You're definitely not alone there. BS's "music" is BS also. I wouldn't go to see him if they offered free tickets, a limo ride, and dinner.
Prince Dead at 57
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mitzi
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Prince on Bruce Springsteen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQQVpSDHq-M
Larry Gude
Strung Out
It's not fair to judge Springsteen on the same merits as Prince. Bruce is, clearly, an artist in his own right. That said, he built his career on guts and hard work, an intensity his music is ALL about. Much of it has no ready beauty or creativity about it unless you can find the beauty in the things he sings about, the harshness of life, of tough people in no win situations, fiercely blue color in sentiment and aspiration. I'm not a fun of his music but I am absolutely a fan of his work ethic and commitment to his art as he sees it. He NEVER tried to be anything but Bruce. If music has a stone mason, it is he.
So, Prince, no less a worker or committed but much more artistic in the sense of colors and romantic allusion, illusion, aspiration. Prince is 'let's make love on a cloud in a bath of champagne, floating along a rainbow'. Bruce is 'let me make it through one more god damn day so I might get home and just hold my baby a few moments before exhaustion takes over.'
Prince is heart and soul and imagination. Brice is guts and shear force of will.
His music still sucks moose dong.
Without his band, he would be driving a sewage pumper for a living...
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acommondisaster
Active Member
I don't buy into BS's "man of the people" crap...he's full of it. He may have struggled to get noticed, but his music is pretend. Kind of reminds me of Hillary "we were dead broke when we left the white house" and "Chelsea has tried not to care about money"
LibertyBeacon
Unto dust we shall return
Bull crap you loser. You couldn't care less about Springsteen's music. You just feel you have to make an easy political point because you hate to feel left out. You're very transparent and couldn't congeal a single thought of your own in that empty head of yours.His music still sucks moose dong.
Without his band, he would be driving a sewage pumper for a living...
Maybe you're a lot like that frat boy Gillian, always trying to "score wins". Good luck with that.
You're right in that I couldn't care less about Springsteen's music. I don't consider him to be talented enough to be called a singer. I change to station whenever his "music" starts to play.Bull crap you loser. You couldn't care less about Springsteen's music. You just feel you have to make an easy political point because you hate to feel left out. You're very transparent and couldn't congeal a single thought of your own in that empty head of yours.
Maybe you're a lot like that frat boy Gillian, always trying to "score wins". Good luck with that.
And how's this for a single thought? You are a sad, sad little man with penis envy. Your nastiness is only superseded by your pathetic attempts to garner attention to build up your fragile little ego.
PsyOps
Pixelated
As a musician, I have learned to admire two types of musicians:His music still sucks moose dong.
Without his band, he would be driving a sewage pumper for a living...
The artist. Someone who can really compose music and make it mean something to a lot of people.
Someone with stamina. This is thought of in two different realms – someone who can continue to create music that is relevant through years, even decades; and someone who maintains the energy to do the kind of touring people like Springsteen has done.
I don’t find Springsteen particularly artistic, but he has created music that remains relevant and appeals to a large and diverse group of people (both in culture and age). He certainly has all the other qualities that I really admire. He has won 20 Grammys. He is still kicking at the age of 66. Not very many musicians can say this.
Be that as it may, as a singer, I still think he sucks moose ####.
Tilted
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I like some of Bruce Springsteen's music, he has a great soulful sound. But the stuff I like tends to be his less iconic stuff. The Tunnel of Love album is probably a top 30 album for me in terms of albums that I like to listen all the way through.
But he doesn't compare for me to Prince, particularly in the way that others have mentioned - when it comes the the artistic (whatever the hell that means, it's kinda hard to define) quality of his music. For me Prince is at the top of that list for my lifetime. The body of music that he created is, to me, unmatched by any other solo artist from the last 4 decades - it's so voluminous, so varied, and so consistently good. He's been pop and funk and rock and jazz to varying degrees through this career, and often at the same time. I don't however think he's been as influential in the evolution of pop music as some others have been, so I wouldn't rank him first there. (He's been influential of course, but some others have probably been more so.)
I listened to the last album that he released, HitNRun Phase Two, for the first time last week. It's pretty good and it extended my Best of playlist by a couple more songs. It's no where near Parade or Dirty Mind or Sign 'O' The Times good, but not much is.
But he doesn't compare for me to Prince, particularly in the way that others have mentioned - when it comes the the artistic (whatever the hell that means, it's kinda hard to define) quality of his music. For me Prince is at the top of that list for my lifetime. The body of music that he created is, to me, unmatched by any other solo artist from the last 4 decades - it's so voluminous, so varied, and so consistently good. He's been pop and funk and rock and jazz to varying degrees through this career, and often at the same time. I don't however think he's been as influential in the evolution of pop music as some others have been, so I wouldn't rank him first there. (He's been influential of course, but some others have probably been more so.)
I listened to the last album that he released, HitNRun Phase Two, for the first time last week. It's pretty good and it extended my Best of playlist by a couple more songs. It's no where near Parade or Dirty Mind or Sign 'O' The Times good, but not much is.
Tilted
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WTF?
I think her recording of Nothing Compares 2 U was great and it was of course the commercially successful one. But, for me, the version that Prince and Rosie Gaines did blows it away.
Dakota
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30 minutes ago, TMZ reported that the DEA is at Paisley Park doing a search warrant.
http://www.tmz.com/2016/05/10/prince-dea-feds-criminal-investigation-search-warrant-video/#disqus_thread
With everything that is coming out this past week, it is really starting to seem like another Michael Jackson type overdose.
Also some reports are saying that 700 people have said they are either a sibling or child of Prince so it doesn't sound like the estate will get settled anytime soon.
http://www.tmz.com/2016/05/10/prince-dea-feds-criminal-investigation-search-warrant-video/#disqus_thread
With everything that is coming out this past week, it is really starting to seem like another Michael Jackson type overdose.
Also some reports are saying that 700 people have said they are either a sibling or child of Prince so it doesn't sound like the estate will get settled anytime soon.
Dakota
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Yep...Geez, what a mess.
YepGeez, what a mess.
After he died, I read a posting on a board that mysterious disappeared soon after it got posted, frankly because what was posted was CLEARLY a violation of HIPAA laws if true. In a nutshell, the poster implied many doctors and alias names were involved in this mess. Time will say whether or not any of it turns out to be true but it does seem to be leaning toward true.
What is really messed up is on this board we were talking about Suboxone & buprenorphine just before his death and how some (one being me) felt it wasn't effective in treating addiction because it keeps the addict addicted.... but rather detox and Naloxone was a better option. It appears that this doctor's kid showed up with a backpack of chemical synthesis type drugs. He isn't a doctor nor can drugs like that be transported over state lines without proper laws being followed.
All of it is a giant cluster but I hope this puts fear into doctors about over prescribing pain pills. Perhaps we wouldn't have a CVS, Walgreens or Rite Aid on every corner - everywhere...
Of course. I mean, I'm a sibling of Prince. Aren't you?
Tilted
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Are these just people that claim they were conceived after (or while) their parents listened to Prince's music? Are they claiming to be his children in that sense?
Because, I'd expect such people would count in the thousands rather than in the hundreds.