Born in the U.S.A. - Springsteen, Bruce (Cassette 1984)

Like, you are reading a gnarly review for the 80's Fer Shur! W/O hosted by Lisa_J. So don t have a cow if you find the product cheesy! Recently celebrating her 36th birthday, she strolled back into 80 s ville. Feel free to schmooze the hostess by crashing this awesome w/o. BRUCE, the totally tubular stud Springsteen first made himself known in the 1970 s. In 1973, his first album Greetings From Asbury Park, New Jersey, the awesome Bruce has been non-stop ever since. That is, until the E Street Band drifted apart. Just starting out, Springsteen was a member of a few New Jersey based bands...

Start with this: that, despite the prominence of at least two, three singles you could probably go your whole life without hearing again, Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. remains one of the greatest pop albums ever. That should probably be a lot more reassuring coming from a Springsteen fan that could probably, on his least-fond days, be nicely described as "charmingly obsessive"; it is well-documented that, as long as there have been obsessive fans, obsessive fans have found something to nitpick about regarding their pet artist's mainstream albums, as if the magic is lost once ten...

When it comes to reviewing music, one word that could (should?) be expunged from any writer s vocabulary is sell-out . Although the term does have a little meaning, the impossibilities of accurately defining and judging artistic integrity have rendered it mostly useless, and as such it s mostly banded about whenever a fan of artist X doesn t like their idol s new direction. However, as meaningless as the term is, I can t help but think of it when I consider Bruce Springsteen s Born In The USA . For the longest time, I had a massively negative reaction to this record, but I ve never been able..

Although you would't tell it from the reviews on this site, with Born in the U.S.A. it seems to be a matter of love it or hate it. One of my friends, also a Springsteen fan, simply said: Born in the U.S.A. isn t a good record. Another (and he should recognize himself, the fellow writes amazing reviews for this site) once mentioned in a comment on a review o mine that Bruce would hardly ever be able to top this record. So there you go, everyone feels different about it. I m finding myself listening to Bruce rather often lately. Last week it was Nebraska, somewhere at the weekend his E Street...