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re: Which Springsteen Song is Better?
Posted on 8/28/20 at 8:08 am to diddlydawg7
Posted on 8/28/20 at 8:08 am to diddlydawg7
Thunder Road by a mile, possibly the only better Springsteen song is Backstreets.
This is one of the best lyrics in the history of rock and roll and I give no shits whatsoever how much that gets down voted.
quote:
There were ghosts in the eyes
Of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road
In the skeleton frames of burned-out Chevrolets
This is one of the best lyrics in the history of rock and roll and I give no shits whatsoever how much that gets down voted.
This post was edited on 8/28/20 at 8:08 am
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Posted on 8/28/20 at 8:19 am to diddlydawg7
Thunder Road and it isn't close.
Posted on 8/28/20 at 8:49 am to diddlydawg7
No comparison.
BITUSA may have an important story to tell, but Springsteen tells it really poorly. As mentioned before: musically, instrumentally, and especially vocally, it’s thoroughly mediocre. The reason most people think of it as a patriotic, positive song is because the chorus is the only memorable part of it, and that’s because its so mindlessly repetitive.
Thunder Road, on the other hand, is Bruce at his peak: melodic, dynamic, and lyrically inventive, especially in the latter half of the song. And he and the band perform it with a brash youthful enthusiasm that really drives home the spirit of the song, culminating in the final two lines (“It's a town full of losers/I'm pulling out of here to win”), with Clarence Clemons’ magical sax riff in the fadeout providing a perfect exclamation point.
I’m not even a big Springsteen fan, but I can see the clear winner here is Thunder Road.
BITUSA may have an important story to tell, but Springsteen tells it really poorly. As mentioned before: musically, instrumentally, and especially vocally, it’s thoroughly mediocre. The reason most people think of it as a patriotic, positive song is because the chorus is the only memorable part of it, and that’s because its so mindlessly repetitive.
Thunder Road, on the other hand, is Bruce at his peak: melodic, dynamic, and lyrically inventive, especially in the latter half of the song. And he and the band perform it with a brash youthful enthusiasm that really drives home the spirit of the song, culminating in the final two lines (“It's a town full of losers/I'm pulling out of here to win”), with Clarence Clemons’ magical sax riff in the fadeout providing a perfect exclamation point.
I’m not even a big Springsteen fan, but I can see the clear winner here is Thunder Road.
Posted on 9/11/20 at 8:14 pm to diddlydawg7
Well, it’s certainly not this new song - “Letter to You.”
As for the original question, it’s Thunder Road.
As for the original question, it’s Thunder Road.
This post was edited on 9/11/20 at 8:15 pm
Posted on 9/11/20 at 8:47 pm to diddlydawg7
No
Posted on 9/14/20 at 8:11 am to diddlydawg7
Thunder Road by several furlongs. Born in the USA is just God-awful.
Posted on 9/14/20 at 8:55 am to diddlydawg7
Thunder Road and it's not even close.
Posted on 9/14/20 at 12:47 pm to ThePenIsMightier
Thunder Road Live Acoustic
This post was edited on 9/14/20 at 12:47 pm
Posted on 9/15/20 at 4:47 pm to parrotdr
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