This week’s chart-topping album, the back-to-basics Devils & Dust, apparently left a bad taste in the mouths of Starbucks execs. The coffee-cum-media chain was gonna sell Springsteen’s new disc until they got wind of “Reno,” ode to a Nevada hooker (“Two hundred dollars straight in/ Two-fifty up the ass … Pulled back her hair/ And sat in front of me on the bed”). Ray Charles used to sing about rimjobs all the time! Silly Starbucks.
Tonight he’ll be your naughty Boss. Hear “Reno” here.
 |
 |
%s1 / %s2
I’d love to hear the stage banter surrounding that song:
(In a Springsteen stage voice)
“Y’know, I remember, back when my hair was long…and I was working at the plant…I had this car…It was an old chevy…and me and Rose used to drive down to the River…and my old man told me that the draft was coming, and that I was going to Vietnam. Well, I got my hair cut, I gave Rose my letterman jacket, I said goodbye to little Jimmy and the boys…and then I got a hooker and fucked her up the ass for Two Hundred Fifty dollars….and here is a song I wrote about it.”
Come on, Meet me at Mary’s place was totally about 3somes, coke, and cuccumbers.
They prob banned b/c of the gross factor. I mean, the last thing I wanna think about when I’m drinking my Cafe Late w/ a shot of mint is The Boss all naked and doin’ it. Sorry…not the sort of image I want in my head to start the day.
best headline
SPRINGSTEEN ALBUM DROPPED OVER SODOMY SONG
best thing i’ve read today
“robb”‘s dramatic re-enactment
we got that cd in the station and it said that song contained “adult content” that we should be aware of. it wans’t like we were gonna play that shit anyways so we threw it ont he floor and played soccer with it. springsteen is for people who don’t know what music is. he is too easy to like (and hate too) like bon jovi, so i just forget he exisits.
We need a bumpersticker: Focus on your own damn Frappuccino! Is Starbucks the new WalMart…only with employee benefits??
How can you possibly say that Springsteen is for people who don’t know what music is? Do you really have your head so far up your ass that you can’t recognize not only incredible talent but one of the most important songwriters of the past 30 years? Maybe Springsteen isn’t on your “trendy band of the week” list but christ man, dont make yourself look so god damn ignorant. Is the “indie” community that stuck up that they can’t recognize springsteen is a viable and important artist? Rohan gives us all a bad name.
Is the “indie” community that stuck up that they can’t recognize springsteen is a viable and important artist?
actually, for the most part, yes they are.
Kevin, if I were gay, I would be totally in love with you.
It’s such a shame that the “indie” community needs to abandon all logic and listen to pitchfork in order to sound “cool”. Have you listened to springsteen?
It’d be pretty hard to listed to Darkness on the Edge of Town or Asbury Park, and then make comments like the one Rohan posted.
Yeah well, people are morons.
Robb’s comment about Springstein’s stage banter immediately reminded me of Will Farrell’s “Storytellers: Neil Diamond” skit on SNL.
“This song is about the time I killed a hobo…
This song is about my obsessive hatred of immigrants (prefacing “Coming to America”). Probably my favorite all time SNL sketch.
Man, I thought Springsteen was dead… Mumbly tunes by a mumbly old man who comes out of exile every four years for the DNC… Musicians praise him for his “brilliance” but don’t own one of his albums and vaguely remember the words to “Born in the USA”.
Who cares if Starbucks isn’t carrying him.. As long as they advertise for him on Lifetime (tv channel), my mother will know there’s a new album and ask my father if he wants her to pick it up.
Dude!!! Rohan is sooooo cool! LOL! ROFL! “Soccer with it!” UH-OH! Man stay back from that REBEL!
Hey Chris Ives, go back to View Askew with all the other 13 year olds and talk about how Heeelarious Jay and Silent Bob are!
chris ives,
You don’t know what you’re talking about. “Musicians” know he did his best work before “Born in the USA.” Here, I’ll give you a clue, since you seem to be unable to find one yourself: Try Darkness on the Edge of Town, Greetings from Asbury Park, or Born to Run.
Secondly, he has never campaigned for a politician before last year’s election. So to say he comes out for the DNC every four years is simply ignorant fo the facts.
/Not a Springsteen fan, but also not ignorant.
Springsteen is one of the best modern day songwriters, and I am not even that into him! Listen to some of the lyrics on “The Rising” and you can hear this guy sure isn’t the hot trend of the moment, but actually one of the most prolific songwriter’s of this century.
