Born To Run

Sympa, du bon rock américain. Mais j'ai pas trouvé qu'il y ait de trucs en plus

Excellent. Such beautiful songwriting and incredible delivery. Beautiful arrangements and great pacing of the record. Another example of where the artist went on to do some really interesting stuff later in their career and I love that stuff but there's something raw and energetic about the early stuff that makes it extra special!

If I give this anything less than 4, my mate Neil would kill me

Ar Brucey is very good at making 4 star albums it seems. The music is rocking, but he does need to annunciate

Probably a 3 to 3.5, but it's fairly short. Couple standouts and some forgettables. Will round up to a 4.

Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run is a powerful and energetic album filled with passion on his part. It is one of the albums that remains a timeless rock classic.

Not listened to Bruce, apart from the singles. A good album, some great tracks. Very short album, so 3* 88%

Springsteen always sounds like he needs to take a fat shit, but he makes some awesome ass music.

Ok but not really for me

Eh sure Bruce

I've enjoyed Springsteen's music for years, so I was already familiar with and loved many of the bigger songs on this album. Thunder Road is an incredible opener, Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out is fantastic, and Jungleland is a nearly ten-minute epic that somehow never feels its length, thanks in no small part to Clarence's brilliant saxophone work. Unfortunately, some of the lesser-known tracks don't do much for me, with Backstreets in particular losing my interest well before it finished. There's a lot of great music here, but the album as a whole is a little too inconsistent for me to rate it any higher.

Obviously.

#11 - Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run. My first 1 star album on this website was Nebraska by Brucey boy and now I already have Born To Run. I wanna run away from this album already and I haven't even pressed play yet. Let's just get this shit over with. I'm not gonna do track-by-track reviews for this album either because I already know I'm not gonna enjoy most of it. Yeah. I got nothing. This wasn't as sufferable as Nebraska because it had generally more energy but Bruce...just ain't the guy for me. Favourite Track: Born To Run (I guess) Least Favourite Track: Jungleland Overall: 2/10 (⭐)

this would have rated much higher if i was a teenager still ... this one does not hold up to the ravages of time

727/1001 2026.10.20 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑

Eight songs, almost no wasted space, and a closing stretch that ranks among rock's finest. Born to Run is a 9.5/10: not quite flawless, but close enough that its weaknesses feel small beside its ambition and emotional power.

Bloody excellent. Listened twice then listened to Nebraska twice. I'm relapsing on the boss

So good.

His early masterpiece (others would follow). Surprisingly short! But the hits come fast and furious. Bruce inhabits this world and builds it into an epic. Youthful rage and vigor! I don’t know what else to say that hasn’t been said. I don’t listen to a lot of Bruce, admittedly, but I recognize his legendary talent.

Prompted to listen to this again! Easy to see why Springsteen became so successful. It's very spirited, honest and likeable.

I’m still not a fan of ‘The Boss’, but this album’s not half bad 😊 Three stars…

Moest even landen, maar een mooie 4 sterren voor Broes

Ik ga al jaren goed op dad rock, al ruim voor het daadwerkelijk vader worden. Bruce is daarin uiteraard de basis. Born To Run is ongetwijfeld het beste Springsteen album. Niet mijn favoriet, die komt nog, maar wel de beste. Het album is gefocust en subtiel maar tegelijk groots en meeslepend. Thunder Road, Backstreets, Jungleland en uiteraard de title track zijn echt waanzinnige nummers en de rest is ook gewoon goed.

La melodía de She’s the one 10/10 , este disco lo sentí un poco cómo las pelis en las que te explican todo para que no te pierdas xd

Just an all-time great album as far as I'm concerned. He famously tried to be the intersection of Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, and Phil Spector and he exceeded each and every one of them.

I can see why people like it, but I found it quite samey. And bombastic, in quite a cheesy way. I like a handful of Bruce songs, but by and large it's not for me.

Better than some of the other albums, but I still cannot get into his music

okay but a bit boring

Eh, I don't really like Springsteen's music. It's inoffensive. I didn't hate it, but nothing sparked joy.

A favorite of mine. Never really listened to a lot of Bruce Springsteen besides the hits: except for this album. I’ve always liked this album front to back. Been a few years since I did a full relisten probably so will do that now. This is a great one. Probably Springsteen’s best and most accessible too. Thunder Road is a great opener and it keeps going. Born to Run is one of my all time favorite classic rock songs. 70s isn’t always my favorite decade but this is a jam. It ends with the grand closer Jungleland. Great album. Feels essential. Even if you’re not a Bruce fan overall this is the one that’s most likely to win you over. I’ll go 5 stars. Probably overrated other Springsteen but this one deserves it I think.

