SecondEdition wrote:

RabiesAngentleman wrote:Same here. As goes with both him and Bruce Springsteen, I love them though I don't attend their church.

I know this is going to sound reactionary/assholish, and I really am sorry, but putting Bob Dylan in the same sentence with Bruce Springsteen is an insult to Bob Dylan.

Seconded. Springsteen may be the only person more boring and predictable than eric clapton.

everything by The Replacements.

SecondEdition wrote:

RabiesAngentleman wrote:Same here. As goes with both him and Bruce Springsteen, I love them though I don't attend their church.

I know this is going to sound reactionary/assholish, and I really am sorry, but putting Bob Dylan in the same sentence with Bruce Springsteen is an insult to Bob Dylan.

I wasn't making a direct comparison in any sense other than they've both got a religious following. But if I have to, I'd say Dylan has a larger output of great music and his music is smarter, but hell, Darkness At the Edge Of Town and Nebraska were better than anything Dylan was doing at the time. Also, both of them are great.

Man, you guys...

RabiesAngentleman wrote:Nebraska

A great album. Probably Springsteen's best.

I feel like I should like him more, since I was born in New Jersey and am still a resident there in my heart of hearts, but I just...don't. Too...bombastic, I guess?

I suppose where you and I differ is I love bombast.

RabiesAngentleman wrote:I suppose where you and I differ is I love bombast.

agrees

several by the fall
most of joy division (did i say that already?)
minor threat
black flag
bad brains
the minutemen (sorry. i feel bad about this one.)
husker du
the replacements
nirvana
boris
sunn 0)))

some of these aren't critically lauded, but they everyone's a critic and some of you won't shut the fuck up about these.

fancyjamtime wrote:

RabiesAngentleman wrote:I suppose where you and I differ is I love bombast.

agrees

Mark E Smith loves Peter Hammill / Van Der Graaf Generator, he's gotta love bombast.

Or wait, that's pretty much what you're sayin, huh.

SecondEdition wrote:

RabiesAngentleman wrote:Nebraska

A great album. Probably Springsteen's best.

I feel like I should like him more, since I was born in New Jersey and am still a resident there in my heart of hearts, but I just...don't. Too...bombastic, I guess?

The first two are not bombastic at all, more beat poet style. I really like the first album, it's sloppy and there is no anthems, except maybe Growing Up, Spirit in the Night and Blinded by the Light.

Back in those days (pre E Street Band) his stuff was a bit of a lyrical jam-up but he was only twenty I think. I haven't liked anything he's recorded in years; he lost it awhile back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as3UlEsvwXo