Born In The U.S.A.

Not the vibe

I ... just can't with this album. Everything about it I am disliking: the production, the mastering (whatever is up on Spotify is garbage sounding), the style, etc. The lyrics themselves aren't terrible, and I understand why this album is popular, though its title track is very much not seen for what it is: an anti-war song. Having given it a listen it absolutely revealed to me where Arcade Fire gets some of its arena/anthemic inspiration from, though: Springsteen.

a large portion of this album feels like rehashing one song with minor variations (compositionally, not lyrically)

Boooo

Da Baws

This is the antithesis of the music I enjoy. This album is not for me, and I didn't like any song from it at all.

Supongo que es un disco para escuchar disparando mientras manejo un Camaro a 100 hamburgesas/pie cúbico

Just so sleepy and droning on.

Fuck the Boss. trump-loving shitbird motherfucker.

Really hate this.

Just what we needed: Ol' Bruce still sounds like he's singing while taking a dump, but now that dump is drenched in 80's reverb. But wait - there's more: every song consists of the most predictable melody repeated ad nauseam with no development of theme whatsoever and not a single note or rhythm to challenge the ear. Even when Bruce decides to branch out and attempt more challenging genres than regurgitated two chord American folk slop, it ends up being a pale, pathetic, plagiaristic imitation (see the rockabilly of "Working on the Highway"). But generally, this album is about as basic as music can be - essentially what would happen if you wrote music for people who don't like music. Lyrically, this sounds like ChatGPT being asked to write the least self-aware doggerel possible. The first two Springsteen albums on this list got 1 star for being a blackhole of creativity and this makes it a trifecta. 0.5/5.0: Unlistenable

Despite having been there at the time, I’m not a huge fan of the 80s. The tinny drumming and synth that kicks off the title track just makes me unutterably miserable, so even though I’ll allow it’s not the paean to America I had thought it was as a kid, it still sounds dreadful. That keyboard riff is so repetitive and strident I want to chew my own face off. And then Glory Days goes and does ‘da da DA da, da da DA da’ which just drives me insane. It’s like Dire Straits’ execrable Walk of Life but somehow worse. Anyway. I liked Cover Me. But not much else. Friends tell me if you see The Boss live you get it, but this is not live and I did not get it.

I’ll never know if this was ever a good album or not, it was senselessly beaten to death on the radio. As a result of that, I will never listen to a word of it.

I automatically hate any music that makes people stand in place and clap over their heads. And that’s what I’ve seen every time Born in the USA is played. No thanks

the atmoshere this whole album is just annoying

Bruce Springsteen is trash

hate it, bored, dont like his sound. soz! dancing in the dark isnt awful though x

Boring

This is the 94th album I’m rating. Don’t remember listening to a song on this but I’m sure I have because it is just too popular not to. Adding to my Playlist - Darlington County, Working on the Highway, I’m on Fire, and Bobby Jean. Not Adding to my Playlist - Born in the U.S.A., Cover Me, Downbound Train, No Surrender, I’m Goin’ Down, Glory Days, Dancing in the Dark, and My Hometown. Born in the U.S.A. - I for some reason forgot I listened to this which is crazy because it is so unbelievably overplayed. Cover Me - The worse Cover Me. All in all I liked 4/12 songs. This is very overrated.

