AlRog

OK Boomer.
Sadly, like so many other aging rockstars desperate to remain "hip with the kids", Bruce Springsteen has become that senile old grandma who keeps falling for the latest Nigerian Prince scam. This track sounds like someone asked AI to read this week's Lysenkoist media headlines and regurgitate it into a protest song. Mindless, pathetic tripe with no nuance or original thought at all. Here's an idea Bruce: Go back to writing songs about cars and girls, as ... read more

I have no idea what he's yammering on about in the spoken vocal sections (tarot cards, I guess), but this is an amazingly good hour and a half of mind-melting, and mostly instrumental, kraut-psych.

The Christian music market is notorious for it's desperate mimicry of whatever secular genre or style is popular at the time, usually with unintentionally hilarious results. So let's see who was the most popular rock star in the world in 1986...

Turns out it was Bruce Springsteen, riding high on the mega-platinum success of Born in the U.S.A. and it's string of hit singles. Like most Xian rockers, Randy Stonehill had already dabbled in other secular rock styles in his craven ... read more

Sorry, I'm just not feelin it. This sounds like a collection of forgettable leftovers that weren't good enough to make Disintegration. And it's kinda off-putting to hear a guy who is literally a senior citizen now still singing as if he were a mopey overwrought teenager. That vocal approach is fine if you're actually in your "youthful alienation" phase. But when you're grandpa age, it comes across as immature and emotionally stunted. If you're looking for ... read more