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Born in the Usa
Participated by Bruce Springsteen
Studio : Sony
by Sony
Brand : SPRINGSTEEN,BRUCE
Release Date : 1990-10-25
Publisher : Sony
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
EAN : 0074643865326
UPC : 074643865326
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 173 reviews)
List Price : $9.99
Our Price : $5.96
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Product Description |
No Description Available.
Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 8-AUG-1988 |
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Evangelismbookstore.com essential recording |
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Born in the U.S.A. is an album painted in big, broad strokes. But it was still too subtle for some--namely politicians who tried to tap the title track as a jingoistic anthem when it is in fact a bitter diatribe by a Vietnam War vet whose country forgot him. The rest of the album is a glorious grab bag of radio-ready populist anthems--his best display of pure pop songwriting ever--including "No Surrender," "Dancing in the Dark," "Bobby Jean," and "Glory Days" alongside more circumspect numbers such as "My Hometown" and "I'm On Fire." It's not true that there's no arguing with success, but in this case Springsteen's widespread acclaim was warranted. With Born in the U.S.A., all those predictions from a decade earlier--that Springsteen was the future of rock--had come true. --Daniel Durchholz |
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"Simply The Best",a CD by Bruce Springsteen. |
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This is the best album by Bruce Springsteen"Born In The Usa" by far, following on another excellent album "Born To Run",he was unstoppable."Born In The USA" thrusted Bruce Springsteen into the stratosphere,selling more than 24 million copies world wide.There is no weak song on the whole album with mega hits "Born In The USA","No Surrender","Glory Days","I'm On Fire","Dancing In The Dark" & "My Hometown".Even the younger Bruce Springsteen then remarked "There will be no another (Born In The USA)" indicating the musical mastery in the album that even him as prolific singer-songwriter may not be able to match or better.This is by far a classic rock album of note,one of the best by far,not only by Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen but in rock as a whole.This album will please many rock enthusiasts,new & old ones on how a rock album should be,highly recommended album if you like "The Boss"'s music,a landmark album of note! |
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Social Commentary Masquerading As Slick Pop Music |
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BORN IN THE U.S.A. is the most slickly produced album of Springteen's career, a direct reaction to the backlash he got from critics over the sparse, haunting NEBRASKA, Bruce's brilliant, bare-bones acoustic masterpiece. Don't be fooled, however, by the huge production and slick pop arrangements; BORN IN THE U.S.A. finds Bruce at his most political, writing scathing recession-fueled indictments of the then-current Republican regime. Several songs deal with social issues, most notably poverty, unemployment, racial tension and the death of Main Street, USA and small town America. The remaining songs deal with lost love, growing older and loneliness. Two songs in particular, "No Surrender" and "Bobby Jean," deal with the departure of Bruce's best friend, Little Steven, who would leave the E Street Band after recording this album. Despite the bombastic superstar production and arrangements, BORN IN THE U.S.A. is one of Springsteen's most personal and poingnant albums, and deserves a place of honor in the collection of any Springsteen fan or serious music lover. |
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Springsteen's best-selling album, and one of his best |
Born in the U.S.A. is Springsteen's best-selling album, and definitely one of his best. This album has sold over thirty million copies worldwide. It was certified Diamond in the United States because ten million copies of it were sold. Despite being released in 1984, this very album was the best-selling album of 1985 in the United States. Seven of the twelve songs on the album were released as singles.
I strongly recommend that you go ahead and purchase this album if you are a Springsteen fan and you don't own it already. This is arguably Springsteen's best album, and while that may or may not be true, it's definitely his best-selling. |
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Simply the Best from "The Boss". . . . |
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As the quintessential emblem and chronicler of White American male working class angst, Bruce Springsteen well deserves the crown of "The Boss." Like much of Springsteen's output, "Born in the USA" is deceptively cheerful, slammin' rock and roll, and even patriotic, when in fact it is by turns deeply soulful, perceptive, ironic and cynical. For example, several songs like the title cut and "Glory Days" (both arena rock anthems) and "My Hometown" (a reverential ballad that ponders the blessings [or curses] of provincialism), turn Ronald Reagan's carefully-scripted "Morning in America" optimism on its head. The erotic pump of dance tunes like "Dancing in the Dark," "I'm Going Down" and ballads such as "I'm On Fire" belie the disillusion and bleakness hovering just beneath the bouyantly sunny surfaces. In short, Springsteen's role as self-proclaimed working (every) man is so deftly convincing because, like all the greatest artists, he wrote and sang what he lived. But none of this would really matter so much if Springsteen wasn't such an amazingly gifted writer and an emotionally compelling guitarist and singer. "Born in the USA" contains no throwaway tracks. As such, this album surely ranks as one of the top five albums in the 1980's (releases that include Micheal Jackson's "Thriller" and Tina Turner's "Private Dancer") and remains essential to any Bruce Springsteen collection. |
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Cynical patriotism. |
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Ronald Reagan got it all wrong. In 1984 the Republicans contacted Springsteen to see if he would authorize use of the title song for their 1984 political campaign. Springsteen's response? "No thanks, mister." The title track is not, in fact, a patriotic celebration of America but rather a cynical story of a disillusioned Vietnam veteran. One of the keys to this album's success is its mixture of a good-time, fun-rockin' sound with very downbeat, often cynical lyrics. It serves as a commentary for mid-1980's America: success with an undercurrent of despair. Although the economy was booming and Reagan-era patriotism was at an all-time high, Springsteen turned a spotlight on the people hidden amidst the red, white and blue. Indeed, blue collar, white America took this album to its heart. They could relate both to the patriotism and the cynicism of the record. This was the pinnacle of Springsteen's career and it turned him into a worldwide superstar and spokesman for America, indeed into its social conscience. |
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