I dont think I can get my hair back, but would for sure go back with you...My hats off to Jackson for one hell of an acustic performance Monday at Akron University!
@chupalia are you stupid? lip sync is a completely different definition than sink... and it would only be relevant if you were on ashlee simpson video or something
The song is about a former liberal who becomes a conservative. Its a tragedy. As a liberal who became a conservative who became a liberal say a prayer for this pretender.
No disrespect intended, but I don't remember any out-of-sync video to audio back in the days of Analog Television, before all this Digital crap, indeed when this perfomance took place in 1976. (by An Analog Engineer).
And I Love the song and this video, of course. Thanks for posting it.
Back in 1980, I was on a Greyhound from Philadelphia to Ames, IA. I met a guy who told me he was schizophrenic and also claimed to be the ice cream vendor referred to in this song. Always makes me smile to think of it.
Another Great Artist. He co wrote "Take It Easy", with The Eagles' Glen Frey. And after saying that he couldn't complete it, (I think because he was stuck for a second verse), Glen Frey did, and recorded it as an Eagles' Track. I like Jackson Browne's music. Very good.
Never quit,never back off,never loose sight of your goals. Get up,dust yourself off and climb back in that saddle and keep riding. Sucess is a relative term. Just depends on what side you want to be on. Drive On Jackson! NO NUKES!!!
I really think everyone should just drop all the fighting and enjoy the music Jackson Browne made for so many years. The man is incredibly talented and he's given most of us so much to love and enjoy in our lives - his words and music. Give it a break and just leave him alone. Really, who can throw the first stone? If he made any mistakes, well come on we all do. Just enjoy the man's music, and if you can't - go somewhere else!
@peefus67 look up the facts on the public police record. Jackson called the police, not his wife.If he had anything to hide he wouldn't have called the cops, and the cops investigated the situation and found the woman was not hurt in any way, she was simply trying to make it easier to divorce so she wouldnt feel bad about herself so she dissed an innocent man.
@peefus67 and yet your "truth" has what to do with Jackson Browne again? Are you claiming to be Phyllis Major or Lynne Sweeney (his only two ex-wives)? Even Daryl Hannah has came out and said that the "abuse" incident never truly occurred just a couple of years ago. You can't just throw terms like "wife beater" around based on information that has been debunked for years...then claim some sort of "truth" when the "myths" prove your ignorance on the topic.
@Unlitedsoul what I really want to say would get me thrown off the site; still if you think you are the authority on the criminal background of JB, wear that fake badge well. Maybe you can change the world one comment at a time on youtube, but I wouldnt hold my breath
if u look for the pretender. u will find jackson but u will also find The Foo Fighters. The newest and one of the best rock n roll bands right up there with J.B.
"I'm gonna find myself a girl who can show me what laughter means and we'll fill in the missing colors in each of our paint by # dreams" ..seriously...GENIUS ..and can tell me, who wouldn't want that?! honestly?!
"I'm gonna find myself a girl who can show me what laughter means and we'll fill in the missing colors in each of our paint by # dreams" ..seriously...GENIOUS ..and can tell me, who wouldn't want that?! honestly?!
fashions change, hair sytle change,,,technology chages,,,but people dont. listen to the leson. i have loved jacksons musis, music, since i was 15. 30 years lator,, its still real
This is one JBs best songs - my opinion here. I'm too old to care about the Top 40 of today and what I've heard of it has me rolling my eyes in disbelief. Yes, it was good to live in the 70s and have music such as this accompanying our lives, because that is part of what music does. If you like JB, give Steve Goodman or John Prine a listen - they'res on You Tube and just as relevent as our man Jackson. Long live great music!
I was right in the middle of these good times back in the 60's and 70's. Such a good time to be in. In the 70's I was in a band and playing some Jackson Browne songs. His songs were such fun and still are. He is one of my favorite.
this is a great song. i think that people nowadays dont know real music. though im young i have been exposed to many older songs. todays music is meaningless. it used to be expression buut now its all about getting drunk and being stupid. haha
iM GOINNA RENT MYSEL A HOUSE IN THE SHADE OF THE FREEWAY....GOINNA PACK MY LUNCH IN THE MORNING ............AND GO TO WORK EACH DAY! AND WHEN THE EVENING ROLLES AROUND, iLL GO HOME AND LAY MY BODY DOWN!