Load of shit

0, literally worthless

My stomach dropped. I can’t do this. I am not strong. I am not a blue collar steel mining car manufacturer or whomever the evil monsters behind Bruce Springsteen believe they were marketing to. First thing is first. Every Bruce Springsteen song I’ve ever heard is a reason to intentionally destroy your own eardrums. They have a rhythm that will encourage you to bash your skull into rebar until you can vote republican or whatever. Secondly, I already know it’s beer commercial music. I will TRY to listen for criticisms of blind patriotism or anything of substance, but I have a feeling I’ll be straining my ears beyond their meagre capabilities. Don’t cry for me, I’m already dead. No. I can’t do it. My bones are attempting to leave my flesh husk. Please shut up. Music for people who are dumb, but not charming. Beer belly bigots with a penchant for adultery. Take a drink every time he mentions USA and maybe you can pass out before you have to hear that horrible riff one more time. Oh buddy we’re getting’ wild now. Oh yeah here’s some blue collar cosplay. Whoever writes for him writes one riff for each song apparently. Besides his vocals, this one is just sad. It sounds like his retirement tour and this is his PRIME? There is nothing happening here. There’s the riverboat organ. This is also just an interpolation of the first song. Why are you looking for work on the 4th of July? What the fuck is this? Please explain these lyrics. This is mad libs for morons. Let me break it down. We’re driving in a car✅ New York City ✅ Rock N’ Roll ✅ Come on baby ✅ Little girl you’re so young ✅ SHA NA NAs ✅ This is a parody of a parody that isn’t funny. I would pay Bruce Springsteen ticket prices to have this erased from my memory. 50’s fetishization. It’s more blue collar mad libs. It’s not even incisive or knowledgeable about the people it’s pandering to. “Hey you’re uhh workin’ on the highway.” I know you losers uhh do something to build the highways. You’ll eat this shit up won’t ya.” And the problem is, THEY DO. Oh boy. More of this? How are we not seeing through this? “I had a job, I had a girl.” Man, I used to be able to say I haven’t heard this song. We’ve all had hard times Bruce. I thought he was working at the car wash, now he’s got a cushy railroad job? Big union man. Disgusting. You SHOULD be on fire. Much in the style of those self-immolating monks. What the fuck are you talking about here? “Hey little girl is your daddy home? Can he do to you the things I do?” If you’re not talking about providing meals and housing for a minor, then this song gets the pedophilia stamp of disapproval and we move on. It was only a matter of time. Pack your lunch tin up and wear your sweat stained shirt or whatever. We’re going to catch a predator. That’s right folks I am here at this 1950’s cosplay diner owned by a major corporation. We have sent multiple direct messages to one “flaglover69” posing as a 16 year old girl. He has agreed to meet us this afternoon. Bruce! Great to see you. Please have a seat. Uhh this bit really has nowhere to go unless I riff off of the title being “no surrender.” If I insinuate I want Bruce to commit suicide by cop, then I might lose my, until now, untarnished credibility. *LOUD BURP* Is this about a guy? He never mentions. I don’t care, nor would I be surprised considering this guy’s sweaty industry fetish; however, I do know a revelation that this is gay would SHATTER most of the fans of this music. And that would be worth all the five n’ dime soda pops in the free world. Bruce Springsteen plays on the freefall to hell. Horns blare, shattering eardrums if you had known that feeling in life. Regeneration and destruction of tissue as you fall to the lower circles. Molten smog peels your flesh and the screams you can’t control choke your lung’s ambition. Lights flash messages indecipherable. Your life of misery fades from memory. The scars forming on your dessicated vessel the only reminder of your once mortal self. Become one with the fires of the void. Hell becomes all you know. Slave in fire. I peaked in high school and was also a bully who probably did something insane like try to kill a nerd. Hey. It was the 70’s!!! One riff that sucks, repeated over the predictably dumb lyrics of a true neanderthal. Return him to the primordial soup. Hey AI. Write me a song that can accompany footage of an election bus driving through middle America. Uhh no, this is too boring. No wait, it’s too bad. Why did you use this horrible horn? Ah well. AI thankfully can’t create anything a human could. For better or for worse. Oh yeah buddy. I can feel the pandering coming like a wave of vomit. That initial vocal killed me. Wait pause, let me write the song. I WAS YOUNG, TIMES WERE SAFE, EVERYONE WORKED HARD, WE DROVE A CHRYSLER, I GREW UP, I ROCKED OUT, MY MOMMA DIED, I HAD MY FIRST BEER, I VOTED FOR REAGAN, I DEMATERIALIZED INTO A CAULDRON ONLY TO BE REFORMED BY A CRYPTIC CABAL INTO THE ULTIMATE PANDERER FOR THE VOTING POPULACE IN THE LARGEST POPULATION CENTRE IN THE COUNTRY. How close was I? If you’ve ever worked a job, if you’re from a place, if you’ve ever felt an emotion; this should be an insult of the highest order to you. This should hurt like somebody is attacking your family. I don’t often say this, as I believe all art is valid, but this is created so cynically, that I don’t think it qualifies as an authentic piece of music, heaven forfend a piece of art. If you like this, you need to reevaluate your direction on this plane of existence. Observe something genuine. You haven’t thought hard enough about anything. I beg the creators of this site to open up the option for zeroes. For now, since I have to give it a 1, I hold one middle finger up towards this enemy of human creativity. Burn in the fires that your manifest destiny has engulfed the world in. 0 HIGHLIGHTS: Here lies the bloated corpse of the American Dream. Rotting inside a gilded sarcophagus, emblazoned with a Chevrolet hood ornament.

