Really Stupid Bruce Songs

that is the time i take a look at the girls in theire summer clothes

So noone else thinks he has stupid songs?

"i see you walking baby down the street, pushing that baby carriage at your feet. I see the lonely ribbon in your hair, tell me am I the man for you whom put it there? You never smile girl ,, you never speak. You just walk on by baby week after week. Bringing up two kids alone in this mixed up world nust be a lonely life for a working girl.

So he hasn't even spoken to her but goes home and writes a heartfelt song about how he wants to marry her!!

"Now I don't want to clip your wings but there's a time when two people should think of these things, having a home and a family, facing up to your responsibilities."

erm, you haven't even spoken to her but you are assuming that she is a freebird, wings can take her everyehere. I'm assuming that the lady in question will be thinking " i see that young man most mornings and he is alright"

We are all passers by. How often do we feel a shared responsiility with our fellow passers by?

Can you imagine atopping a complete stranger, even a stranger that you see every day and saying:

"Now I don't want to clip your wings but there's a time when two people should think of these things, having a home and a family, facing up to your responsibilities."

I don't thinks so.

Its a wank song and don't get me started on the farcical Mary's Place.

I feel totally embarrased when people, who know I'm a BS fan ask me about Mary's Place. It's a flawed song, it plays into the hands of the war mongers.

It goes like this: my bird has been killed in a war time accident. Why don't we have a fuckoff party at the house she used to live in?

Meet me there t will be so much fun.

Of course he has some really stupid songs.

I'm just not in the mood to be negative right now. I will come back to this thread when I am in a bitchy mood.

Are you one of those tossers that believe questioning the worth of sometrhing is negative?

You must be. I bet, that when bruce sings that song about fucking off and leaving his family, without as much as goodbye, you sing at the top of your voice "everybody has a hungry heart".

Bitchy? , Negative?

Nah, it's dump your wife and kids and never go back sing-along-tune. Come back when you are ready for reality and disregard the mood you are in.

We love Bruce. Please leave him alone.

I love him too. I forgive him for Mary's Place, I forgive him for I wanna Marry you hell I even forgive him for Pony Boy. I can't quite forgive him for 10th Avenue freeze out, but I'm trying.

which is anything but silly

Yes, he has some songs that may be kind of stupid.
But when he sings "you never smile, girl, you never speak"
it doesn't surely mean that the girl really "never speaks".
Come on, she might be a shy introverted girl that doesn't
speak very much. Don't take this literally.
Maybe you just don't like romantic love songs . . .

Yeah, spot on...never really got that. Not one of my fav's for that very reason.

I had a cousin of mine borrow the Barcelona DVD for when I visited for dinner a few years ago (obviously knew I was a fan). I didn't watch it with them that night but they had obviously already sampled it and he and his son bagged Mary's Place bad (let it rain, let it rain, let rain.....) and ofcourse that's the view they have of him to this day and probably forever more. Oh well, didn't really bother me (I stopped trying to convince people long ago) but I get what you mean.

Bad lyrics don't necessarily make a stupid song. Supersonic by Oasis being a case in point. IMO great song but lines like:-

I know a girl called Elsa
She's into Alka Seltzer
She sniffs it through a cane on a supersonic train
She made me laugh
I got her autograph
She done it with a doctor on a helicopter
She's sniffin in her tissue
Sellin' the Big Issue

are lyrics a 5 year old would have been embarrassed to write.

The lyrics to Mary's Place are no worse than most Springsteen songs but the whole 'package' starts grating after about the 20th listen.

To me the worst songs are those where the whole 'package' is bad with no redeeming feature eg Ponyboy and Let's Be Friends. If Patti truly loved Bruce she would have made him consign these to the waste bin under threat of withdrawing her sexual favours. Unfortunately, Patti is as musical as Porty is after a night cruising the bars of Rose Street.

How forgiving of you.

If you don't get this song. Listen again, and really put
your ear into it.

Porty, I don't mean to be facetious sounding but this song of Bruce's has gotten me more shags than any other. Girls aged 19 - 25 really go for this one, particularly when combined with Morgans and Coke.

For this reason alone, I love this song.

Hi

worst song ever: Goin' Cali

P+K

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LOL. I usually don't let softbalz like that go by without taking a swing, but I'll refrain. Just this once.

Come off it! A Glaswegian lass with Morgans and Coke inside her wouldn't know the difference between I Wanna Marry You and Agadoo. To be honest, if it takes you 5 minutes 16 seconds of I Wanna Marry You to chat up, seduce and bed a Glaswegian lass then it is not something to boast about on a public message board - I hear the average is about 2 minutes 30, and that includes 20 seconds while the lass fights to unzip his trousers with her false teeth.

Speaks the Italian Stallion

You will never forget your shag, will you?

And you sussed that out based on one or maybe two songs on the way to O2.......... am I really that bad? Did I tell you about the german bloke I met that actually likes Patti?

Countin on a Miracle gives me the willies. And I only know one song from GOTJ and that's the title track. Can't say the rest are really stupid but I just can't get into them.

Some women would consider this a positive.

Permission granted to mention my name, everybody knows that there is only one German who likes Patti

He was actually talking about that 'other' German Wolfgang

I just can't stand Silver Palomino. I don't know why - the lyric is fine. The tune is just so lame.

And then there is Downbound Train, where the hero has three jobs, and also seems to be riding a train. The passion is there, but the brain was missing on that one.

Yeah, and Hungry Heart. So silly, so pop. So easily forgotten. It doesn't even sound like Bruce.

Mary's Place - well. I don't like it either, but it does make Bruce do a knee slide, so it can't be all bad.

That can't be true. I bet you know Youngstown.

But in this case the hero has three jobs but not alll at the same time, so why is that wrong?? he got laid off at the lumber yard, probably because cheap chinese imports were undercutting the price of lumber. then he worked at a carwash where it pissed down with rain all the time, well thats just bad luck.
makes perfect sense to me. then, his last job on the railroad gang, and presumably to get to work he gets a train?

Good grief, part of that song is my signature and I forgot it. That is the only CD that I don't know all of the songs and really have no desire to. But I do love those two.

I nominate "Kitty's Back" - can't friggin stand it.

John

my vote to "Real Man"!

Pony Boy, Let's Be Friends, Wild Billy's...the worst IMO

I have a group: Crush on you (for me one of his worst song with Janey don't you lose heart!), I wanna marry you. Fade away, I'm on fire, Real man, All and nothin at all.

In general, 90% of his love songs sucks a little bit

Haven't got much time for Kitty's back and Candy's room. Can't stand she's the one and cover me.