He has that rare ability as writer, to put flesh and poignant meaning on subjects that we all identify with, but find difficult to articulate, or express ourselves. His own personal journey of life, tragedy, love, and meaning, are so often given profound consideration and exploration in many of his songs and is in part why he is so fondly admired and respected, because his finger is on the pulse of what it is to be everyman
The joke is actually you Belisa, sometimes when posting video on here there is a lag between the visual and audio. Do your homework!! or else you will look like an idiot!
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What were all you people born in like the 1940's cause it sounds like it. I'm not even from the generation im from like the 1990's I don't even listen to the 90's music i listen to the NOW music.Gosh people are so .... OLD these days.
Give it up......give the man a round of applause....writing the songs of our soul....how sweet...how sad sometimes..he's reaching and grasping for something just out of his sight... the .lovely Mr. Browne,
If you find a way to go back I'm going with you. Give me a few months to get the hair back, get me some bell bottoms, and find my old 68 Camaro. Great Era of music that will never be again.
Can I go, too? I'd love it . . . can't help but be transported by his music. Saw him this summer in Cinci . . . would have been a 50+ groupie but doubt children would approve!
JB is the MAN!!! and his guitar looks like it has 1000 frets on it...very cool! he is the "everyman's" voice. He puts to lyrics and song what we cannot expain with our mere vocabulary....genius.
"out into the cool of the evening, strolls the pretender" This is one of the best song lyrics EVER. He captures the hopes, dreams, disapointments etc of the everyday working stiff. It is still topical today. It's so haunting!
"I'm gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender"
what the fuck? Jackson is being called a Nazi? All I need to know to know ya'll f'n up this music,this country,and your lives.get smarter,listen,know history.
And he's certainly no Nazi. I often read negative comments on youtube about the performers, and I wonder why anyone would click on a link to watch a clip of someone they hate. That can't be a valuable use of a person's time and energy.
There are some among us who rail against anything good, particularly anyone who dares to communicate. They're not sane. One of the methods used is smearing with labels and accusations, used on artists, the few decent politicians, or anyone with enough power to influence ideas toward bettering society or making people stronger, more vital, more alive. Jackson communicates.
Jackson isn't a Kraut. His dad was in the service and stationed in Heidelberg. He worked on the Stars & Stripes newspaper and was very much an American.
1. Your reading my comment 2. Now your saying/thinking thats a stupid fact. 4. You didnt notice that i skipped 3. 5. Your checking it now. 6. Your smiling. 7. Your still reading my comment. 8. You know all you have read is true. 10. You didnt notice that i skipped 9. 11. Your checking it now. 12. You didnt notice there are only 10 facts Copy and paste to 1 video, tomorrow will be your best day ever! no matter what
it really hurt me to write what I had to write way back when, but i had to defend Jackson, he's a man of great talent, and I couldn't sit back and let some little brat attack his music or my love for it. Thanks ragbagken for leaving my comments no matter how ugly it got between the lines.
i'm supposed to be some cool calm hardened scottish man. i'm only 20 but when i went to see him in glasgow i didn't even notice him come on stage but when he played the first chord on the piano i burst into tears couldn't believe it felt like a tit until i saw some older greaser in the same state beside me. coolest man alive and makes bob dylan look like some sort of boring machine. going to see him in glasgow again in april cant wait.
The Pretender..a song inspired by a wife that took her own life..I wouldn't last more than a few days if this happened to me...Then the song "These Days"..how does any sixteen year old kid wirte a song like that. (It saved my life)..if anybody out there knows Jackson..tell him THANKS for me!
Im a young man, only 22, however when you hear the name jackson browne one goes weak at the knees, here is man of such charisma, someone who transends emotion, i dont' have a bad word to say about him, an absolute legend!!
What is wrong with you? Nobody cares about what you think is 'sexy' A good thing would be for you to shut your cock-holster and stop ruining songs for people with moronic comments.
Lyrics and music should go together. One won't work without the other to create meaningful music. Jackson has the ability to create both. It is a gift.
I just learned some of my favorite songs were by him. I never knew who they were by but I always got excited when I heard them. I found out yesterday when some guy was covering running on empty and I looked up Jackson Browne. He's a great musician especially his lyrics
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i typed in "pretender" and it brought me to FOO Fighters. the last thing i want to hear is Dave Grohl's crap ass music.he should seriously punch himself in the balls, or cock.
Im 14 and have grown up with both jacksone and springsteen. I prefer jacksone browne, some of his lyrics are astonishing, he can say something in a few words, that other artists would need a number of lines for. The naked ride home is the perfect example. - Then one room at a time i watched every light in our house go off, like the truth that would eventually dawn , forcing me to decide.
