Are there any recording artists you just can’t listen too?

@mylogic 

Agree with you on Bono.

He also now appears to have actually morphed into a Robin Williams look-alike.

Check him out…...has Bono now become a recording artist you just can’t look at?

Read the Daily Mail, The Edge and a few others are shagging his Mrs., gotta love it ......Lol!

Back on topic.

I was a little harsh on Neil Young. "Harvest Moon" is a great tune.

@simao  are you kidding? He was born into a working class circumstance in New Jersey for God’s sake. And he busted his ass as a musician from the time he could play. I mean, it’s not Stanley Kowalski hauling meat up the stairs laborer, but that’s a pretty working class upbringing 

Not kidding. He did run from the draft.

When is being born into a "working class" circumstance an unfortunate situation? He didn't grow up in a slum. His house was decent in a middle class neighborhood in Freehold N.J.  Not bad at all.

His father worked in a factory and wanted Bruce to be a productive member of the family. He refused to work and only wanted to 'play' his music. His father had issues with that. 

He then sings about the hardships and social injustice that he never experienced. T He sings about life as a dead end street. Painting a picture that everything is wrong about America. He sings about his poor dying hometown and it just wasn't true!! Freehold N.J. is doing better than ever!

Capitalism is bad! But now, he himself is the $billionare because he WAS 'born in the U.S.A.' He should be thankful but it doesn't appear so. It's all a phony story. 

He now lives a mile away from a Trump owned million dollar golf course community. Imagine that!

Gee, @gdaddy1 , showing up for your draft physical and 4-Fing is not synonymous with draft dodging.  If you want to talk about draft dodging, let’s talk about how Freddy Kruger Trump kept Cadet Bonespurs out of Vietnam.   

Aas far as Freehold:

Freehold, New Jersey faced two major moments of deindustrialization in the post-World War II period. In the late 1950s, the rug mill that sat at the center of the town's economic and cultural life began to close down. In 1986, a 3M audio-visual tape plant that had helped the town avoid economic ruin shut down as well. This paper illustrates the continuities between these closings, challenging the dogma in labor history that plant closings occur because of management's desire to avoid an entitled and demanding workforce. Though workers at both plants were unionized, neither the rug mill nor the 3M workers made major demands on their employers in the postwar period. This paper analyzes the conditions that prompted shutdowns in Freehold, illustrating the role of broader market forces as well as internal company dynamics in driving capital flight. Furthermore, a close look at the 3M closing reveals the importance of culture in workers' responses to deindustrialization. Following 3M's announcement of its plans to shut down the Freehold plant, workers began a national media campaign to save their jobs. At the heart of this campaign was the memory of the rug mill that had closed 25 years earlier, as represented by their campaign anthem, Bruce Springsteen's 1984 song "My Hometown." This paper demonstrates the role of memory and music in shaping workers' experience with deindustrialization as well as the struggles of unions to codify the relationship between capital and community in the twentieth century.