In Conversation with Steven Hyden (Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." book)
Office Hours Live with Tim Heidecker
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🗓️ 6 June 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Enjoy this special edition of Office Hours In Conversation with music critic/author/podcaster Steven Hyden! Tim and Steven go deep on Bruce's work and a little less deep on other related topics including Bruce's wardrobe, Bruce's haircut, Bruce's stage antics, and a little bit of Paul McCartney and Dylan talk. This is all in celebration of Steven's latest book "There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." and the End of the Heartland." Get your own copy here!
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| 0:00.0 | Well, Lou, we were going to, I'm here with Steve Hayden, and we're going to get into a proper intro in a few minutes. |
| 0:06.0 | But before we started rolling, Steve jumped in with his desire to discuss unfrosted, which I feel like you made a point. |
| 0:16.8 | You just make the point again. |
| 0:18.0 | And then we're going to talk about Bruce Springsteen today. |
| 0:21.0 | And this is a very special episode of Office Hours with one of my favorite music writers, |
| 0:26.0 | Steve Hayden. |
| 0:28.1 | I'll give you a proper intro, but let's do this cold open where you tell me your thoughts on Unfrosted. |
| 0:34.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:35.2 | Well, I saw the clip of you talking about the Jerry Seinfeld Pop-Tart movie, and I assume that, oh, Tim is going to crap on this movie like everyone else has. And I thought your take was really interesting. You weren't saying it was like the funniest movie you'd ever seen, but you seem sympathetic to what Seinfeld |
| 0:54.1 | was trying to do, and you were actually kinder to it than a lot of people I've seen |
| 0:57.3 | talking about it. And it was interesting to me, because I thought I had, when I was watching it, |
| 1:02.1 | I didn't finish it. I had to be on it. |
| 1:05.1 | Okay, fair enough. |
| 1:05.7 | When I was watching it, it did occur to me that, oh, this would be a better movie if someone like Tim |
| 1:12.2 | Heidecker did it. |
| 1:30.5 | Let me just set this up. |
| 1:35.2 | So people listening, just want to introduce you formally. |
| 1:41.0 | Steve Hayden is a music critic, an author, a podcast host. |
| 1:56.9 | He's the author of Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me, Twilight of the Gods, The Long Road about Pearl Jam's influence on a generation, co-hosts of the podcast Indycast, and you do a podcast with our friends, The Jokerman. |
| 2:02.1 | Neverending Stories. And you're a writer for Uprocks. You're always putting out these terrific lists. You're making these big decisions about the order of things of people's careers. |
| 2:09.1 | I love that. Yeah. And I've gotten to, you've interviewed me and now it's time to interview for me |
| 2:16.1 | to interview you because you've got a new |
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