70s crap

[andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk]

Joe Varo writes:
> Richard Romeo wrote:
> > Andrew, I wouldn't put Bruce in the punk camp.  At his most relevant, 
> > 78-82, his songs were often poignant accounts of working class life in 
> > recession-laden USA.

> I most definitely have to agree with Richard here.  I've never, ever,
> until Andrew, heard anyone put Springsteen in the punk camp.

Neither would I have labelled him as such but the music press here
reported the music press in the US as having labelled him the US's
answer to punk. Still this was the NME in it's `glory days' so who
knows what the truth of the matter was. Don't believe the hype . . .

> About the closest he comes to punk is the fact that Patti Smith made
> "Because the Night" famous, a tune which Springsteen wrote (with Smith?).

Always thought that was inferior product. Too much of a Rawk Anthem.
Now Birdland . . . Very V.U.


Andrew Dinn
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I remem-ber how the dark-ness dou-bled
I reca-all light-ning struck it-se-elf