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List Price: $9.99 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 1206
Released: October 25, 1990 |
| Our Price: $4.80 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Born to Run Track Listing:
1. Thunder Road
2. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out - Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Bruce Springsteen
3. Night
4. Backstreets
5. Born to Run
6. She's the One
7. Meeting Across the River
8. Jungleland
Editorial Review:
Few albums are as fueled by hope, possibility, and the lure of the open road as Born to Run, a virtual concept album about small-town Jerseyites in search of a better life via hot-rodding out on the turnpike, scoring some small-time hustle, or blowing out of town altogether, either across the river to New York City or west for parts unknown. Songs like "Jungleland," "Thunder Road," "Backstreets," and the title track are epic productions, both sonically and lyrically, borrowing from Phil Spector, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, and West Side Story. When Born to Run was released in 1975, it earned then-unknown Springsteen the rare honor of simultaneous covers on both Time and Newsweek. The attention was warranted then, and it still is now. --Daniel Durchholz
Born to Run Reviews:
Defining Moment 
2009-10-15 - It was the summer of 1975. I was entering my senior year in college. And popular music was languishing, still not recovered from the breakup of the Beatles in 1970. The music charts included such hits as "My Eyes Adored You" by Franki Valli, "Mandy" by Barry Manilow and "Love Will Keep Us Together" by Captain and Tenille. The critics, just like myself, were waiting for the next "big thing" in music. Something ground-breaking, earth shattering, mind-blowing. The Beatles had done that with "Sgt. Pepper" a long 8 summers earlier. Would we ever have an experience like that again listening to music?
Then out of nowhere(well actually from the swamps of Jersey) came Bruce Springsteen with this album. From the first drop of the needle, it was obvious that this was something special. This wasn't KC and the Sunshine Band or John Denver...heck, this wasn't even Paul McCartney and Wings. No this was something unique, powerful and important. Music had its new voice.
Bruce has gone on to make other great music. He continues to provide 3 hours of some of the best live concerts you could ever hope to see. But it was with this album, it was at that moment in August '75, that many of us got to have that experience for the first time. The experience of Bruce's greatness. The experience of his music transending the average, the mundane of daily life. Taking us on a journey that we will never forget.
Tramps like us, Baby we were Born to Run
2009-09-01 - I was born the year after this album came out - so for years I struggled to understand the appeal of "the Boss" to myriads of people. I eschewed listening to anything that didn't recieve the "thumbs up" of my age group. As I myself and my musical tastes matured, I began to slowly dip my foot in to the tepid, yet inviting waters of the larger ocean of music out there. Low, and behold...there was Bruce Springsteen.
I personally love this album as a woman, a working class hero, and as a music lover. Springsteen emotes every syllable he utters with heart-rending clarity and power. You are transported to the world he creates, you become it and absorb every detail. He was a young man, crazy, intense, wild with passion. In hot pursuit of women, the american dream, and a better life. Now we know where he was headed, but when this album came out the future was spread out before him like a lonely stretch of highway. With Born to Run he announced to the world he would step behind the wheel and drop the hammer. This album is such a subtle, gentle, poignant auditory seduction and you don't even realize it until the album is finished. Masterpiece? One of the Best Rock Albums of All Time?
Music is ultimately subjective and Bruce asks you the listener to be the Judge.
Must Have
2009-08-09 - This is one of the greatest albums of all time, excellent and timeless from start to finish.
Loud and proud 
2009-03-13 - 3 1/2
Nearly as big and bold sounding as the distinguished pedigree would suggest, yet in all its rugged glory, somehow falls short of intended power for me, as Springsteen howls through a few brilliantly transcending, but some musically similar ideas in an overall semi-contrived, but potently rawer approach.
True Classic
2009-03-07 - I bought this cd after not listening to it for many years. It is just as good now as when it was released 30 some years ago.. Ageless, classic sentiments that are as fresh now as they were in 1975. Beautiful, heartfelt lyrics. I saw Springsteen when I was 16 right before he went big. This cd brought back that experience full force.