Not the boss of me

Awful, DNF, wouldn't relisten

I...I just don't get it

Truly awful.

No. Just no.

Bruce just never did it for me.

Ain't no boss

Jao jebeni sner idi u kurac odmah na prvu. Stalno serem po tome, ali jače je od mene. Ovaj zvuk snera u meni izaziva isti onaj osjećaj koji kod nekih ljudi dođe nakon što vide ili čuju kako netko grebe noktima po ploči. Život bi mi bio ljepši da to ne čujem i da tako ne reagiram, ali neke stvari u životu ne možeš birati Jedna od stvari koje mogu izabrati je da u potpunosti preskočim ovaj album, ali neću bit toliki lakse i natjerat ću se doći makar do pola albuma Evo me na četvrtoj pjesmi bez ičega lijepog za napisati osim da mi je nejasno kako je on ikad postao tako velik. Zbog pjesme I'm on fire ga treba zapalit, prljava pedofilčina bez glazbenog ukusa. Mogu ga zamisliti kako pjeva hrabrim američkim marincima prije nego ih pošalju u svijet da šire demokraciju i slobodu. #MAGA Mislim da sam dosta komentirao, čista jedinica bez imalo oklijevanja

if he’s the boss i quit

Not for me

Quite possibly the worst album ever.

I am not a big fan of that album, never have been. It is too mainstream Rock for me, I am not into his singing either. So...

The first suggested album in my list. Not interested really.

Wikipedia says “Springsteen is a pioneer of heartland rock… reflecting the issues of working class American life.” So I’m sure this album has a broad appeal to a wide demographic which probably stretches across both sides of the Atlantic but this album didn’t do anything for me. Wikipedia also says that Springsteen’s energetic concerts last four hours or do they maybe just feel like it because this album certainly felt longer than its runtime. The music is quite repetitive so I started looking at the lyrics on Spotify thinking that there might be some interesting, socially conscious lyrics hidden behind the macho drum sounds but alas. In one song he travels from New York and tries to impress a ‘little girl’ by telling her $200 is a lot of money. I could be really harsh and say this album is pure boomer fantasy fiction but I can see/hear why this would appeal to some. Perhaps the older and more conservative I get the more I will like this album.

It was 7am on 8th November 2016 and I was sitting contemplating breakfast at a small table in the corner of a vast deserted restaurant at a hotel in county Meath, Ireland when I heard Born In The U.S.A blaring from a tiny phone speaker. Across the way, the only other guest, a mountain of a man with slicked back hair who was too large for the furniture, was celebrating the announcement of Donald Trump's election victory and boasting to the bewildered waitress about the large bet he'd placed on the result. This album takes me right back to that misty morning and watery porridge.

This is in the running for biggest delta between its reputation and how much it sucked

No thanks.

Born in the back of a van. I tried to find something to like, but its just shite!

Sorry Boss but no matter how many albums this list throws at me (please, please, no more...) your music still sucks.

