” was very underrated.

I haven’t been a Springsteen fan in a long time, but “New York City Serenade” is a masterpiece and “Racing In The Street” is one of his best.

18 posted on 02/24/2021 1:24:29 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: nickcarraway

He’d probably agree with you wholeheartedly on that.


19 posted on 02/24/2021 1:25:43 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: READINABLUESTATE

There’s a cure for that. Play in your head later less catchy lyrics of the same song.

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“If you’ve had enough of your earworm and need to stop it in its tracks, you would be well warned not to try to block the song out, but rather to passively accept it. A determined effort to block the song out may result in the very opposite of what you want. Called “ironic process” and studied extensively by psychologist Daniel Wegner, resisting the song may make your brain keep playing it over and over again.

Some people try to distract themselves from the song, and it works. In one study, the most helpful “cure” tunes were “God Save The Queen” by Thomas Arne and “Karma Chameleon” by Culture Club. Others seek out the tune in question, because it is commonly believed that earworms occur when you remember only part of a song; hearing the entire song may extinguish it.”

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/why-you-cant-get-a-song-out-of-your-head-and-what-to-do-about-it-2017100412490


20 posted on 02/24/2021 1:32:38 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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