It's well documented that Jackson Browne did NOT hit Daryl Hannah. Both have denied it. The police officers who responded to Browne's 911 call all filed very specific reports on this. The dispute was that Hannah was moving out of Browne's house after a spat, and Browne called police because he believed Hannah was trying to remove items that did not belong to her. When the tabloids got wind of a police response to the Browne/Hannah home, the story tok on a life of its own as an urban myth.
I saw him on Monday night (10/27/08) in Atlanta and he was great, and by far, by far, by far the highlight was The Pretender. He had the band and equipment to be rock & roll loud, but knows how to use it. He started with just piano, and then built it to rock, then stopped, playing softly again.... and bang, back into almost hard rock, on and on. The sound system was perfect and all 2,000 people were on there feet clapping and singing.
Great show. Not Springsteen, but who is? Very good.
I'm a HUGE Springsteen fan, but to my mind Browne is a superior writer and singer. This takes nothing away from Bruce's astonishing talents. Browne is just that much better than the Boss, and in some regards it's an apples-oranges comparison.
However, I have to wonder how familiar you are with Bruce's catalog or how many times you've seen him live.
Over the last 36 years I don't think anyone has performed at Bruce's level of excellence, writing, in the studio, and performing. In fairness, I haven't seen Jackson 55 times, including multiple shows on every tour beginning in 78, and I don't know all of his albums. How many of Bruce's 20, excluding compilations, do you know well?
Well, it's a really subjective thing, a matter of taste. That's why I said "to my mind Browne is...superior..." I'm thoroughly acquainted with both Springsteen's and Browne's work, and I've seen both live many times. As I said before, The Boss is an astonishingly good writer and performer. I just have a slight preference for Browne, that's all.
I like Fletwood Mac & Bon jovi better than Bruce. However, I like Bruce & he has sang songs with everyone including Bon jovi.
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Show some compassion, good grief. This is a beautiful song written when he was going through a horrible time in his life. It amazes me how many people are out there with no compassion for others. No wonder the state of the world is such a mess.
i don't know how he can preforme this and not cry,because there are a couple of songs that still make me cry thinking about my late wife and she didn't commit suicide like his did
thanks
Vox572X 2 weeks ago
Always loved the song, the Pretender was my CB Handle as a truck driver.
helen11937 2 weeks ago
I dont think I can get my hair back, but would for sure go back with you...My hats off to Jackson for one hell of an acustic performance Monday at Akron University!
compman770 4 months ago
I want born yet, But Im glad I was so i can listen to this beautiful song
gummoboy333 4 months ago
worst lip sinking ever
chupalia 4 months ago
@chupalia are you stupid? lip sync is a completely different definition than sink... and it would only be relevant if you were on ashlee simpson video or something
KiokiMoto 3 months ago
@KiokiMoto How about i punch you in the back of the head?
chupalia 3 months ago
The song is about a former liberal who becomes a conservative. Its a tragedy. As a liberal who became a conservative who became a liberal say a prayer for this pretender.
hulkthor1 7 months ago
@hulkthor1 You're either ignorant, an idiot., or a troll.
Where do you people get this stuff? Did you think of it yourself or copy it from somewhere?
CPSJSMSUUMUGA 2 months ago
wat is dis, i want the foo fighters nt some old guy!!!
DudsyHD 7 months ago
@DudsyHD
Sorry, the Foo Fighters were about 30 years too late coming up with their song titles :)
Schbopo 6 months ago
@Schbopo wow genuinely surprised you didn't realize i was being sarcastic and/or trolling *insert pointless emoticon*
DudsyHD 4 months ago
No disrespect intended, but I don't remember any out-of-sync video to audio back in the days of Analog Television, before all this Digital crap, indeed when this perfomance took place in 1976. (by An Analog Engineer).
And I Love the song and this video, of course. Thanks for posting it.
Tornfreedom 7 months ago
Roll the credits. Awesome.
JeredtheShy 8 months ago
Go Jackson Browne Wooh hoo
Say it again!!??
AMEN
MTWLeonidas 8 months ago 3
Back in 1980, I was on a Greyhound from Philadelphia to Ames, IA. I met a guy who told me he was schizophrenic and also claimed to be the ice cream vendor referred to in this song. Always makes me smile to think of it.
juliekstroup 9 months ago
@juliekstroup I suppose you wouldn't believe I'm the junkman in this song. Excuse me while I go pound on my fender and take my medication.
ramitupursnout 7 months ago
i want him! :)
Bigs84 9 months ago
so great .. love this song x
myrettea 9 months ago
Another Great Artist. He co wrote "Take It Easy", with The Eagles' Glen Frey. And after saying that he couldn't complete it, (I think because he was stuck for a second verse), Glen Frey did, and recorded it as an Eagles' Track. I like Jackson Browne's music. Very good.
