Apr 26 2021
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“The screen door slams/Mary’s dress waves”
This will always be a magic album for me. The way everything builds to the climax of Born to Run and then the denouement that follows is perfectly sequenced and a testament to Springsteen’s talent as a storyteller. It’s hard to pick a favourite, but this time around, “Backstreets” was the one that grabbed me the most.
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Mar 24 2021
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More expansive and cinematic than I was expecting, and I'm pretty familiar with the singles off this album. The saxophone is arguably the lead instrument here, and there are some jazzy moments where it and the keyboardist can really shine. Bruce's lyrics are excellent and invoke a "working class" urgency: inspirational-via-the-gallows, a bleak sort of joy.
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Mar 06 2021
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Where to begin..... I'm not insightful or smart enough to explain the deeper meanings of the album and why it resonates. My best attempt is to say that it manages to convey most, if not all, of the elements that get buzz my mind: the difficult marriage between hope & despair, the desire to belong to something and finding beauty in the ordinary.
Favourite track: Jungleland
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Jan 17 2021
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bruce sings like he has marbles in his mouth. this sucks. the piano sucks. lame. saxophone is lame. rock and roll for geriatrics
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Jan 19 2021
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Always been pretty indifferent about Springsteen. Never hated his music nor really got into his stuff either. I'd heard the hits from this album, but the stand out tracks for me were "Meeting Across the River" and "Jungleland." I feel like The Boss and the E-Street band aren't really exploring any new musical ideas composition wise, other than some bomb-ass sax. Its Springsteen's writing and storytelling that has made him such an American staple, and I felt those two tracks really let his writing shine. Being aligned so strongly with 'MURICA is kind of what kept me from getting into him, but his songs are very much proletariat anthems. I guess that's what you get for saying USA a bunch of times in a song. Overall a pretty enjoyable listen, but there's nothing calling me back.
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Sep 15 2021
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I love this album's big sound. It's simply one of the most passionate albums I've ever heard. I would say it was raw passion except that you can tell the album was very carefully crafted - channeling that passion into a thing of beauty - striking a near perfect balance. Springsteen displays more authentic passion on this album than many artists seem to be able to muster in their entire careers.
I have tried, but can't seem to get into, Springsteen's first two albums, and I think alot of it has to do with the lyrics. On this album, while going for a bigger sound musically, he chose to go in a more refined direction lyrically, foregoing his more cryptic Dylanesque approach of the first two albums for something more direct and heartfelt than intellectual, and it makes all the difference. Though you definitely can hear the Dylan influence throughout, especially in songs like Jungleland, I think this is where Springsteen really comes into his own and becomes "The Boss."
This is one for the ages. Coincidentally, I just listened to this on vinyl the other day with the family. It's in pretty regular rotation in our house and everyone enjoys it.
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Jun 18 2021
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Anyone who does not vote 5 stars on this masterpiece is a Communist and needs to be dealt with accordingly.
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Jun 01 2021
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Sounded like Meatloaf. Not as good.
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Apr 10 2021
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Gotta hand it to the boss for being cool. This is a fun album but it does seem a bit long even at 40min, just cause every song is almost identical. It's a good song though. 3/5.
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Jun 20 2024
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A lot of people, whose opinions I respect, love Bruce Springsteen in general and this album in particular. It really resonates for them, but it doesn't for me. I understand that it is meaningful and moving etc, but it leaves me a little 'meh'.
I think it is, for me, a bit overworked, production wise. Springsteen is successful in his emulation of Phil Spector, but you can hear how hard they worked at it (and they did work hard). Maybe I need more grit and spontaneity for it to ring true as convincing rock and roll?
I need a bit more. I listened through, but, honestly, it washes over me every time and I am unmoved. The saxophone solo at the end of Jungleland is highly regarded by many, but it is just so cheesy!
I get that people need cheese. People want music that wears its heart on its sleeve, full of big emotions that they can relate to. There are plenty of records like that that I truly love. But the key to unlocking that love is that you to make a personal connection to the music, and I don't have that with Springsteen. It doesn't have a place in my personal history, despite Born the USA being massive when I was a teenager.
I've never been an unemployed steel worker in a dead-end town, ground down by the American dream, looking for a way out of my hometown in a fast car and my girl by my side, the romance of escape, etc etc.