This was an album I really dreaded. As it turns out: Rightly so. Serious case of having to separate the art and the artist for me. By all accounts, Springsteen seems to be a good guy, and for those inclined to go and see him live, he absolutely delivers the goods. But my God, I cannot stand this. Born in the USA is so obnoxious in how it trots out the same keyboard riff for over 4 minutes. Followed by another song that stretches out precisely one idea for over 3 minutes. Next up: Basically the same idea and chord progression as Born in the USA, but arranged in a kind of country barnyard rock style. And it kind of... goes from there. Also, the lyrics are just so incredibly in-your-fucking-face, I can't bear it. Sure, not every piece of lyric needs to be a super-subtle poetic masterpiece. But all of this is like... the equivalent of a letter a 17 year-old who's never been away from home and who's never been one to read or write much would send home while being away on an excursion for a week.

Most overrated artist: Bruce springsteen

I have this album in stock. Why? I rarely play it.

I just don't like The Boss. I don't understand why so many hold this album and Springsteen in such high regard. I was bored with this whole album. It must appeal the common joe schmo patriot or something. I have an agency inspector that worships Bruce. During audits he talks about him the whole time and I cowardly endorse. I feel like I need a shower after but pass with flying colors. Own this album only because it was free...1.2

I ain’t gon listen to this shit, it’s gringo

GODDAMN THIS SHIT FUCKING SUCKS

ugh hate him

Another popular album not to my taste that I thought "It's got some good singles, let's give it a go", ut then ended up disliking it immediately and thoroughly. 'I'm on fire' is good, 'Dancing in the dark' is a no-holds-barred classic. The title track is not even getting a listen I'm so sick of it already. Now 'Born to Run' is a great song too, from earlier in Bruce's career, but it's a novelty song. You can only write one song that's quite so camp and cliched about being a blue collar working guy who's gunna make it sum day. Except all the other tracks on this album are just continuing that trope but without the tunes. This is bad. Extremely dull.

yeat owns you

Not a Bruce fan

To be honest I disliked it so much I could not get myself to sit through it. Nothing particularly bad I just dislike the sound of his voice.

Nope

wouldn't even like this if I was an American

He sucks

This album sounds exactly the same all through its run-time. There's nothing remarkable about it.

Not my thing

Every bit as bad as it when it was released. Overhyped crap by someone who can neither write music nor sing it.

I don’t like Bruce Springsteen 🤮

oh Bruce. I felt like listening to this would make me reconnect with my American roots but this was a special flavor I didn't vibe with; also every song sounded the same, with the exception of Dancing in the Dark, which was actually great. I am born in the USA but this album gave me the heebie jeebies

I've never been a Springsteen fan. Listening to it now, still not. Just no.

Thanks.

actively dislike. Not much twang but still most of the things I dislike about country

An America hating motherfucker. Whiny bitch. Fuck him!

Boring, everything sounds the same

This is better than "Born to Run" and "Darkness on the Edge of Town," but that isn't saying much because that is such a low bar to meet and surpass. I think this album probably benefits from the songs that everyone knows, and "I'm on Fire" is such a bona fide classic, although so many others have covered that song and have much better versions this than clown. Can't believe he has so many albums on this list.

I listened to the album, but I can really remember anything about it >.< Probably means its unmemorable

not a fan

I've written before about how I just don't get the cult surrounding Springsteen when I reviewed Born to Run, which is still true. I also said in my Born to run review that it wasn't because I thought the music was bad but because I just didn't get it. That's second bits is what I have to revise here, because I find almost no value in this album. Its 45 minutes of awful 80's plinky plonky synths, lead guitar lines that are totally devoid of any kind of personality and vocals just sounds like he's phoning it in. The lyrics are at best cliché and at wors downright creepy, I'm on Fire properly gave me the ick. So I don't get the hype and I really disliked the music so unlike Born to Run this falls into 'Dislike' territory

Artificially flavored laboratory developed music specially designed to say all the words corny Americans live to hear. It must be good. He said Hometown and USA and work and young girl and by-god he's just like us.

Залупа какая-то юса пропаганда

Pas fan

This is the first album I listened to as on a c.d.! My friend and I used to listen to it over and over!