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Did you guys hate stuff like this in 1988...??

#121
murphy said:
The first Springsteen song I heard that I loved....

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I so wish (well, maybe perhaps not) that generative A.I. had been where it is now, a few years back.

I really wanted to modify / recreate this video, removing Bruce, and replacing him with that little robot that had mysteriously been unleashed in Philadelphia, and was on some unknown quest.

It became an on going news story once the mainstream media picked up on it, and came to a mysterious climax when it's corpse was found one morning, apparently having been baseball batted to death by bored teenagers.

Unfortunately, (and I was only too aware, to even bother attempting) there was no way I would have been capable of pulling that off in a timeframe where it remained relevant (you'd need to have that video out within hours of the story breaking, and it would have taken me weeks execute).
 
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#122
Wood and Wire said:
I so wish (well, maybe perhaps not) that generative A.I. had been where it is now, a few years back.

I really wanted to modify / recreate this video, removing Bruce, and replacing him with that little robot that had mysteriously been unleashed in Philadelphia, and was on some unknown quest.

It became an on going news story once the mainstream media picked up on it, and came to a mysterious climax when it's corpse was found one morning, apparently having been baseball batted to death by bored teenagers.

Unfortunately, (and I was only too aware, to even bother attempting) there was no way I would have been capable of pulling that off in a timeframe where it remained relevant (you'd need to have that video out within hours of the story breaking, and it would have taken me weeks execute).
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But the song was so epic in raising awareness of the AIDS Crisis and that extremely moving movie :crying:
 
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#124
Honestly, I like Bruce as a songwriter, but not so much as a recording artist. Example: Manfred Mann's Earth Band's covers of "Blinded By The Light" and "For You" are amazing. Bruce's versions? I can't stand them. Regarding the song the OP posted, when I heard it back in the day, I thought "Eh... it's OK I guess."
 
#126
murphy said:
But the song was so epic in raising awareness of the AIDS Crisis and that extremely moving movie :crying:
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I didn't feel the song itself did anything to raise awareness, beyond being attached to the movie - which was a huge deal in terms of awareness of corporate, and to some degree social, attitudes towards the way AIDS suffers were victimised, penalised, marginalised, and swept under the carpet.
 
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Wood and Wire said:
I didn't feel the song itself did anything to raise awareness, beyond being attached to the movie - which was a huge deal in terms of awareness of corporate, and to some degree social, attitudes towards the way AIDS suffers were victimised, penalised, marginalised, and swept under the carpet.
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Exactly....To be aware of a problem...we can all help make the change that becomes lasting.
 
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#128
For the most part, I didn't like any 80s music. I turned 14 in 1980 and felt like I was born a decade (at least) too late.

Some of it I like now, but a lot of it not so much. The synths were part of it. Everyone with a mullet didn't help. All of them dressed like the capital district in the hunger games. MTV took the soul.

I like pre Born in the USA Bruce much better than post. People would rave about his amazing marathon 4 hour concerts and it just sounded like a prison sentence to me.
 
#129
VeryTallBassist said:
I was 8 years old when Born in the USA came out, and most of those songs were force fed to me. I liked some of them but never became a huge fan. By the time this album came out, I was already headed in a different direction with my musical tastes (into the new and exciting world of thrash metal) and it barely registered a blip on my radar. Think of it in context ‐ it was less than a year since Metallica's Master of Puppets, Slayer's Reign In Blood, and Megadeth's Peace Sells had come out. I was also in NY and surrounded by radio stations that were playing this new freestyle music out of the Bronx. Complete opposites, but that's where my adolescent brain was focused, not on some middle aged heartland rocker experimenting with synths.
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Also from NY — also was not into Bruce at the time and was 100% into metal and hardcore. In fact, I got Born in the USA on vinyl as a Christmas gift and exchanged it for Celtic Frost’s To Megatherion. I still have it! But the funny thing is, while still not a Bruce fan in general, I probably listen to him more than Celtic Frost these days.

Which is to say not much. But also way more than freestyle.
 
#130
Lowbrow said:
When we were being force-fed critics’ strident assertions of ‘the greatest thing ever’ in the mid seventies, I agreed and have not moved much in my opinion.
And I’m talking about The Ramones.
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You had to be there. I saw the Ramones in 1976, before critics discovered them, when they played in a warehouse in New Haven. They were jaw-droppingly great. Tied with Cream as the best concert I ever saw.

It was so early in their career, they ran out of songs despite having an opening act. They played all the songs on their album and then repeated half of them.

Here's an hilarious review of that concert, taken from this page:

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