Who is more uncool these days: Richard Marx or Bruce Springsteen?

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For over 20 years people have been arguing about who is more uncool (or less cool) these days: Richard Marx or Bruce Springsteen. It's time to settle it.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Richard Marx is more uncool	17
Bruce Springsteen is more uncool	8
tie	2

― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Sunday, 8 August 2021 18:39 (three years ago)

I haven't seen these arguments, but it's a tie.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 8 August 2021 18:40 (three years ago)

I know he's bound to be considered a monstrous dud, especially with British folks and technoid types, but I'm especially curious as to why. Poor Bruce, he's gotta be more uncool than Richard Marx these days. Not that his 90s albums helped much.
― Patrick, Thursday, February 22, 2001 7:00 PM (twenty years ago)

Bruce Springsteen - Classic or Dud ?

― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Sunday, 8 August 2021 18:43 (three years ago)

dammit, i should have included a "i am/am not a technoid" options

― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Sunday, 8 August 2021 18:43 (three years ago)

additionally, you can see from the following evidence that for those seeking solace in the idea that springsteen is less cool than richard marx these days, that ILM thread is the top result. it's the hub, the cell of insurgent activity for richard marx

https://i.imgur.com/5QtGa9U.png

― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Sunday, 8 August 2021 18:45 (three years ago)

richard marx is never going to be cool no matter how much he jokes about it

― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Sunday, 8 August 2021 19:54 (three years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Monday, 9 August 2021 00:01 (three years ago)

i take this poll as an attack on me personally

a) how dare you and

2) i hope you all suck cocks in hell

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 August 2021 00:10 (three years ago)

!!!!!!!!!!

― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Monday, 9 August 2021 00:14 (three years ago)

vegemitegrrl are you a huge bruce fan, a huge richard fan, a huge both both fan, or do you just wanna fight?!?!

― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Monday, 9 August 2021 00:15 (three years ago)

Richard Marx has that one good song “endless summer nights”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqg5YrtD87U

― ncxkd, Monday, 9 August 2021 00:15 (three years ago)

I love the "Hysteria"-indebted chug:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsYK2JJNflg

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 August 2021 00:16 (three years ago)

i am a huge brooce fan & a huge marx fan
AND THIS POLL IS FIGHTIN WORDS

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 August 2021 00:24 (three years ago)

like all ilx fights these days this really boils down to the twitter funnyman vs. the podcast guy

― aegis philbin (crüt), Monday, 9 August 2021 00:32 (three years ago)

dril v joe rogan poll coming up next

― class project pat (m bison), Monday, 9 August 2021 00:40 (three years ago)

listen, i just want patrick to come back this year and be like "oh yeah, i wonder who is currently cooler these days, bruce or richard marx", and to be able to get a quick update

― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Monday, 9 August 2021 01:31 (three years ago)

let's do this for patrick

― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Monday, 9 August 2021 01:33 (three years ago)

Here's Richard Marx after he clearly had a Springsteen fueled bender and I thought, you know, I can do that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdmHHoI9beM

(Good song!)

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 August 2021 01:43 (three years ago)

I love "Hazard."

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 August 2021 01:44 (three years ago)

WHO IS MORE UNCOOL

― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Monday, 9 August 2021 01:49 (three years ago)

AND ARE YOU A TECHNOID TYPE

― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Monday, 9 August 2021 01:49 (three years ago)

AND ARE YOU A TECHNOID TYPE?

personally i answered

― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Monday, 9 August 2021 01:51 (three years ago)

(lol, not "I thought," "he thought." I blame the beers.)

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 August 2021 01:54 (three years ago)

Richard Marx's hair vs Bruce Springsteen's, is there even a fight?

― JacobSanders, Monday, 9 August 2021 01:57 (three years ago)

i'm here. i will fight anyone

― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Monday, 9 August 2021 03:00 (three years ago)

yr uncool

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 August 2021 03:19 (three years ago)

vegemite, i'm sorry

i'm sorry it came to this for you

― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Monday, 9 August 2021 03:32 (three years ago)

but you know what the right answer is. there's only one

― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Monday, 9 August 2021 03:32 (three years ago)

even though i declared a few hours ago that it was a tie

*shame*

― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Monday, 9 August 2021 03:33 (three years ago)

there can be no tie because yr premise is FALSE goddamn you

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 August 2021 03:45 (three years ago)

*shame*

― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Monday, 9 August 2021 04:37 (three years ago)

i knew it would come to this

*leaves village*

― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Monday, 9 August 2021 04:37 (three years ago)

*high fives bruce fan on the way out*

― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Monday, 9 August 2021 04:37 (three years ago)

*comes back to village for water*

*high fives bruce fan on the way out*

― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Monday, 9 August 2021 04:38 (three years ago)

*high fives bruce fan*
*high fives bruce fan*

― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Monday, 9 August 2021 04:38 (three years ago)

I don't like Richard Marx the recording artist, but I do like how much he annoys Rand Paul.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D84lfnf0FR8

― birdistheword, Monday, 9 August 2021 04:56 (three years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 00:01 (three years ago)

fuck you all

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 00:01 (three years ago)

marx is not cool

hazard is a great song tho (think we have a thread on it, it deserves a thread)

― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 00:13 (three years ago)

Per my post, "Hazard" is clearly his stab at Springsteen. It's telling a story, it has lines about going down to the river, a line about dreaming "our way out of this town," it's set in Nebraska, and the woman's name is Mary. It's practically a po-faced "Tweeter and the Monkey Man."

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 00:21 (three years ago)

Marx but it's an unfair rubric

― there's too much fucking shit on me (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 00:42 (three years ago)

Hazard rules

― there's too much fucking shit on me (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 00:42 (three years ago)

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