Who would have ever thought the Boss would be following in Fred Durst's footsteps.

Man, talk about trying to relive his 'Glory Days'...

fark Bruce Springsteen. He's a farking shiat stain from a farking shiat stain state.

Jakevol2: fark Bruce Springsteen. He's a farking shiat stain from a farking shiat stain state.

Come on. Springsteen is a true working-class guy, fighting for the common man.

And you can't argue with his patriotism. Just listen to the chorus of "Born In The U.S.A.". When Ronald Reagan, the greatest president of the 1980s, wants to use your song for a national campaign, ummm... I think you're doing something right.

1derful: Who would have ever thought the Boss would be following in Fred Durst's footsteps.


Yeah... seriously...

I mean, Durst had ONE good album in him (Counterfeit) so at least he had some modicum of talent in him at some point. Springsteen sucked ass right from the start and has yet to make one good album. Comparing the two is in no way fair to Durst.

Fark Bruce Springsteen. One of the most overrated musicians EVER.

midnightrambler: And you can't argue with his patriotism. Just listen to the chorus of "Born In The U.S.A.". When Ronald Reagan, the greatest president of the 1980s, wants to use your song for a national campaign, ummm... I think you're doing something right.
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Only, apparently you and Ronny both don't understand the song at all.

It's not a patriotic song. In fact, it's downright opposite.

/Still the best damn rocker 30 years running.

jake3988: midnightrambler: And you can't argue with his patriotism. Just listen to the chorus of "Born In The U.S.A.". When Ronald Reagan, the greatest president of the 1980s, wants to use your song for a national campaign, ummm... I think you're doing something right.
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Only, apparently you and Ronny both don't understand the song at all.

It's not a patriotic song. In fact, it's downright opposite.

/Still the best damn rocker 30 years running.

yeah, if he is such a hard rocking blue collar guy, why doesn't he live up to his promises? I mean the loser canceled his concert at the Sprint Center in Kansas City last week over some bullshiat "family emergency" sack up douchebag, and play the farking concert.

Blue collar my ass, he's been drining Crystal out of the cracks of the asses of Eastern European supermodels for 20 years now. The last time he had a callous other from a guitar was when he was still Brucey Springstein and he had to jerk off because none of the guidettes would touch his oily ass.

Nice! Screw all you haters. Bruce is the real deal and STILL kicks ass.

Man, the trolls are out early.

Jesusaurus: Man, the trolls are out early.


I'm not trolling. I farking hate that overrated asstard. I mean it - Fred Durst is more talented... and that doesn't mean I'm a fan of Fred Durst.

jake3988: Only, apparently you and Ronny both don't understand the song at all.

It's not a patriotic song. In fact, it's downright opposite.

/Still the best damn rocker 30 years running.

dense you are

I was there last night and found it interesting that in the nation's capital he didn't play Born in the USA. He actually didn't play a ton from that album in general. Played a lot of Born to Run though.

MugzyBrown: jake3988: Only, apparently you and Ronny both don't understand the song at all.

It's not a patriotic song. In fact, it's downright opposite.

/Still the best damn rocker 30 years running.

dense you are

He's a Springsteen fan.

mongbiohazard: I mean it - Fred Durst is more talented

Okay then. You aren't trolling Fark, you're trolling reality itself.

He did that here in Philly when I saw him on the 29th as well.

Not sure why it's news; he's in better physical shape than I am and I'm half his age.

mongbiohazard: Jesusaurus: Man, the trolls are out early.


I'm not trolling. I farking hate that overrated asstard. I mean it - Fred Durst is more talented... and that doesn't mean I'm a fan of Fred Durst.

Bruce can play a guitar.

I've never seen Durst pick up an instrument.

Thus then, Springsteen > Durst when it comes to talent.

Seriously, at least come up with a cohesive argument. If you just don't like him, that's fine, not everyone does. But your argument otherwise fails.

Jesusaurus: mongbiohazard: I mean it - Fred Durst is more talented

Okay then. You aren't trolling Fark, you're trolling reality itself.


