Tag Archives: Bruce Springsteen

Links

The Boss is Number 1

2 Comments

Billboard reports this week’s album sales:

1. Bruce Springsteen – Working on a Dream – 224,000 (debut)

2. Taylor Swift – Fearless – 55,000 – (-11%)

3. Beyonce – I Am … Sasha Fierce – 52,000 (+1%)

4. Nickelback – Dark Horse (-3%)

5. Kanye West – 808s & Heartbreak – 33,000 (-15%)

6. Grammy Nominees 2009 – 33,000 (debut)

7. Jamie Foxx – Intuition – 32,000 (+4%)

8. Keyshia Cole – A Different Me – 31,000 (-1%)

9. Franz Ferdinand – Tonight: Franz Ferdinand – 31,000 (debut)

10. Britney Spears – Circus – 28,000 (-8%)

• With nine No. 1 albums, “Springsteen is now tied with the Rolling Stones for the third most No. 1 albums. Only the Beatles (with 19), Elvis Presley (10) and Jay-Z (also 10) have more.”

• “At 6.50 million units, sales are up 1.2% compared to the same total last week but are off by 14% compared to the same week in 2008.”

Articles

Bruce Springsteen – Working On A Dream

3 Comments

Bruce Springsteen - Working On A DreamBruce Springsteen – Working On A Dream (Columbia)

Let’s get right down to it: “Outlaw Pete,” the opening track of Bruce Springsteen‘s sixteenth album Working On A Dream does sound just like Kiss‘ “I Was Made For Loving You” (YouTube). It’s not a complete re-write, but there’s a series of do-do-do’s and a guitar part that mimic the same note sequence as Paul Stanley singing “I was made for lovin’ you baby,” from the horrific Dynasty album.

It’s enough to get Gene Simmons‘ attention, but not similar enough to get him to try to sue The Boss.

The déjà-vu won’t leave you mad at Springsteen, but it will have you scratching your head “Why?” Why didn’t any of the performers, producers, confidants, whoever, come up to him and say “You know Bruce, that one part sound like that shitty Kiss song—the one when they went disco—whadya say we rework it, or better yet, just leave that section out?” Seriously: the song, which drags on for a yawn inducing eight minutes, doesn’t need it at all.

No sir, what The Boss needs is a district manager: someone who can sit him down and advise him on little matters like Kiss, Wal-Mart, and his own legacy within the scope of rock and roll.

Continue reading Bruce Springsteen – Working On A Dream →

MP3s

Get New Bruce Springsteen MP3 Free – Life Itself

Leave a comment

Bruce Springsteen is giving away his new single, “Life Itself,” as a free download via Amazon MP3. Get it while you can!

The Boss will also be giving away “My Lucky Day” and “Born To Run” as free downloads for Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii versions of “Guitar Hero: World Tour,” from his new album’s release date (Jan. 27) through Feb. 4.

Video: Bruce Springsteen – “Life Itself”

Via Billboard.

Links, Shorties

Springsteen to Rock Super Bowl XLIII

1 Comment

Six years ago yesterday on Glorious Noise, Johnny Loftus compared the NFL season to a world tour by your favorite rock band. Specifically, he explored the similarities between Bruce Springsteen and the Chicago Bears:

Brian Urlacher is not Bruce Springsteen. While the Chicago Bears’ leading tackler and unassuming team leader was a free safety, wide receiver, AND punt returner at New Mexico, Urlacher could not at press time sell out the United Center based on his strength as a songwriter, singer, and bandleader. Nevertheless, Urlacher’s weekly onfield heroics and meat and potatoes demeanor are a rallying point for many Chicagoland football fans. And while he’s never sold out the UC, Urlacher’s passion between the goalpoasts is a big reason why so many Chicagoans make the trip to downstate Champagne for Bears home games, played away while Soldier Field is on the DL. He gives them something to believe in, and please don’t make any Poison bits here. Because the NFL’s highly-paid heroes are, for many Americans, as singularly heroic as a rock and roller like Bruce Springsteen.

