Hey, I take exception to #2 there. Though not exciting, minivans are comfortable and efficient at what they do. Also, they are not high-profit vehicles, so they have not directly contributed to the demise of numerous sports cars due to manufacturing capacity being taken for other, high-profit products. I respectfully submit that SUVs, in particluar luxury SUVs, be #2 on that list.
On the original subject, Bruce Springsteen sucks. He's made a career out of telling generations of youth that it's OK to be undereducated, underintelligent, underemployed, and underambitious.
Any fleeting respect I may have had for him was destroyed by the Born In The USA album. His prior release, called Nebraska, was a simple recording of heartfelt, carefully written songs - nothing but a man pouring his soul out over an acoustic guitar. It received critical acclaim, and it's the most honest thing he's ever produced.
It sold dismally. So, he promptly turned around, did some marketing research, found the popular American sentiments of the Reagan years, and wrote Born In The USA - an album of pure, calculated schlock that sold umpteen millions of copies. A true triumph of selling out. Not that I liked him much before that, but afterwards I can't hear one of his songs without feeling like I just stepped in dog crap.