We all no that Durst is a lame douchebag, but Counterfeit was actually a good album. Sure, Durst went off the rails after that but at least he had one decent album in him before he did so.

Springsteen on the other hand has this rep that's completely unearned and out of proportion to his considerable lack of talent. His songs suck, his singing sucks and his blue collar schtick is hilarious when you consider that he's worth over $100 million.

HAHA Fred Durst is more talented than Bruce Springsteen?! No way in hell you're serious. No way in hell.


Masterful troll, dude. MASTERFUL.

BTW, how exactly is Bruce "overrated"? He doesn't over-charge for tickets to his show, he doesn't beat you over the head with album releases. He doesn't market his image. He is a sound technical guitar player, and his backing band is pretty solid.

I really would like to know. Someone, explain. He's rated right where he should be - an icon of the late 70's to mid-80's, rock and roll hall of famer, multiple platinum albums.

mongbiohazard:

Springsteen on the other hand has this rep that's completely unearned and out of proportion to his considerable lack of talent. His songs suck, his singing sucks and his blue collar schtick is hilarious when you consider that he's worth over $100 million.

How is Springsteen's rep "unearned"? 65 million albums sold in the States. He hasn't done the "blue collar schtick" since the mid-80's, and that was a product of MTV, not Bruce himself.

I understand you don't like his music, but you can't argue with numbers and accolades.

Does anyone else think ol' Bruce is looking and sounding like Tom Jones these days?

Jakevol2: fark Bruce Springsteen. He's a farking shiat stain from a farking shiat stain state.

mongbiohazard: 1derful: Who would have ever thought the Boss would be following in Fred Durst's footsteps.


Yeah... seriously...

I mean, Durst had ONE good album in him (Counterfeit) so at least he had some modicum of talent in him at some point. Springsteen sucked ass right from the start and has yet to make one good album. Comparing the two is in no way fair to Durst.

Fark Bruce Springsteen. One of the most overrated musicians EVER.

SOMEBODY figured out how to create an AAAAALLLT!

kvanpool: I was there last night and found it interesting that in the nation's capital he didn't play Born in the USA. He actually didn't play a ton from that album in general. Played a lot of Born to Run though.

He doesn't play it in concert anymore. I think idiots who can't figure out that the message in the song isn't flag waving jingoistic patriotism kind of ruined it for him.

Saw him in Tulsa last spring. At 60 the guy still rocks harder than most people half his age.

And mongbiohazard: Jesusaurus: Man, the trolls are out early.


I'm not trolling. I farking hate that overrated asstard. I mean it - Fred Durst is more talented... and that doesn't mean I'm a fan of Fred Durst.

Okay, I guess it's my turn to feed the Troll. Hate him or not, if you come into a thread knowing it is going to be full of fans just to post inflammatory bullshiat like "Fed Durst > Springsteen" you definitely ARE trolling. You are just too stupid to know it.

MattyFridays: his backing band is pretty solid.

Pretty Solid?!?!?!?!?! Okay, you take that shiat BACK! Love Bruce or hate Bruce, The E Street Band MAY be the greatest band to ever play rock and roll.

thefatbasturd: MattyFridays: his backing band is pretty solid.

Pretty Solid?!?!?!?!?! Okay, you take that shiat BACK! Love Bruce or hate Bruce, The E Street Band MAY be the greatest band to ever play rock and roll.

The E Street Ban IS the greatest band in all the land!

I guess that's one way to get girls to feel you up.

Step 1: Brand yourself as an All-American musician that the middle class can relate to.
Step 2: Write terrible music and play it loud, dancing around so that people think you are cool and ignore how terrible your music is.
Step 3: Profit.

AmazinTim: Step 1: Brand yourself as an All-American musician that the middle class can relate to.
Step 2: Write terrible music and play it loud, dancing around so that people think you are cool and ignore how terrible your music is.
Step 3: Profit.

This is about Springsteen, not Mellencamp.

solo89: thefatbasturd: MattyFridays: his backing band is pretty solid.

