These days you don't wait on Romeos you wait on those BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN POLL RESULTS

"And isn't it propinquitious?
Don't you think?
It's like 10,000 Zamfirs, when all you need is a Vangelis."

Hmm, that's interesting. I think propinquity could work, at least sort of metaphorically, even if they mean it like propensity, predilection or any number of other words that start with P.

propinquitous people popularizing panflutes, painfully.

There was a band called Propinquity whose album was rereleased via Numero -- it's pretty good but I bought it for like $4 so it's $4 good.

Internet down today, just catching up.

WOW to LL's TOL story.

My Ballot:

40: State Trooper
36: Candy's Room
33: Atlantic City
30: Something In The Night
28: Spirit In The Night
26: Cadillac Ranch
25: Johnny 99
24: The Promised Land
23: Incident On 57th Street
22: Darkness On The Edge of Town
21: Cover Me
20: Kitty's Back
19: Livin' In The Future
18: The Ties That Bind
17: Sherry Darling
16: Open All Night
15: She's The One
14: Gypsy Biker
13: Meeting Across The River
12: Held Up Without A Gun

I equal-weighted my ballot so it's presented chronologically.

Biggest revelation for me: Tunnel of Love. I remember some of the singles (even voted for 1) but never owned the album. Gonna have to do something about that.

Biggest disconnect with other voters: Nebraska. It may be heresy on this thread but, try as I might, Nebraska doesn't do much for me. Tried again with the results rollout. Still not getting it.

Growing Up
Spirits in the Night
For You
Blinded by the Light
4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
Incident on 57th Street
Rosalita
New York City Serenade
Kitty's Back
She's the One
Thunder Road
Tenth Avenue Freeze Out
Backstreets
Candy's Room
Racing in the Streets
Point Blank
My Hometown
Dancing in the Dark
Tougher Than the Rest
Streets of Philadelphia

Albums:

Wild Innocent
Born to Run
Greetings
Darkness
Born in the USA

Because of this thread, I wrote this about Racing in the Street. Not quite what I wanted, cos I had to bash it out in a 20-min window. Hat tip to zachlyon for the Camaro observation.

wonderful article!! i expect royalties.

tbh i never even noticed the crystals reference. but i'm horrible with that sort of thing.

Great piece. 20 minutes! Gravitas only slightly undermined by the linked video being by sgtpepperspeepee.

I think the only reason he put the Camaro first was so that it would scan and rhyme.

sssssshhhhhhh

xpost Fortunate to be a very quick writer. Been thinking about the song all poll, so I knew what I was going to say. No blank paper in my head.

Roy Bittan's piano picking out a phrase adapted from the Crystals' Then He Kissed Me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0GfHJGmLQ8

Would pay to see Bruce do anything, but a whole Phil Spector set would be ... wow ...

Huh, just saw this, which is not so hot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve1BUGpatDk

But what a lovely song this one is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiD378AgSds

Kathryn Jean Lopez ‏@kathrynlopez

i confess, if @chucktodd asked me "Bon Jovi or Springsteen," I would not answer "Springsteen, of course"

Hi - can someone put up another link to the Spotify. xx

Jamie, could you post the whole list?

great piece ithappens

Thanks for the nice words.

Clarence's family suing his doctors for malpractice.

tol is the new nebraska tho I don't think very many people say "I don't like springsteen but I like tol"

― iatee, Monday, February 25, 2013 6:11 PM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbh this is mostly me. i like nebraska quite a bit, and then out of nowhere i started listening to tunnel of love obsessively, over the last year. that's my favorite now. "brilliant disguise" was the way in, but almost the entire album is very good. i do like a few other springsteen songs (no one is going to deny something like 'dancing in the dark') but in general i like when the e street band is either not there or they tone it down a little

I would like to distance myself from
the 2013 VG who all but dismissed Tunnel of Love in its entirety

https://tenor.com/wq8K.gif

i am here to say that i have revisited TOL since that time and love it start to finish. My ears, they seem to work now

https://media1.tenor.com/images/4c7118532426337f032fe0750baa43cb/tenor.gif

welcome to the fold

<3

Hooray!