Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Music: The Boss, The Brunettes

An Onion AV Club review of The Hold Steady quotes the line, "Tramps like us and we like tramps". Nice play on Springsteen's "Born To Run" line.

Bruce made a cameo appearance on Lou Reed's 1978 album "Street Hassle", mumbling a monologue that ends, "Tramps like us, we were born to play" or "born to pay", depending on which lyrics site you visit. (Sounds like "pay" to me.)

On the opposite end of musical homages, New Zealand's The Brunettes quote the Spice Girls on "Leonard Says". (You can listen to the whole album, then order it from Sub Pop ("Celebrating Several Years Of Record Making") for $10. They remind me of Belle & Sebastian for some reason.

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