Pretty Solid?!?!?!?!?! Okay, you take that shiat BACK! Love Bruce or hate Bruce, The E Street Band MAY be the greatest band to ever play rock and roll.

The E Street Ban IS the greatest band in all the land!

I could generally care less about Bruce, but they are incredible live band.

thefatbasturd:

He doesn't play it in concert anymore. I think idiots who can't figure out that the message in the song isn't flag waving jingoistic patriotism kind of ruined it for him.



Uh, he played BitUSA all throughout the reunion tour in 2000. It was just downbeat acoustic version. I think what you're meaning to say is that he doesn't play the full-band arrangment of Born in the USA *that much* anymore, which is the version Landau convinced him to make, instead of the stripped-down acoustic version he wanted to play.

He played Born in the USA (full band) in NJ and at the Spectrum recently. Full album too. He does play Born in the USA, but he rotates it around with other songs.

(for all those who are offended)

I'm a big believer in the earth-quaking history-making lengedary E-Street Band. I just wasn't trying to use hyperbole against the troll.

Bruce was never "blue collar". As a kid he set out to be a musician. He has never worked in a steel or textile mill. He's never worked a double on an assembly line. He's never installed microwave ovens, or made custom kitchen deliveries. He's never moved refrigerators. He's never moved a color TV.

Bruce is a lousy singer, but he is an incredible story teller who can make you drive your car faster, pine for your high school girlfriend, or remind you of what life "used to be like".

Brings a new meaning to the term 'E Street Shuffle', doesn't it?

TigerzDad: Bruce was never "blue collar". As a kid he set out to be a musician. He has never worked in a steel or textile mill. He's never worked a double on an assembly line. He's never installed microwave ovens, or made custom kitchen deliveries. He's never moved refrigerators. He's never moved a color TV.

That's the way you do it.

/I'm surprised these kids even know who he is.

I'm shocked and apalled that people might possibly have different tastes in music than I do. I think I'll profess my outrage by accusing those people of having poor musical taste. And poor hygene.

/hurr

What kind of name is Springsteen?

Bruce never claimed he was blue collar. Doesn't mean he can't sing about it.

Hutsut_Rawlson: What kind of name is Springsteen?

It isn't Jewish, but my mom thinks it is.

And only two tabs over, they're singing the praises of Iggy Pop touring again. I guess the "old" thing is subjective. Farking morons.

Hutsut_Rawlson: What kind of name is Springsteen?

Dutch. But he's 3/4 Italian. Hence all the Catholic imagery in his songs.

But yeah... don't tell that to the rabid anti-semite in the office upstairs from me. He won't hear of it.

/and that guy's a big Lou Reed fan
//no, he won't believe me about him either

thefatbasturd: Jakevol2: fark Bruce Springsteen. He's a farking shiat stain from a farking shiat stain state.

mongbiohazard: 1derful: Who would have ever thought the Boss would be following in Fred Durst's footsteps.


Yeah... seriously...

I mean, Durst had ONE good album in him (Counterfeit) so at least he had some modicum of talent in him at some point. Springsteen sucked ass right from the start and has yet to make one good album. Comparing the two is in no way fair to Durst.

Fark Bruce Springsteen. One of the most overrated musicians EVER.

SOMEBODY figured out how to create an AAAAALLLT!

alts are for trolling, however what I said above is how I truly feel about Brucey Springstein.

MattyFridays: thefatbasturd:

He doesn't play it in concert anymore. I think idiots who can't figure out that the message in the song isn't flag waving jingoistic patriotism kind of ruined it for him.



Uh, he played BitUSA all throughout the reunion tour in 2000. It was just downbeat acoustic version. I think what you're meaning to say is that he doesn't play the full-band arrangment of Born in the USA *that much* anymore, which is the version Landau convinced him to make, instead of the stripped-down acoustic version he wanted to play.

He played Born in the USA (full band) in NJ and at the Spectrum recently. Full album too. He does play Born in the USA, but he rotates it around with other songs.

