Bernsie and Terry were talking about this today. Have to spin it this evening. Man did I love this record. Not as much as Darkness but holy hell did this LP change a young Pittmike's perspective. Anyone else?

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I love it, but it's not my favorite Springsteen album, which is The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle. Nonetheless, it's a masterpiece, especially "Jungleland."

I was a latecomer to Springsteen because the Loop and the Drive didn't play much of him and my parents never liked him, but this was my intro, too. Shame I couldn't get into much after Nebraska, but I love the ones I love.

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The River and Thunder Road are my top 2 Springsteeners, I think.

I have a nostalgic love for Brilliant Disguise.

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eh, I like him less than I used to. lot of it sounds like a olde tyme carnival coming into town.

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great song.

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Never could into his brand of youthful ennui and rebellion when I was younger. He just never spoke to me. Like the occasional tune from him but by and large don't care for him.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Doc, Brilliant Disguise is great. I am with CH on the old first two. As far as this CD I get torn between Jungleland and Thunder Road. Maybe Night as well? I would sayDarkness is my favorite LP and River is right there. Anyway haven't bothered much with him since Ghost of Tom Joad.

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I think the first two albums are like that, especially the second (what with the song about a carnival and another about a circus). Born to Run polishes off a lot of that ramshackle boardwalk-band sound. Are there bands like this that play on New Jersey boardwalks? I don't know; I've never been to New Jersey. I just imagine they must have once and that's what Springsteen was going for with the saxes and accordions and stuff.

My favorite Springsteen songs are probably "Lost in the Flood" and "Incident on 57th Street." Oh, and "The Fever," which would have vaulted Wild/Innocent . . . to Best Albums Ever had it made the cut instead of just floating around the libraries of freeform FM stations for years.

Incidentally, "The Rangers had a homecoming in Harlem late last night" was going to be my title for the last gameday thread of the year had New York won the East instead of Tampa.

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You cannot listen to Cadillac Ranch and not want to have a good time.

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I like darkness best. Lot of devastating shit there. something in the night.

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I kind of feel the same way about him. I appreciate his greatness but he's not really my thing.

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Same album, I'm a big fan of One Step Up also.

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Love him. I heard them talk about him and I put on The Rising. The River is my favorite album of his.

Patti Smith and Natalie Merchant both did it better, but "Because the Night" is a hell of a song and he deserves credit.

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The Rising has some decent stuff on it. The River has some great stuff but some filler too. Love I'm a Rocker!

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I would have got that.

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See I knew you liked something.

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Story of my life.

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For me Natalie yes Patti no.

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I take it you don't like Patti Smith at all? Because if you don't like "Because the Night," you don't like anything she did.

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i don't think there's any more powerful boss song than his soul stirring cover of "santa claus is coming to town". i always lost it when i wished clarence would get a new saxaphone from st. nick, because he'd been good that year.

Agreed. I love the Merchant version of that tune.

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IDK I am weird though. When that we are the world came out I just wanted it for Trapped. Pink Cadillac also so good. From The River to Born in the USA I think he reconnected me to some rock music a generation or so before me. Of course, Nebraska was in between but that was a different matter.

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I gotta say a tiny bit of bruce rings hollow. he's moaning like a 50 year old failure when he was 25. not realistic. I know from experience. then when he was 50 and a bazillionaire he's still moaning. faker.

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I just like how Bruce did it honestly.

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Fuck Springstign fuck him hard. Talk about music to comit suicide to. Fucking shit is the most depressing shit I have ever heard, and I listen to Country and Goth so I know what I am talking about.

I will though give him proppers for the Rising and Streets of Philadelphia.

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Streets of Philadelphia is my "get the party going" song.

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I like his moves in Dancing in the Dark.

I kinda resent him taking over the E Street introduction into the rock n roll hall of fame.