And neither has Bruce. As he himself admits, "I'm Mr Born To Run. I currently live ten minutes from my home town." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1xDzgob1JI) He is singing his _father's_ life, and does so powerfully. Watching his Broadway show on Netflix suggests that he is highly aware of the irony of who he is and what he does, and approaches those contradictions thoughtfully and sensitively. And his fan base certainly feel the honesty in his performance. But _I_ feel like I am buying into some form of rock snob working-class roleplay when I listen to Springsteen. _I_ feel inauthentic when I listen to it. I don't know why I don't connect with it, I just don't. That's probably more on me than him.
That said, you can always trust a man with a Telecaster.
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Mar 06 2021
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Sometimes an artist is so fully flooded with inspiration that everything they touch turns to gold. Bob had it with Blonde on Blonde, Van with Astral Weeks, the Boss has it here.
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Jan 23 2021
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Very chill, good bboomer vibes, listen to again
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Jun 20 2021
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- Thunder Road - greatest song of all time by a considerable distance
- Tenth Avenue Freeze Out - an absolute bop
- Night - one of the more forgettable tracks but would be the standout on most other records on this list
- Backstreets - Up there with Thunder Road and Born To Run. 3rd best track on the album. Bruce at his very best.
Born To Run - Lovely stuff
She's The One - was never that arsed about this before but it's fucking class
Meeting Across The River - skippable
Jungleland - The bollocks
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Dec 10 2024
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Not a big Springsteen fan, but I remember when this came out. I checked it out from the library and listened on repeat--especially the first side. Thunder Road is genius even if it does have that awful line "you ain't a beauty but hey you're alright." You gotta give it to anyone who inspires a cocktail, in this case Screen Door Slam, a bourbon-based aperol concoction.
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Dec 10 2024
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Is it possible to both acknowledge something as a classic and also not like it?
The big production sound and overwrought singing are not for me. I generally I prefer my rock n roll with too much guitar and not enough piano but this LP is very much the other way around. And whoever is playing piano should have been asked to record all of their tracks with a closed fist. Their constant arpeggios are distracting and irritating.
Feels like this record might have inspired Meatloaf's sound. Born to run into the bat out of Hell. Anyway, I would rather hear Patti Smith or even Manfred Mann do this material.
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Apr 29 2021
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I definitely get why it’s popular, but it honestly just doesn’t I much for me.
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Aug 07 2024
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The obvious, boring choice for my favorite album of his, but I can’t lie to myself. I don’t want to say it’s not close, because I do love Darkness and Wild Innocent, but I simply don’t have a remotely negative thing to say about Born to Run. I think it’s a perfect album. 5 of its 8 songs are some of my favorite Springsteen songs ever, and the other 3 are no slouches, either. Front to back, it is a masterclass of killer songwriting, and exuberant performances. And, I think similarly to the album before it, a bit of a singular work in Bruce’s catalog. You’ve basically got the classic E Street lineup in place now (Stevie Van Zandt isn’t fully in the fold yet, but he contributes a couple vocal parts and helps with the horn arrangement on “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out”), but it kind of exists in this world halfway in between the straightforward heartland rock that they’ll become known for and the jazzier arrangements of the first two albums, and Bruce’s songwriting exists in that in between as well. And for me, that’s the ultimate sweet spot. I love Bruce, and I love what he was tapping into on his first couple of records, and I love a lot of what he’s done over the last 45 years, but Born to Run is quite easily the pinnacle for me. He was so hungry to succeed; he is the quintessential “I don’t have any other options” kind of musician, he had to make sure this worked out for him, and you hear that hunger in every single song. I don’t think his voice has ever sounded more passionate than it does on Born to Run. That voice really drives every song; regardless of what tempo these songs are, they always feel like they’re propulsing forward. There’s such an incredible movement to this record. And as desperate as you can tell he is, he still takes the time to basically write a love letter to the music that speaks to him the most. You can hear shades of Orbison in his voice, you get the Bo Diddley and Buddy Holly influences in “She’s the One”, the Stax-style horns on “Tenth-Avenue Freeze Out”, obviously the shades of Dylan and Van Morrison in the lyrics. He throws it all into this blender and it still comes out sounding like nothing that came before it. I think it sounds so original, and still so fresh today. Overflowing with creativity and emotion and power. A total masterpiece in my book, an easy 5 stars, and my favorite Bruce Springsteen album.
