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Day 3: A Bruce Song That Makes You Sad
Bobby Jean makes me inexplicably sad. Let’s be honest there are a lot of sad songs, and Bruce wrote most of them, but even Racing In The Streets, The Promise, The River, or Streets of Philadelphia don’t depress me nearly as much as Bobby Jean,
I don’t even know what it is. But every time I hear it a massive downer follows. I don’t know man, it’s just sad.
Yes. Also this:
“The title character’s name is somewhat gender ambiguous, allowing for various interpretations. Nonetheless, “Bobby Jean” is often considered to have been written about his long-time friendship with Steve Van Zandt, who was leaving the E Street Band at the time. For example, Swedish journalist Richard Ohlsson made the interpretation in his book Bruce Springsteen: 16 Album that the title contained both a male and a female name because ‘the friendship with Bobby Jean is so strong that it’s almost a kind of love.’ When this song is played live with the E Street Band, close ups of Van Zandt are often shown on the bigscreens.”
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The Velvet Underground “There She Goes Again”
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Kurt Vonnegut
Ernest Hemingway
Charles Bukowski
Hunter S. Thompson
J. D. Salinger
John Steinbeck
Aldous Huxley
Albert Camus
Jack Kerouac
William S. Burroughs
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“Racing In The Street (‘78)” by Bruce Springsteen
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Candy Says- Antony X Lou Reed (acoustic with live audience)
No copyright infringement intended.
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George Jones “She Thinks I Still Care”
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Johnny Cash - “Hurt”
I pop the video in, and wow… Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps… Wow. [I felt like] I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn’t mine anymore… It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. [Somehow] that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning — different, but every bit as pure.
—Trent Reznor
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LANA DEL REY - YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL
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Every day I come by your house and I pick you up. And we go out. We have a few drinks, and a few laughs, and it’s great. But you know what the best part of my day is? For about ten seconds, from when I pull up to the curb and when I get to your door, ‘cause I think, maybe I’ll get up there and I’ll knock on the door and you won’t be there. No goodbye. No see you later. No nothing. You just left. I don’t know much, but I know that.
– Chuckie, to Will, in Good Will Hunting (via apoplecticskeptic)(via illbeonthathill)
