I have a nostalgic love for Brilliant Disguise.

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

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.

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.

great song.

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

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.

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

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

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

For me Natalie yes Patti no.

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.

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.

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.