Who's The Boss Listening To?
We showed Against Me! some wine-drenched love a ways back and got mostly grief for it. First comment: "This is absolute dog shit." Sigh. If only Bruce Springsteen were a regular Stereogum commenter! We recently mentioned everyone covering the Boss, but ever wonder what current bands he might like to cover? Well, besides Against Me!, of course.
[photo via Brooklyn Vegan]
Over at rollingstone.com, you can listen to outtakes from the Springsteen interview in the current issue (right, the one with Bruce on the cover). Turns out he learns a lot about music from his kids (a little bit country, a little bit top 40), but he's mostly digging bands that "create community" like Dropkick Murphys ("really good live ... great live band") , Against Me! ("New Wave, that's a great record ... love that record"), Social Distortion ("I'm still a big Social Distortion fan ... one of the not-heralded-enough great American rock bands"). Of course, like most folks in the world he also digs "Umbrella." We're still hoping the man consummates his love for the National and adds a Nebraska-style spin to "Fake Empire." Am sure Doveman would help out. And we'll go ahead and assume the Boss digs Neon Bible.
Posted at 10:58 AM
Tags: Against Me! | Bruce Springsteen | Dropkick Murphys | Rihanna | Social Distortion | The National
My bassist ran into Bruce at a Jersey mall right when Social Distortion's "Sex, Love & Rock n Roll" came out. Bruce was waiting for his kid to come out of a store, so instead of just gushing about how much he loves Bruce, he just said "Hey, did you get the new Social D yet?". Bruce laughed and held up a bag from a music show with the disc in it andn said "Just did".
Pretty f'in awesome...
Posted by: Batten at October 24, 2007 12:53 PM | ReplyScore = 0
Bruce did a guest spot on Mike Ness's first solo outing, back in '99.
Posted by: Jay at October 24, 2007 1:03 PM | ReplyScore = 0
Bruce:
Posted by: scott at October 24, 2007 1:13 PM | ReplyCool dude: http://youtube.com/watch?v=DZE7OchG3DY
And he counts: http://youtube.com/watch?v=bV5iHgdRQRg
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New Wave still blows.
Posted by: feedbacker at October 24, 2007 2:23 PM | ReplyScore = 0
Bruce Springsteen is absolute dog shit. And the levels on his albums are terrible.
Posted by: Bob Dylan at October 24, 2007 2:55 PM | ReplyScore = 0
I was very upset to find out that this post had nothing to do with Tony and Angela...
Posted by: Jason at October 24, 2007 4:39 PM | ReplyScore = 0
Against Me!? Bruce Springsteen has bad taste in music.
Posted by: mahavishnu orchestra pwns> jou at October 24, 2007 11:23 PM | ReplyScore = 0
Man, The National fucking sucks. Who the fuck listens to that crap? Get rid of your crappy "Fake Empire" mp3, and go listen to a REAL song, like "Thunder Road" or Rihanna's "Umbrella"
Posted by: Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen at October 24, 2007 11:27 PM | ReplyScore = 0