First time I listen to a Springsteen's album from back to back. I was expecting some crude but genuine rock but I got the most verbose lyrics and a "wall of sound" production. The former thing is fine (one can only sympathize with Jersey's working class), the latter less: frankly, the wall of sound thing was bullshit even in the hands of Phil Spector, who invented it (or at least theorized it)... Here, the outcome is an album full of songs that are OK but mostly sound the same to me.

Wow… (10/10, 5/5 on this scale)

Album #223: Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I went around the house today singing in an overexaggerated Bruce Springsteen impression, just singing absolute garbled nonsense to myself and finding it all very funny. I think he’s an artist who’s very open to parody because he tends to write the same song a lot. This is not an astute observation. Everybody knows this. His songs are usually about one last chance to make something of your life and escape the humdrum reality in which you’re living. It usually involves a girl, a car, some form of road, motorway or highway, and it’s all very dramatic. And I think that parody, that stereotype of his music, is born on this album. This is an album of pure melodrama. But that’s not really a criticism. This album is what it is. It’s striving for something orchestral and dramatic, like a great Hollywood movie, and I think it achieves those goals. It’s just not really my kind of album. I’m not big into anthemic stadium rock. I’ve never seen Bruce Springsteen live, even though I’d love to. But even if I did, I’m not sure I’d be that into it. My favourite Bruce Springsteen album is Nebraska. I’ve said that four times now because this is my fourth Springsteen album in the last 220 or so albums, so I feel like I’m repeating myself. But I think the fact that Nebraska is my favourite by a large margin, and that I gave it five stars when it came up, shows the kind of Springsteen fan I am. This stuff just doesn’t do it for me as much. It’s very overblown. It’s not even the music. The music is excellent. The band are incredible, and the songs are really complicated. There are all these different passages, breakdowns and transitions. It’s not just verse-chorus-verse stuff. It’s orchestrated and incredibly well thought out, but it still has a uniform sound that makes it feel like a band performance rather than an orchestra playing in the background. I suppose it’s the lyrical tone. The guy is super poetic. He’s a great songwriter and comes up with amazing lyrics throughout, but the overall tone feels a bit cheesy to me. But cheesy can be good. And I do think this is one of the better cheesy albums out there. I have a little issue with the production, too. Not even an issue as such, more an observation. I was reading about it because I was trying to work out why the whole thing sounds so muddy. Apparently, he was going for that Phil Spector Wall of Sound style, and I don’t think he quite achieves it. He’s got a big, big sound, but it’s all kind of crushed into the middle. The mid-range is so busy that everything sounds muddy. There’s very little happening at either end of the frequency spectrum. It’s just mid-range the whole way through, and that got a little grating to listen to. In fact, one of my favourite songs on the album is Meeting Across the River, simply because it takes a breath. It doesn’t feel like such an onslaught. To me, the Wall of Sound has to be almost ethereal. Listen to Wah-Wah by George Harrison on All Things Must Pass. That bit when the horns come in and the vocalists are screaming “wah-wah.” That’s the Wall of Sound to me. There’s so much texture and so many layers of repeated sound that it all melts into one. There’s almost no definition to it. You can practically feel your way through it. It’s a physical sensation listening to that sound. Born to Run is going for something like that, but it’s almost more of a homage than a proper realisation of it. It never quite gets there, and I think the album’s sound suffers a little for it. It’s not a bad-sounding album, but to my ears, he misses the mark a bit. But anyway, feck all that. It is a good album. The songs are great. Pretty much all of them are great. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out is my favourite. It sounds like it could have been a Moondance-era Van Morrison song, and I think that’s a great sound. So that’s my fourth Bruce Springsteen album. I know there’s one more left on the list. Probably looking forward to a bit of a break from The Boss, to be honest with you.

An all-time magnum opus. He took a huge cut and touched all the bases.

Album number : 47/1089 Songs known going in : 1 Favourite song : night Rating 4/5

It's just so fucking boring, same song every time, and why does he keeps shouting at me?