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Jun 08 2021
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Never been a big follower of the boss, and I’m shocked never to have listened to this album end to end. He’s got a lot to say and does it well. Extremely good album across all tracks. Gonna buy this one on vinyl.
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Apr 06 2021
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5
Where's the option for 6 stars?
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Mar 31 2021
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Sounds like America
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Jun 27 2022
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So saxy I mistook it for Meatloaf.
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Jul 29 2024
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Alright, here we have the first album from The Boss to achieve mainstream success. I gather that it was a rather lengthy process to perfect his sound during the recording sessions. Hell, six months were spent working on just the title track. Suffice it to say, all that hard work paid off in dividends.
Born to Run contains some high-caliber piano-driven rock tunes, where Bruce was able to capture the essence of working class people trying to find their escape. Credit is due to him and the E Street Band for crafting and producing some true bangers on this album, and not just the singles. Even deep cuts like “Backstreets”, “She’s the One” and the 9-minute closer “Jungleland” prove to be exceptionally constructed with a sound that’s timeless.
If you haven’t already, give Born to Run a chance. I get not everyone’s fond of Springsteen’s music, but if there was at least one that deserves its place on this list, it would be this one.
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Nov 20 2023
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Nr. 42/1001
Thunder Road 4/5
Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out 5/5
Night 4/5
Backstreets 5/5
Born to Run 5/5
She's the One 4/5
Meeting Across the River 5/5
Jungleland 5/5
Average: 4,5
Just a great rock album. Awesome song-building and use of classical instruments.
This is now my best rated album and my first five star album taking over from 2112 - Rush (4,25)
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Jan 11 2022
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Although, at times, Springsteen flirts with histrionic and melodramatic motifs in his music via a maximalist sound which risks drowning out any subtlety and poetry in the lyrics (and there is poetry here, but it's almost as if the smart kid in class has to hide it for fear of being laughed at) this is an American classic, chrome wheeled and fuel injected by a great band of talented musicians and Bruce's musings on growing up poor and hard in the city. The Great American Novel in musical form, Springsteen conjures up romantic images of highways, motorbikes, picking up your sweetheart to a Wall of Sound in homage to The Ronette's Be My Baby and the Shangri La's Leader of the Pack ('Look out! Look out! Look out! Look out!').
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Mar 06 2021
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🖤 Favourite Song: Thunder Road 🖤
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Mar 06 2021
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5
Quite simply one of the greatest albums of all-time with some of Springsteen's most evocative lyrics.
Best track: Thunder Road
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Feb 12 2021
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5
Show a little faith there's magic in the night
You ain't a beauty but hey you're alright
Oh and that's alright with me.
What a classic
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Dec 10 2024
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I wondered when we'd get this album, so the wait is over. I've never been a huge Springsteen fan (of his music, that is, as I really respect his career and perspectives), but it's hard to ignore how iconic this album has been for him. It's also remarkable how familiar so many songs on this album are--I think the only ones I didn't recognize were "Backstreets" and "Meeting across the river" (although the familiar-sounding-ness could also be because he doesn't have the biggest range). It's also interesting to read that Springsteen agonized over the production of this album, requiring many many (many) takes to get everything to sound just right, given that he's a notorious lyric mumbler and it appears *nobody* really knows whether Mary's dress sways or waves....
I kind of wish I didn't have 4 more Springsteen ahead of me in this collection, but it's hard to fault the inclusion of this one.
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Jul 30 2024
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The lyrics are okay, and yeah, he's got good rocky energy.
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Dec 10 2024
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The Boss- his breakthrough commercially with this one. Once I get over the cheesy'ness of the saxophone (*note- not this album's fault, the saxophone just got done to death in the 80's) and the "Meat Loaf" similarities (I don't like Meat Loaf) this is a fine album, a lot of it didn't grab me but I've never been a steel worker and I've never chased the American dream . But I am giving the Boss an extra point for being a massive Trump hater.
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Aug 01 2024
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I don't hate the Boss. He usually has a few stone classics his albums, but I can't really think of him in terms of "albums", only songs I dearly love. And this has a few.
With the stone classics, you get a real sense of rock n roll without bullshit, and lyrics that are among the best ever laid down. With the rest, you get a real sense of bullshit rock n roll, with lyrics Bon Jovi could have shit out.
In all cases, the album cuts are poor stand-ins for the live performances. Even the shitty ones become epic. This begs the question: why not just put out live albums. The Live at the Hammersmith 75 set is a much better representation of this songs. That reading of "Thunder Road" almost makes the rest of the show unnecessary--unit the rest of the show, of course.
