John Cafferty - Tough All Over

John Cafferty "Tough All Over" music video

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[sw00p99]

Whoever said that the 80's is not the greatest decade of the music scene obviously was never there to experience it.

[vertex10a]

@sw00p99 Absolutely! The 80s totally rocked, and Cafferty's song is a great example!

[dselse]

This is such an EXCELLENT, AWESOME song!!! I can't believe it seems to be largely have been forgotten about though. That's too bad....

Interesting -- I haven't seen the video in about 20 years, and back then I didn't notice the strong Springsteen resemblance. But then again, this song ranks right up there with the best Springsteen songs, so it's all good!!!

[vertex10a]

@dselse Thanks for your awesome comments. I love Springsteen, especially 70s and 80s, and Born To Run is one of the best albums ever made. But Bruce never could quite write a big, melodic hit. And his videos were sometimes rather embarrassing (Dancing In the Dark). This Cafferty video is brilliant, and the song, performed live, is awesome. I love the people on the street near the end.

[SouthOCmixdown]

@fredsmusic1 All opinion of course. But Bruce, wasnt moving mountains musically during the 80s. Cafferty's songs were a lot more direct, 2the point, &didnt take a 30-piece band. "10th Avenue Freezeout"/"Rosalita"/etc. Great Boss songs but a little overrated, IMO. I can think of a lot of 1980s Cafferty songs that I wud rather hear than wat Bruce was doing then. "Im on Fire", "Glory Days" "BITUSA", low on inspiration &Cafferty didnt subject his audience to grating 15min monologues like Bruce did.

[Caffertyfan]

Love the band, love the song have all their albums and sc---the Boss.

[DowntownCanon]

I remember People magazine so trashed this song and video for ripping off the Springsteen sound and look.

[SouthOCmixdown]

@fredsmusic1 Sounds like we mostly agree. 1of my biggest pet peeves has always been lack of recognition of the induviduality of antecedents, compared 2 precedents. Case in point, aside from Springsteen~ Is David Bowie & just about every 80's new wave artist from Icehouse/Joy Division/Robert Smith/Roxy/Morrissey,&on &on. W/o Bowie's pioneering, polyphonic haunting delivery, none of those guys sound the same. But I give the 'imitators' proper credit 4their talents, whereas many might dismiss them.

[utility4321]

@brianodeci08 WHO the hell said 90s music was better than 80s??!! That might be the most idiotic statement ever. Even the 'good' bands, like Nirvana,Pearl Jam,Soundgarden,Green Day,Weezer etc, still had 1-2 good albums w/1-3 good songs on them. Then turned 2shit. Temple of the Dog?Toad the Wet Sprocket?Sublime?Blind Melon?3rd Eye Blind?Deftones? Everclear?Foo Fighters?Dont make me laugh. That list alone shows the 90s as being one of the most uninspired and corporate eras EVER in music history.

[fredsmusic1]

@SouthOCmixdown The comment I was responding to compared this song to Bruce's best, not his 80's work. I'll agree that his material at that time wasn't "moving mountains", as you said. I wouldn't say that Cafferty's was either. It was enjoyable to listen to and I listened to it more than I did Bruce at times. But again, compared to Bruce's best, meaning Born to Run and Darkness, Cafferty is not even on the same planet.

[brianodeci08]

Whoever said 90s music is better than 80s music needs to GTFO. 2 shit guitarists playing bad, predictable 3chord rock with whiny singing, doesnt constitute better music. No modern artists are bending over backwards to achieve the '90s Sound', lmao. They are all trying to get back to the 'cheesy' keyboards and slick, heartfelt production of the 80s. The 90s, were a bad afterthought in music where everything went wrong, and horrible, no-talent poser bands got signed for all the wrong reasons.

[marks661man]

@SouthOCmixdown Great point. I actually thought the Boss was running pretty low on inspiration in the 1980s too. Most of the hardcore East Coast Boss fans I knew jumped off the Bruce bandwagon when Born In The USA came out and started listening Bon Jovi-Survivor-hair metal. Much like Tom Petty-Heartbreakers, Bruce was a good 70s artist that was very lucky to have a band like E St. to pull him through in the 80s. When he goes solo acoustic at a show w\o the band, hes not very impressive at all.