Springsteen character compendium

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Spanish Johnny
Puerto Rican Jane

― calstars, Saturday, 1 March 2014 02:26 (twelve years ago)

Go-cart Mozart

― calstars, Saturday, 1 March 2014 02:27 (twelve years ago)

Diamond Jackie

― calstars, Saturday, 1 March 2014 02:28 (twelve years ago)

Wild Billy

― calstars, Saturday, 1 March 2014 02:28 (twelve years ago)

Sandy
Sloppy Sue
Big Bones Billy
Rosalita
Joe Roberts

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 1 March 2014 02:34 (twelve years ago)

Sir

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 1 March 2014 02:36 (twelve years ago)

Your Daddy

― MISTERSNRUB (some dude), Saturday, 1 March 2014 02:36 (twelve years ago)

Crazy Janey

― In Walked Sho-Bud (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 March 2014 02:47 (twelve years ago)

Kitty

― In Walked Sho-Bud (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 March 2014 02:47 (twelve years ago)

Mister

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 1 March 2014 02:50 (twelve years ago)

the magic rat

― Rave Van Donk (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 1 March 2014 02:55 (twelve years ago)

mary

― mookieproof, Saturday, 1 March 2014 03:02 (twelve years ago)

http://www.nerve.com/love-sex/the-only-three-women-in-bruce-springsteens-music

― mookieproof, Saturday, 1 March 2014 03:03 (twelve years ago)

Wendy
Candy
Hazy Davy

― Davey D, Saturday, 1 March 2014 08:43 (twelve years ago)

Terry

― Davey D, Saturday, 1 March 2014 08:43 (twelve years ago)

the chicken man

― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 1 March 2014 08:45 (twelve years ago)

eddie

― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 1 March 2014 08:46 (twelve years ago)

Sherry Darling
Bobby Jean
Zero
Blind Terry
Rosalita
Linda

― Davey D, Saturday, 1 March 2014 08:47 (twelve years ago)

them southside sisters

― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 1 March 2014 08:47 (twelve years ago)

the cripple on the corner

― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 1 March 2014 08:48 (twelve years ago)

them gasoline boys

― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 1 March 2014 08:50 (twelve years ago)

cherry

― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 1 March 2014 08:50 (twelve years ago)

the big man
scooter

― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 1 March 2014 08:51 (twelve years ago)

Frankie

― Davey D, Saturday, 1 March 2014 08:55 (twelve years ago)

Wayne

― Davey D, Saturday, 1 March 2014 08:55 (twelve years ago)

I've never really listened to Springsteen, but I like this thread, should be a similar one for Steely Dan characters

― soref, Saturday, 1 March 2014 08:57 (twelve years ago)

^ Tom Waits, too

― StanM, Saturday, 1 March 2014 11:53 (twelve years ago)

I can't tell if these are real Springsteen characters, or if this is some kind of parody thread.

― an office job is as secure as a Weetabix padlock (snoball), Saturday, 1 March 2014 12:08 (twelve years ago)

Frankie's brother, Joe Roberts

― Mule, Saturday, 1 March 2014 12:09 (twelve years ago)

I can't tell if these are real Springsteen characters, or if this is some kind of parody thread

me neither, I think the thread is more enjoyable not knowing, though, finding out they are all real or all made up would both be disappointing

― soref, Saturday, 1 March 2014 12:14 (twelve years ago)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=early+pearly

― MISTERSNRUB (some dude), Saturday, 1 March 2014 12:22 (twelve years ago)

They're real!

― calstars, Saturday, 1 March 2014 12:48 (twelve years ago)

Well the majority at least

― calstars, Saturday, 1 March 2014 12:49 (twelve years ago)

are Wild Billy and Big Bones Billy two different people? Do they both appear in the same song?

― soref, Saturday, 1 March 2014 12:49 (twelve years ago)

Jimmy the Saint

― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 1 March 2014 16:32 (twelve years ago)

The Ragamuffin Gunner

― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 1 March 2014 16:34 (twelve years ago)

Bobby and Janey

― Euler, Saturday, 1 March 2014 16:40 (twelve years ago)

Bobby, the ex-husband

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 1 March 2014 16:42 (twelve years ago)

How many times has he used (modifier) Jane or Janey alone?

