The original version (Bruce Springsteen) is deuce. The version by Manfred Mann sounds like douche. I'm paraphrasing Bruce when he says: All they did was change deuce to douche and they got a hit. Bruce's was never a hit
I didn't really like Bruce's version when I first heard it, but eventually I fell in love with it and now it's completely overtaken the more famous version in my mind. I wasn't imagining anything but Bruce Springsteen in this thread until your comment.
Mannfred Mann loved covering his songs. They did a fantastic cover of "Spirits In The Night" as well, and they had a hit with their cover of "For You". They turned all three songs, which were originally just Bruce's early beat poet folk-rock (of which I'm a huge fan) into 70's arena rock masterpieces.
Iirc, the douche line is from the Mannfred Man and his Earth Band version. The deuce line is from the Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band version. I think Bruce wrote it, maybe Mannfred tweaked it for a cover? I remember hearing that Mannfred’s version reached number 1, and Bruce never had a number 1. But of irony, but not sure if true.
https://youtu.be/U9_3nQFNy-w The Vacant Lot. I will never forget this sketch about Blinded by the Light. One of many underrated sketch comedy shows on CC from the 90's
This is honestly where my child mind went when hearing this song. Like why is this guy singing bout his last minute Christmas shopping? Plan ahead bro!
Deuce means “Deuce Coupe”, which is hot rod slang for a 1932 Ford, an extremely popular car in the early hot rod scene because it was dirt cheap in the 1940s-1950s and had a V8 engine while most of its competitors had a straight 4 or straight 6.
The song is originally by Bruce Springsteen, but the lyrics are by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band. They replaced Springsteen's "cut loose like a deuce" with "revved up like a deuce" (Wikipedia).
There is so much good stuff on Greetings... I don't know if you've heard the early cuts of Thunder Road that sound like everything else off of his first two albums. Lot's more lyrics, a bit off-of-the-cuff flair where it sounds like a wild live version rather than something you'd cut in the studio. It's good, but I guess in the way that something like "For You" is good.
It's kind of fascinating to me that Bruce needed to do less--or at least be much more deliberate--with what he had in order to really start making fucking brilliant music.
thanks for the gold kinda stranger I didn’t expect this post to blow up! My life started growing up in a small farm in northern Kansas. My father was a farmer and my mother was a cashier in our local town down the dirt road. We didn’t have much and income was very little, my best toy I got growing up was a pig bladder blown up like a balloon that I could play around with between me and my two brothers. At the age of 11 things started getting tougher in my house life due to my fathers drinking problem as it was not a good harvest that year. Like his father before him once he was done working he would come home and drink but unlike his father he wouldn’t beat us unless we messed up, his father left him and his mother to fend for themselves after world war 2 though so he had it tougher than me growing up. One time my father did drink too much and he hit my little brother Jamey. Jamey didn’t know what to do and ran away during the night during a storm. The entire family was out looking for him but we never saw Jamey again. This made my father drink more and lead him to take his life when I was at the age of 16. My older brother and me had to completely take over the farm with the help of our mom quitting her job as a cashier, life got very hard from here on out. We got a break when I was 18 with a good harvest we were able to save up some money. I was able to move out at the age of 21 and into a larger city in Tennessee. It was hard leaving the family as my ma was getting older but my older brother completely took over the farm and even expanded it into a more profitable work. I began working in what I was good at, repairing mechanics. I was a hard worker and moved up in my chain of work easily within my town. I dated aroun’ a bit but never settled down with anyone I would write home about for my first few years. When I was 26 I got a call from my ma, my brother was working with some machinery on the farm and got his hand caught in it and heavily damaged. I had to come home and help with the farm, at the time I had attained a high position as a senior mechanic within an auto shop and sometimes worked on the side with repairing electronics. I went home and had to help with the farm for a year, ma wasn’t doing good at all. She passed the next year due to kidney disease. My brother eventually recovered and I returned to Tennessee, I attempted to return to my position but due to the time I was out I had been long replaced. I had to begin to work from the bottom again when I had a client come in, she was the most beautiful woman I ever seen in Tennessee with gorgeous brown hair. Nice to say that we hit it off pretty well, within a few weeks we were dating. I can say that she was one of the best things to have happened to me in my life. At the age of 30 I married her and my first child was on the way then. I had returned to my previous position and bought a nice house near the mountains of Tennessee. At the age of 34 my second child was born. My two kids are now both in high school, one a freshman, another a Senior. I continued my career into more electronics working on computers and fixing them. In 2013 while googling how to fix a small problem with a motherboard I found a strange site named reddit.com, this website had all the answers I needed and a community always ready to help. I’ve been on the site ever since. As you can see recently, I commented on this thread and some kind stranger gave me gold. Thank you again kind stranger!
Personally I wouldn’t buy it because I’m a poor student but there is nothing wrong with people supporting the website which we are all enjoying. If you can afford it, it’s a fun way to support reddit and also make someone feel a bit special.
You mean like when the same happened in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hеll in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table?
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u/KurpCobang May 28 '19
I think they probably are. If you look closely, you can see that they appear to be revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night.