I had to turn Roon radio off for that very reason. Springsteen is someone I can’t stand. I listen to post punk etc. But Roon radio always plays Bruce.
Not really looking to revive this thread and no mention of Bruce (damn) but this article made me think that maybe Valence could up its game some:
But it didn’t really write it as shown. Quite a large disclaimer at the bottom of the article. Anyway, the AI might like Bruce or Celine Dion!
More information added since on the editing process by the Guardian writers:
Indeed - and it even got its facts wrong: the word robot has its roots in Czech, not in Greek. GIGO still applies…
Indeed, it’s a fast moving area that I have a professional interest in. Here’s another unusual case from Wikipedia:
Philip M. Parker, by one measure the world’s most prolific author, has an entirely different approach. Parker has over 200,000 titles listed on Amazon.com, having developed an algorithm to gather publicly available data and compile it into book form.[6][7] The computer-generated nature of the books is not detailed on the sales page and the books are printed only when ordered.
There are reputable and profitable marketing reports “written”/assembled by algorithms alone.
Well OT now but an interesting article here on openAI GPT3:
How about been told that AI had turned your child or parent into a “Bruce Tramp”? Purely a way of getting this thread back on track 
Then they would be born to run.
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I thought his new album was a Christmas record when I saw the cover. Don’t like the song at all. Tom Petty is sorely missed.
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I just listened to Darkness on the Edge of Town and when it finished Roon Radio kicked in and started playing Sherry Darling from The River.
Clearly, there is some sort of BS conspiracy here!
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and ripped off Steve Earle. Blatantly.
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told ya…
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I have never enjoyed Bruce, and this was probably colored by my brother’s loathing of him. I will confess however that Spotify was playing me a recommended list I was only half listening to, mostly new music, and I heard a track I’d never heard before and thought then, and still do, that it was phenomenal. I was surprised to find it was Bruce on one of his first two albums, so I thought I’d recommend it here: New York City Serenade (9:58).
The Wild, the Innocent and the E street shuffle. 2nd side is one of my fav Springsteen albums sides. Back then, he was trying to channel Van Morrison and had a really great jazz pianist in his band, David Sancious.
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That was my first Springsteen album, and still my clear favorite. Didn’t hurt that I saw the band in Spring of 1974 on a club tour supporting “The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle”. Only about 40 people in the audience of this small club, but the band played like it was Madison Square Garden.
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I had a very similar experience, but a bit earlier. In summer 1973, a friend of mine and I hitch-hiked from Philadelphia to Boston to visit a friend , and wound up seeing Springsteen at a well known club called Oliver’s in Cambridge, right before “The Wild, the Innocent…” was released (it remains by favorite Springsteen album too). Played to an audience of maybe 100. Those were the days…small clubs, small audiences, great music.
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Along those lines, from a previous post -
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It will be interesting to see how the younger artists match the catalog of work provided by the stones. Also the way they have managed to come up with great music in many styles as the years progressed.
Rock, hard rock, country, disco, you name it, and yet still remain to keep a sound and individuality that is ‘The Stones’.
The younger generation may laugh but it will be a long time before their musical idols match this feat.
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How can any artists today match the Stone’s catalog pre-1973? There is no way. Let’s just pick these albums:
Aftermath
Between the Buttons
Beggars Banquet
Let It Bleed
Sticky Fingers
Exile on Main St.
The breadth and depth of material there is incredible. There are no artists like that today. Nope…none.
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