I guess we were a little ahead of our time because the National Football League has announced that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will play the halftime slot at the Super Bowl on February 1 in Tampa Bay.

Is Loftus some kind of crazy prophet or something? GLONOstradamus, baby!

Shorties

The Killers vs. Green Day

42 Comments

Brandon Flowers is a fucking moron. NME has excerpts from The Word‘s cover feature on the Killers, and it’s almost painful to read this dipshit’s sophomoric ideas about Green Day, Bruce Springsteen, and an artist’s role as foreign ambassador.

Some examples of his idiocy:

“You have Green Day and ‘American Idiot‘. Where do they film their DVD? In England. A bunch of kids screaming ‘I don’t want to be an American idiot’ I saw it as a very negative thing towards Americans. It really lit a fire in me.”

Why’s that, Brandon? Because you’d prefer everybody to be as idiotic as you? Did you ever consider that the message of Green Day’s album might have been to encourage American kids to not be idiots. Is the true intention of lyrics such as “Don’t wanna be an American idiot / One nation controlled by the media” a little too obscure for you to figure out? Hint: Green Day is advising people to think critically about what they see on television…

“You have the right to say what you want to say and what you want to write about, and I’m sure they meant it in the same way that Bruce Springsteen meant ‘Born In The USA’ and it was taken wrongly, but I was really offended when I saw them do that.”

Ahem. This mental midget really shouldn’t be allowed to ever mention Springsteen again. Seriously. The song “Born In The USA” is even more critical of the United States than anything Green Day has ever released. Bruce is actually one-upping Kanye West and saying that not only does the American government not care about black people, they don’t care about anybody!

“People need to see that, really, there are the nicest people in the world here! I don’t know if our album makes you realise that. But I hope it’s from a more positive place.”

Yes, we’re all very, very nice. Perhaps the nicest people in the world. And we have the best facial hair, too.

Articles

Meeting with the Boss

8 Comments

Homer is the REAL boss!It’s that moment many music fans dream of. Loose talk around beers usually bring out unlikely scenarios, but sometimes you actually come face-to-face with your heroes. Is it ever how you imagined it would be? Some fall to pieces when confronting their dreams; left a pile of tears with distorted face and a disturbed star. Others simply freeze.

Glorious Noise found this account of one fan meeting his idol, and the author agreed to let us re-print it here.—DP

I met the Boss tonight, and didn’t fart, poop, burp, or puke.

By Eric Maloney

So I worked the Bruce Springsteen show at Comiskey Park tonight. He is, as some people know, my center of musical gravity; a guy who has opened my political and social eyes. As Bono said in the Hall of Fame induction speech, “The Buddha of my youth.” He’s also the Buddha of my adulthood. Tonight, among my jobs as a runner for the local promoter, I took Bruce’s dry cleaning in, bought him a pair of rollerblade knee pads so he could slide across the stage on his knees, picked up prescription meds at Walgreens for Clarence Clemons and Nils Lofgren, and the best task of all…driving members of the entourage in a golf cart from soundcheck to their dressing rooms, about a quarter mile. Not knowing which band members I’d be driving, I turned and found Him waiting by my golf cart and found myself toe to toe with the Boss.

Continue reading Meeting with the Boss →

Articles

Don’t Know Why – The 2003 Grammys

23 Comments

The Glorious Noise compound was alive with laughter after the 45th Annual Grammy Awards concluded last Sunday night. Sure, this year’s show featured numerous artists who made the big decision to actually sing, which is a real milestone, since it happens so rarely anymore. And performances from Eminem, Kid Rock, Sheryl Crow, James Taylor, and Yo Yo Ma were entertaining for different reasons. But in the end, it was just another howler of an award show, and it deserves to be eviscerated. Yes, of course it’s an easy target. But so is MTV’s John Norris. And you don’t see Glorious Noise making fun of that corpse-like fancypants, do you?

What follows then is a quick rundown of this year’s show. Fred Durst is in aggreeance with Glorious Noise that it sucked, and Peace is cool, or something.

Continue reading Don’t Know Why – The 2003 Grammys →