Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Bruce Springsteen on rock music

"The subtext of all rock songs is 'Will you pull your pants down?'"

"Any pop song or rock song worth its salt--[frustration's] gotta be in there. . . . It is music made by frustrated people. . . . It's in everything, everything. that was one of the fundamental elements--the tools, the stones that you worked with--came out of your personal life and it also came out of the form."

So says Bruce Springsteen. But, of course, you really didn't need him to tell you this.

5 Comments:

Blogger Ryan Martin said...

Todd, your words are deep and merit no little amount of contemplation. A just warning, my friend! We need to wade carefully through these kinds of thorny issues in today's worship environment.

1/03/2006 05:27:00 PM  
Blogger Ryan Martin said...

Paul, I do plenty of blabbing myself. Your company is welcome.

1/03/2006 05:29:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sexual frustration? So they wrote Rock music because they couldn't get laid? That's not very cool. Maybe they should have started buying the right kind of t-shirts instead - take care of their frustration and the great commission in one fell (very fell) swoop.

1/03/2006 06:58:00 PM  
Blogger Ryan Martin said...

The two comments I posted were made several minutes apart from each other. I noted them because Springsteen makes observations on the nature of rock and pop. But your suggestion should be followed, nonetheless.

1/03/2006 08:22:00 PM  
Blogger uc said...

Thanks for the expose. Now we know.

But can we really trust the judgement of the artist? What does a Rock and Roll "musician" know. Leave interpretation and criticism to the experts.

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1/07/2006 12:04:00 PM  

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Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Bruce Springsteen on rock music

"The subtext of all rock songs is 'Will you pull your pants down?'"

"Any pop song or rock song worth its salt--[frustration's] gotta be in there. . . . It is music made by frustrated people. . . . It's in everything, everything. that was one of the fundamental elements--the tools, the stones that you worked with--came out of your personal life and it also came out of the form."

So says Bruce Springsteen. But, of course, you really didn't need him to tell you this.

5 Comments:

Blogger Ryan Martin said...

Todd, your words are deep and merit no little amount of contemplation. A just warning, my friend! We need to wade carefully through these kinds of thorny issues in today's worship environment.

1/03/2006 05:27:00 PM  
Blogger Ryan Martin said...

Paul, I do plenty of blabbing myself. Your company is welcome.

1/03/2006 05:29:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sexual frustration? So they wrote Rock music because they couldn't get laid? That's not very cool. Maybe they should have started buying the right kind of t-shirts instead - take care of their frustration and the great commission in one fell (very fell) swoop.

1/03/2006 06:58:00 PM  
Blogger Ryan Martin said...

The two comments I posted were made several minutes apart from each other. I noted them because Springsteen makes observations on the nature of rock and pop. But your suggestion should be followed, nonetheless.

1/03/2006 08:22:00 PM  
Blogger uc said...

Thanks for the expose. Now we know.

But can we really trust the judgement of the artist? What does a Rock and Roll "musician" know. Leave interpretation and criticism to the experts.

from
miker

1/07/2006 12:04:00 PM  

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