Decades Feeder Bracket - Wild Card 70s Week 3 Round of 16

[BanzaiCat]

[trailrunner]

Good bracket and yes, I did enjoy seeing "The Boss" leading off. "Jungleland" is amazing, a better song than "Rosalita" all the way around but you have to listen to "Jungleland" to get the depth and sheer poetry of the piece, whereas "Rosalita" is a feel good song. By way of comparison, I know the complete lyrics to "Jungleland" by heart (and the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be) but little more than the refrain to "Rosalita". But I'm not complaining. It's all for fun anyway.

And hell yeah to Supertramp! One of the more unappreciated bands of the 70's.

Jungleland is indeed a beautiful, powerful ballad and one of my favorites. But I like Backsreets even more.

[Steelgrave]

Good bracket and yes, I did enjoy seeing "The Boss" leading off. "Jungleland" is amazing, a better song than "Rosalita" all the way around but you have to listen to "Jungleland" to get the depth and sheer poetry of the piece, whereas "Rosalita" is a feel good song. By way of comparison, I know the complete lyrics to "Jungleland" by heart (and the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be) but little more than the refrain to "Rosalita". But I'm not complaining. It's all for fun anyway.

And hell yeah to Supertramp! One of the more unappreciated bands of the 70's.

Jungleland is indeed a beautiful, powerful ballad and one of my favorites. But I like Backsreets even more.

Actually, Backstreets is my favorite Springsteen song ever  I first heard it after my high school girlfriend broke up with me. I still see her face when I hear Bruce sing, "you're just a Tramp of Hearts, crying tears of faithlessness"   

[MetalDog]

The DJs on my local FM station growing up were big Bruce fans.  I always dug Jungleland, Backstreets, 10th Avenue Freeze Out, Rosalita, Thunder Road, et al.  I always thought he sold out a little on 'Born in the U.S.A.'

[Tuna]

Its OK. I can take it.

...so, like I said - just me then <smug mode>

They were banned in Boston in 75, that was it.. A few of my friends saw them earlier.

[MetalDog]

I've seen Plant twice.  Even did a couple Zeppelin songs the second time I saw him.  My brother saw Page.  That's as close as either of us has gotten.

[mirth]

I saw Plant solo back in the early 90s. Alannah Myles opened for him.

[MetalDog]

That bill is the second time I saw him.  I walked in to the arena when she was singing that song, but, we were cruising the concourse for the rest of her set.

[trailrunner]

The DJs on my local FM station growing up were big Bruce fans.  I always dug Jungleland, Backstreets, 10th Avenue Freeze Out, Rosalita, Thunder Road, et al.  I always thought he sold out a little on 'Born in the U.S.A.'

IMHO he peaked with Darkness on the Edge of Town, and went downhill after that.  Remember The River and Lincoln Nebraska?  I think after those two less-than-successful albums he had to go mainstream with Born in the USA.

I saw him about 1980, maybe a year later.  I knew that during Thunder Road he usually let the crowd sing some of the awesome opening verse, and it was an electric moment. 

[Staggerwing]

I'll have to say that 'Greetings from Ashbury Park' is still Springsteen's greatest album. Saint in the City, Blinded by the  Light, For You, Spirit in the Night, etc. Awesome stuff.

[MetalDog]

Just had this pop up on Spotify.  Love this song.