I was just watching the network news and CBS reported that Bruce Springstein's catalog has been sold to Sony for $500 million, topping Bob Dylan's catalog sale. I guess I should have written a few hit songs.
I was just watching the network news and CBS reported that Bruce Springstein's catalog has been sold to Sony for $500 million, topping Bob Dylan's catalog sale. I guess I should have written a few hit songs.
"When You're Riding Down the Highway at Night, And You're Feeling that Wild Turkey's Bite" ZZ Top
He got none of my money when he owned his stuff, so Sony isn't going to get any of my money now.
Striving to be ordinary
Proud to be a TFF Dumbass!
I like some of his stuff a lot, but like Zappa, Neil Young, and Stephen King, he writes too much and needs someone to say, That’s crap, Boss.
I predict a lot of shitty albums because everyone was hunkered down and now are ready to put out multiple albums they feel have to be recorded. What the hell happened to producers who say, Nooooooooo
Last edited by ch willie; 12-17-2021 at 07:48 AM.
If we'd known we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.--George Harrison
+1Originally Posted by OldStrummer
He may be somebody's 'boss' but he damn sure ain't mine.
"When injustice becomes law then rebellion becomes duty."
I was never a big Springstein fan, but a buddy of mine likes him, so I have copies of about 4 CD's. "The Rising", released in 2002, has some good songs and is well recorded and produced. With most (younger) people listening to their music one song at a time on a playlist suggested by an algorythm, I don't know how Sony plans to recoup their investment, but that's their problem, not mine.
"When You're Riding Down the Highway at Night, And You're Feeling that Wild Turkey's Bite" ZZ Top
I can't stand that calliope-sounding keyboard that permeates most of his songs.
It all sounds like carnival music to me.
"When injustice becomes law then rebellion becomes duty."
That keyboard annoys me too.
One of his songs, though, is one of my favorite rockers:
"Born to Run"
And I like "Because the Night", "Streets of Philadelphia," and a handful more.
I much prefer Manfred Mann's radically different version of "Blinded by the Light".
As much as he bores me, I can't deny that I do like some of his music.
If we'd known we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.--George Harrison
Born To Run was a great album, that's about it for me
You can't have a carnival without some clowns
+1
"When injustice becomes law then rebellion becomes duty."
I can take or leave his stuff, mostly the latter
"Racing In The Street" is a killer song, though. In fact, most of what I like is from Darkness On The Edge Of Town. I saw him just before he broke open and did all those magazine covers the same week. Another one of those bands my friends took me to see that I had no idea about.
Only issue I have with him are the damn shows. 3 hours 45 minutes non stop, everybody standing the whole damn time. Then a half hour encore. And Clarence would not shut the fuck up on that goddam sax.
I was going in a different direction at the time so I wasn't a follower of his career. Unless his songs start hawking every commercial on TV, I don't see how Sony is going to recoup their money.
"Live and learn and flip the burns"
Well, there are loads people who love him and are obsessed with the music. Millions of record buyers can't be wrong.....At concerts, when there's a reverential or sacred hush of awe, I cringe. True story: My friend John from Sheffield, England went to see Bruce. Between songs, when there was one of these sacred, quiet moments, John, in a stout-heavy drunken moment, said, "Get orff stage. Yer crrrrrraapp." Bruce visibly winced. John was rude, but I too hate the sacredness of any "idol." On a flight from Frankfurt to New York, my Dad sat beside someone who was famous enough to have a steady line of folks gushing over him. I asked Dad, "Who was he?" And he replied, "Aw, I don't know. Some tall guy." No one's a sacred cow, but we should all be a bit more polite than John and a lot like my Dad who couldn't care two shits about fame.
If we'd known we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.--George Harrison
This is pretty funny:
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