Bruce does look hunky cute on the cover though.
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Jan 18 2024
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Solid album with the title track being a standout. Very anthemic at points with moments of gentle introspection. Springsteen is a master of championing the ‘everyday’ man. An enjoyable listen.
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Aug 14 2023
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I really can’t get over his voice which is wild cause it’s never this big an issue for me. Dude sounds like he’s taking the hardest shit of his life like 80% of the time. Otherwise the band and lyrics are solid (2.5/5)
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May 24 2022
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He isn't bad but to me was never the icon everyone considered him. A reliable rocker but never really had that swing. Could probably have profited from listening to Mink DeVille back in the day.
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Nov 03 2024
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There is some tunefulness but the vocals are like a roaring punch of constipation and when they cease, the sax comes in and sounds even more like it needs a shite. I don't get it.
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Sep 13 2022
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there is a reason that there are only about 5 bruce songs that everyone knows - its because the rest of them are shit.
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Jan 17 2025
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A fun listen. Instrumentals and production was great.
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Jan 13 2025
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5
Yeah, this is genius.
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Jan 13 2025
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5
TOP 10 and it’s not 10th
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Jan 12 2025
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5
A great album well crafted and richly orchestrated. There is a dedication to theme but plenty of variation. Each song a short story.
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Jan 10 2025
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5
Really excellent album with a number of standout hits and full of great tracks overall.
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Jan 10 2025
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Great album
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Jan 09 2025
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Bruce’s most epic album. Comic book imagery fused with potent 60s rock n roll operatics. A bi-curious vampire bit this album and it turned into Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell a couple years later.
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Jan 07 2025
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It’s the stuff of what legends are made and if you don’t get chills when the climax to Born To Run hits, I think they should take you off the life-support machine.
I never noticed before the love affair that this album has with the girl groups of the 60s like The Ronettes and The Chiffons. I think that’s what makes this album Springsteen’s best.
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Jan 04 2025
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5
Great songs, great sound
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Jan 03 2025
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5
8 fantastic and unique songs, I would listen to this entire album any time.
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Jan 02 2025
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7/1001
The Boss’ breakthrough, but more importantly his happy album. Born To Run is straight up a hoot from start to finish. The album starts pretty chill with Thunder Road, which also sets the mood for the whole affair pretty decently. Bruce Springsteen made a party album of fun, intelligent and bombastic songs, who all flow together with one single musical identity without straying to far from said identity.
The album culminates with the grandiose Jungleland, which fits Born To Run to perfection. The album lacks any sort of standout track - the closest being the title track - but that, I would argue, is a testament to the sheer quality on display. The only dip in quality would probably have to be Meeting Across the River, but it’s nonetheless still an excellent song.
Not a bad way to start the new year with one of my favourite Bruce Springsteen albums.
5/5
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Jan 01 2025
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Difficult one. 45 years ago there's a good chance I'd tell you this was my favourite album. My musical tastes have changed (a lot) over the years so that would no longer be true. Still, this album remains "special" to me although I rarely listen to it. It is one of the very few that I've owned on vinyl, cassette tape, CD and hi-res digital download. I know all the words. Before listening to it for this exercise, I did think "mmm... which headphones would 'Born to Run' sound best on?" and got a little-used pair out of their case. That says 'something'.
Despite my rule of thumb that "it's all over for a rock band as soon as they add 'strings'", I'll defer to my teenaged self, he knew more about rock and roll than I do, (the young always do) and for the sake of the memories I'll give this 5/5.
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Dec 30 2024
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Rocking… a massive sound, heartfelt lyrics where the ordinary and mundane becomes fantastic and romantic. This is an utter classic and still sounds amazing. Top tier.
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Dec 30 2024
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5
the boss mode
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Dec 26 2024
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5
About time we got to this album. No notes.
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Dec 20 2024
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I wasn't prepared for how much I love this. I'm a bit of a sucker for piano-lead rock, but throw in the saxophone, great vocals (which I was expecting, 'cus Springsteen), and fantastic production, and this really hit hard. There's just not an inch of fat on it.
"Springsteen envisioned the songs taking place over one long summer day and night." - what a frickin' day that must've been!
