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Hey, the Dancing In The Dark video made a star out of Courtney Cox! As far as many other songs on the album go, I actually like the live versions found on the Live 75-85 triple album. I'm On Fire, My Hometown, Cover Me, No Surrender, Darlington County, etc.
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Gazza
"This Hard Land" (one of the best half dozen Bruce songs ever),
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Never understood why "Cover Me" was popular.
Me neither... "I'm on Fire" is a far superior song!
And that vid by the great John Sayles : when the posh lady in white drops the car keys in Bruce's hand, and in return Bruce drops the keys in the lady's mailbox, so he won't have to see her again!
Wow that's saying a lot in such a subtle way!
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"This Hard Land" (one of the best half dozen Bruce songs ever),
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In your opinion right? Doubt if many at all would agree with that.
You probably should say one of your half dozen Bruce favorites...
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Gazza
"This Hard Land" (one of the best half dozen Bruce songs ever),
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In your opinion right? Doubt if many at all would agree with that.
You probably should say one of your half dozen Bruce favorites...
Everything in my post (likewise with everyone else's, including yours) was an opinion. I'd have thought that bloody obvious!
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Gazza
"This Hard Land" (one of the best half dozen Bruce songs ever),
.
In your opinion right? Doubt if many at all would agree with that.
You probably should say one of your half dozen Bruce favorites...
That's RIDICULOUS. It is absolutely self-evident that what Gazza offered up was opinion, just as 99% of what is posted on this site about musical taste is opinion.Quote
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Gazza
"This Hard Land" (one of the best half dozen Bruce songs ever),
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In your opinion right? Doubt if many at all would agree with that.
You probably should say one of your half dozen Bruce favorites...
Everything in my post (likewise with everyone else's, including yours) was an opinion. I'd have thought that bloody obvious!
No actually I don't pass off my opinions as fact...Not sure why someone when talking about music just doesn't say my opinion when stating things..
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stanlove
Never ceases t amaze me that people always get things like this wrong..
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Gazza
"This Hard Land" (one of the best half dozen Bruce songs ever),
.
In your opinion right? Doubt if many at all would agree with that.
You probably should say one of your half dozen Bruce favorites...
Everything in my post (likewise with everyone else's, including yours) was an opinion. I'd have thought that bloody obvious!
No actually I don't pass off my opinions as fact...Not sure why someone when talking about music just doesn't say my opinion when stating things..
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Gazza
"This Hard Land" (one of the best half dozen Bruce songs ever),
.
In your opinion right? Doubt if many at all would agree with that.
You probably should say one of your half dozen Bruce favorites...
Everything in my post (likewise with everyone else's, including yours) was an opinion. I'd have thought that bloody obvious!
No actually I don't pass off my opinions as fact...Not sure why someone when talking about music just doesn't say my opinion when stating things..
DISCLAIMER: The following statement is an opinion which is defined by Merriam -Webster as "a belief, judgment, or way of thinking about something: what someone thinks about a particular thing". This in nw way should be interpreted as a fact.
When talking about music any rational human being knows it's someone's opinion.
I agree with Gazza. It's a great song.
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keefriff99That's RIDICULOUS. It is absolutely self-evident that what Gazza offered up was opinion, just as 99% of what is posted on this site about musical taste is opinion.Quote
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Gazza
"This Hard Land" (one of the best half dozen Bruce songs ever),
.
In your opinion right? Doubt if many at all would agree with that.
You probably should say one of your half dozen Bruce favorites...
Everything in my post (likewise with everyone else's, including yours) was an opinion. I'd have thought that bloody obvious!
No actually I don't pass off my opinions as fact...Not sure why someone when talking about music just doesn't say my opinion when stating things..
It DOES NOT need to be explicitly stated. You're being a truculent jerk for no reason.
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Gazza
"This Hard Land" (one of the best half dozen Bruce songs ever),
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In your opinion right? Doubt if many at all would agree with that.
You probably should say one of your half dozen Bruce favorites...
....NO I am with Gazza. A STUNNING song that somehow nearly slipped thru the cracks. You sometimes gotta wonder what Springsteen is/was thinking when he puts a song like that aside....
Great album, 80s production, but, well, it WAS produced in the 80s! Live, ALL these songs take on a life of their own.
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Bruce in the video is the cleanest car mechanic in the world. His pristine white t shirt and jeans cling to the right place. The posh lady should have treated him better and not looked down on him in such a snooty way. She might then got somethings more substantial than her car keys dropped into the mail box!><Quote
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Never ceases t amaze me that people always get things like this wrong..
Hey, I got an even worse version : turn the sound off and you'd swear what happens is :
- the posh lady comes to the garage for the 1st time (cos hubby couldn't?)
- she drops the keys in Bruce's hand cos he doesn't want to touch the smelly working-class dork.
- said dork'd like to bang the posh lady (as a proletarian revenge) but he balks at the very last time (too bad).
Not bad huh? ><
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Gazza
I remember getting a collection of outtakes a few weeks/months after its release and being astounded at how superior the songs were that had been omitted.
An alternative album featuring most (or all) of the following songs - "Murder Inc", "This Hard Land" (one of the best half dozen Bruce songs ever), "Frankie", "My Love will not let you down", "Shut Out The Light", "A Good Man is hard to find", "The Klansman", "Brothers under the bridges", "County Fair", "Richfield Whistle", "None But The Brave" and "Richfield Whistle" would have made for a very different and darker album which probably wouldnt have sold as well, but which would have been far superior.
In many ways, its a sort of 'flip' to Darkness, where he ditched the pop material (a lot of which ended up on 'The Promise' and 'Tracks') in favour of the darker songs.
At the time it came out, I found many of the songs trite and overproduced compared to what I'd heard from him before and still do, to some extent (I wouldnt put it in his top 12 studio albums). My next reaction on hearing it was to realise that the genie was out of the bottle and this was the album that would make him a megastar.