ZZ TOP VS THE BOSS

[Fiesta Red]

Still sounds pretty much all the same to me. "Funky" and "fresh" are definitely subjective.
I don't recognize "Leila" or It's So Hard" at all, I can't imagine they were much of a threat to Fleetwood Mac's hits which everybody knows.
Springsteen's range is miles wider that ZZT's.

Maybe it's a global thing and Texans don't understand?

Bless your heart.

 

[tele12]

So ZZ Top sold their catalog for 50 Million ...
Bruce sold his for 500 Million.

Really ???? Did Bruce just have better negotiators or did Billy get taken?

I would have thought ZZ Tops music would have as much commercial value as Springsteens.

I dont know...
I was just surprised by the low dollar amount Billy agreed on.

ZZ Top has 50 million total album sales and Bruce 150 million.
So there would certainly seem to be a pretty big disparity between the artists popularity over there careers.
I would also think Bruce has way more songs covered by other artists.

 

[tanplastic]

Bless your heart.

Oh noes. I done messed with Texas.

 

[AngelStrummer]

I love Springsteen, one of the great American poets. But he'll never be as cool as that little ole band, when it comes to it.

There's safe and there's cool.

 

[telemnemonics]

...refrains from saying mean things about Springsteen fans...

 

[bobio]

It all seems like a vast conspiracy to influence the masses and suppress more deserving bands of fair and equal compensation for their catalogs

 

[tanplastic]

I'm saving my pennies for the Kraftwerk and Can catalogues.
Then I'll release dance floor mashups and cash in.

 

[posttoastie]

We will start the bidding at ?

 

[bromdenlong]

I sold my catalog for 3 dead flies and a half thimble full of belly button lint.

Speaking of which, gimmee back my thimble.

 

[bromdenlong]

Nebraska is a great album. I don't much dig the E st. band, but I liked a few songs on Born in the USA. I like Bruce better by himself.

I had a tape of Eliminator when it came out, but I've never really looked into their catalog.

Apples to oranges, as said before.

I'm much more shocked that Springsteen got more than BOB DYLAN!!!! How in hell does that happen?

 

[tanplastic]

Nebraska is a great album. I don't much dig the E st. band, but I liked a few songs on Born in the USA. I like Bruce better by himself.

I had a tape of Eliminator when it came out, but I've never really looked into their catalog.

Apples to oranges, as said before.

I'm much more shocked that Springsteen got more than BOB DYLAN!!!! How in hell does that happen?

No love for Darkness On The Edge Of Town?
Some spooky stuff on that as well as the typical Bruce anthems.

 

[bromdenlong]

No love for Darkness On The Edge Of Town?
Some spooky stuff on that as well as the typical Bruce anthems.

I don't really know the album. I'm mostly just basing my opinion on what I've heard on the radio over the years. There, the E street band is 1/4 poignant, 1/4 semi-stirring, and 1/2 annoying to me.

That might be a mistake, I suppose. Some bands deep cuts are much better than their hits.

 

[tanplastic]

I don't really know the album. I'm mostly just basing my opinion on what I've heard on the radio over the years. There, the E street band is 1/4 poignant, 1/4 semi-stirring, and 1/2 annoying to me.

That might be a mistake, I suppose. Some bands deep cuts are much better than their hits.

I get what you're saying about the E-Street Band, they can be a little over the top.
Here's an example of the darker songs on DOTEOT.

 

[bromdenlong]

Adam Raised a Cain is good. I don't think I'd heard that before.

 

[tanplastic]

Adam Raised a Cain is good. I don't think I'd heard that before.

Thanks for listening.
I think it shows an undercurrent of anger to Springsteen's music.

 

[tele12]

Bob Dylan plays small venues.....Has for decades.....

Yes, but Bob Dylan's songs have been covered by more than anyone with the possible exception of the Beatles.

 

[tele12]

I can agree that Bruces catalog is worth more than ZZ Tops ...


But is Bruce's really worth 1/2 Billion dollars?

I know it is because that's what he got for it, but... damn ...

What other artist of Bruce's era is anywhere in that ballpark?
Is there one?
Is Bruce really the Boss?

FG

Billy Joel would easily be considered Bruce's equal in any sales/money/airplay criteria.

 

[tanplastic]

Billy Joel would easily be considered Bruce's equal in any sales/money/airplay criteria.

No.
Just no.

 

[tele12]

Is it? I'd think that would make Springsteen's catalog worth $200M, not $500M. And you can't tour a catalog.

Bruce Springsteen's songs have been covered by other artists many times, ZZ Top nor so much

http://www.ict.mic.ul.ie/brucecovers/default.html

 

[Lou Tencodpees]

Darkness on the Edge of Town got a lot of play on lonely nights driving aimlessly in my 77 Monte Carlo. Loved the production.