Yeah great album and as everyone else is saying so is American Slang.
Tbh all their albums are good but perhaps suffer from just being more of the same, but sometimes that’s all you want.
The reformation album is good and is a free download as they didn’t like the way the original mix sounded digitally so they remixed it (and it sounds better) and gave it away for free:
Also really like this one from one of their early EPs
Set list killed me and my crew, we buggered off before the encore - may or may not have been a mistake. Saw him a couple of years later and he was incredible. Very very different shows.
There are ways to reference other songs and songwriters that are clever, funny, affectionate, or interesting. And then there is Brian Fallon singing “no surrender, my bobbbyyy jeeeean” on this, while he wildly points at the Springsteen section of your record collection.
Gotta hand it to the rest off the band though, they can bash out a lot of good tunes.
hmm I think it’s acceptable on that specific song, that’s practically 100% borrowed or rephrased more famous songs, just to illustrate how much of a facsimile the protagonist is