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BORN TO RUN is the album that turned Springsteen from a phenomenon into a superstar. His first couple of releases found Bruce working out his fascination with Dylan and Van Morrison on earthy, wordy, folk-rock-R&B tunes full of soul and punch. On BORN TO RUN, Springsteen became even more ambitious, synthesizing Spectorian production with Orbison-esque drama and Duane Eddy-influenced guitar work, creating something grand enough to be called rock opera but too proletarian to ever claim that title.
BORN TO RUN was also the first album where the Boss began to crystallize his recurring theme of working class America's doomed-but-passionate rage against its circumstances. With the earnestness and emotion that bursts forth from Springsteen's street poems, the album is never less than exhilarating, and songs like "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" (a tongue-in-cheek history of the E Street Band) provide humor. "She's The One" puts the Bo Diddley beat to its most effective post-'50s use, and the title track is Springsteen's quintessential underdog epic.
Recorded at The Record Plant, New York, and 914 Sound Studio, Blauvelt, New York.
Personnel: Bruce Springsteen (vocals, guitar, harmonica, alto horn); Steven Van Zandt (vocals, guitar, alto horn, background vocals); Clarence Clemons (vocals, saxophone, tenor saxophone); Danny Federici (vocals, organ, keyboards); Mike Appel (vocals, background vocals); Suki Lahav (violin); David Sanborn (saxophone, baritone saxophone, bass saxophone); Michael Brecker (tenor saxophone, horns); Randy Brecker (trumpet, flugelhorn, horns); Wayne Andre (trombone); Roy Bittan (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, harpsichord, organ, keyboards, glockenspiel, background vocals); David Sancious (keyboards); Garry Tallent (bass guitar); Ernest Carter, Max Weinberg (drums).
Audio Mixer: Jimmy Iovine.
Audio Remasterer: Bob Ludwig.
Recording information: 914 Sound Studios, Blauvelt, NY; Record Plant Studios, New York, NY.
Photographer: Eric Meola.
Arranger: Bruce Springsteen.
Personnel: Bruce Springsteen (vocals, guitar); Steve Van Zandt (vocals); Suki Lahav (violin); Michael Brecker (tenor saxophone); David Sanborn (baritone saxophone); Clarence Clemons (saxophone, background vocals); Randy Brecker (trumpet, flugelhorn); Danny Federici (organ); Roy Bittan (keyboards, glockenspiel, background vocals); David Sancious (keyboards); Garry Tallent, Richard Davis (bass); Max Weinberg, Ernest "Boom" Carter (drums); Mike Appel (background vocals).
Producers: Bruce Springsteen, Jon Landau, Mike Appel.
Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.96) - Ranked #18 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...Springsteen produced a timeless, inspiring record about the labors and glories of aspiring to greatness..."
Q (p.129) - Ranked #3 in Q Magazine's "10 Essential Reissues Of 2006."
Q (1/03, p.64) - Included in Q Magazine's "100 Greatest Albums Ever"
Uncut (p.118) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[T]he struggling Springsteen's dreams of escape are turned into a grand folly without parallel in his career."
Vibe (12/99, p.157) - Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century
Mojo (Publisher) (p.144) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] little under 40 minutes of grandiloquent silver-screen melodrama....Essential for fans..." Born To Run Music | List Price | $9.94 (You save $0.25) | | Category | Rock Albums, Oldies CDs, Rock/Pop | | Label | Columbia | | Orig Year | 1975 | | All Time Sales Rank |  1075  | | CD Universe Part number | 1085547 | | Catalog number | 33795 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Oct 25, 1990 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Engineer | Jimmy Iovine; Louis Lahav | | Recording Time | 39 minutes | | Personnel | Bruce Springsteen - vocals, guitar
Roy Bittan - keyboards, glockenspiel, background vocals
Garry Tallent - bass guitar
Danny Federici - vocals, organ, keyboards
Wayne Andre - trombone
Steven Van Zandt - vocals, guitar, alto horn, background vocals
Ernest "Boom" Carter - drums
Mike Appel - vocals, background vocals
Suki Lahav - violin
Also: Michael Brecker, David Sanborn, Randy Brecker, Richard Davis, Richard Davis, Max Weinberg, David Sancious, Clarence "Nick" Clemons |
Bruce Springsteen Born To Run Songs Born To Run Music Review Average Rating: (4.6 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews what do you say to your teenager
nothin, let the boss tell em, he does it so well with this album. don't sit back and let it all be.