What’s the big deal? Ain’t nothing wrong with sitting back with a caramel macchiato thinking about Bruce puttin’ his junk in a hooker’s trunk. Bangin’ hookers is as American as baseball and apple pie.
And I totally agree with Kevin. Big ups.
Preach on Billy K. I can respect you not liking him but at you know your shit and can recognize his importance. Chris Ives comment is almost as ridiculous as Rohans. Born in the USA. Fuckin hilarious.
Ignorant here. I didn’t know that “Musicians” all had the same opinion. You got me on that one. Thanks for the clarification.
If Starbucks chose not to carry Juliet & The Licks because of her doosh song, and I said, who cares, my punk little brother will buy it anyway because she’s going to be on the OC tonight, would your view be the same?
I love it when people are called ignorant if they have a different opinion.
People aren’t calling you ignorant for havign a different opinion. We’re calling you ignorant because first you make a broad sweeping statement like musicians dont own any of his albums. Using your argument hot shot, I didn’t realize that you were able to speak for all “musicians” not owning his albums. Secondly, to say Born in the USA is his signature song only shows that you haven’t listened to Springsteen. Anyone who has wouldn’t put that as his signature song. Its only that to the great unwashed.
Not even his signature song, thats misphrased but to use that song to support your argument is insane.
Wow Chris Ives is the winner of the biggest idiot of the year award! Juliette and the Licks- great comparison buddy! You’re being called ignorant because you made an ignorant statement not because your view was different. You have a lot in common with your “punk little brother” i bet- especially judging by your terrible website. Grow up.
You totally got me. My bad! My idea of cool songwriting is King Missle’s Detachable Penis…
Go away, nobody likes you here
No one here is complaining about your musical taste. You’re free to like whatever you want to BUT when you make obscure ridiculous statements comparing those who pick up the album to old mothers, you’d better be prepared to defend your point but i guess you did that sufficiently. Nothing like a good dick joke to prove your point. Bravo pal.
springsteen wins…. again.
http://tobymelt.blogspot.com/2005/05/springsteen-vs-nugent.html
How the hell can you hipster fags talk about Springsteen without mentioning “Nebraska”. Nobody writes a serial killer narrative quite like him (not even Sufjan, though I dig that track). He does Dylan better than Dylan.
Bruce had some great dance remixes in the 80′s done by Arthur Baker. Ever hear the dance version of “Born In The USA”? Classic.
Is 250 dollars the going price? Damn. I’ve been robbed!!
This whole post is like Nebraska. Big, hairy and gross!! I can’t wait for Sufjan to write a song about takin’ it up the arse. Whew!!
Too hot for Starbucks! Isn’t that like too risque for PBS?
All you guys are retards, except for Kevin. Haven’t you ever heard of 1st person or artistic license? No, well it means that the author is speaking for the person in the song, not necessarily about himself. Don’t take everything “the Boss” says so personally.
HA! You said “cum”
oh snap. I own like seven springsteen records, yet none talk about anal. rosalita come out tonight!
detachable penis is a great song tho, i’ll give chris credit for that.
the last few songs of wild,innocent, e street are so f’in great.
in before comment shitfest
oh, wait…
p.s. lolz robb
damnit, now I want a frappuccino.
Man. Anyone who hasn’t heard the song shouldn’t comment.
i find it depressing that no one noticed that chris ives wrote “doosh” in a comment decrying the ignorance of the proletariat.
haha i work at starbucks. AND I FUCKING HATE IT WHEN SOMEONE ORDERS A FUCKING FRAPPUCINO.
seriously that drink is the shittiest drink on the menu, well that and anything associated with mint syrup. GAG.
Anyway, it would be a nice change of pace to hear that Springsteen song over the speakers. I’m fucking sick and tired of all the damn cds we have in the store. And it really fucking sucks that we can’t play MP3 cds. Well, there is a way of getting around to it, but I’m too lazy to figure out the coding.
Late to the party as always, but I want to say I was heartened to see the sentiment here towards Mr. Springsteen seems overwhelmingly positive. I may be getting on a bit in years but I’ve tried to stay reasonably current with regards to music (my favorite “band” of all time is Sparklehorse). But Bruce sure as hell deserves his props. I saw him a couple of weeks in Chicago and he gave one of the most brilliant, emotional and complete live performances I’ve ever witnessed. Alone on the stage, for 2 and half hours, he was utterly brillianr. And he had a bit of fun with the whole Starbucks thing, and said his new CD would be available at your local Dunkin Donuts shop. Screw the freakin’ Pitchfork mentaility. I’m sick of their ilk, their ignorance of Bruce in particular, and their whole self-important bullshit posing.