New Springsteen Album "Western Stars" June 14*

We have no idea what it's going to sound like. I don't think it will sound like that at all.

 

i dont think its going retro. bruce hasnt really sounded like bruce since 1984.
its going to sound like woad/wb which is the natural progression of the sound he wants.

 

I don't think it's going retro either. I'm just saying I don't think it will be light pop fluff like WOAD.

 

Good point. I agree that an E Street Band album will sound like previous "E Street Band " albums.
Bruce is in his comfort zone with that group. There's a reason they sound like they do.

 

Like plenty, I'll wear a bandana on my head as much as a turban ...meaning never. I suppose I could wipe my kid's nose with it though

 

That's why he dumped them for (not 18 but) 10 years, huh, after his big Hollywood success with BITUSA. Never did find the magic mojo again though, not to my ears anyhow.

 

I've never seen or heard the phrase "like plenty" before.

 

there are worse Bruce things that light fluff, ie empty sky and you re missing.

still the sound will be the sound that he s working up in the last few albums. specially if this
aiello guy is involved.

 

I'm not talking about 30 years ago. I mean since he reformulated the band in 1999.
He made a big mistake ceremoniously "dumping" them when all he had to do was be like Neil Young with Crazy Horse (and his other side projects) and put them aside for awhile.
And then he wouldn't have looked foolish assembling another band to do "E Street Band"--type music.

 

How do you get "18 years?" He fired them in '89 and they became a touring concern again in 1999---and there was the brief 1995 reunion around the release of Greatest Hits---which featured newly recorded E Street music. In the intervening years there were probably recording sessions that haven't yet been released.

 

Maybe you should get out more

 

That's what I say but your Mom has other ideas.

HEY-OOOOHHH!!!

 

Now you're just being mean as my mom just recently passed ... (maybe it was just gas?).

 

Anywho . . .

When, in the past 20 years, has the ESB sounded like the classic ESB on a studio recording?

My Lucky Day?

 

"Livin' in the Future" from Magic.

 

he should have called the Magic album "Compression" instead.

 

What’s wrong with you’re missing?

 

This is not an E St Band album, why are they being discussed?

 

Because someone brought up the fact that Bruce has said that he has a new batch of "E Street Band" songs written.

 

No coloring outside the lines children.

 

Save my Love?

J

 

Well, not the vocals.

 

Trick question because most of the out-takes from the Darkness and River box sets were recorded much more recently than 20 years ago....

 

"Save My Love"

 

If I hadn't liked what an artist or band had done since 1987 (Tunnel Of Love), I wouldn't be the slightest bit interested in that artist anymore. I would move on and let it be.
For instance, when I was a kid we all loved Rod Stewart. Stewart has not done anything I've liked since 1973 or so and because of that he's been off my radar for years.
Why do people that have not liked Springsteen in more than 30 years even bother to comment on him anymore? What are you expecting now?
Move on and enjoy something else.

Just like U2.

There are very many people who still like what Bruce and U2 are doing now, yet some people just can't see why. I get it. I don't like a lot of what people on this forum are into (especially when it comes to some of the older artists or bands who I don't think are worth bothering with anymore)

I just wouldn't waste my time bashing an artist I haven't liked in years because they're not the same as they were years ago...