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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Maybe you can recommend a Springsteen album w/o Clarence for Sebby to try?
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It ain't Clarence that ruins the Boss for me... The hornist label doesn't stick, BTW. I have been a Traffic lover since I first stumbled upon my uncle's copy of Low Spark back in fourth grade.
The Boss is considered a poet, so you judge him on the standard set by the Dead, Dylan, classic Stones, Beatles, Hank Williams, etc... The best rock poets wrote about characters who could have existed in any time or place. There's no figuring what time or location most of Robert Hunter or Dylan or Mick and Keith's (classic Mick and Keith) subjects lived. Bruce's heaviest stuff, OTOH, seems to come out of 70s Jersey. His characters are limited. He's obviously insanely talented, but like the Clash or early U2, a lot of his catalogue doesn't resonate with the listener all that well unless you know or have seen what he's singing about.
I also dislike his voice a lot.