Lol.. y vamos para bingo

Hmm... Unfortunately this just didn't do much for me, at all. Disapointing as I was keen to get to know Springsteen better. 4/10

This albums is like the most uplifting and grandiose chord progressions built into songs to make a crowd go wild. I think it probably influenced a lot of the modern tropes of church music that moves people. I think I need more listens to this to truly embrace it, as its production was a but jarring at first. Still pretty good, didn’t move me like nebraska did

Thunder Road might be my favourite song of all time, it always makes me well up in a way nothing else does. I think the thing with Bruce is you have to buy into the act as it were. If you don’t take his working class hero image at face value, then the whole thing falls down and it just appears cynical. This is probably true for a lot of artists, but it’s maybe more applicable with the Boss. This probably gets more prescient as the years go by. Anyway, this is probably my 3rd fave of his, and is a classic in my eyes

nope

Ooh look at me, I'm Bruce Springsteen and I make white guy blues rock with the depth of a puddle and the same level of appeal as getting sepsis. In fact, not even that. If I got sepsis I'd at least get a day off work. Characterless crud. Like if you took Meat Loaf, made him 300% less raunched up and 5x cringier. Divorced dad rock for the silent generation

Just a breezy album of hits. Really playful energy and the wall of sound made up of the keyboards, bells, and horns creates such a full and picturesque feeling throughout. While I prefer Born in the USA, I find this album more consistent and cohesive. The feeling of the title track is just unmatched. It really makes me want to get up and run off into the sunset. I feel like I can't say much else other than the fact that it's just an extremely great sounding album all the way through.

pretty good

"Please! Not another Bruce Springsteen album! Not today!" Such was my reaction when the album generator gave me "Born to Run." Having listened to "Born in the U.S.A." a few days earlier (man, this guy really likes being born), I was not looking forward to this album. While I wouldn't necessarily say I liked it, it is definitely significantly better than "Born in the U.S.A." I like the piano all over this album, and the bass does some interesting stuff too. I also actually like Springsteen's voice here, which couldn't be said about the other album. But besides some songs having one or two added and/or missing elements, the rest of the album was just not very interesting. To my ears, the songs still sound the same. They also are using way too much echo on everything, which I guess is foreshadowing "Born in the U.S.A." sounding like it was recorded in a power plant cooling tower. I know the title track is a hit for a reason, but that definitely was my least favorite song here. I went into this album expecting it to be the title track 8 times in a row, and I'm glad I was wrong. There's still three more Springsteen albums on the 1001 albums list, so maybe I'll be surprised again in the future. If, gun to my head, I had to recommend a Springsteen album, I would undoubtedly say this over "Born in the U.S.A." ----- #0019 Heard on: 7 Oct. 2026 Rating: ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆ (250 / 339) Favorite track: Jungleland Least favorite track: Born to Run

This is Springsteen's breakthrough album released in 1975 and is considered a classic. It's classified as rock and roll, pop and R&B. He has some good songs but I personally think he's overrated. He can't sing well and the songs in general are bit too long and overly dramatic. The E Street Band is good, especially Roy Bittan on piano. However, I'm sick of Clarence Clemmons' saxophone. It annoys me as much as Bob Dylan's harmonica. Tops songs, probably more from nostalgia than actually liking them, are: Thunder Road Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out Born to Run Jungleland

Dad hates him, I don't mind him

“Here comes Bruce to ruin another great E-Street Band performance.” ^ I’ve said that for every one of his albums and I’m not going to stop. You can’t change my mind.

Album OK, je comprends pourquoi c'était si populaire à l'époque, mais je le réécouterai pas

I like Springsteen don’t get me wrong, but I have never fully listened to one of his albums. Whilst there were some standouts “thunder road”, “Jungleland”, and the album flowed pretty nicely, there were some songs that weren’t doing for me. Still an enjoyable listen and I do like Springsteen’s writing/lyricism but I probably wouldn’t listen to the full album again just select songs. I rate like somewhere between 3 and 3.5 stars

Born to Run is a good song. Don't know if I much get the rest of it.

Easy 5/5 for me. I get why people might not like Springsteen, his voice (I do like it but I understand why people wouldn’t), his being called ‘The Boss’ etc. but I think he’s one of very few people who could pull off big bombastic music like this and make it sound great rather than ridiculous. I love passionate music and this has passion in spades. His songwriting is peak on this, you can hear elements of Van Morrison and Dylan but he makes it his own. Excellent use of the saxophone as well, something there’s nowhere near enough of in modern music.

