This thing already exists but they are the undisputed Springsteens of hair metal.
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The only, only, (no I’m serious) only thing I would ever like to see by Bon Jovi is the schtick that they’ve been doing all the while Phil X has been in the band where they either spin a wheel with song titles on it, or the audience submits song ideas, and - these are all covers.
Indeed, there are for example the Leon Suites, an improvised album rejected by the record company that ended up becoming Outside 1.0. It leaked a few years ago in good quality, but it would be great to see an official release.
I'm pretty curious about the Springsteen albums myself, in particular the Streets of Philadelphia one. It's a song that sounds very different to the rest of his catalogue and I wonder what the rest of the sessions sound like.
In terms of outtakes, I love Bob Dylan's bootleg series, lots of wonderful music lovingly packaged with great liner notes and context. But it's a pretty unique case that is the result of Bob Dylan a) being very creative and hardworking over a really long career b) having the habit of recording live in the studio, which generates many complete outtakes and c) having pretty bad judgement when deciding what to put out. The result is an embarrassment of riches and there is still stuff in the vaults, apparently.
Live 1966, Live 1975 and Trouble In Mind are insanely good live albums that easily surpass his official live albums.
The Cutting Edge, Fragments and the Basement Tapes are great studio outtakes.
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No one else has more worthwhile extras and unreleased versions of songs than Bob Dylan.
If he has four takes of a single song besides the one that we all know? All of them are gonna be different. Some will be in a different tempo and others will be in different keys.
And yeah, some will be better than the one we know.
Here’s how legit Bruce Springsteen is.
I like very very little of the typical Bruce Springsteen thing. I can’t stand saxophone in rock. Sorry Clarence, God rest your soul - I always hated the sax.
The whole east coast thing with horns and keys and freaking glockenspiel up in the mix and Guitars down in the mix?
Lord help me.
And Frankie, Tommy, Tammy, Billy, Vinny, and all the rest of the boardwalk rats that he would sing about ? And how many times he’d use the “Well mister, …” trope.
And ? I still love tons and tons of his music.
He has been prolific, but his batting average is pretty damn high too.
I could go through every single one of his official releases, and pick at least one song from each to put on a playlist.
And I’m pretty sure that born to run and thunder Road and whatever that “screen door slammed“ song is and all those ones that have been played to death were once great songs, but I never need to hear them again.
But most fans of his differ. And I do consider myself a fan of Bruce.
Oh, and someone mentioned the sessions where he did streets of Philadelphia? I’ve listened to that whole thing and it’s really good.
