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[littlefallsmets]

Honestly? I don't see all that much difference between what John Cougar-Meloncamp-Finkelstein-Levine-Tattelbaum-Morrisey-Dipthong-Jones and what Springsteen does, to begin with. I've never... understood the appeal of Springsteen.

The whole "I'm so sincere and I'm so concerned and I'm so much like all of you, come to my show and I'll sign all your albums but don't scratch my Range Rover or I'll have you arrested" fake-blues-bar thing has always left me wanting.

I mean, I suppose Bruce has an edge on John in terms of... slightly less embarrassing musicianship... but they're both poor man's Bob Dylan, if you're gonna use that analogy, or more appropriately, they're both "Billy Joel with dirt on his #####".

My model of rock and roll tends to be that you're either supposed to be a madman getting by on energy and delusion or a bitter little fellow, old in body or soul or both, who hides in his apartment hating the world, being depressing and honing one's craft.

If you're not trying to be Axl Rose or Robert Fripp, you're just making dance records.

Of course, I've been told that my finger isn't exactly on the pulse.

[V-Adore]

Aren't the visuals in that song actually old home movies of Johnny Cougar and his girlfriend, which pre-dated the song?  And since the song is also based on that time in his life, they just found bits of the movie that matched up to the song.  They didn't actually go out and film it for purposes of the video.  Maybe I'm talking out of my ass, but I seem to recall that being the case.

Really? Huh. If so, I wasn't aware of it, but that's pretty interesting and kind of cool, in a backhanded way.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Now, is that Black Thought of the Roots in a new Gap ad?  That's really fuckin' with my head.

UPDATE:  I have learned that the Gap ad stars rapper Common, who has done some work with the Roots, and just sounds a hell of a lot like Black Thought.