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Not really, no. I mean, I enjoy him sometimes (usually when I'm drunk), but he just doesn't do it for me. It probably has a lot to do with my close proximity to Jersey, which treats Bruce like a demi-God and shoves Glory Days down your throat 2349857385735 times a night at the bar.
A favorite song of Al's that he hasn't heard live (yet) is Cadillac Ranch. I'll have to post a photo of his office wall in here this weekend. He LOVES the Boss. Was going to get a Telecaster tattoo at the convention we were going to the weekend we buried my dad instead.
It's a terrible cover. I would have rather seen Jimmy Fallon as The Boss do it.
I think its less annoying than the original. And I can understand the words instead of Australian pop mumbling.
She's from New Zealand, damnit! Kiwis and Aussies don't like to be confused.
I think Bruce's version sounds like an old rich white guy mad at music's popular culture status, though I know that is not actually the case. Lorde's original is just about a broke kid riding the bus who can't afford to live the lifestyle portrayed in the songs she is jamming to.
Not really, no. I mean, I enjoy him sometimes (usually when I'm drunk), but he just doesn't do it for me. It probably has a lot to do with my close proximity to Jersey, which treats Bruce like a demi-God and shoves Glory Days down your throat 2349857385735 times a night at the bar.
"Close proximity to Jersey"...where are you? Cause if you're in the southern proximity, Philly/PA, Delaware, northern MD, then that makes perfect sense to me. I like Glory Days myself but I also totally get why so many people don't; I've always thought of Bon Jovi as a poor (well, let's face it, god awful) Bruce imitator and Glory Days is the most Jovi-esque Bruce song and while it may not technically be his biggest hit (I think Dancing In The Dark was the single got highest on the charts) it is, these days, probably the most often played. It's the Bruce version of Livin' On A Prayer or Don't Stop Believing or Here I Go Again, i.e. a song you love when you're hammered and a song you hear (drunk or sober) way too damned often.
Here's the thing though: I grew up in Monmouth County, NJ, which to those unfamiliar is the center of Boss territory, where he grew up, where he cut his teeth as a musician and formed the E Street Band and where he still lives today (my mom actually taught his kids and my little brother is friends with his daughter), and as you might imagine the demigod status is at its highest peak there. You hear The Boss on the radio (Q104.3, obviously), at the bars on the juke or played live, at house parties, BBQs, front and back porches, funerals (that last one is 100% true, I have seen it*)...but Glory Days is not often what you hear. I kind of hate and kind of love saying this but the real Bruce fans in the real Jersey (as in the semi-mythical Jersey Shore Bruce sings about) tend to blast deeper cuts...I don't mean everyone there rocks out to the B-side rarities from the Lucky Town sessions or anything but you're more likely to hear Rosalita or Jungleland or 10th Avenue Freeze-Out or Bobby Jean or Prove It All Night. Of course these are well-known songs but, again, if we're talking about national/international hits they certainly aren't that. As huge as he is, I still think Bruce often gets a bad rap and gets roped in with all the knucklehead, butt-rock non-country redneck dreck you hear at bars where the top shelf "highfalutin" beer is Heineken and RAWK HITS OF THE 80S!! compilations.
Glory Days, while I still like it, can get annoying as anything you hear that many times over and over again, but I think it's very likely the worst representation of Bruce's music. Not his worst song, even the Bruce fanatic that I am will readily admit he's made more than a few terrible ones, but most definitely the worst one you're likely to hear, and more importantly the most misleading.
Seriously, listen to Born To Run, Darkness On The Edge Of Town, The River, or Nebraska, and you'll see what all the fuss is about. I'd say for you Nebraska would be the ticket, not only is it just an incredible record but it's about as far removed from Glory Days as you can get.
*Re: hearing Bruce at a funeral...a very wealthy local magnate from down the shore died, I think it was a little over ten years ago, and at his personal request (obviously premortem, for all I know it was in his will) Bruce played Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town during the funeral service. It was beautifully odd or oddly beautiful, I'm not sure which.
