Faster And Louder

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The Dictators. Joey Schaedler and Andy Shernoff, 1978.

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Credits

• Bloodbrothers (The Dictators, 1978)
  • Ross Friedman: lead guitar, 12-string guitar
  • Scott Kempner: rhythm guitar
  • Handsome Dick Manitoba: vocals
  • Andy Shernoff: bass guitar, keyboards, vocals
  • Bruce Springsteen: count-in
  • Ritchie Teeter: drums, backing vocals

Performances

Performed live 0 times (not including snippet performances).

Released on Album

Released on Bloodbrothers (The Dictators, 1978).

On The Tracks

FASTER AND LOUDER

2:48

GUEST: BLOODBROTHERS

Note: On the heels of completing "Don't Look Back", "Candy's Room", "Darkness On the Edge of Town", and "The Factory Song" in the first half of March 1978, Springsteen could finally take a breather. In adjoining studio A at the Record Plant, New York proto-punk band The Dictators were working on their third album, Bloodbrothers. So when Bruce stopped by for a visit, one thing led to another, and he made another uncredited recording appearance, on the opening track, "Faster And Louder". Listen at the 2:10 mark, when Bruce counts the band back in preceding the final verse, "One! Two! One, two, three, four!" Dictators: "I can scream, faster and louder, I can jive faster and louder…Hot Pants! faster and louder." The "reigning king of street rock" and the "Bronx Bombers" (monickers assigned by rock critics of the day) seemed to feed off each other; for more details on Bruce and the Dictators, see the recording session listing.

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Lyrics

Faster And Louder

One, two, three, four

Talk, talk, talk, talk, keeps getting in the way
Speaking as a young artiste who has so much to say
So now you know my situation
Understand my aggravation
Building up so strong inside
Cause I wanna make some noise

I can play (faster and louder)
I can dance (faster and louder)
I can live (faster and louder)
I'm a man (faster and louder)

Feel the need to express myself
Think I'll form a band and call it Yazoo Squelch
Yeah some say it's an aberration
I think it's my avocation
Step aside to be overexposed
I wanna make some noise

I can talk (faster and louder)
I can eat (faster and louder)
I can screw (faster and louder)
I'm a man, I'm a man (faster and louder)

One! Two! One, two, three, four!
I can scream (faster and louder)
I can jive (faster and louder)
Walk the dog (faster and louder)
Mow the lawn (faster and louder)
Jump back jack! (faster and louder)
Get down Bernice! (faster and louder)
Hot Pants! (faster and louder)
Later, holmes! (faster and louder)

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