TOMMY TUNES Posted November 15, 2005 Share Posted November 15, 2005 OK today was the official release date for the 30th Anniversary Edition of Born To Run CD/2DVD. Who's got it and what's it like? Inquiring minds want to know.Was that Lew Bundles I saw coming out of Tower records with a big package this morning? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvin Posted November 15, 2005 Share Posted November 15, 2005 I'll have it by the end of the day today - Kristy's going to pick it up for me - but I have already heard it. If you've got the original cd, this re-mastered version sinks that old version into the water. The sound is phenomenal, every nuance, every lush orchestral effect is brought to the forefront. I've always felt that if you took the music and themes of "West Side Story" and brought it into a 'rock' format, you'd have "Born To Run." I think that this was the landscape that Springsteen worked with, and the vision that he had. In this new format, just like the vivid scenes in "WSS", "Born to Run" comes alive.Marv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMMY TUNES Posted November 15, 2005 Author Share Posted November 15, 2005 Marvin, It's funny you should compare it to West Side Story which is my all time favorite musical.I have always considered it a rock and roll musical even though it predates RnR. I too will buy it today . Thanks for the wonderful pre-review.I eagerly anticipate your review of the 2 DVDs included.Maybe you could throw me a bone and give it in an inner thread trifecta format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvin Posted November 15, 2005 Share Posted November 15, 2005 I've seen bits and pieces of the movie, and it really is something to see Bruce and the band when they were all 20-something's, carefree, performing on stage like their lives depended on it. The improvisational abilities of the band were at an all-time high during those early days.Marv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Cartmill Posted November 15, 2005 Share Posted November 15, 2005 West Side Story has always been too dated and cornball for me. The choreography...the music...Come on Sissy-Boys! That's why everybody has made fun of it on late night sketch comedy shows for years! Maybe if I saw it in the early 60's, I may have been impressed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMMY TUNES Posted November 16, 2005 Author Share Posted November 16, 2005 "West Side Story" and "Eddie and the Cruisers" are the 2 best soundtrack albums ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raspberrywine Posted November 16, 2005 Share Posted November 16, 2005 Well at least Marvin didnt compare "Born to Run" to "South Pacific" or "Seven Brides for Seven Seven Brothers." WhenI think of West Side Story I always think of the Alice Cooper band covering material from that musical on "Schools Out." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvin Posted November 16, 2005 Share Posted November 16, 2005 I actually like "Seven Brides" and Howard Keel.Marv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew C. Clark Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 I do not have the "Born To Run" box set but back around February or March of this year, Columbia printed & reissued a brand new booklet instead of a poster with the lyrics when you open it up. It has 3 photos of Bruce with the lyrics instead of the 1 photo on the poster which came out in 1984 or 1985. The CD has the 70's & early 80's Columbia label spinning around. Possibly except for "The River" (1980), all of the Springsteen stuff (1973 debut through "Tunnel Of Love" from 1987) have been reissued with the website brucespringsteen.net on the back of the CD. Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeC Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 This is one of the music sets to get. I just heard about it today, on the news. Marvin is right about how Bruce and the band play on this DVD. There is no doubt at all, about how hungry they are in this footage. The comments on the local news is that it shouldn't be missed. The Born To Run album, at that time, really was a make-or-break effort. Bruce's first two were flops, and he finally made something commercially accepted by alot of music fans. One could say, 'They had a hungry heart'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvin Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 Mike C you're correct that the first two Springsteen albums were commercial flops (they've since hit platinum sales), so Bruce's career was really on the line with the "BTR" album and tour. The songs and performances during that tour and the "Darkness" tour are what all other concerts are measured by. For me the most musically adventureous Bruce has ever been was on the 2nd album, "The Wild, the Innocent, & the E Street Shuffle." An incredible blend of Van Morrison-styled jazz-pop, with story-telling that was still not yet refined, however, songs that painted an incredible street-life picture.Marv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Cartmill Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 Marvin and Tommy, Are you guys rehearsing your Karaoke duet of "I Feel Pretty" yet?Sondheim Sissy Boys... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMMY TUNES Posted November 18, 2005 Author Share Posted November 18, 2005 Hey Cartmill... this make two threads you mock me on in the last two dayss( see "Raspberries the Clunker List"). Are you inventing some perverted West Coast version of a trifecta? Lew's not gonna like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Cartmill Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 Sorry Tommy, but you keep serving 'em up right over the middle of the plate...I may try to watch West Side Story again to see if I was too jaded in the early '80's when I saw it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raspberrywine Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 Couldnt agree more Marvin, 2nd album really superb in a slightly different manner. It could have only have been made better by the use of Howard Keel as a background vocalist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lew Bundles Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 Cartmill, back off the Tunesman...Bundlemania dosent tolerate your kind of insolence... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 Tony...Lew is serious...He has a road atlas out, as we speak and he has activated the LOJACK device that he has installed in all dissedents vehicles...Just a warning my friend...If he has made Sugarbabi7 disappear, along with Pat, just think what he would do to a non-Bundlemania subversive... