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[loCAtek]

Cool, your claim 'he ain't rock 'n;'roll[sic]' is justifiably irrelevant.


ThX for admitting that.

[Gob]

What? Are you drunk again? You're making no sense...

[PMS Princess]

Um, being Middle Class American IS his whole point.






...other than this concert, you don't know him well, do you?

does this mean the whole point of this thread, or the whole point of Bruce's music career is to appeal to the middle class?

[PMS Princess]

Geeeez Gob! Are you dissin' Bruce again? I must have missed it..

[Gob]

I'm not dissing him, just giving my honest opinion of his music. Not my cuppa.

[loCAtek]

Um, being Middle Class American IS his whole point.






...other than this concert, you don't know him well, do you?

does this mean the whole point of this thread, or the whole point of Bruce's music career is to appeal to the middle class?

I didn't start the thread, so the latter.
Bingo, maybe you can explain it to Gob, he ain't a fan.

[PMS Princess]

I was just joshin' with you I can't stand him. Sounds like he has been chewing on gravel. In my opinion. God, a cuppa sounds good.

[Gob]

Bingo, maybe you can explain it to Gob, he ain't a fan.

I hope PMSP can explain, because you're making no sense whatsoever. (Again.)

[loCAtek]

Ah PMSP, all you've heard is his latest at Starbucks... well, there's much more to him.

BTW have you been to San Jose Stonehenge?

[PMS Princess]

I've listened to everything BUT his latest album. I'm sure he's a really deep person but I prefer Mellencamp's view on Middle Class Americans. The E Street Band kicks butt though.

and..
nope.

[loCAtek]

...and how's Mugwump?

[Sue U]

Springsteen aint rock 'n;'roll his stuff is middle class AOR.

To be fair, Springsteen was and stll is mining a vein of 70s rock that was quite progressive (in the good sense) for its time. Back in those days, "AOR" was the good stuff, and not a dirty word. In my opinion, Asbury Park and E Street Shuffle were both masterpieces. I liked Born to Run well enough, although I frankly lost interest after that with the rise of punk's precursors. But Springsteen managed to build a national and even international fan base through the awful disco 70s and has kept them for more than 30 years. Not a bad result for a scruffy kid from Down the Shore.

[Gob]

Fair comments Sue. But the 70's are now long gone and Springsteen, like the people he plays for are now (post) middle age, secure and affluent. It's no longer "rock 'n' roll", more "nostalgia for people who didn't like their "rock" too edgey in the first place."

Don't get me wrong, it's still good quality, worthy music, with one or two tracks world class ("The River" leaps to mind.)

But he should be singing; "Dentists/accountants/lawyers like us, baby we were born to drive our BMW's" these days...

[Sue U]

Too old to rock 'n' roll, but too young to die?

Yeah, maybe. But he still packs 80,000-seat venues for a 3-show stand. And I've seen some geezers put on some rockin' shows. (I'd love to see Jeff Beck -- now 68 -- who is touring Canada this fall.)

[loCAtek]

Fair comments Sue. But the 70's are now long gone and Springsteen, like the people he plays for are now (post) middle age, secure and affluent....

Um, no.

There will be those that believe a millionaire rock star singing about poor people and hard work, as Bruce Springsteen so passionately does on his powerful new album "Wrecking Ball," to be the height of hypocrisy. But to do so would be both shortsighted and uninformed. First, as a pedigreed Jersey shore rat raised in economically depressed Freehold, N.J., Springsteen knows a thing or two about economic frustration. And, secondly, anyone who has seen Springsteen perform at any one of thousands of shows over the past 40 years, with or without his E Street Band, is well aware that he packs his lunch pail every night and welcomes overtime.


"Wrecking Ball," Springsteen's 17th studio album, finds the artist exploring familiar working class territory, but with a vigor and fearlessness not seen since 2002's equally-inspired "The Rising." Produced by Springsteen with Ron Aniello, the characters that populate most of the album's 11 tracks are generally having a pretty tough go of it, to say the least.

Wiki;

Content


According to Springsteen, in 2009 he wrote his first song about a "guy that wears a tie". Springsteen has "spent much of his career writing about characters struggling in tough economic times, but the financial crisis reportedly convinced him it was time to write about the people and forces that brought America to this 'ugly point.' [The album is an] indictment of Wall Street greed and corruption and a look into the devastation it has wrought."[22]

[Gob]

So Lo proves nothing more than a lack of ability to understand a basic sentence, well done.

Are you seriously telling us that Springsteen isn't "(post) middle age, secure and affluent"?

[loCAtek]

Very well, educate me ...who do you mean by, 'the people he plays for are now (post) middle age, secure and affluent.'?

[Gob]

If you cannot understand that basic sentence, you need to go back to primary school.

[loCAtek]

...and you haven't answered my question.

[PMS Princess]

Oh 'Albert'...leave it alone already.