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Dec 19 2024
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One of the best album ever
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Dec 19 2024
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5
great album
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Dec 19 2024
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Достойно
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Dec 17 2024
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One of my all time favourite records
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Dec 12 2024
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It took some time but the anointing of Bruce Springsteen as the new savior of rock and roll had come to fruition on Born to Run. With little to no space or sound wasted, this seminal album was what Springsteen and his E Street Band needed as the push to sell them to the big time. Baby, were they born to run...
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Dec 11 2024
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Top tier dad rock
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Dec 11 2024
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5
More great bruce
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Dec 11 2024
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Hell yeah. Five! Five! Five!
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Dec 10 2024
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Steven Van Zandt's sound and Bruce's incredible narrative and melodic talents as a songwriter. Has there ever been a more impressive debut album?
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Dec 04 2024
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Bruce becomes 'The Boss' and starts to put on the straitjacket to stadium fame that he eventually tried to escape. You don't have to be from a shitty town in the US to understand the songs here - this is everybody. The overblown production is perfect here - just a little more and it could've been parody. A true classic album in every sense of the word. Best Tracks: Thunder Road; Backstreets; Born To Run
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Dec 02 2024
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Simply put, one of the greatest albums of all time.
1. Thunder Road: Is it the greatest intro song of all time? Maybe. I just want to point out how amazing the piano is throughout the entire album. This song has the potential to make me cry.
2. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out: A really good song that never fails to make me happy. I’m definitely not a huge Springsteen fan, and the voice here is on the edge of too much (which is one of my biggest complaints of his), but it succeeds in being a fun jaunt.
3. Night: Just a great Springsteen song. These songs are less than 3 mins, and yet they feel like they are so much longer; and I don’t mean that as a criticism. These shorter songs still have lyrical density that can be exhausting (in a good way).
4. Backstreets: More amazing piano; the intro is killer. Probably my (second) favorite chorus on the album.
5. Born to Run: it’s crazy that this song is only my third favorite song on the album, and yet is still one of my favorite songs ever. It goes to show how great this album is. Some amazing saxaphone playing (obviously) and perfect Springsteen isms that make it so unique and inspired.
6. She’s the One: This used to be my least favorite track and (along with track #7) a skip on the album. I have come around to this song and have come to enjoy its buildup to more crazy sax.
7. Meeting Across the River: Although this song has probably been relegated to least favorite on the album, it is still a great piano ballad that feels like the calm before the storm that is Jungleland.
8. Jungleland: speaking of: this might be the greatest song of all time. Rarely can I get so emotionally invested in a song- on of the only other songs I can think of is Runaway. Both of which use the extended length of their songs to portray powerful emotions. For jungleland, every instrument is unbelievable; the piano, the hints of organ, the sax, and of course the voice. This is Springsteen’s best lyrics and the best piece of Americana music you will find.
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Dec 02 2024
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If I listed my top 25 artist- Bruce may or may not make the list, would truly depend on the day. But I have sang along at the top of my voice -usually buttered up- to most of the songs on this album. There are times it hits just right.
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Dec 02 2024
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Hey Saxy! 4.6.
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Dec 02 2024
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A classic. It's like looking at an impressionist painting.
Personal enjoyment: 5/5
Relevance to this list: 5/5
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Nov 30 2024
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I am from New Jersey and grew up on this. My review should mean nothing to you.
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Nov 26 2024
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The easiest 5 I’ve given any album on the project so far. This record changed my life when I was around 15 years old. And each time I return to it, some of that immense energy and intrinsic magic remains.
Born To Run is a rock and roll opus. From the spirit to the instrumentation to the absolutely blissful sequencing the record features, Born to Run is a perfect album.
This is the sound of youthful exuberance meeting time-hardened frustration. Open-ended opportunity meeting disappointing dead-ends.
If you can find me an album with stronger bookends (as songs themselves and as representatives of an album’s themes) I would be pretty impressed. Thunder Road and Jungleland are two absolutely perfect songs. Two of the best songs written by Bruce Springsteen or anybody.
Thunder Road opens the story with a heart full of hope, a gust of wind blowing our hair back and making us believe anything is possible for the people documented in this song. What’s more is these people aren’t kings and queens, they aren’t world-traveling rock stars, they aren’t from another planet. They’re ordinary people from an ordinary town with families and things they are proud to claim. But they want more.
