I could think of all the Bruce Springsteen songs I’ve covered in one band or musical lashup or another – “Born To Run”, “Born In The USA”, “Atlantic City”, “Cadillac Ranch”, “Darkness on the Edge of Town”, “The River”, “Thunder Road”…
…or the songs I just noodled demos of way back when I still had time and energy to noodle demos – “Love On The Wrong Side Of Town”, “This Hard Land”, “Janey Don’t You Lose Heart”…
…or even just the Bruce songs I’ve dreamed of covering if I ever got another really good band together – “Incident On 57th Street”, “Kitty’s Back”, “Rosalita, “Jungleland”, “Backstreets”, “I Wanna Be With You”, “Racing In The Streets”, “Something In The Night”, “Jackson Cage”, “None But The Brave”, “If I Should Fall Behind”, “My Beautiful Reward”…
…and on none of those lists does the latest Bruce song to undergo a rash over covers – “I’m Going’ Down“, easily my least favorite single from Born In The USA – appear.
But it seems to have the current cover mojo.
Kids today.
Frankly, I’ve never liked his music. Maybe it’s because my brother in law is literally a groupie, attending at least three of his concerts every year and I always have to hear about it or maybe I don’t like him because he is a flaming liberat, drunk on obama- ade!
“I’m Going Down” is a pretty uncomplicated song, especially by Springsteen’s usual standards. Maybe it’s because the level of musicianship has waned over the years? I mean, you gotta have chops to play Kitty’s Back or Jungleland.
Vampire Weekend covering Springsteen? Okay, my brain is now useless for the rest of the day after trying to wrap around that concept.
Berg, I’m with ya on this one.