Music Again
Dec. 28th, 2018 07:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowI like Bruce Springsteen. I've liked him ever since I saw the video of "Dancing in the Dark" (and cried, "Is that who I think it is?" when Courteney Cox jumped up on stage). I have four of his albums on my hard drive. (I didn't put "The Rising" on; I can't listen to more than a couple of songs from that album without breaking down. 9/11 left a lot of scars.)
I think my favorite album of his (of those that I have) is "Wrecking Ball". The grim determination of "We Take Care of Our Own", the controlled fury of "Death to My Hometown", the sombre "Rocky Ground", "We Are Alive"... I don't think there's a song on the album I don't like.
There are singers who can do politically-flavored songs, and singers who can't. Most of Gordon Lightfoot's songs of that type do nothing for me (with the exceptions of "Pride of Man" and "Don Quixote"). The Turtles managed it once with "Earth Anthem", but their other forays into politics were pretty bad IMO. I used to like the songs on "Four Way Street" by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, but most of them feel dated or facile to me nowadays.
On this front, The Boss is The Best.
I think my favorite album of his (of those that I have) is "Wrecking Ball". The grim determination of "We Take Care of Our Own", the controlled fury of "Death to My Hometown", the sombre "Rocky Ground", "We Are Alive"... I don't think there's a song on the album I don't like.
There are singers who can do politically-flavored songs, and singers who can't. Most of Gordon Lightfoot's songs of that type do nothing for me (with the exceptions of "Pride of Man" and "Don Quixote"). The Turtles managed it once with "Earth Anthem", but their other forays into politics were pretty bad IMO. I used to like the songs on "Four Way Street" by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, but most of them feel dated or facile to me nowadays.
On this front, The Boss is The Best.