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Cartmill Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 Sounds a little too BeatleBum-ish...Yikes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted November 19, 2005 Share Posted November 19, 2005 Aaaauuuummmmmmm.....Aaaaaaauuuuuuummmmmmm....... LEW BUNDLES,........LEW BUNDLES........ THIS IS THE SPIRIT OF MOHATMA GHANDI TYPING TO YOU THROUGH THE BODY OF THE (now comatose) MORTAL JAMES.............(Martin Luther King saw your picture and thought you were hot..but luckily for you I got to James' body first)anyway:Aaaaauummmmmmmmm, Aaaauuuuummmmmmmmmm........ LEW BUNDLES,..... LEW BUNDLES ....LAY DOWN THE SWORD! ACCEPT PEACE LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING AS YOUR TRUTH AND GUIDING LIGHT (yes, it's true, Indira brought some Elvis Costello tapes up with her and now I'm hooked!)anyway:Aaauuuuummmmmmmmm, Aaaaaauummmmmmmmmmm......SURRENDER YOURSELF TO THE LOVING ARMS OF YOUR WONDERFUL (and smokin hot) WIFE LEWISA AND DISBAND THE DARK AND EVIL BUNDLEMANIA!YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF LEW BUNDLES ! HOW YOU'VE CORRUPTED BEAUTIFUL SOULS LIKE TOMMYTUNES AND ESPECIALLY SUGARBABI....(I had Sugarbabi pegged for a Hindu nunnery until BUNDLEMANIA screwed up my plans)anyway:Aaaaauuuummmmmmmm, Aauuuummmmmmmmmmmm...... REPENT AND REDEEM YOURSELF LOU BUNDLES!!!! P.S. ...there's a lot of empty space in this guy James' head,..... I would definately take the things he posts with a grain of salt... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Cartmill Posted November 19, 2005 Share Posted November 19, 2005 ...Windy City Wackos!... <img border="0" alt="[blech!]" title="" src="graemlins/blech.gif" /> What did you do with rational, sensible James? This is no time for Diaper-Wearing Pacifists! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeC Posted November 19, 2005 Share Posted November 19, 2005 Thanks, for the info. Marvin, and raspberrywine. The rest of you, behave yourselves, or Alice Cooper won't let you onstage. There's only one left, after I bought mine of Born To Run. Last night, I went to two stores. (I want to learn to play some of these songs on my keyboard and guitar). The first didn't have it, yet. Here's what I've bought these past two days: Jim Croce's Greatest Hits, a three CD set. And another surprise, I believe this season is Bette Midler Sings The Peggy Lee Songbook, with 10 DVD songs, including an alternate version of 'Is That All There Is?', and home footage of Peggy Lee, Film Appearances, and interviews with Bette Midler and others. Then three more, so far: Streisand, Guilty Pleasures with a DVD, an interview, plus four music videos, including the duet with Barry Gibb, Above The Law; Rod Stewart's Volum IV, The Great American Songbook. and Hank Williams, Definitive 2-CD Collection, with 'I Saw The Light', etc(Did The Raspberries do the same song title?). I noticed he has the same title as one of the Bee Gees songs, 'You Win Again'(That's from their Number Ones CD), which sold quickly last year, new. And they just brought in another stack, again. Next up, for me? Something from Kiss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 19, 2005 Share Posted November 19, 2005 James...I dont care if its Martin Luthur King,Rodney King or King Tut, no one will wrestle me away from the real King , the King of all Trifectas, Lew...And be very careful ...You have insulted Lew...You have misspelled his name as "Lou" in your Ghandi post...He has chopped off the heads of people and served them on a platter to me for lesser mistakes...Come to think of it, for all your flirting with me, that might be what you are looking for(Having your head on a platter for Lewisa to consume"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lew Bundles Posted November 19, 2005 Share Posted November 19, 2005 Mr. Cartmill...You seem to have some of the assets required to be a Bunldemaniac...You understand the essential ingredients of a Trifecta,are willing to monitor events closely and have displayed an unending desire to see chaos and justice upheld through violent confrontation...These are enduring qualities, Mr. Cartmill...Please respond after thinking this through thoroughly...You would be a welcomed addition to the possee, dont you agree, Mr Tunes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raspberrywine Posted November 19, 2005 Share Posted November 19, 2005 Lew Bundles needs some help obviously, lets have some compassion for the guy.Heres an interesting point to consider regarding Springsteen. Id be interested in hearing peoples thoughts. A friend of mine said to me, just the other day, that he was totally shocked and mystified when Springsteen went out on the campaign trail in 04 for Kerry. I asked my friend to explain his thoughts and it went something like this: I paraphrase. "Well, you know the Boss made a fortune out of really convincing regular people or working class people that he was one of the guys and a real patriotic guy. Remember Born in the USA and all that stuff? Well, then he gets behind this Kerry guy , whose a real elitist snob, and it just shows people he's actually left winger in disguise and not some sort of down to earth guy that really cares about cars and drinking beer and hanging out."It was quite an interesting conversation and I am wondering if any other long term fans of the Boss were affected by Springsteen siding with the Democrats in this way. Personally I could care less but this guys a long term Springsteen fan and quite an observant guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted November 19, 2005 Share Posted November 19, 2005 Compare Lew's posts of 11/18 and today regarding Tony Cartmill.. and it appears ole Ghandi got in Lew's head!!....I just hope Ghandi uses someone else next time if he feels a need for an intervention (it was very noble of Ghandi to not mention those "Hillary in a bathing suit" fantasies he found in my head)But Tony, DON'T FALL FOR IT!!! , you're a lone wolf maverick whose creative genius will be suffocated within the clutches of BUNDLEMANIA!!! They will use you only for evil purposes!!!If you go I'll be like Britain in 1940.....left alone to fight off the tyrants of the world (EC.COM in this case).........and then they'll come after me with with their secret weapon (my kryptonite): LEWISA!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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