MySearcher1 10 months ago
Never quit,never back off,never loose sight of your goals. Get up,dust yourself off and climb back in that saddle and keep riding. Sucess is a relative term. Just depends on what side you want to be on. Drive On Jackson! NO NUKES!!!
B55Don 10 months ago 3
彼の波のある人生を乗り越えた自信にみちた，軽快な一面を感じる。
PECO490 10 months ago
WHAT IF I SAY I'M NOT LKE THE OTHERS, WHAT IF I SAY I'M NOT JUT ANOTHER ONE IN YOU PLACE, YOUR THE PRETENDER, WHAT IF I SAY I WILL NEVER SURRENDER.
lol, just kidding all :)
HitaroX 10 months ago
...'between the longing for love and the struggle for the legal tender'... Sad lyrics, brilliant writing.
DebbieDean49 11 months ago
GOD
boltfan06 11 months ago
GDO
boltfan06 11 months ago
I really think everyone should just drop all the fighting and enjoy the music Jackson Browne made for so many years. The man is incredibly talented and he's given most of us so much to love and enjoy in our lives - his words and music. Give it a break and just leave him alone. Really, who can throw the first stone? If he made any mistakes, well come on we all do. Just enjoy the man's music, and if you can't - go somewhere else!
cinmgirl 1 year ago
Youve saved my life plenty of times, reawakened my creativity, and spoke to my soul. Thank you JB!
MysticPoems 1 year ago
"AND THE JUNKMAN POUNDS HIS FENDER"; Takes me instantly back to my youth!!!
sauquoit13456 1 year ago
isn't this song about a guy who lives just to make money?
turbocat64 1 year ago
in another lifetime this guy would be Byron or Shelley
cb155415 1 year ago
Perhaps, I have to go to the older version of "The Pretender".
peppertee 1 year ago
love him, but he was a wife beater
peefus67 1 year ago
@peefus67 I'm so tired of hearing this.
Type Jackson + Browne + Abuse into Google. It's a true as Gere's gerbil incident.
mito66 1 year ago
@peefus67 look up the facts on the public police record. Jackson called the police, not his wife.If he had anything to hide he wouldn't have called the cops, and the cops investigated the situation and found the woman was not hurt in any way, she was simply trying to make it easier to divorce so she wouldnt feel bad about herself so she dissed an innocent man.
4FabBEATLES 1 year ago 2
@4FabBEATLES this lady was abused by my exhusband and he did time for it, so dont come at me with myths, cause I know the truth
peefus67 1 year ago
@peefus67 and yet your "truth" has what to do with Jackson Browne again? Are you claiming to be Phyllis Major or Lynne Sweeney (his only two ex-wives)? Even Daryl Hannah has came out and said that the "abuse" incident never truly occurred just a couple of years ago. You can't just throw terms like "wife beater" around based on information that has been debunked for years...then claim some sort of "truth" when the "myths" prove your ignorance on the topic.
Unlitedsoul 1 year ago 8
@Unlitedsoul what I really want to say would get me thrown off the site; still if you think you are the authority on the criminal background of JB, wear that fake badge well. Maybe you can change the world one comment at a time on youtube, but I wouldnt hold my breath
peefus67 1 year ago
Before he got a Producer, it was the riff "happy iddiots"...oh well.
peppertee 1 year ago
if u look for the pretender. u will find jackson but u will also find The Foo Fighters. The newest and one of the best rock n roll bands right up there with J.B.
vic1161 1 year ago
His wife had committed suicide earlier in the year. No wonder he looks so sad.
SuperFringy 1 year ago 3
@SuperFringy few remember. most never knew. tragic.
wouldee5150 1 year ago
"I'm gonna find myself a girl who can show me what laughter means and we'll fill in the missing colors in each of our paint by # dreams" ..seriously...GENIUS ..and can tell me, who wouldn't want that?! honestly?!
dan8679 1 year ago 8
"I'm gonna find myself a girl who can show me what laughter means and we'll fill in the missing colors in each of our paint by # dreams" ..seriously...GENIOUS ..and can tell me, who wouldn't want that?! honestly?!
