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I just had to make mention of this Springsteen wanna be...

John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band. From top to bottom, this song just WREAKS of The Boss.

Or does it just wreak?



This song reminds me of a very particular and GREAT time on my life so I'm always torn about how I should feel about it. While I see it as a rip-off, I must acknowledge that I would probably accept it had it been a Springsteen tune on the Born In the USA album that was released around the same time.

What do you guys think? Get rid of it or get over it?
 

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I like that tune, always have, and I say that as someone who is NOT a fan of most of Springsteen's work, but I can see how someone might make a connection to On The Dark Side to the Born in the USA album. One thing of note, On the Dark Side (as well as the entire Eddie and the Cruisers soundtrack) came out about nine months before Born in the USA did.

Perhaps it was "the boss" that was copying John Cafferty. :heheh:
 

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Eddie And The Cruisers was a movie that was set in New Jersey at the Jersey Shore. The whole movie has glimpses of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.

Eddie and the Cruisers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Soundtrack

Vance asked Davidson to describe his fictitious band and their music. Initially, Davidson said that the Cruisers sounded like Dion and the Belmonts, but when they meet Frank, they have elements of Jim Morrison and The Doors. However, Davidson did not want to lose sight of the fact that the Cruisers were essentially a Jersey bar band and he thought of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. The filmmaker told Vance to find him someone that could produce music that contained elements of these three bands. Davidson was getting close to rehearsals when Vance called him and said that he had found the band - John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band from Providence, Rhode Island. Davidson met the band and realized that they closely resembled the band as described in the script, right down to a Cape Verdean saxophone player, whom he cast in the film. Initially, Cafferty was hired to write a few songs for the film, but he did such a good job of capturing the feeling of the 1960s and 1980s that Davidson asked him to score the film.

After successful screenings on HBO in 1984, the album suddenly climbed the charts, selling four million copies. The studio re-released the soundtrack in the fall of 1984. Nine months after the film was released in theaters, the main song in the film, "On the Dark Side" was the number one song in the country on Billboard's Mainstream, Rock, and Heatseeker charts; and #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Another single from the film, "Tender Years", peaked at #31 on the Billboard Hot 100.
 

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I had only heard this song once, on a radio station out of Toronto, Ontario and loved it.

The next time I heard it was about 5 years later, which is how long it took me to find out who the band was, what the song title was, and actually find a copy of the album (on CD).
 

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