wtf is with the Springsteen obsession right now?!

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Razorlight have more than an itch of Bruce about them on their (execreble) new album, and The Killers' debt to The Boss on Sam's Town is writ large and ugly. Now we get this;

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000H4W2IM.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_V39066518_.jpg

wtf is going on?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 06:35 (nineteen years ago)

Don't forget The Hold Steady!

Springsteen is the new Joy Division

― Rat Nasty (ratnasty), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 06:55 (nineteen years ago)

BEND OVER FOR BRUCE

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 06:58 (nineteen years ago)

"I saw rock and roll's future, and its name is Bruce Springsteen."

― timmy tannin (pompous), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 07:03 (nineteen years ago)

BDBhas been expanding on his Springsteen obsession for quite a few years now.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 07:05 (nineteen years ago)

I like that last Bruce CD with "Old Dan Tucker" and all that shit.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 07:06 (nineteen years ago)

max weinberg

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 07:11 (nineteen years ago)

It's probably a belated apology for Springsteen's commercial underperformance in '70s Britain, when he was kept out of the charts by such aesthetic giants as the Wurzels and J J Barrie.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 07:12 (nineteen years ago)

Dude -- after years of fake plastic chart shit and mindless soul-destroying boom boom dance it was only a matter of time before people rediscovered real music made by real bands based on real people's lives. Not posh junkies whining about how privileged they are while the press creams themselves over a public school boy who !takes drugs and !has heard of William Blake. The Boss is 4 real fuck all tha hataz.

― alext (alext), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 07:38 (nineteen years ago)

You missed out "cocktails."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

For me, and possibly most people in the UK around my age and younger, Ths BOss is only really known via that video for that song that has Courtney Cox in the crowd - ergo, he's totally NOT 4 real. He's big polished stadium rock bullshitter. Obviously I know this is totally not reflective of his actual career, but there you go...

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 07:46 (nineteen years ago)

DOES JIMMY TARBUCK MEAN NOTHING TO YOU?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 07:47 (nineteen years ago)

Not really, Marcello. I'm only 27.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 07:49 (nineteen years ago)

BAN ALL THATCHERKIDS

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 07:50 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not from the UK, but I have similar associations to the boss as Sick Mouthy.

anecdote: At coachella a couple years ago, the Razorlight frontman was shirtless the entire show, and was saying how the proceeds from their music or whatever would go toward stopping world hunger. When no one gave a shit, he started yelling, "Don't you wanna stop world hunger!! COME ON!"

Brilliant. Bono part II with an ab wax.

― Andi Headphones (Andi Headphones), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

Over on the Rolling Country thread I pointed out some of the recent C&W Boss references (Pat Green, Brooks & Dunn, Montgomery Gentry.)

― ramon fernandez (ramon fernandez), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

it was only a matter of time before people rediscovered real music made by real bands based on real people's lives

Why do people want to listen to bands talking about things that they already know? It's what I don't know which is much more interesting and exciting.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

The Killers .. Ok they've officially been mentioned on this thread, I can go back to waxing my armhair

― Radio Free Albemuth (DocMartensBoots), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

Really, that branson character "Bruce Springsteen really was a big influence on this new album"
Right on, thats about as stupid and wrong as if Ricardo Villalobos started talking up Boney M as one of his influences.
Its because he's just so goddam good though, Bruce, i dont care much for the ranting about "real peoples lives" or whatnot, he just makes damn fine music.
I agree, bend over for bruce.

― Andrew B-L (ablzerothreezero), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

i prefer the fake ones

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

they don't poop

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

alext is a troll, right?

― Doctor Jaggernathy (noodle vague), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Altho the fact is that if you live in suburban or small-town Britain it's perfectly possible to read Springsteen romantically or fantastically. Plus, several styles and plenty good tunes. Plus, there's always been a tradrock element in British indie, nicht war?

― Doctor Jaggernathy (noodle vague), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Plus, let's not try to work out what's happening in Johnny Borrell's goldfish brain.

― Doctor Jaggernathy (noodle vague), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

-- Sick Mouthy (sickmouth...), October 10th, 2006.

You should pick up Nebraska when you have a chance, Nick.

― Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

In a wierd way, I think Broooce's polished 80s stadium rock is way UNDERRATED. Born in the USA is a great album and Tunnel of Love is way great autumnal, middle age crazy synth pop on par with "Boys of Summer" by Don Henley.

but yep, Nebraska is great....first two albums are still the best though..man Asbury Park and Wild Innocent...superbongorockr&bmania with Money Boss Playa spitting the greatest jive boho ragamuffin street poet bullshit pickup lines anyone outside of Dylan ever wrote.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

like it was wierd seeing that DVD special they aired on PBS awhile back...I forgot what a little HIPPIE scamp dude was...he's got that crusty old proto-rasta stocking cap on the whole time he keeps messing with it all the time during the show...fucking great stuff.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

M@tt otm xp

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

this is the worst music meme in years, possibly trumping the "What is it with all the 'the' bands out there right now."

whatevs.

― don weiner (don weiner), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

Why do people want to listen to bands talking about things that they already know? It's what I don't know which is much more interesting and exciting.

Probably off-topic but interesting question... I don't like listening to records about how much sex and drugs people are having because that makes me feel rubbish. So everyday is fine by me!

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Springsteen is the truth.

― Colin Cassidy (Colin Cassidy), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

Springsteen is the truth.

-- Colin Cassidy

Is that not doubly a lie?

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

oh right alext is not core freakytrigger guy alext.

i agree, unsurprisingly, with nick on this one: what the fuck at this shit?

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

Springsteen is the truth.
-- Colin Cassidy
Is that not doubly a lie?

-- Mark (r-...), October 11th, 2006. (MarkR)

that's a such a poor way of looking at springsteen...the interesting thing to me is how he invents himself...he's more like tom waits in that respect than pete seeger or something.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

or uh Bob Dylan.

(Britain's attempts to sorta-kinda sound like American rock superheroes: Dylan/Springsteen vs. Donovan/Graham Parker?)

― nate p. (natepatrin), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

dylan was not a rock superhero when donovan started trying to ape him.

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

britain's bafflement with bruce already discussed here:
Taking Sides: Bruce Springsteen vs. David Bowie and on a couple of other threads

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

I am me, dude. The 'alext is a troll' meme is a few years old I think.

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

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