dan8679 1 year ago 3
"the mass of men lead lives of quite desperation" -H.D. Thoreau
they nailed it
AceH20Polo 1 year ago
-like some greater awakening
leonme555 1 year ago
fashions change, hair sytle change,,,technology chages,,,but people dont. listen to the leson. i have loved jacksons musis, music, since i was 15. 30 years lator,, its still real
maggiemaynj 1 year ago
THE TIMES CHANGE BUT THE MUSIC DOSE'NT, DO IT.......
neweagles456 1 year ago
We'll get up and do it again!! Good night all my friends on FB!! Struggle for the legal tender!! Say a prayer for the pretender!!
bblac913 1 year ago
His music is so rich, especially with David Lindley!
zummo61 1 year ago 2
First heard this song from "Mr. Holland's Opus." It was one of my faves from the soundtrack :)
Jojoba12 1 year ago
I wsh I had been born in that era!!!! I want to go to woodstock!!!! I wish I was there :'(
DoctorWhoTorchwood1 1 year ago
probably the best song ever written!
charblank 1 year ago
I wanta go back too.
Rhondalove 1 year ago
This is one JBs best songs - my opinion here. I'm too old to care about the Top 40 of today and what I've heard of it has me rolling my eyes in disbelief. Yes, it was good to live in the 70s and have music such as this accompanying our lives, because that is part of what music does. If you like JB, give Steve Goodman or John Prine a listen - they'res on You Tube and just as relevent as our man Jackson. Long live great music!
cliftongal51 1 year ago 2
I'm glad my mom forgot the name of this artist and made me look it up. This music is awesome
pickles4444 1 year ago
I was right in the middle of these good times back in the 60's and 70's. Such a good time to be in. In the 70's I was in a band and playing some Jackson Browne songs. His songs were such fun and still are. He is one of my favorite.
Bbendfender 1 year ago
this is a great song. i think that people nowadays dont know real music. though im young i have been exposed to many older songs. todays music is meaningless. it used to be expression buut now its all about getting drunk and being stupid. haha
BeachBabe905 1 year ago
@BeachBabe905 You are so right. It's got the beat and the heat, but no meat. It's rhymes, not poetry..
headwall07 1 year ago
At the age of 25 I truely appreciate music of the "classic" era. Todays popular top 40 type music is absolute trash......
jmack10hawg 1 year ago 2
Please...take me with you back to 1976!
evergreenmom62 1 year ago
iM GOINNA RENT MYSEL A HOUSE IN THE SHADE OF THE FREEWAY....GOINNA PACK MY LUNCH IN THE MORNING ............AND GO TO WORK EACH DAY! AND WHEN THE EVENING ROLLES AROUND, iLL GO HOME AND LAY MY BODY DOWN!
FKM04169 1 year ago
I'll get up and do it again.
TBW92 1 year ago
@TBW92 Isn't that we all do every day? Love it!!!~
vic1161 1 year ago
Good lyrics. I mean, the things he's singing about are reality for some people. But the music is pretty boring to me. Clueless and depressive.
andrac1 1 year ago
He has that rare ability as writer, to put flesh and poignant meaning on subjects that we all identify with, but find difficult to articulate, or express ourselves. His own personal journey of life, tragedy, love, and meaning, are so often given profound consideration and exploration in many of his songs and is in part why he is so fondly admired and respected, because his finger is on the pulse of what it is to be everyman
A rare gift, in an age that is vacuous
tarkineWild 1 year ago
This is an old version of the Pretender over a video, what a joke.
Belisagenius 1 year ago
The joke is actually you Belisa, sometimes when posting video on here there is a lag between the visual and audio. Do your homework!! or else you will look like an idiot!
trooper744 1 year ago
A great song, really hits home to some of us who lived those days and probably some that didn't. Really brings back the old days.
raleighcounty 1 year ago
Timeless..Good times!
Schon2112 1 year ago
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What were all you people born in like the 1940's cause it sounds like it. I'm not even from the generation im from like the 1990's I don't even listen to the 90's music i listen to the NOW music.Gosh people are so .... OLD these days.
brokencyderulez1 1 year ago
what a great song. melancholy at its finest
jefferges 1 year ago
This is of my generation - Didn't think much of it either way then.
