#19 (1978 Part 2) Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Queen, The Who & more

The Album Years

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🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Steven and Tim return with 1978, a year so rich with significant albums ripe for discussion it looks like it’s going to require 4 episodes to get through them all! Part 2 of The Album Years' investigation into 1978 continues with some of the more established guard, including The Who, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, 10cc, Warren Zevon, Elton John, Neil Young, Queen and more. Parts 3 and 4 to follow! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-album-years/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.0	Down time can be just fine playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.0	Tea break.
0:09.0	Lunt break.
0:10.0	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.0	Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?
0:15.0	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nam time go on play some other time
0:22.7	put your phone down
0:23.9	Tombollah
0:24.7	open for fun
0:26.5	Terms apply 18 plus gambleaware
0:28.8	org
0:29.4	Gamblerware.org So let's move on from New Wave to singer-songwriters is next on the list. And you've already mentioned
0:57.2	Bruce. Now, I'm going to come clean. I've never been a Bruce Springsteen fan. I think he's amazing.
1:05.5	I can totally see why people get very obsessed with him and why for many people he's the greatest and he's
1:13.1	the boss and all that. I've never liked it. I've never, I've never liked his, I quite like
1:18.2	Nebraska, the stripped down acoustic Porter Studio record. It just doesn't resonate with me.
1:23.8	What about you? Absolutely the same here and I bought all of his albums at least once.
1:29.2	And there are a bit I like, you know, Jungle Towns great across the rivers, great, Nebraska.
1:33.6	The lyrics are amazing. The lyrics are amazing. Philadelphia. Yeah. And some of the lyrics and actually, you know, his album this year, Darkness and the O'Donters Town, some of the lyrics are fantastic. His ability to create stories quite, you know, similar in a way to Randy Newman or Tom Waits,
1:49.8	who had a great album this year as well. So I do, you know, I rate him. I do rate him, but it has
1:55.9	never kind of emotionally particularly touched me. There's something about it that I think Meatloaf tapped into,
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