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From: dya@unc-c.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Is Springsteen losing it?
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Date: Mon, 21-May-84 11:19:07 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 21 11:19:07 1984
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References: opus.488


     No, it's just that Bruce, like everyone else these days, wants some
action in the "new" record industry.  Neil Young did it. Elton John is
trying to do it but isn't succeeding. Since he is popular in the Northeast
Corridor, I'm sure that 1) creating pent-up demand by not releasing an
album in the last 4 years and 2) explosive growth in the record industry
has much to do with it.
     Consensus here is that it is * mighty * commercial ( you hear the
jocks on our five FM's talk about it as if this is good. ) BTW, I thought
Bruce's label released the single contingent on the stations playing it
only last weekend (the 13th/14th) and that the gag rule was to be imposed
on the 15th. How commercial can you get ?
     Nothing wrong in general with making money (I'm a flaming capitalist)
but as a rule, aesthetics seems to be inversely proportional to the amount
of financial engineering which goes into an album.

dya