1967mustanggta 1 year ago
What make guitar is Jackson playing?
zwanboy109 2 years ago
glad my man mentioned you!
countryfanmyra 2 years ago
Geez thats sweet, even after all these years.
waldogasauraus 2 years ago
the veterans still dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light... reminds me of my father
morecowbell1989 2 years ago
Give it up......give the man a round of applause....writing the songs of our soul....how sweet...how sad sometimes..he's reaching and grasping for something just out of his sight... the .lovely Mr. Browne,
TheReach1 2 years ago 2
God takes me back quite a few years and it's as good now as it was then.
happymike44 2 years ago 6
If you find a way to go back I'm going with you. Give me a few months to get the hair back, get me some bell bottoms, and find my old 68 Camaro. Great Era of music that will never be again.
hotstuffandicecream 2 years ago 39
Can I go, too? I'd love it . . . can't help but be transported by his music. Saw him this summer in Cinci . . . would have been a 50+ groupie but doubt children would approve!
terribea 2 years ago
@hotstuffandicecream I'll hitch a ride and go back too. I'll drive with in my 76 Camaro.
jony624 1 year ago
@hotstuffandicecream Save me a seat, you guys! I still have my suede fringe vest!
annikee59 11 months ago
@hotstuffandicecream Forget the hair, you remeber not to regret.
b74z3d 10 months ago
@hotstuffandicecream Me and you cant get our hair back or flairs, but what we can do is relish the Music of the Day and what it made us What we areXX
bungle56 9 months ago
Great song ...un clasico de los 70´s en la que Jackson Browne canta con un sentimiento unico .un Grande del Folk-rock.
rcarrl 2 years ago 2
truer now than ever
estraven2008 2 years ago
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Rock and Roll the meaning:
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KristinaBrooker 2 years ago
love jackson browne
leolard 2 years ago 4
JB is the MAN!!! and his guitar looks like it has 1000 frets on it...very cool! he is the "everyman's" voice. He puts to lyrics and song what we cannot expain with our mere vocabulary....genius.
fearthetube 2 years ago 3
trollers are amusing. they should seriously rethink if that is actually a good use of time.
Wakerofthewinds2 2 years ago
"out into the cool of the evening, strolls the pretender" This is one of the best song lyrics EVER. He captures the hopes, dreams, disapointments etc of the everyday working stiff. It is still topical today. It's so haunting!
"I'm gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender"
That about sums it all up!
darsdoodles 2 years ago 3
Jackson Browne has encapsulated the human experience perfectly. His portraite of humanity will transcend generations and time. pure genius
johnnybluballs 2 years ago 58
Couldn't have said it better myself!
darsdoodles 2 years ago 2
I suppose you could be less than
impressed with his public spat with Daryl Hannah, but in my opinion it least his
musical body of work is not only flawless
but incredibly inspired and brilliant.
17865329 2 years ago
@johnnybluballs AMEN, Say it again, AMEN.
fhayden173 1 year ago 2
it was fucking sweet how he said "roll the credits" and they kept playing for them
OpakeArawra2 2 years ago
what the fuck? Jackson is being called a Nazi? All I need to know to know ya'll f'n up this music,this country,and your lives.get smarter,listen,know history.
sjdinergrrl 2 years ago
A Nazi - I've never come across a sweeter, less Nazi chap in all my life!
3dovecot 2 years ago
And he's certainly no Nazi. I often read negative comments on youtube about the performers, and I wonder why anyone would click on a link to watch a clip of someone they hate. That can't be a valuable use of a person's time and energy.
exitonlymusic 2 years ago 4
i couldnt agree with u more if i had said it myself.
txdrifter38 2 years ago
There are some among us who rail against anything good, particularly anyone who dares to communicate. They're not sane. One of the methods used is smearing with labels and accusations, used on artists, the few decent politicians, or anyone with enough power to influence ideas toward bettering society or making people stronger, more vital, more alive. Jackson communicates.
35mm35 2 years ago 4
Jackson isn't a Kraut. His dad was in the service and stationed in Heidelberg. He worked on the Stars & Stripes newspaper and was very much an American.
djmaverick12 2 years ago 2
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Yes, I know that the japs are not allowed in the "land for white Christians ONLY", but Nazi krauts, like "Browne" are allowed.
Damn!!!!
I hate I was born as a jap!!!
aTofuJap 2 years ago
amazing song, it truly is!
adambrew93 2 years ago
He's great! That's it!
