[spotify id=”spotify%3Auser%3A122351017%3Aplaylist%3A2HxldwrWmfZmUhzuqFaywh&view=coverart” width=”500″ height=”580″ /] A track by track comparison of Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A” and @lightningrodrec tribute album “Dead Man’s Town”.

deadmanstown: “There is something magical about youth and ‘Bobby Jean’ sings like a dirge reminding you that the kid you once saw in the mirror is gone, and he is not. It’s not closure that Springsteen’s plain words give you, but they seem to be pointing to an open ended grief – in some regard, […]

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVobBhNbUtE?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=500&h=281] “Those who imitate, imitate agents who must be either admirable or inferior. (Character almost always corresponds to just these two categories, since everyone is differentiated in character by defect or excellence.) Alternatively they must be better people than we are, or worse, or of the same sort…Homer imitates better people; Cleophon, people similar […]