Didn't play it in Dallas on the reunion. I was there.

Jakevol2: thefatbasturd: Jakevol2: fark Bruce Springsteen. He's a farking shiat stain from a farking shiat stain state.

mongbiohazard: 1derful: Who would have ever thought the Boss would be following in Fred Durst's footsteps.


Yeah... seriously...

I mean, Durst had ONE good album in him (Counterfeit) so at least he had some modicum of talent in him at some point. Springsteen sucked ass right from the start and has yet to make one good album. Comparing the two is in no way fair to Durst.

Fark Bruce Springsteen. One of the most overrated musicians EVER.

SOMEBODY figured out how to create an AAAAALLLT!

alts are for trolling, however what I said above is how I truly feel about Brucey Springstein.

No. You ARE trolling whether you believe what you type or not, whether you want to admit it or not. Coming into the thread knowing it would be full of fans typing the Fred Durst bullshiat (which even THAT douchebag would tell you was ridiculous) IS trolling. You just aren't very good at it.

Why the hell is this ne...*click*

Oh...that was actually cool! :D

/They should've tossed him up in the air a few times.

Bruce still has a nice arse, even at 60 years of age.

Face like a dropped pie though.

I saw him back in the 80's and it was one of the best concerts I've ever been to. Over 3 hours on stage! Worth every single cent.

/don't think I'd pay to see him now.

Let's get it straight, this is a summary of Springsteen's career:


Growing up in southern New Jersey, Springsteen turned to rock & roll as a teenager and played in a series of bands from the mid-'60s on, varying in style from garage rock to power trio blues-rock. By the early '70s, he was trying his hand at being a folky singer/songwriter in Greenwich Village. But when he was signed to Columbia Records in 1972, he brought into the studio many of the New Jersey-based musicians with whom he'd played over the years.

The result was Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., which went unnoticed upon its initial release in January 1973 (although Manfred Mann's Earth Band would turn its leadoff track, "Blinded by the Light," into a number one hit four years later). The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (September 1973) also failed to sell despite some rave reviews. (Both albums have since gone platinum.)

The following year, Springsteen revised his backup group - dubbed the E Street Band - settling on a lineup that included saxophone player Clarence Clemons, second guitarist "Miami" Steve Van Zandt, organist Danny Federici, pianist Roy Bittan, bassist Garry Tallent, and drummer Max Weinberg. With this unit he barnstormed the country while working on his third and last chance with Columbia. By the time Born to Run (August 1975) was released, the critics and a significant cult audience were with him, and the title song became a Top 40 hit while the album reached the Top Ten.

What Springsteen needed to do in the wake of the hype, of course, was to play and record more to consolidate his position. He was prevented at least from the latter by a former manager, who kept him in court during the next couple of years. Meanwhile, the musical world changed. Part of the reason critics had welcomed Springsteen so enthusiastically in 1975 was that he seemed a return to basic rock & roll values in a world of soft rock, heavy metal, and art rock.

By the time Springsteen returned with his fourth album, Darkness on the Edge of Town (June 1978), however, the punk/new wave movement had outflanked him, pushing him from the vanguard to the mainstream. Similar sounding heartland rockers such as Bob Seger had appeared, so that Springsteen sounded less like an innovator than a member of an established genre.

Nevertheless, he set about winning fans with an album that found the lost children of his early albums stuck in factory jobs, still longing for some escape. The album was a hit, though it did not match the success of Born to Run. Springsteen returned with the double album The River (October 1980), which topped the charts and featured his first Top Ten hit, "Hungry Heart."

Nobody was calling him a hype anymore, but Springsteen retreated from his expanding success, next recording the low-key album Nebraska (September 1982), a virtual demo tape on vinyl. (Springsteen did not tour to promote the album, and in the interim E Street Band guitarist Van Zandt amicably left the group for a solo career, to be replaced by Nils Lofgren.)