4444ThinLizzy 2 years ago
without doubt the best ever
virgodog1958 2 years ago
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I DON'T LIKE JACKSON BROWNE
TheIncredibleDrAss 2 years ago
thats why we love him cus idiots dont
virgodog1958 2 years ago
LOL
aPpLeJuIcE37RainLucy 2 years ago
Good for you, don't watch his videos then.
nicck 2 years ago
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Yes, I think the kraut Californian like this kraut is a genuine pretender acting as if he is a human.
aTofuJap 2 years ago
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XPanicatthediscoroxX 2 years ago
I nonly noticed how much of a dick you are. Why did you post that shite on a jackson browne video?
easytoremember9000 2 years ago
Not sure that the Pretender is about his ex-wife but For a Dancer makes sense for that as she was a dancer.
juliekstroup 2 years ago
k well i'm 14 do we have any 13s?
starstruck4jeffhardy 2 years ago
yea, turnign 13 in like 6 days
sks9785 2 years ago
it really hurt me to write what I had to write way back when, but i had to defend Jackson, he's a man of great talent, and I couldn't sit back and let some little brat attack his music or my love for it. Thanks ragbagken for leaving my comments no matter how ugly it got between the lines.
ratfinker85 2 years ago
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tamelanj 2 years ago
Or a neocon bigot.
tomelifeisjustonebig 2 years ago
I'm 15 and i love him
jeffduchon121 2 years ago 5
check out Warren Zevon while you on this road, He is well worth it!!
boiledhooker 2 years ago
20, and I have seen him once in concert and I'm going again this summer.
sggiw 2 years ago 6
this video reminds me of an old kung fu movie where the lips move and the words come out six seconds later.
earlbig 2 years ago
Anyone who smacks women around has gotta be cool right?
beezerkats 2 years ago
One of the best artists to ever live. So much heart in that music. Just wonderful!!!!
NOOBwozuyniboT 2 years ago
gotta agree with you there my friend. i saw him on saturday night, he was just awesome :D
marriottmad 2 years ago
i'm supposed to be some cool calm hardened scottish man. i'm only 20 but when i went to see him in glasgow i didn't even notice him come on stage but when he played the first chord on the piano i burst into tears couldn't believe it felt like a tit until i saw some older greaser in the same state beside me. coolest man alive and makes bob dylan look like some sort of boring machine. going to see him in glasgow again in april cant wait.
daveftd1983 2 years ago 2
hey big man ive felt this way for 30 years
hope to to meet you in april remember he set the eagles on thier way they were backin up linda ronstad
sixtiesarewe 2 years ago
I was with you until you trashed Bob Dylan. He's a genius.
mrwilliamjoel 2 years ago 2
The Pretender..a song inspired by a wife that took her own life..I wouldn't last more than a few days if this happened to me...Then the song "These Days"..how does any sixteen year old kid wirte a song like that. (It saved my life)..if anybody out there knows Jackson..tell him THANKS for me!
rozback 2 years ago 4
Great singer song writer awesome performer
slingem18 2 years ago
Im a young man, only 22, however when you hear the name jackson browne one goes weak at the knees, here is man of such charisma, someone who transends emotion, i dont' have a bad word to say about him, an absolute legend!!
facialkebabs 2 years ago 4
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SOsterstrom 2 years ago
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I am a 55-year-old male who feels exactly the same way.
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facialkebabs 2 years ago
time to buy some dark glasses
kitakashiwa 2 years ago
Timeless song.
akmusica 2 years ago
I agree, my #1 favorite song of ALL time. This song is perfection. It describes the struggle and compromises we all make every day.
hockeytown49341 2 years ago
yeah --- always loved this ----- tore me down and built me up ---- all in 3 minutes
stilldajoker 3 years ago 2
this is one of the greatest songs ever written.gary us bonds does a great version of this song with bruce springsteen and the e street band.
arthurkitchener 3 years ago
I definitely agree.
Marnoff 3 years ago
just make sure that you got it all set to go before you come for my piano. I know wrong song, but stop fighting on Youtube
MikeD4UMD 3 years ago
this is an old LP dubb over a video. what a joke!
swedefinn101 3 years ago
i think by posting a comment smackdaddy you answer you own argument, you clearly care who fromthispoint thinks is sexy !!
LiamAbin 3 years ago
HAHA, you got me!
Smackdaddy9 2 years ago
Love this song Jaskson Browne is amazing and sexy as well.
fromthispoint 3 years ago 2
What is wrong with you? Nobody cares about what you think is 'sexy' A good thing would be for you to shut your cock-holster and stop ruining songs for people with moronic comments.
Smackdaddy9 3 years ago
Jackson Browne being sexy dont ruin a song hahah and dont you worry about my cock or my holster and what I do with it ...he is sexy
fromthispoint 3 years ago
Timeless....