Springsteen embodies this character most in the song’s final lyric “It’s a town full of losers and I’m pulling outta here to win”. Bruce, himself, was fighting for his professional music life at the time. Born to Run is famously a “make-or-break” album and the last chance the E Street Band was given to deliver a hit to Columbia Records. That powerful, frantic energy can be felt all over Born to Run in the best way possible. And nowhere more palpably than on Thunder Road.
Jungleland closes our story with a similar energy and similar characters living their lives how they choose, in bands, in bars, in gangs, in cars cruising down the coast of New Jersey. At around 10 minutes long, Jungleland encompasses so much spirit and so many different dynamics. There’s a rock section, an epic Clarence Clemons sax solo that can bring tears to my eyes, and finally a soft but brazen outro where Springsteen flexes absolute poetry to put an end to the lives these characters live, in calamity or daily platitudes. When the swirling crescendo takes us to the album’s close, you know you’ve just listened to a classic.
Born to Run is the sound of poetry in motion. This is the sound of life unchaining its leash. Lights camera action.. and go. The world is yours for the taking or the breaking.
10/10
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Nov 25 2024
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9/10.
Great vibes. This album was released 32 years before I was born, yet it sounds very nostalgic to me.
Great lyrics. This is a really significant album. I'm not a fan of Bruce Springsteen, but this album is really dope! :)
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Nov 22 2024
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I said in my review of Blonde on Blonde that Springsteen was the first to really make that album’s attempts at a Rock Big Band work. Born To Run is the fruition of that, and it’s amazing just how coherently all of these influences come together. Born To Run isn’t my favourite Springsteen record, that would be the darker and admittedly flawed Darkness On The Edge Of Town, nor is it his best artistic statement, which would be Nebraska. What Born To Run has going for it is, much like Hendrix’s Axis: Bold As Love, it’s Springsteen’s most perfect work, flawlessly constructed and executed that flows as a full story throughout it’s 8 tracks from the small beach towns of New Jersey to the epic cityscape of New York, encapsulating the hopes, dreams and disappointments of it’s characters with humour and sympathy
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Nov 19 2024
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I love ther versality, the Sound and the musical components
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Nov 19 2024
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I’m from Jersey. I was raised on this stuff.
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Nov 07 2024
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This is one of the greatest albums of all time, for sure. Excited for a full listen-through.
1. Thunder Road. One of my favorite songs of all time. What else needs to be said?
2. "Tenth Avenue Freezeout" - an awesome song. I never get sick of hearing it. Jammy, rollicking, fun. Great lyrics.
3. "Night" - not as familiar with this song, but I like it! It's slower, but Bruce has that deep and guttural tone going in his voice, which I really dig.
4. "Backstreets" - this album has...almost every one of his really big hits.
5. "Born to Run" - what a phenomenal title track. Of course this is what he called the album. it's fucking perfect. A+, no notes.
6. "She's the One"
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Nov 04 2024
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I am biased. Springsteen has to be one of my favourite artists. I consider this quintessential Americana (I don't know if I'm using that term correctly). I'm a kid from a Southeast Asian country, but this makes me want to put on blue jeans, a white t-shirt, and form a union.
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Nov 01 2024
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5
Probably two of the best lead off songs for side A and side B ever. Thunder Road starts off the album with a lot of energy and power and Born to Run brings side B back to that level and then out to the stratosphere. It’s hard not to sing along to either song no matter how many times you have heard them. Tenth Avenue Freeze Out is a strong track 2 but then we have Night. That song is a mess. It’s like they took the loud part of Thunder Road and just did the entire song at that level. The lyrics get lost in the mix and there aren’t enough dynamics to keep my attention. Backstreets is better but the outro goes too long in my opinion. Probably works well live but as a studio recording it felt to me like they didn’t know how to end it.
Born to Run, as mentioned before, is a fantastic side B lead off. In the age of streaming it works as a great pick me up after the last two songs as well. She’s The One has some great piano and nice sax work. Meeting Across the River doesn’t do much for me. Jungleland is a nice closer. It has a lot going on including violin, piano and a great sax solo. A fitting end to a fine album.
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Oct 31 2024
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5
Heard it. Own it.
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Oct 30 2024
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5
loved it, he's iconic
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Oct 24 2024
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5
I mean, it rules.
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Oct 22 2024
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5
Best kind of dad rock
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Oct 22 2024
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5
Still an absolute classic - when you’ve got a hatful of songs that are comparable in quality to the title track, you’ve got it all. The album Springsteen said he wanted to make so that everyone would remember him.
