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Clapton has talent. Monotone is his middle name. Yea.one frigging note.
He may just be as great a self promoter as Obama. 3 chords badly. A master of tricking people to think his music is cool.
Can he sing. Brucie and Britney.proof that talent is not mandatory for comercial success in the USA. His band is decent, but I can't get past his complete lack talent.
Can he play a guitar.
watched the hall of fame rock and roll concert and had to have bruce's music; it is wonderful
As for the oddities, you get the song from "Philadelphia," which is neither here nor there, the song from "Jerry Maguire," which every Springsteen fan in the world hates except for me, the song from the "Born in the U.S.A." sessions, which is almost a blast, and two songs that reunited Bruce with his E Street Band blood brothers at long last, with tired results. Springsteen's material is great on albums and great as individual songs; make an album out of assorted individual songs and the result is, well, stilted. Start with the one he did about America. I'd say ditch it and go for the albums. I can't really complain about the song selection: this is a great set of songs, beginning with two off "Born to Run" (his first two records are ignored, since they were hitless) and running up to "Human Touch" and "Lucky Town" in '92, although it would be a stronger compilation if they'd replaced "My Hometown" with "I'm on Fire" and ditched "Better Days" altogether. The focus isn't on Springsteen's skills as a rocker and romantic so much as on his skills as a troubador; for the record, Springsteen the Troubador seems stodgy in comparison with Springsteen the Romantic Rocker.
That could leave a lot of room for personal preference. Reading allmusic's list of hits, I counted 17 top 20 hits that weren't on the CD, plus "Pink Cadillac", the popular flip side of "Born to Run".Perhaps it's a matter of which chart one follows when selecting greatest hits. The sound quality was very good to my ear.I counted 13 significant hits out of 18 total on the CD. I don't understand why more top 20 hits weren't included.
Meantime, I'm wondering why TEOTSPRS thinks Bruce Springsteen changed his name from John Cougar Mellencamp. While I came upon "The Boss" rather late in my life, I discovered I really liked this CD. "Born in the USA" is one of my particular favorites; in fact, so much so that I play this Greatest Hits CD over and over in my CD player every time I get in my car.
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