Schon2112 3 years ago
Lyrics and music should go together. One won't work without the other to create meaningful music. Jackson has the ability to create both. It is a gift.
besaerda3m 3 years ago 5
I just learned some of my favorite songs were by him. I never knew who they were by but I always got excited when I heard them. I found out yesterday when some guy was covering running on empty and I looked up Jackson Browne. He's a great musician especially his lyrics
guitarobsessed85 3 years ago 3
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i typed in "pretender" and it brought me to FOO Fighters. the last thing i want to hear is Dave Grohl's crap ass music.he should seriously punch himself in the balls, or cock.
pppccclll 3 years ago
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thats the best thing ive read in long time. great, just great!!!
californiarrick2007 3 years ago
So...don't click on the Foo Fighters song, problem solved!
moose0drool 3 years ago
so thankful for this music, thank you
LynneMarguerite 3 years ago 2
Springsteen, Steve Earle, Dylan, and somewhere in there Townes...
dundeeroad 3 years ago
thanks......say a prayer for him......
jax833 3 years ago
then why can't you spell his name right :P?
Tinyfredocat 3 years ago
Im 14 and have grown up with both jacksone and springsteen. I prefer jacksone browne, some of his lyrics are astonishing, he can say something in a few words, that other artists would need a number of lines for. The naked ride home is the perfect example. - Then one room at a time i watched every light in our house go off, like the truth that would eventually dawn , forcing me to decide.
jewratcat 3 years ago
jackson browne,billy joel, van morrison
JackDropperBluesband 3 years ago
Best three songwritters 1)Dylan 2) Gordon Lightfoot 3) Jackson Browne, decent list?
skydome29 3 years ago 5
when i hear this song i always think it was written about about me
luckyjim1846 3 years ago 2
AHH. i love this.
MaryMichelle93 3 years ago
Jackson, Have loved your music but stop hitting your women!!!! Amen.
onlooker510 3 years ago
It's well documented that Jackson Browne did NOT hit Daryl Hannah. Both have denied it. The police officers who responded to Browne's 911 call all filed very specific reports on this. The dispute was that Hannah was moving out of Browne's house after a spat, and Browne called police because he believed Hannah was trying to remove items that did not belong to her. When the tabloids got wind of a police response to the Browne/Hannah home, the story tok on a life of its own as an urban myth.
TobyWonKenoby 3 years ago 2
News People hardly ever get the true story right. Believe me I know. What news people do is make up parts of a story they do not know.
rocky4432901 3 years ago
he preforme this and cry because there are a couple of songs that make me cry thinking about my wife. she did commit suicide like his did not
statagot 3 years ago
I saw him on Monday night (10/27/08) in Atlanta and he was great, and by far, by far, by far the highlight was The Pretender. He had the band and equipment to be rock & roll loud, but knows how to use it. He started with just piano, and then built it to rock, then stopped, playing softly again.... and bang, back into almost hard rock, on and on. The sound system was perfect and all 2,000 people were on there feet clapping and singing.
Great show. Not Springsteen, but who is? Very good.
CPSJSMSUUMUGA 3 years ago
That sounds like a great show! Since you asked about Springsteen...The Ramones trash that NJ guy!
emmtampa 3 years ago
I'm a HUGE Springsteen fan, but to my mind Browne is a superior writer and singer. This takes nothing away from Bruce's astonishing talents. Browne is just that much better than the Boss, and in some regards it's an apples-oranges comparison.
Peace,
Toby
TobyWonKenoby 3 years ago 2
Toby,
We can agree to disagree. I love Jackson, too.
However, I have to wonder how familiar you are with Bruce's catalog or how many times you've seen him live.
Over the last 36 years I don't think anyone has performed at Bruce's level of excellence, writing, in the studio, and performing. In fairness, I haven't seen Jackson 55 times, including multiple shows on every tour beginning in 78, and I don't know all of his albums. How many of Bruce's 20, excluding compilations, do you know well?
CPSJSMSUUMUGA 3 years ago
Well, it's a really subjective thing, a matter of taste. That's why I said "to my mind Browne is...superior..." I'm thoroughly acquainted with both Springsteen's and Browne's work, and I've seen both live many times. As I said before, The Boss is an astonishingly good writer and performer. I just have a slight preference for Browne, that's all.
Peace,
Toby
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rocky4432901 3 years ago
I just saw him in concert yesterday. it was great :D
roaraik 3 years ago
did his wife committ scuicide? i think she did and that must have been so hard for him. Anyway please check out my originals
playdodream 3 years ago
Show some compassion, good grief. This is a beautiful song written when he was going through a horrible time in his life. It amazes me how many people are out there with no compassion for others. No wonder the state of the world is such a mess.
Lesliemojo74 3 years ago 4
i don't know how he can preforme this and not cry,because there are a couple of songs that still make me cry thinking about my late wife and she didn't commit suicide like his did
belfairtom 3 years ago 2