Born To Run was a milestone of 70’s rock n roll. While his first two albums showed promise, they were merely Bruce reving up the engine. His third album, Born To Run, featured the perfect fuel mixture & torque to race into Rock n Roll legend. Here, Bruce combined all his influences. Chuck Berry's rebellious rock with descriptive lyrics, the introspective songs of the 60's, and the ever growing anthem rock of the 70's. Story telling may not have been a new art form, but Bruce laid claim to the story of every man. But words are just poetry by themselves. Bruce formed a band (including himself) thats rocks as talented and as hard as his lyric are moving. With "Born To Run", Bruce Springsteen put himself in some pretty good musical company, and created a Rock n Roll “CLASSIC”.
Abbey Road-The Beatles' last days as a band were as productive as any major pop phenomenon that was about to split. After recording the ragged-but-right Let It Be, the group held on for this ambitious effort. Though all four contribute to the first side's writing, John Lennon's hard-rocking, "Come Together" and George Harrison’s beautiful “Something” make the strongest impression. Harrison also starts off the second side in steller fashion with “Here Comes The Sun. A series of Lennon/McCartney song fragments edited together in suite dominate side two, leading to the only drum solo of Ringo’s career. “The End” also features McCartney/Harrison/Lennon trading wicked guitar solo’s. Its portentous, touching, official is nicely undercut, in typical Beatles fashion, by Paul McCartney's cheeky "Her Majesty," which follows. Some records have legend written all over them; this is one.
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MOre praise for the Beatles. I note with great happiness how my little ones love the Beatles. Songs like "Here Comes The Son," "OblaDiOblada" and "Yellow Submarine" get them dancing and singing. In a world of Mylee Cyrus, the art shines through.
My daughter loved "Across the Universe" while I, as a Beatles fan, hated the further bastardization of the Beatles catalog by mostly actors and non-singers ever since the heyday of "Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" with the BeeGees and "All This and World War II", that WW2 documentary featuring Beatles songs. WTF?
I thought Bono was good in it, though.
Strange..i liked ATU. Not great mind you. They really stretched things just to get a songs namesake in there, but overall pretty good. Sgt Peppers...now there was a nightmare! THAT did feature people thAT could sing & play(Aerosmith the only shining spot). Of course Bono had to get his face in the movie.
Funny....Bono, McCartney, and Springsteen have pretty much sucked up all the ego in rock between them(and thats alot of ego!).They need to leave some for the up & coming.
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