Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pharisaical fans hang your head in shame, for while you were sleeping, Fenway's faithful snuck out of the Square like a thief in the night and made their pilgrimage to the Promised Land, 24 Jersey...
Boston Edison may not be in the same league as Consolidated Edison of New York or Public Service of New Jersey when it comes to political power. But most companies in Boston have always accepted that the only way to get reliable electricity in the city was to buy from Boston Edison...
...line, or scream-whispering into a mike. In Springsteen's first two albums. Greetings From Asbury Park and The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle, his voice jibed perfectly with his driving music and his lyric description of growing up in New Jersey. But his new album, Born To Run, is inconsistent; Springsteen's voice powers through too much slickness and often verges on incongruity...
...finest vocal on the album, in the song "Meeting Across The River," capsules the false bravado of a Jersey hood asking his friend Eddie for a ride through the tunnel to New York City, where his connection is waiting. But the effect is almost ruined by the lilting trumpet accompaniment, which would be perfect for sitting-on-the-front-porch-swing-sniffing-the-honey-suckle-with-yer-sweetie, but here, makes mush of the vocal. The longest song on the record, "Jungleland," also suffers from over-orchestration: a string section introduces the central piano theme and channels the song...
...seems to have settled on the automobile metaphor as the primary archetype of Jersey adolescence--after all, exhaust fumes probably account for his vocal grittiness. Songs like "Thunder Road" rumble, muffler-less, with pounding guitars and bass...