― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:50 (eighteen years ago) link
yeah exactly!
― reacher, Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― drench, Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:26 (eighteen years ago) link
Bruce himself mentions this in the "greatest hits" liner notes (I think) ------- basically says his manager talked him out of giving it to the Ramones ----
― reacher, Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 23 March 2006 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 23 March 2006 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Thursday, 23 March 2006 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 23 March 2006 23:57 (eighteen years ago) link
"100,000 Fireflies" is great, both the Fields' version and Superchunk's cover.
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 24 March 2006 00:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― James, Friday, 24 March 2006 01:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 24 March 2006 01:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Friday, 24 March 2006 02:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 24 March 2006 02:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― keyth (keyth), Friday, 24 March 2006 03:43 (eighteen years ago) link
As for "Hungry Heart," it's of course great, and part of Springsteen's proud traditional of having hits with his darkest songs ("Born to Run," "Hungry Heart," "BitUSA," "Dancing in the Dark," "Brilliant Disguise," "Streets of Philadelphia," etc.). Mildly subversive from a guy who inspires mass fists-in-the-air singalongs. I guess Bruce-town's full of losers who relate (me included, sometimes).
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:54 (eighteen years ago) link
how does the other one go?
lol at going out for some brie and leaving your wife btw. i believe he went out for "a ride" and never came back like a river that don't know where it's going. which obviously makes it alright.
― Dr J Bowman (Dr J Bowman), Friday, 24 March 2006 23:53 (eighteen years ago) link
I met her in a Kingstown barWe fell in love I knew it had to endWe took what we had and we ripped it apartNow here I am down in Kingstown again
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 25 March 2006 05:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 25 March 2006 06:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Saturday, 25 March 2006 07:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 25 March 2006 16:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Saturday, 25 March 2006 20:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 25 March 2006 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link
it begins:
got a wife an' kids in baltimore, jacki wen' out for a ride an' i never went backlike a river that don' know where it's flowin'i took a wrong turn an' i jus' kept goin'
and yes, the record was sped up
in other news, i wish i hadn't sold my m.f. cds sometimes, especially that first one.
― amateurist0, Sunday, 26 March 2006 20:26 (eighteen years ago) link
This is partially because I looked at the thread title and went, "Hmm, a dead heat."
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 26 March 2006 20:32 (eighteen years ago) link
And please forgive my snappish response. Though not drunk, I was on a couple hours sleep in as many days. I'd hug you, but I have cooties.
― O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Sunday, 26 March 2006 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Sunday, 26 March 2006 21:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 26 March 2006 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link
I thought this would be a Pinefox thread! -- Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 23 March 2006
I thought JtN would have said that. I'm glad he did. I am almost surprised I didn't start this thread myself, except that I don't think there's any contest - it's average Boss vs utterly outstanding Merritt; '100,000 Fireflies' by 100 miles.
― the pinefox, Friday, 11 July 2008 14:42 (fifteen years ago) link
You won't be happy with meBut give me one more chanceYou won't be happy anyway
^^^omg best lyric ever.
― I donated and I expect some sort of reward measured in virgins. (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 07:30 (fourteen years ago) link
So when Bruce sings "Baltimore, Jack" he's talking to someone named Jack? "Baltimore Jack" isn't a section of the town?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 7 November 2009 16:05 (fourteen years ago) link
"jack" is a new jersey nickname for maryland
― max, Saturday, 7 November 2009 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I think they serve Baltimore Jack on bacon cheeseburgers in New Jersey.
― Euler, Saturday, 7 November 2009 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Hungry Heart is so much more profound than it is good...
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Saturday, 7 November 2009 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
You won't be happy with meBut give me one more chanceYou won't be happy anyway^^^omg best lyric ever.― I donated and I expect some sort of reward measured in virgins. (a hoy hoy),
― I donated and I expect some sort of reward measured in virgins. (a hoy hoy),
absolutely true. but tonight this lyric "makes me want to kill myself."
― treeship 2, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 04:02 (six years ago) link
(that's another lyric from the song. i'm fine. but like... desperation.... heartache.... approached through the thinnest possible veneer of irony, a way of maintaining dignity... anyone who thinks stephin merritt isn't a good songwriter is wrong)
― treeship 2, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 04:04 (six years ago) link