From bruce shitsteen to bruce wayne. Best bruce ive heard after 3 albums

Old brucie is singing! Bruce U would be better..

I used to not like Bruce Springsteen very much, but his hits have grown on me. Still he hasn't convinced me with an album, same for born to run. The highs are high, but a lot of mediocre rusty voice poprock on here too. Sometimes even within the same song. For instance the sax par in Jungleland is phenomenal, but other parts of the song don't really clique. Same for the whole album. But not a bad or uninteresting listen at all.

All the songs sort of blended together for me. I’m pretty sure I heard the same piano riff repeated in at least three of them. I don’t know, Bruce just isn’t for me. There’s something too try hard in his music that I don’t connect with.

My, my, my. What a unique and unfamiliar sound. So experimental! So original! I wonder who it could be? Nah, I’m fuckin’ wid ya. It sounds exactly like every other Bruce Springsteen album I’ve ever heard. That familiar bombastic E Street sound is present, but I was surprised by how tinny the production feels. For an album renowned for its sound, it strikes me as strangely thin, with almost no bottom end. And a lot of the tracks — *Born to Run* in particular — sound as though the band are playing at 33⅓ rpm while Bruce is singing at 30. He consistently sounds like he’s struggling to keep up. I definitely prefer *Born to Run* when Bruce Springsteen isn’t singing it. Yes, there are some great songs here, but I came away more impressed by the songwriting than the record itself.

It is a really good album. I have tried listening to it many times, but everytime I get bored. It's just not for me, but Born to run is an all time classic and that's the only reason why I would listen to the album.

Not very fan of Bruce

Solid album overall, felt more interesting and grounded than Born in the USA to me. The song "Born to Run" is a classic, and this album also had a really strong opener and closer while really not having a weak track.

It's all right. Just lacking the power or catchiness of later releases. Which is a good sign Bruce Springsteen grew as an artist along his journey.

I didnt realise bruce always sang like this. Very annoying. Im not a fan of this kind of booming Americana rock and this album did nothing to make me think otherwise.

This could be higher, I'm not sure. I really like it. The poetry carries this honestly - Bruce drops some incredible lyrics and I'm just all about it. More listens required.

Maybe someday I'll understand why this guy is so popular, but today is not that day

I keep trying, but I've never been a fan of The Boss. Growing up in the 80's, it was always Dad Rock to me -- and I say that knowing how most of my core favorites are now labelled the same from the later generations. Backstreets is good, but 4 minutes too long and just straight repeating itself. Born To Run, the Sax sounds closer to a kazoo and just takes me right out of it.

So much Springsteen. This is #4. My least fav of the 4 on this list.

Almost unlistenable. Best song: "She's the One." Weakest song: "Backstreet." It’s like the needle skipping on a vinyl record.

Really enjoyed this one - very tight album

One of those. It cant be great for me, but Im happy its great for you. Perhaps if I lived in Jersey at the time it would resonate. It doesnt from this distance

was not expecting a 9 minute closer

One of the absolute best!

I’ve never really listening to Bruce Springsteen. Not because he’s a bad musician, just because it’s never been my flavour of music. That being said this album is just okay. It’s got some good and some not great. Not sure I would listen to it in its entirety but maybe the hits.

My favorite work by Bruce Springsteen. I haven't listened to a lot of these songs in a long while, but it brought me right back and I forgot how many of these songs I knew. Back when I ran Cross Country, I would regularly put songs from this album on, Born to Run always felt fitting. Born to Run is definitely my favorite track off the album. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The most impressive thing about this is how I’ve spent my entire life thinking that that cover art was a 90s Best Of. Graphic design decades ahead of its time! I love the title track but a whole album of swaggering this earnestly is TOO MUCH! Give me Asbury Park instead please!

Album #168: Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen Genre (W): Rock and roll, pop rock, R&B, folk rock Singles: Born to Run, Tenth Avenue Freeze Out I have not listened to this album before. Thoughts?: I love Bruce Springsteen’s songwriting and the production! “Born to Run” is an amazingly written album and I’m so happy I listened to it! Favorite tracks: All of it!!

Listened

Best album by the boss

I'm too communist for this

My favourite of al the Springsteen albums, I think this one served him very well and rescued his career at the time. Fantastic songwriting throughout and the E Street Band really cooking.

