#jungleland

[clarabowlover]

In The Jungle With The Queen

Bettie Page - By Bunny Yeager (1954)

[sgt-dignam]

Jack O’Connell & Charlie Hunnam in JUNGLELAND (2019) dir. Max Winkler

[halkyons]

Jack O'Connell for the COS Spring Summer 2024 Campaign

[bettie-may-page]

Bettie Page Standing #475 Bettie’s famous one legged stand

[stillunusual]

Jungleland (issue #6) YEAR: 1977 CREATED BY: Mike Scott and his mates LOCATION: Edinburgh SIZE: A4 WHAT’S INSIDE…. My copy of this fanzine is a re-print and has some pages missing, but I'm posting it anyway because somebody requested it. I tried in vain to find the missing pages (4, 5, 24 and 25) on the interwebs, so if anybody out there has a fully intact copy I'd love to hear from you. The missing content is listed on page 2….

Mike Scott is best known for being the founding member, lead singer, guitarist and songwriter of The Waterboys, having also previously been in Another Pretty Face and Funhouse (whose story is documented in issue 4 of Rough Justice fanzine).

In a 2018 interview with Owen Murphy of KEXP, Scott had the following things to say about his zine:

…."Jungleland was a fanzine that I made in 1977. I lived at the time in a small town in the West of Scotland called Ayr, and I went into our local hip record shop which was called Speed Records. They had these things, these photocopied, stapled, homespun things. Sniffin' Glue fanzine, a couple of issues of that. And I read it and thought, "Gosh, I could do that!" - and of course, that was the spirit of punk. So I started doing my own fanzine. I photocopied it on the photocopier at my work. And I did, I think, nine issues. The first four were in Ayr and then I moved to Edinburgh. I moved back to my hometown. And at the time that punk rock was exploding and the last five issues were done there. And I interviewed Richard Hell, The Clash, The Only Ones, Tom Robinson, Bob Geldof. Lots of people. Every band who passed through Edinburgh I would try and blag in and meet"….

The front cover of issue #6 summarises what's inside the zine pretty accurately, the text is neatly typed with some handwritten annotations, and it's an interesting read - particularly the Richard Hell and Clash interviews. The singles reviews are rather brief (eg the review of Ian Dury's "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll" just says that "it's brilliant") but sometimes less can be more.

Click on the title above to see scans of all the zine's pages…. my box of 1970s fanzines flickr

[tonguetyd]

You know, when we saw Bruce a couple weeks ago, he talked a LOT about writing these songs in the general area, and how desolate AP was in the 70s, and how…bleak it all seemed. And the thing that anybody who’s ever listened to Bruce will tell you, is that he’s a storyteller.

When he talks, people listen.

And even tho I have listened to Bruce songs before and even seen him live once before!! I still didn’t really *get* it.

And then he played Jungleland. Which is a song I’ve heard named, but have not listened to…really at all. And this is the last verse of it:

And all of a sudden, I am standing on the beach in Asbury Park, with 40k people behind me, weeping to a song I have never heard before.

Reina will back me up on this, I do not cry easily. I have known her and Airplane for 12 years, I think that night was maybe the second, it may have even been the first! time that they’ve seen tears in my eyes.

I do not have the emotional attachment to this song the way Airplane does, when she gasped at the beginning and went “this is my favorite song”. And yet there I am at the end of it, looking over to her going “I get it. I get it now.”

I have had more fun at other gigs, I have let my mind be less in control where the pain in my feet fades away at other gigs, I have sung louder at other gigs.

But the way that I snapped to “I get it now. I get it. I get it.” That’s what made it.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band is the best concert I have ever seen in my life.

[hisinfernalmajesty666]

I can't explain why, but Bruce Springsteen's 'Jungleland' should be turned into a musical.

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WATCHLIST 2023: Jungleland

[oopsl]

Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen, 1975

[hunnamxhedlund]

[kjapaluv]

Jungleland (finished now)

[myimaginaryradio]

Jungleland - Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

My "favorite songs" change all the time... with one exception. This is more then a song, it's a journey.

[veruneedy]

[frankiefellinlove]

48 years old

Watch 'Wings for Wheels: The Making of Born to Run': https://youtu.be/OaMgOYCeOBg

48 years old today. What an album. The greatest combination of music I’ll hear in my life. I cannot fault it.

From the opening bars of Thunder Road, I feel a complete sense of liberation. It’s a sound of hope, a sound of freedom and youthful innocence. It’s something that can’t be manufactured or faked.

From start to finish the album is flawless. We have - in my mind - the greatest opening track of an album ever. And undoubtedly four of his absolute best in Thunder Road, Backstreets, BTR and Jungleland. Then throw in the magic of Tenth Avenue, the power and intensity of Night and She’s The One, and the sub story of Meeting Across The River to lead us into Jungleland, the album is literally perfect.

Night has to be one of the most underrated, and I’m sure often forgotten tracks, given how short it is. It’s over before you know it, and wedged between Tenth Avenue and Backstreets, it’s not hard to see why. Next time you’re driving and the sun is shining, put Night on, turn it up loud and just enjoy. It’s the best driving song.

I can’t find a weak point. If I had to pick a least favourite song it’d probably be Tenth Avenue. And it’s a song I still enjoy a lot.

An album that is an absolute masterpiece from start to finish without any shadow of a doubt.

Favourite: Backstreets

Underrated: Night

Best: Jungleland

[bettie-may-page]

Bettie Page at Jungleland, USA, Boca Raton, Florida #31

[adamshallperish]

clarence clemon's saxophone solo in jungleland is the closest thing to religion for me