But then came Born in the U.S.A. (June 1984) and a two-year international tour. The album threw off seven hit singles and sold over ten million copies, putting Springsteen in the pop heavens with Michael Jackson and Prince. After touring for more than a year, he released a five-LP/three-CD concert album, Live/1975-85 (November 1986), which topped the charts.

Characteristically, Springsteen returned with a more introverted effort, Tunnel of Love (October 1987), which presaged his divorce from his first wife. (He married a second time to singer Patti Scialfa, who had joined the E Street Band.)

After another marathon tour, Springsteen gave the E Street Band notice in November 1989, breaking up a celebrated unit who had stayed together 15 years. In March 1992, he simultaneously released Human Touch and Lucky Town, and though the albums premiered near the top of the charts, they were less successful with fans than previous efforts. In the fall, Springsteen taped an MTV Unplugged segment (though he plugged in after one song), and the performance was released as an album in Europe in 1993.

Springsteen continued to tour until July 1993. In the fall, he wrote and recorded "Streets of Philadelphia" for the soundtrack to the film Philadelphia, which concerned a lawyer dying of AIDS. The song became a Top Ten hit in 1994, winning the Academy Award for Best Song and cleaning up at the Grammys the following year. At the same time, Springsteen had readied his Greatest Hits album (February 1995), reassembling the E Street Band to record a few new tracks. The album was an immediate best-seller. Springsteen followed it with The Ghost of Tom Joad (November 1995), another low-key, downcast, near-acoustic effort and embarked upon a brief solo tour. In 1999, shortly after his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Springsteen reunited with the E Street Band (including both Lofgren and Van Zandt on guitars) and embarked on a world tour that lasted until mid-2000, its final dates resulting in the album Live in New York City.

Bruce Springsteen then set to work on The Rising, his first full-length studio album to feature the group as a whole since Born in the U.S.A.. Released in July 2002, it was also Springsteen's first album of new studio recordings since The Ghost of Tom Joad. Another successful tour followed, as did the release of Devils & Dust in 2005. One year later, the songwriter released the first covers album of his career, a tribute to the songs of Pete Seeger titled We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions. Live in Dublin, featuring concert material from the tour supporting Springsteen's Seeger project, was released on both CD and DVD in 2007. Springsteen then returned to his work with the E Street Band and released Magic in the fall of 2007, followed by another round of touring. Several months later, however, longtime E Street organist Danny Federici succumbed to a three-year battle with melanoma.

Springsteen finished the tour in 2008 and held several additional shows in support of Senator Barack Obama, whose presidential campaign had kicked into hyperdrive earlier that year. While playing an Obama rally in early November, Springsteen debuted material from his forthcoming album, Working on a Dream, whose tracks had been recorded with the E Street Band during breaks in the group's previous tour. The resulting album, which was the last to feature contributions from Federici (as well as his son, Jason), arrived on January 27, 2009, one week after Barack Obama's historic inauguration.


- allmusic


So, yeah, you clowns can go ahead and nit-pick a music legend. You just make yourselves look stupid.

But hey!

Do what you do best.

I like Bruce. And here's why:

1) He writes a mean song. Sure, he wrote some nonsense lyrics like "Blinded By The Light". But he also wrote plenty that were poetic and insightful. ("The Ghost Of Tom Joad" & "Nebraska" albums, for instance.)

2) He plays guitar well. He's not a guitar "god", but he's pretty damn good.

3) He's respectful of his roots and his fellow artists, & seems to be a genuinely good guy. I've never seen the slightest inkling of any "doucheyness".

4) He puts on a live show with more energy than about anyone else. Artists half his age would never be able to pull off what he does on a stage.

I know. Opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one. And some assholes have opinions. Well, there's mine.

thefatbasturd: Jakevol2: thefatbasturd: Jakevol2: fark Bruce Springsteen. He's a farking shiat stain from a farking shiat stain state.

mongbiohazard: 1derful: Who would have ever thought the Boss would be following in Fred Durst's footsteps.


Yeah... seriously...

I mean, Durst had ONE good album in him (Counterfeit) so at least he had some modicum of talent in him at some point. Springsteen sucked ass right from the start and has yet to make one good album. Comparing the two is in no way fair to Durst.

