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From: clark@sdcsla.UUCP (Clark Quinn)
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Subject: Re: Born to Run --- by FGTH
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Date: Sun, 11-Nov-84 16:08:26 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 11 16:08:26 1984
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> Has anybody out there heard the version of Bruce Springsteen's "Born
> to Run" done by Frankie Goes to Hollywood?  It's on their new double
> LP, "Welcome to the Pleasure Dome", and I just heard it for the first
> time yesterday.  I thought it was quite well done, with all the energy
> of the original, but with a distinctly British flavour (that's flavor
> if you can't spell!) to it.  How did *you* like it?
> 
> Tom Haapanen		University of Waterloo		(519) 744-2468

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Well, I haven't heard the record version, but I saw their live version of
the song on "Saturday Night Live", and, frankly, I thought it sucked!
I may be jaded, being a die-hard Springsteen fan (and having seen him
live on Halloween night, *gloat*), but I thought that "Frankie Goes to
Hollywood" covered the song with a condescending, weak style that 
thouroughly obscured the emotion of hopeful desperation that is the
hallmark of the song.  Of course, their live version of "Two Tribes"
lacked something, too.  And I do like "Two Tribes" (at least, recorded)!
I feel that it is easy with recording studio
equipment to make *anything* sound good, but a live show really
shows the capability of the band.  Sure, there are some songs that
only work in studio productions, and shouldn't be condemned for it,
art being a product of the medium, but "Born to Run", at least, has 
been shown to work best "live"!  I didn't know till I read the note
that FGTH actually recorded BTR, I thought that maybe they had just
picked a song they figured would be a calculated crowd pleaser (that
close to New Jersey).  

-- Clark

"Volum! Clarity! Bass! We must have bass!"