Workingman's anthems of Boss cloaked in irony (SPRINGSTEEN BOMBS OUT IN CHICAGO)

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | June 15, 2006 | DAVE HOEKSTRA

[strider44]

You make some good points. Bruce may have become more of a lefty loco over the years, but many of his songs are still great in my opinion to wit:

Backstreets
Incident of 57th Street
Independence Day
Jungleland
Drive all Night
The River
New York City Serenade
Night
No Surrender (accoustic version)
Rosalita
Sandy
She's The One
Thunder Road (especially the accoustic version)
Trapped (live)
Ties That Bind
Wild Bill's Circus Story
Candy's Room
Open all Night
Stolen Car
Reason To Believe
Johnny 99

etc, etc, etc.

All great tunes, all prior to 1985. I can separate the politics from the artist.

[Mad Dawgg]

"5,500 tickets sold out of 30,000 seats, not very good "Bruuuce"."

A couple of years ago my wife surprised me with some tickets to a Blue Man Group concert in Columbus at Polaris (now called Germain Amphitheater) The Concert was awesome!

First off it was a tour based on making fun of Modern Day Rock Stars (some of the stuff they did to ridicule "Rock Stars" was funny enough to make me gasp for breath from laughing so hard and I was joined by a majority of the concert goers in mirthful appreciation of their antics)

Second, they not only are very good musicians banging on PVC pipes and what not (their rendition of the Who's Babah O'Reilly is sensational) they have a host of damn fine musicians who back them up. I would pay just to see the rhythm section of that back up group. And of course the guest singers they have are exceptional (The lead singer for guest group Venus Hum in her electrified Rainbow dress singing the old Disco hit I feel Love is something everyone should experience live!)

But thirdly and most important the whole show cost 25 bucks a ticket for excellent seats and included parking. The place was sold out and rocking hard.

Maybe Bruce ought to get him some blue face paint and a couple truckloads of PVC pipe and maybe then he can revitalize his career!

[VOA]

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