Fark Bruce Springsteen. One of the most overrated musicians EVER.

SOMEBODY figured out how to create an AAAAALLLT!

alts are for trolling, however what I said above is how I truly feel about Brucey Springstein.

No. You ARE trolling whether you believe what you type or not, whether you want to admit it or not. Coming into the thread knowing it would be full of fans typing the Fred Durst bullshiat (which even THAT douchebag would tell you was ridiculous) IS trolling. You just aren't very good at it.

You can suck Bruce Springsteen's dick all you want. This is how I feel about the prick and I am going to have my say about it as much as you have your say about him.

And I am not going to hide behind an alt to do it.

Jakevol2: thefatbasturd: Jakevol2: thefatbasturd: Jakevol2: fark Bruce Springsteen. He's a farking shiat stain from a farking shiat stain state.

mongbiohazard: 1derful: Who would have ever thought the Boss would be following in Fred Durst's footsteps.


Yeah... seriously...

I mean, Durst had ONE good album in him (Counterfeit) so at least he had some modicum of talent in him at some point. Springsteen sucked ass right from the start and has yet to make one good album. Comparing the two is in no way fair to Durst.

Fark Bruce Springsteen. One of the most overrated musicians EVER.

SOMEBODY figured out how to create an AAAAALLLT!

alts are for trolling, however what I said above is how I truly feel about Brucey Springstein.

No. You ARE trolling whether you believe what you type or not, whether you want to admit it or not. Coming into the thread knowing it would be full of fans typing the Fred Durst bullshiat (which even THAT douchebag would tell you was ridiculous) IS trolling. You just aren't very good at it.

You can suck Bruce Springsteen's dick all you want. This is how I feel about the prick and I am going to have my say about it as much as you have your say about him.

And I am not going to hide behind an alt to do it.

And I'm going to have my say about you being a douchebag troll. Tell me why ELSE would you come to a Springsteen thread and post obviously ignorant shiat? Do you think you are going to make anyone have an epiphany do to your brilliance? Has doing it somehow magically made the world a better place? No. You just wanted to stir up shiat for the lulz. Like the troll you are. QED. And I don't think I'm going to take the word of someone who won't cop to it when he has been trolling about whether or not he is using an alt to shore up his piss poor attempts.

thefatbasturd: Jakevol2: thefatbasturd: Jakevol2: thefatbasturd: Jakevol2: fark Bruce Springsteen. He's a farking shiat stain from a farking shiat stain state.

mongbiohazard: 1derful: Who would have ever thought the Boss would be following in Fred Durst's footsteps.


Yeah... seriously...

I mean, Durst had ONE good album in him (Counterfeit) so at least he had some modicum of talent in him at some point. Springsteen sucked ass right from the start and has yet to make one good album. Comparing the two is in no way fair to Durst.

Fark Bruce Springsteen. One of the most overrated musicians EVER.

SOMEBODY figured out how to create an AAAAALLLT!

alts are for trolling, however what I said above is how I truly feel about Brucey Springstein.

No. You ARE trolling whether you believe what you type or not, whether you want to admit it or not. Coming into the thread knowing it would be full of fans typing the Fred Durst bullshiat (which even THAT douchebag would tell you was ridiculous) IS trolling. You just aren't very good at it.

You can suck Bruce Springsteen's dick all you want. This is how I feel about the prick and I am going to have my say about it as much as you have your say about him.

And I am not going to hide behind an alt to do it.

And I'm going to have my say about you being a douchebag troll. Tell me why ELSE would you come to a Springsteen thread and post obviously ignorant shiat? Do you think you are going to make anyone have an epiphany do due to your brilliance? Has doing it somehow magically made the world a better place? No. You just wanted to stir up shiat for the lulz. Like the troll you are. QED. And I don't think I'm going to take the word of someone who won't cop to it when he has been trolling about whether or not he is using an alt to shore up his piss poor attempts.

FTFM