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Track Listings
| 1. Thunder Road |
| 2. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out |
| 3. Night |
| 4. Backstreets |
| 5. Born to Run |
| 6. She's The One |
| 7. Meeting Across The River |
| 8. Jungleland |
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Holy Cow warning!!,
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This review is from: Born To Run (Audio CD)
I think "Born to run" is a very over rated album. I own every Springsteen record and I believe "Born in the USA" together with "Tunnel of love" is his best work. On this recording there's actually just two or three songs that are top class, namely "Thunder road", "Jungleland" and maybe "Born to run". The rest is not that exciting, at least not for me. Somehow, this album have achieved cult status, and almost no one question the actual quality - "you got to praise this one if you consider yourself a Springsteen fan". Please, listen and make up your own mind.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Take Them Marbles Outta Ya Mouth, Bruce,
By the dirty mac "boot64" (Nutopian Global Institute) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Born To Run (Audio CD)
Here we have the album that put Springsteen on the musical map back in 1975. While it has some worthwhile music, in retrospect it's hard to see what the fuss was all about. "Tenth Avenue Freezeout" is quite a jazzy tune, one of the best of his early songs. "Thunder Road" and "Jungleland" have their moments, but both are ultimately too self-important for my taste. As for the title track "Born to Run," there might be a good song gasping for air beneath the screeching saxophones and faux-Spector production bombast, but it's hard to tell. Quite often Springsteen sings like a guy who is trying to get his bearings after being rousted out of bed at four o'clock in the morning. For example, "She's the One" has a compelling piano melody, but good luck trying to make sense of his mumbled words without reading the lyric sheet.Oh yes, the lyrics. When pressed on the issue of his composing prowess, even some of Bruce's biggest defenders will concede that he rarely matched the melodicism of John Lennon & Paul McCartney or the go-for-the-throat riffs of Mick Jagger & Keith Richards. Springsteen is all about the lyrics, you see. The problem is that about 80 percent of his songs revolve around one theme. "I'm a beer-guzzling slob in a pickup truck/You're a below average-looking chick with hairy armpits/But baby we were born to run." Bob Dylan had a little more to say, and he said it with more humor and less melodrama. Of course these are high standards to measure anyone against, but these are the standards that the Springsteen hype machine always invokes. Timing really is everything. When this album came out in '75, most of the people who had revolutionized rock in the 1960s and early '70s were either dead (Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison), in seclusion (John Lennon, Brian Wilson) or in a declining phase (the Rolling Stones). Meanwhile, Punk and New Wave were still a couple of years away on the horizon. The Bay City Rollers were probably Bruce's toughest competition. The contrast made this album look more innovative than it really was.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
born to what?,
By A Customer
This review is from: Born To Run (Audio CD)
This is just an ok album. No more, no less. The bombastic production and atmosphere paint an impressive portrait of the joys of being young, reckless, and "on fire" in 1974 New Jersey, and Bruce does a good job of coming up with flowery lyrics to suit that portrait. Roy Bittan, his piano player, is a fantastic musician; he's the real star of the album. Other than that, Born to Run falls well short of the standard set by The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle, Bruce's previous album. The main problem is in the songwriting; there's little to no hook or catchiness in half the songs. Only "Born to Run" and "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" strike me as perfect pieces of pop music. "Backstreets" is an adequate rave-up, and "Jungleland" is a spectacular, theatrical album-ender, my pick for the best song on the album. Other than that, he's stuck in an musical rut, especially on the boring opener, "Thunder Road." Any of you who aren't familiar with Bruce yet, PLEASE hear The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle first before you pick up this one. Yes, I know, Born to Run was his breakthrough album, but that doesn't mean it's THAT incredible.
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