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This "reality" revolves around the interactions of the four band members, each of whom, of course, has a distinct personality. Joe Dick is the aggressive and abrasive lead singer of the band, a punk rocker who feels a deep hatred for the music industry and an affinity for spitting on his fellow band members during performances...
...entourage reportedly trashed their rooms last week at the Sheraton in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., one of the hotel manager's chief gripes was that Manson had stained the bathroom sinks with hair dye. That's the sort of complaint that would embarrass New Kids on the Block, let alone a rocker like Marilyn. And what of a claim a few days later that Manson ordered his bodyguards to beat up Spin magazine editor Craig Marks? Seems the same move had been tried weeks earlier by a rap producer and three friends who allegedly manhandled a Blaze magazine editor...
...Springsteen teaches the listener something by revealing his musical influences more clearly than ever before. But while on disk one's "Santa Ana" Springsteen did a passable Dylan impersonation, here the listener is confronted with the ugly truth about the Springsteen of the early '80s: the strained, country-infused rocker "Take 'Em as They Come" sounds like the misbegotten lovechild of Journey and the Eagles, and would have been better unrescued from Columbia's archives. Fortunately, Springsteen makes up for his mistakes with "Johnny Bye-Bye," a tiny gem of a song co-written with Chuck Berry and reminiscent...
...compilation is the acoustic version of "Born in the U.S.A.," recorded originally for Nebraska, but not included on the final tracklist for that album. Perhaps Springsteen means through its inclusion to indicate that he has always been writing Joad-like protest music, even in composing his most famous arena rocker: but the acoustic version of "Born in the U.S.A." is fierce, bitter and passionate: There is anger in Springsteen's voice and in his inflections anger absent from Joad, where is it replaced by a still, quiet sadness...
...past but satisfied with the present. In the album's best song, Your Life Is Now, he sings, "Your father's days are lost to you/ This is your time here to do what you will do." At the end of an interview, the now comfortably mature rocker leans forward and, with a conspiratorial grin, confides, "Guys aren't worth a f___ until they...