Did you like the song, "Born in the USA"

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Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes

They were supposed to be the breakout band from the area. Funny how things work out.

[kutulu 1,704]

http://m.youtube.com/results?q=Bruce+Springsteen+highway+to+hell++cover&sm=3

[Hardcore troubadour 15,911]

On 2/6/2014 at 10:17 AM, TD Ryan2 said:

if you want to look at music and lyrics as art - as poetry or literature that captures the predicament of man on both an individual level and larger socio-historical level - there is no better song than Springsteen's Youngstown.

It's folk-ish, so it's pretty simple musically - but the simplicity of the music coupled with the depth of the lyrics is pretty powerful.

 

Springsteen can take all his over-commercialized crap and junk it - Youngstown, however, is a masterpiece.

 

 

 

Ok so, stumbled on this thread while doing some opposition research. This is slightly before my time here. Now I'm going to wager I'm the biggest Bruce fan in these parts. 100 or so concerts in different cities and countries, a fortune in bootlegs before the internet made them obsolete etc etc. But I would like to comment on this song here, Youngstown. First off, on his Live in NYC album he does it with the full band and it has a much louder, bigger feel to it. Add in some painful howling and some emphasis on certain lyrics and it really brings out the plight of what the industrial Midwest once was and what it has become. It tells the story of a large swath of our country that contributed so very much in our countries history, built it from the ground up, lost their children to wars but always had a job to come home to. Then globalism kicked in and much, pretty much all, of that went away, leaving as he says in the song, just scrap and rubble. 

Come forward a few years and the funny part about this song that describes specific working people and their plight, is that Bruce, lefty that he is, wrote this one about the very people that would years later elect Trump. Having their community destroyed by jobs being sent elsewhere, Trump rollls in and confirms who did it and how they did it (NAFTA)  Bruce said the  very same things in this song. "Those big boys (banks, corporations) did what Hitler couldn't do"  Which was destroy America. Well, their America anyway. It really is amazing to see the same message brought about by opposite ends of the spectrum, and each side thinks it's right when their guy says it, but wrong when the other guy does. Anyhow, not my favorite Bruce song (def top ten) but probabaly his most powerful. Check out the live version. 

 

[Frozenbeernuts 2,332]

I think the amazing part is a peenie thread from 2014 that's still around

[frank 2,345]

I’m not reading this whole thread to see if this has already been posted. 

 

 

[lod001 1,345]

What is the song least likely to be heard at a democratic rally.

[RaiderHaters Revenge 4,543]

hated the song then, always thought Bruce was the worst singer of all-time

 

[Fireballer 2,677]

45 minutes ago, lod001 said:

What is the song least likely to be heard at a democratic rally.

Dunno...Bruce is one of those Lefties.  But...if youre referring to illegals and the Dems pandering to them for votes, youre correct.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,911]

51 minutes ago, lod001 said:

What is the song least likely to be heard at a democratic rally.

America the Beautiful, God Bless America, Its A Grand Old Flag, The Stars and Stripes Forever. 

[Voltaire 5,491]

Bruce speaks the language of Macomb County, Michigan beautifully, I feel his lyrics resonating in my bones. I loved Bruce's music back in the day and all my life, even knowing he was a Democrat as I was a hardcore Republican teen, through independent years when I voted for Dem presidential candidates,, to returning to the GOP with Trump.

I suppose Eminem speaks the language of Macomb county well too since we're the same age and both from 8 Mile, but rap music makes my ears bleed so I cannot confirm this. His movie "8 Mile" was pretty great. 

[SUXBNME 1,595]

On 2/6/2014 at 5:54 AM, Geezil said:

 

This one.

 

 

Troof. Damn good song, imo. 

[lod001 1,345]

1 hour ago, Fireballer said:

Dunno...Bruce is one of those Lefties.  But...if youre referring to illegals and the Dems pandering to them for votes, youre correct.

Exactly. They could never play that song when they want millions born outside the USA to flood across the border.

[shorepatrol 1,871]

3 hours ago, RaiderHaters Revenge said:

hated the song then, always thought Bruce was the worst singer of all-time

 

JFC this

[Intense Observer 344]

This place wasn't much different 5 years ago with one loud troll injecting politics into every thread and starting fights with everyone.

 

[Strike 6,023]

This thread is still here?  Peenie, I think we're done discussing this.  Feel free to delete.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

Springteen is an American treasure.The river. Atlantic city. Badlands. Blinded by the light. Could go on and on and on.

Born in the USA is one of my least favorite of his, along with dancing in the dark. 

[SUXBNME 1,595]

5 minutes ago, titans&bucs&bearsohmy! said:

 Blinded by the light.

Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night

[Hardcore troubadour 15,911]

On his album Devils and Dust, released in 2005? He has a song called "Matamoros Banks".  It's about a migrant who drowns in the Rio Grande River. Not far from where the man and his daughters remains were found recently. In his song "American Land", (2006) a song about immigrants and how they have been treated historically and now,  (it's a rocker) there is a line "they died trying to get here a hundred years ago, they're still dying now" Point? People dying trying to get here pre-dates Donald Trump. But you would never know that if you only watched MSM. 

[BiffTannen 1,123]

I hate Bruce Springstein and all of his songs. 

[peenie 1,963]

12 hours ago, Frozenbeernuts said:

I think the amazing part is a peenie thread from 2014 that's still around

I don't delete threads where I haven't been disrespected. It's okay to discuss our differences of opinion and to even bring up race or to make fun of one another, but it's not okay and I won't stand for it when someone is blatantly mean. This is a good thread, if someone gets out of line try this: let them know they're being inappropriate.

[posty 2,809]

What Frozen said...

I am surprised that this thread is still around...

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

3 hours ago, peenie said:

I don't delete threads where I haven't been disrespected. It's okay to discuss our differences of opinion and to even bring up race or to make fun of one another, but it's not okay and I won't stand for it when someone is blatantly mean. This is a good thread, if someone gets out of line try this: let them know they're being inappropriate.

Blow a goat.

There. Go ahead and delete this one too. 

[peenie 1,963]

7 minutes ago, titans&bucs&bearsohmy! said:

Blow a goat. <not offended

There. Go ahead and delete this one too. 

Funny....I thought you were ignoring all of my posts.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

1 minute ago, peenie said:

Funny....I thought you were ignoring all of my posts.

Thought about it. Changed my mind.

I actually do like you peenie, except when you run around with your stupid hall monitor games. 

[Gladiators 2,032]

1 hour ago, posty said:

What Frozen said...

I am surprised that this thread is still around...

Shall we reach out to Guinness?

[Big Guy 1,421]

I freakin' hate that song!

Not really a fan of Bruce either, he's at the bottom of my list of classic rock mid west troubadours  

Tom Petty

Bob Seger

John Cougar 

The Bruce 

 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,911]

1 hour ago, Big Guy said:

I freakin' hate that song!

Not really a fan of Bruce either, he's at the bottom of my list of classic rock mid west troubadours  

Tom Petty

Bob Seger

John Cougar 

The Bruce 

 

He's not Mid Western. But those guys and Bruce are the soundtrack of my youth. 

[Big Guy 1,421]

33 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

He's not Mid Western. But those guys and Bruce are the soundtrack of my youth. 

True......I know he's from Jersey, but I still lump him into that category. I actually should have said "Blue Collar". 

I'd also put, James Taylor, Jackson Brown, Don McClean and a few others in that category which I all like more than Bruce.