down^32 ... its freaking ridiculous

I guess this set's really going down.

I usually can't stand BS, but I really like this one.

GRAND DADDY!

We all know where he's going. Please make it stop. Now.

 Hippostar wrote: 
Down.

I wonder where he's goin'?

this album was such a huge fall off from his ABSOLUTELY great albums "darkness" and "born to run".  nowhere near the depth of artistry......

"i'm going down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down"?  these are great lyrics? 

This tune is just one of many great pieces on a vastly underrated album.  Even as a Boss hardcore, I'll admit he's got 5 or 6 albums better than BITUSA, but track for track, for me, it stands the test of time very, very well. To decide to make one pop-oriented album in a career is not to sell out. In the case of someone who started with songs like "Mary Queen of Arkansas" and "Wild Billy's Circus," it represented a real creative stretch, and a wonderful one at that.  

One of the most over rated "artists" IMO. Same ole same ole,,,unimaginative..."sick and tired" is right.

For those who feel compelled to make fun of this song, it's just one cut from a great album from "The Boss".  I had the privilege to see him perform songs from this album when it came out in the Tacoma Dome, and it was a packed house.  You had to be there to get the full enjoyment—it was the 80s!

There's Great Bruce, Good Bruce and Bruce for the Spruce pile
this is Good Bruce

 vivakitty wrote: 
NIce one, dream wrecking librarian.:)

Cool.
Haven't heard this in a long time!

Not a huge Bruce fan, but I dig this lil ditty!

 
If you're going to subject me to Bruce Springsteen, at least make it something that's not his version of pop music.

take me down to funky town,,,,way downnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn, see a theme?....

Sound's like he's definitely on the "down" side of the big down/up debate (http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29205).
Not that he's ever been particularly funky.

 steeler wrote: 
Hmm, what? you have to be from the East to feel unworthy, trod-upon, victimized? Nah, not a locale sort of thing...and while some of us may or may have felt unworthy, at the time I don't think we were really listening to the words, we were too busy dancing and so was Springsteen.  While he may have believed his personal power was usurped by The Man and others, whatever power and hope he did feel was channelled into his music. At least then.  And all of us Southern Californians, despite the lyrics, definitely "got" what the music was expressing. Springsteen 1985, at the LA Coliseum, was seriously one of the best concerts I've ever been to.  Despite however much more musically sophisticated I may consider myself to have become, I certainly can't deny the life affirming nature of music in from the '80s....   Music was just really FUN then!!! yeehaa!!

The day I bought this LP I also bought Prince's Purple Rain. I still have them both!

love it...

Which way did he go, George, which way did he go?

The 80's were so much more fun for music!!!

Been a while since I heard this one...  this is a great song from a fantastic album...

He was great at the Superbowl, he's still The Boss!

Sounds like a hit song for a high school dance.

steeler wrote:

Ok I may be wrong about this and please someone correct me if I am. Didn't Bruce say he didn't like his more popular (commercial) stuff. Which makes me wonder about his sincerity, if it's true. Also I grew up in the mid Atlantic states, and I was never a fan.

otter wrote:
I've heard this criticism of Bruce before -- that you really need to be from the East or mid_Atlantic areas to truly appreciate his lyrics, etc. Never really understood it, but there must be something to it. Me, I have lived in those regions, and I understand his songs. What really gets to me, however, is criticism that makes it sound like Bruce is just a commercial, ripoff artist. It's fair to not like his music, but to imply that he is just trying to make a buck is so off the mark. Frankly, he's one of the more sincere artists we have in America.