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[blindpig]

I Agree That He Was Always A Fraud ...

... albeit Born in the USA should it have been written from the moral and civic position of such people like Roger Waters it would have been a great protest song but it wouldn't be "anti-American", unless this Lewis guy wants to believe that the US went to Vietnam to do humanitarian work and not "to go and kill a yellow man". If Aaron doesn't understand that the US killed millions of Vietnamese civilians and that the US, certainly, deserved this "anti-American" song--he should have his head examined. But then again--explaining to people like Lewis what war crimes and crimes against humanity are will be exercise in futility. Yet, in one sense he is correct:



Springsteen is a fraud in human and artistic terms, because he is not and never was a man sharing struggles of American blue color class. He rode them to fame. Musically he had a huge success and he had a couple of masterpieces and a few good songs, the rest ... good marketing. Remarkably, if not for amazing covers by Manfred Mann's Earth Band of Springsteen's Blinded by the Light and Spirits in the Night (they did another one too--For You), few people would even remember those songs. In the Soviet Union we knew those because of MMEB covers. This one before Chris Thompson's magnificent vocals period.



But, yes--this, an ultimate MMEB sound which makes those covers their own MMEB songs with Chris' incomparable voice.



So, fuck Springsteen.

http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2025/08 ... fraud.html

While I usually find Andrei's taste in rock&roll to be abysmal in this he's absolutely correct. Never liked Springsteen, yeah, a few catchy tunes, but to use today's terminology middleclass suburbia cosplaying as working class. Manfred Mann, meh...

And that clown inferring that the young working class were for the war doesn't know his ass from first base. Yes, some of us went, and mostly came back crippled, one way or another. But most of us, in my neighborhood of Highlandtown in Baltimore were against the war and went to DC to prove it.

[blindpig]

The MAGA cretins think they're taking back 'their country'. It never was 'their' country.

Because it can't be said enough.