Sweet Papa Crimbo

Maybe we should do a FAVORITE POPTOD POST. Just kidding...maybe one of these days you'll hit a band I care enough about to come up with a favorite songs list. (XTC is just outside my window...there is a 10 year gap in my music appreciation...from around 1984/85 to the mid 90's. (Actually, the 'grunge' and 'ya'll-ternative' movements got me interested again.)

I am very excited about the anniversary release of DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN. This is one record in Bruce's catalogue that definitely needs remastering. The production of that record has little depth and the drums have no presence. I know there are a number of FM radio broadcasts that are available for the 1978 tour. In addition, a number of shows were recorded for the possible release of a live album in 1979. This was an outrageously productive period for Springsteen.

So...She's the Norah Jones of 2009? Guess she will become a footnote in a couple of years.

Seems the crash was a hallmark of Ringo's beat in 1964.

Concur with all of the above...would add Paul McCartney ROCKED!!!! Plant and Krause were really good too. I fear for U2.

nah... My ex-girlfriends are pushing 50 now

I may not be up on my current flavor of the moment artists...but who the hell is Adele and why is she winning the Best new artist grammy? And why should I care?

But then again...there can never be anything like SUMMERTEETH ever again.

Hell yeah

Dune --- Frank Herbert Lord of the Rings Trilogy --- J. R. R. Tolkien War and Peace --- Leo Tolstoy Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich --- William Shirer Lonesome Dove --- Larry McMurtry I am not very high brow in my reading tastes.

I enjoy posting about Springsteen here because I find Wilco fans to be more sophisticated than followers of other bands. There isn't the hero worship combat with the ridicule everything he does mentality that is found on the Usenet boards. I have rather strong feelings about Springsteen's music because he was the first MATURE artist that I got (meaning understood in that visceral sense. Maybe I should say I grok). I discovered him in 1973-74 at the cusp of my discovery of music. He's like an old friend I have never met. I mark milestones in my life by his record releases. I graduated from C

Not to be excessively argumentative...but how can these be your favorite artists and you "never heard" or "ignored" releases?

Dingbat works fine. I was gonna say Batshit crazy.

...Me? ...Really? Well, I tend to see it as an analogy for the American experience over the last 4 to 6 years. The idea that one cannot escape the consequences of their past actions resonates in much of Bruce's work. We are the sum of our experiences, and we can never escape them. This one has some absurd story elements and follows the bounds of a traditional tragedy. It's a return to the overblown, operatic stylings that he featured and was known for up until Darkeness on the Edge of Town (Lost in the Flood, Incident on 57th Street, New York City Serenade, Jungleland). Rife with symbolis

And now available as a bit torrent. The internets...wonderful thing.

And that would be your opinion.

Had a coat of fine leather and snakeskin boots But that coat always had a tread hangin' loose Well I pulled it one night and to my surprise It led me right past your house and on over the rise

Hmmph... I was gonna say I like the late 50's Stratocaster

Interesting going this morning(and my morning started pretty freaking early...around 3AMCST) Pearls on a String --- Ryan Adams Ask her for Adderall/Cheyenne Sunrise/Two Handed Handshake --- The Hold Steady Paradise --- Bruce Springsteen Motion Pictures --- Neil Young Deep --- Pearl Jam An Ecumenical Matter --- Loose Fur Pump it Up --- Elvis Costello and the Attractions Auf Wiedersehn --- Cheap Trick Rosalie --- Alejandro Escovedo 4th Time Around --- Bob Dylan Bad (Wide Awake in America) --- U2 Yallah --- Page & Plant You Belong to Me --- Elvis Costello & the Attractions Decorat

There are more "HOLY SHIT!!!" moments in this show than any other show in the history of forever.

Alejandro Escovedo --- I was Drunk Smokin' from Shootin' --- My Morning Jacket The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show --- The Band Where the Streets Have No Name --- U2 Blossom --- Ryan Adams and the Cardinals Dream Police --- Cheap Trick Better Days --- Bruce Springsteen Kid A --- Radiohead Light up or Leave Me Alone --- Traffic Life by the Drop --- Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble Easy Plateau --- Ryan Adams and the Cardinals Make it Better (Forget About Me) --- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Hello Goodbye --- The Beatles I am Yours --- Derek and the Dominoes Love or Confusion --- The Jimi

The machinist climbs his ferris wheel like a brave And the fire eater's lyin' in a pool of sweat, victim of the heatwave Behind the tent the hired hand tightens his legs on the sword swallower's blade And circus town's on the shortwave The runway lies ahead like a great false dawn Fat lady, big mama, Missy Bimbo sits in her chair and yawns And the man-beast lies in his cage sniffin' popcorn As the midget licks his fingers and suffers Missy Bimbo's scorn Circus town's been born Whoa, and a press roll drummer go, ballerina to and fro Cartwheelin' up on that tightrope with a cannon

Oh My God

Bruce Springsteen --- Brilliant Disguise (live guitar and vocals in his kitchen)