Bruce Springsteen Born to Run Digital Life Music

Born to Run
by: Bruce Springsteen

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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0746433795266
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: October 25, 1990
Sales Rank: 1200
Studio: Sony

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Few albums are as fueled by hope, possibility, and the lure of the open road as Born to Run, a virtual concept album about small-town Jerseyites in search of a better life via hot-rodding out on the turnpike, scoring some small-time hustle, or blowing out of town altogether, either across the river to New York City or west for parts unknown. Songs like 'Jungleland,' 'Thunder Road,' 'Backstreets,' and the title track are epic productions, both sonically and lyrically, borrowing from Phil Spector, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, and West Side Story. When Born to Run was released in 1975, it earned then-unknown Springsteen the rare honor of simultaneous covers on both Time and Newsweek. The attention was warranted then, and it still is now. --Daniel Durchholz

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- Best of the Best
Simply put this is one of the greatest albums ever made by anyone in any genre. An extremely talented young man pouring his heart out and risking it all. The songs speak for themselves. This story is his story, its your story its my story its history. Buy This for sure. Listen to this for 40 minutes and it feels like you just enjoyed the best 2 hour movie you ever saw.

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- born to run for years
This has become Bruce Springsteen's most popular album, and for good reason- the songwriting is very good this time around, and immediately enjoyable for most people. This is one of those albums that people listen to and remember exactly where they were when they first heard these songs.

Some of these songs blow me away completely and make me fully aware just how talented the Boss is, such as "She's the One" and "Jungleland". Love those tunes.

Classic rock radio actually doesn't play those songs as much as you'd think- instead they choose to stick with the title track and "Tenth Avenue Freeze Out" and ignore pretty much the rest of the album. Of course that's wrong, but we can't do anything about it.

My only complaint is that Bruce was obviously going for some kind of deliberate loud and explosive bombastic sound while making these songs, and sometimes that's a turn off ... Read More

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- Wings For Wheels: Springsteen grabs at the brass ring, and falls ever-so-slightly short.
A monolith of 70's music, this is Springsteen's attempt at summarizing everything that was good and pure about the previous two decades of American rock 'n' roll. "Thunder Road" alone spikes a tap deep into half a century of post-war American folk and teenage mythology, with its casual references to Roy Orbison, Robert Mitchum films, prom-night fantasies, country porches, dusty beach roads and adolescent "Leader of the Pack" ghosts.

It's a very calculated album, though, and I confess that this premeditation hurts it when compared to the more spontaneous "noble savage" vibe of The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle. Some of the music on here is actually rather generic for Springsteen during this era: "Night" is Boss-by-the-numbers, seemingly written as a means to a conceptual end, and "She's The One" fails to deliver on the promise of its Bo Diddley necromancy. (Try to check it out live, however...the ... Read More

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- The greatest album ever? Yep.
It's almost impossible to write an adequate review of "Born to Run", because so much has been written about it, ultimately you'll just be echoing others' sentiments. You can try to find different ways of wording it, but in the end you're just heaping more praise upon an album that is universally considered a masterpiece.

Not that you'll get any argument from me on that front. If the perfect album is impossible to create, than BTR is a close as it's going to get. Why? Because it transcends being simply music. This truly is a cinematic album, like a soundtrack to a movie never made, except that the album IS the movie. It really draws you in that way. You don't listen to BTR, you experience it. Yes, it's THAT good.

From the gentle opening of "Thunder Road" (which just may be the greatest rock song of all time) to the pure exhilaration of "Night" and the title track, to Springsteen's tortured howl that ends ... Read More

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