Submitted by rgarneromp (dallas)
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What else?
What else may I say about this strong, emotional, romantic, overall album?
Perhaps one the most beautiful moment of all rock history, Bruce gave us a spectacular example of how an artist can play the feelings of millions of guys all around the world.
Great music, impossible not to get it!
Submitted by Daniele (Italy)
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i still cannot believe how overrated this record is with the exception of the title track which is a truely great song the rest of the record is mere twaddle.as i recall it springsteen himself was said to have thrown a copy of this record into an alley expressing his disappointment.rather it was his very next record darkness on the edge of town that announced his arrival.
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Bruce's Swan Song
This album put Bruce on the map and made him a rock and roll land mark for future generations to visit. But I must confess "Darkness on the Edge of Town" is my favorite BS album. Check it out!!! Boy-Ziti
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This goes right up there with Billy Joel's "Piano Man". BORN TO RUN is what rock 'n roll is all about.
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Hailed early on by Columbia producer and talent scout John Hammond as "the new Dylan," Bruce Springsteen has always shared many of the folky, poetic, word-savvy tendencies of his hero and predecessor. Nowhere is this more evident than on Springsteen's debut, GREETINGS FROM ASBURY PARK, NJ, which veritably bursts at the seams with lyrical invention, pell-mell imagery, and acoustic-guitar driven troubadour tunes. Yet Springsteen trades in on Dylan's pensive and bitter sides for dew-eyed optimism and exuberance.
While there is spare, folkie fare like "The Angel" and "Mary Queen Of Arkansas," on which Springsteen sings of his local New Jersey color in his uniquely ...
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This would be the only time the cinematic vistas of Springsteen's early lyrics were matched by equally impressionistic music. "Wild Billy's Circus Story" marks the point on wildly divergent career paths when Springsteen and Tom Waits seemed to intersect. "4th of July, Asbury Park" and "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" are unlike anything that had come before them, story-songs full of shifts in tone, dynamics, and mood that are as surprising as they are evocative. Springsteen hadn't yet transformed into the Rock God he'd soon become, but THE WILD, THE INNOCENT... clearly shows him already well on his way.
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This was the album after the famous Jon Landau statement came to pass, and although there are still many references to cars and girls it is a blistering album. ...
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Only Springsteen could have got away with releasing a double album with 19 tracks of what was basically the same song. Such was his standing that he did, and it worked like a dream. Almost all the tracks hit you in the stomach, with burning saxophone from Clarence Clemons and piercing wurlitzer organ. Bruce, meanwhile, sings of cars and girls and girls and cars, but at no stage does he forget that this is rock 'n' roll. With this release Springsteen completed a rite of passage. Described as the "new Dylan" early in his career, the singer proved this tag a fallacy, drawing on Dansette pop - Phil Spector, Gary US Bonds, Mitch Ryder - rather than the folk tradition. The singer articulated the dilemmas of America's blue-collar workforce, encapsulating a generation trapped in a post-60s ...
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Recorded in Springsteen's New Jersey bedroom on a 4-track cassette recorder.
As a followup to THE RIVER, a double-album blast of old-time rock and roll, this amazing solo-acoustic folk album came out of nowhere in the fall of 1982. More precisely, it came out of Bruce Springsteen's back pocket. He recorded what would become NEBRASKA at home on a 4-track recorder, intending it as a demo tape for a full-band album. The band versions were recorded, but Springsteen sensed something missing; eventually, he became convinced that his demo tape, which he had carried around in a back pocket of his jeans for several days, had a spiritual wallop that he and the band couldn't recreate. He had the cassette cleaned up and turned into his sixth album.
There's little doubt that he made the right choice. The songs on NEBRASKA form a bleak cycle about men on the run, from the law, from their fathers or from themselves, usually for reasons even they don't understand. And Springsteen's dry, howling voice, which sometimes dips to a desperate whisper and sometimes rises to a haunted ...
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It's almost hard to believe now that for the first decade of his career Bruce Springsteen was a gigantic cult artist; a musician who could sell a couple of million records and fill hockey rinks, but who was was no more likely than Elvis Costello to get airplay on pop radio.
BORN IN THE USA was the album on which he flexed his muscles (literally) and changed all that. With song titles and choruses that ...
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