Job done, Boss.
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Oct 21 2024
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5
I've listened to this album thousands of times. For many years, It was my fave album. No need to listen to this one. 5/5 stars.
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Oct 18 2024
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5
Every song is 5 stars
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Oct 16 2024
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5
Con una producción mayor a la de sus dos primeros discos, Born To Run situó a Springsteen en el firmamento de los grandes de todos los tiempos. Su sonido es grandioso gracias a la superposición de capas de guitarras, voces, teclados y percusión, siguiendo la clásica idea de Spector con su muro de sonido. Además, están las magnificas canciones escritas por el boss, con un arranque, "Thunder Road" magnífico. Una canción sobre la libertad y la búsqueda de oportunidades en la que un joven invita a su chica a dejar atrás la vida que siguen y mirar al futuro. Y desde luego está la canción que da título al álbum, una de las que más me gustan de toda su discografía (y mira que hay donde elegir). En ella una pareja de amantes anhelan dejar atrás sus pequeñas vidas en una pequeña ciudad para asaltar el futuro, utilizando la carretera como metáfora de vida. El disco completo es una maravilla, con "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out", "Backstreets", "She's te One" o la buenísima "Jungleland" a la altura de uno de los mejores discos de rock de todos los tiempos.
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Oct 15 2024
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5
A passionate triumph of music!
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Oct 15 2024
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5
So hard to rate an album by Bruce-especially this one-he's so tightly woven into childhood memories I can't possibly be objective. Love him our Dad loved him - once he went to 6 of the 10 shows Bruce was doing at the Brendan Byrne arena <3
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Oct 14 2024
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5
Awesome
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Oct 12 2024
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5
Disco esencial. No hay más que decir. Darle al play dejarse llevar por el jefe y su banda.
Otros discos de 1975:
Down by the Jetty de Dr. Feelgood, debut de AC/DC, Physical Graffiti de Led Zeppelin, Wish you were here de Pink Floyd, That's the Way of the World de Earth, Wind and Fire, Young Americans de D. Bowie, Dressed to Kill de kiss, Rubycon de Tangerine Dream, ABBA de ABBA, Diamonds & Rust de Joan Baez, Zuma y Tonight's the Night de Neil Young, Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy de Elton John, Main Coruse de Bee Gees, KC and the Sunshine Band de KC and the Sunshine Band, Love to Love You Baby de Donna Summer, Another Green World de Brian Eno, Ommadawn de Mike Oldfield, Radio-Activity de Kraftwerk, Horses de Patti Smith, A Night at the Opera de Queen, Crisis? What Crisis? de Supertramp, el directo de Bob Marley...
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Oct 12 2024
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5
The Boss! Always better with The E Street Band
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Oct 12 2024
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5
Yeah, no shit it's good.
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Oct 11 2024
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5
Snjór úti og BTR á fóninum. Veturinn er mættur og ég fílaða. Platan er nottla meistarastykki. Einstaklega gott sound og heildarmyndin er til staðar. Bossinn er með þetta. 5.5 stjörnur.
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Oct 11 2024
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Þvílík plata, þvílíkur gleðidagur. Allt geggjuð lög hvert á sinn hátt, frábærir textar. Klassííkerar sem eru flestir enn stór hluti af tónleikaprógrammi hans. 50 stjórastjörnur.
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Oct 08 2024
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5
9/10. Bruce Springsteen captures a feeling of americana in this album. Born to run is my favorite song in it, but the whole album is very complete and definitely will stand the test of time.
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Oct 03 2024
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5
Love that sax
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Oct 01 2024
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5
Hell yeah
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Sep 30 2024
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5
Truly one of the best ever. Just a start to finish masterpiece.
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Sep 30 2024
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5
Amazing. Simply amazing.
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Sep 29 2024
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5
Album 547 of 1001
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run (1975)
Rating : 5 / 5
Another great one from Bruce. I'm partial to him, so there is that. Some tracks are stronger than others but the album, as a whole, is a great listen. Vocals are strong, good guitar work, a slamming sax solo...and as always, great songwriting.
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Sep 26 2024
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5
I assume the choads who don't give this a 5 like Radiohead.
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Sep 24 2024
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5
The only Boss who never disappoints ;-)
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Sep 23 2024
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5
Thunder Road kicks of this album with nostalgia and heart. The title track is one of the greatest songs ever written. Just a great album throughout.
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