Fantastic

Ett par guldkorn, men annars väldigt medelmåttigt

She's the One: I don't think it's my cup of tea, not to say it's bad or anything just not what I'm used to listening. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out: Once again not what I'm used to listening but the overall vibe of the song reminds me of those 80s/70s shows, like something they'd use for the background song. Born to Run: I think this is the Title Song, it somewhat sounds familiar. Maybe I've heard it before or heard something similar. It's giving soundtrack of a Coming of Age movie, like when the movie is coming to an end and the characters are all free and grown up to what they've dreamed to be. Thunder Road: Intro reminds me of Fleetwood Mac. I think It's a rather more emotional song from the vibe of it. Not sure about the lyrics but I think it's quite emotional as well despite it not being too coherent to listen to. As the song continues, I think the song also heightens in tone, metaphorically like a person speaking normally then starting to get excited when talking about something they like. I do also think that the songs kind of have the same vibe, like they're on the same spectrum.

This is the best Springsteen album. I'm fairly in the middle on most of his discography, especially his super popular albums, but this one wins for me. I swear this is the only album where I can't make a comment on how the stuff he says doesn't sound completely genuine, or how he's faking an accent, or anything like that. This is just a good, genuine album. Nonetheless, a good and genuine album with a shitload of saxophones in it. I have no idea why they cropped out the saxophone player on the album cover, he's like 60% of the album. He's an incredible saxophone player, too. All of my favorite moments of the album are just his soloing. That being said, all of the extra instrumentation of the album is great. It's a much bigger and more overwhelming sound than I'm used to with a Springsteen record and I think that's what pushes me to say it's my new favorite from him.

I was going to hate on this, but the saxophone on "Jungleland" somehow transformed me into a full flag-waving American.

Sempre rock generico

Bruce is very earnest. And he definitely can sing and write a tune but unfortunately this one didn't do it for me.

Me gustó. Bien yanki todo pero realmente suena muy bien y tiene una idea bien marcada de buscar el hit. Lo consigue. 7/10

Another musician that I'd heard lots of singles from and never a full album. I know I've heard the title track and possibly "She's the One". This felt like a fully cohesive album and after reading up on the history I can understand why with the amount of effort that went into it. At surface level it can feel a bit pop rock but there's more layers here with all the musicians playing great. Again love the long sax part later in the track list. I'm not a full on Springsteen fan but can appreciate what he did here.

Not bad, just not my style

Third album by Springsteen and I am entirely over it. I don’t like his voice, I don’t like his songwriting. Tedious, and feels like it goes nowhere.

No entiendo este que generó es…rock operístico? El sufrimiento de ser gringo. No me gusta the boss

Good cinematic style song opening with Thunder Road. Liked Tenth Avenue Freeze Out, Jungleland, Born To Run. Prefer the Born in the U.S.A. album. Piano in Jungleland reminds me of Tiny Dancer by Elton John.

backstreets <3 -sara

New Jersey Classic.

Fun!

Strong start with ‘thunder road’ but then just very samey. I spent the entire album thinking god he just sounds like an American meatloaf- but Meatloaf songs actually hit the heights these tracks only wish they could. Despite the repetitive nature of the tracks it was continuous decent tracks though and The last track left me wanting more however and was my favourite ‘jungle land’ Worst track- ‘she’s the one’ Listened once score 7/10 The last Bruce album in the list did score higher on second listen however this gift draw me enough to listen again and now I just want some Meatloaf please!

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run Opens with the best track then attempts to copy it for most of the album before turning into Christopher Cross at the end. I just don't quite get Bruce, but I know it ain't really for white English northerners. So I guess I'll review similarly to the last time we had one and say that I enjoyed the ride, although i swear a couple of songs threatened to turn into Bat Out of Hell at times, without me loving it. Best Track - Thunder Road (this decision may have been influenced by Alfred Molina's belting rendition in The Boroughs on Netflix) Worst Track - Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out (the point a which I knew how all the rest of the album would sound) 6/10

not too interesting but cant go wrong i guess

There aren't enough stars.

I’m pretty indifferent to Bruce Springsteen’s music. Although, I’ve only really heard ‘The Hits’ but never dived much deeper. To me, this album felt grandeur but in a forced way. I think Springsteen has a great voice. ‘Hungry Heart’ rules (can hear the collective groan of Springsteen fans)! Didn’t love this album but maybe I was in the wrong mood to listen to it.