― In Walked Sho-Bud (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 March 2014 16:51 (twelve years ago)

Baseball player friend from high school

― brimstead, Saturday, 1 March 2014 16:56 (twelve years ago)

a girl that lives up the block

― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 1 March 2014 17:57 (twelve years ago)

my old man

― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 1 March 2014 17:58 (twelve years ago)

foreman

― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 1 March 2014 18:00 (twelve years ago)

kate

― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 1 March 2014 18:01 (twelve years ago)

my daddy

― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 1 March 2014 18:02 (twelve years ago)

roy orbison

― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 1 March 2014 18:05 (twelve years ago)

james dean
junior johnson
burt reynolds

― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 1 March 2014 18:08 (twelve years ago)

little girlie in the blue jeans so tight

― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 1 March 2014 18:08 (twelve years ago)

my pa
my aunt

― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 1 March 2014 18:08 (twelve years ago)

The steelyard super Johnson
Bobbi Jane the cocktail waitress at Asbury Lanes
Ronald Reagan
Violent J.
her handmaiden Miriam

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 1 March 2014 18:16 (twelve years ago)

Mr. State Trooper

― DDD, Saturday, 1 March 2014 18:41 (twelve years ago)

madame marie

― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 1 March 2014 18:44 (twelve years ago)

Maria

xpost! though Maria is like a madam

― Euler, Saturday, 1 March 2014 18:45 (twelve years ago)

ralph aka johnny 99

― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 1 March 2014 18:53 (twelve years ago)

mean john brown

― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 1 March 2014 18:53 (twelve years ago)

himself! (I/me)

― StanM, Saturday, 1 March 2014 18:54 (twelve years ago)

(ok ok, or a first person perspective that may or may not be himself)

― StanM, Saturday, 1 March 2014 18:55 (twelve years ago)

Men walkin' 'long the railroad tracks.

― That's So (Eazy), Saturday, 1 March 2014 19:11 (twelve years ago)

Magic, the supernatural laid-off insurance salesman who, as we learn by the end of the album... is tom joad's grandson!

― a commentary on self-absorbed youth culture in the social media age (zachlyon), Saturday, 1 March 2014 19:24 (twelve years ago)

the pimps
gold-haired fairies
black boys

― calstars, Saturday, 1 March 2014 19:29 (twelve years ago)

barefoot boys

― calstars, Saturday, 1 March 2014 19:30 (twelve years ago)

those romantic young boys

― calstars, Saturday, 1 March 2014 19:31 (twelve years ago)

two cars at a light, Saturday night, guy w/shotgun in backseat of one of them

― col, Saturday, 1 March 2014 19:33 (twelve years ago)

Wanda, from the Route 60 Bob's Big Boy.

― Virginia, Plain and Tall (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 1 March 2014 19:55 (twelve years ago)

I see "the Magic Rat" has been mentioned, but not his "barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge drinking warm beer"

― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Saturday, 1 March 2014 19:57 (twelve years ago)

Mary Lou & Johnny
Kyle William
dead dog (maybe not technically a 'character' but I feel like it shows a lot of spirit)

― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Saturday, 1 March 2014 19:59 (twelve years ago)

Lorde:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6VToqhUd-0&feature=youtu.be

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 1 March 2014 20:02 (twelve years ago)

my pa
my aunt

― fact checking cuz, Saturday, March 1, 2014 6:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
my sister, my ma, the salesman, the neighbors

― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Saturday, 1 March 2014 20:02 (twelve years ago)

a woman I didn't recognize

― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Saturday, 1 March 2014 20:03 (twelve years ago)

― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Saturday, 1 March 2014 20:04 (twelve years ago)

my partner Sonny
this dude from L.A.

― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Saturday, 1 March 2014 20:05 (twelve years ago)

Little Angel

― earlnash, Saturday, 1 March 2014 20:09 (twelve years ago)

a little stranger standin' 'cross the room
a walking, talking reason to live
maybe an heiress to a rockefeller, maybe a waitress/bankteller

― a commentary on self-absorbed youth culture in the social media age (zachlyon), Saturday, 1 March 2014 20:10 (twelve years ago)

the highway

― mookieproof, Saturday, 1 March 2014 20:10 (twelve years ago)

The Queen of The Supermarket

― Virginia, Plain and Tall (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 1 March 2014 20:11 (twelve years ago)

the last of the Duke Street Kings

― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Saturday, 1 March 2014 20:16 (twelve years ago)

TS: mary vs. jane/janey

― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 1 March 2014 20:20 (twelve years ago)

Go-Cart Mozart
Little Early-Pearly
Mama

― earlnash, Sunday, 2 March 2014 10:02 (twelve years ago)

...... go-cart mozart was literally the first thing posted to the thread assuming you exclude the OP from the set of "things posted to the thread"

― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Sunday, 2 March 2014 15:17 (twelve years ago)

OK, that Royals was phenomenal.

Senorita Spanish Rose
Some lucky young matador

― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 2 March 2014 23:09 (twelve years ago)

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