Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen

In 1975, Bruce Springsteen was on the verge of being dropped by his record company. His first two albums, "Greetings from Asbury Park NJ" and "The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle", has met with critical acclaim but hadn't been huge commercial success stories. It was make-or-break time. He went into the studio with the E Street Band for a few months - a tense, tiring time by all accounts - and came out with this, possibly the greatest rock album of all time. At eight tracks and under forty minutes long, "Born to Run" is not exactly the longest album ever made. But it says more in those forty minutes than most albums ...  Read the complete review

"Born to Run" is the rare record that actually lived up to the rampant hype surrounding its release. So bloated was the media campaign in September 1975 that Bruce, then relatively unknown, simutaneously landed on the covers of Time and Newsweek. If that wasn't enough, Bruce's future manager Jon Landau, then a heavyweight rock scribe, proclaimed to the world "I've seen the future of rock-n-roll and its name is Bruce Springsteen." Lofty expectations indeed; expectations that would've destroyed a lesser artist. Seemingly oblivious to all, the 26 year-old boy wonder blasted all barriers with this 8 song extravagaza which celebrated the ...  Read the complete review

That's what this album is - an everlasting kiss with rock and roll. The lyric comes, of course, from the title track ("I wanna die with you Wendy on the street tonight, in an everlasting kiss"). "Born to run" is an album I've had since the late seventies, but have continued to play regularly ever since. More often than any other Springsteen album. It stays with you, this one. 1975 was Springsteen's year, no doubt about. Front cover of Time and Newsweek, and those "I have seen the future of rock and roll" quotes. And, when I heard the "Born to Run" album, I started to think that for once ...  Read the complete review

Born to run first released in 1975 took a year to write and record. springsteen was making a name for himself as a live act and the kids were dancing on the seats but the first two albums were'nt selling what was needed was a rock album! So with that in mind and rumours of the record company thinking of dropping him springsteen returned to the studio with one mission, to write the best rock album ever made. The stories that surround this album are legendary with what springsteen would recall as the hardest time of he's life at that point. He and the e street band spent over a year recording this album with recording sessions lasting days ...  Read the complete review

A collection of glorious songs all about the simple wonders of cars and girls; of being young, vibrant and alive; a desperate yearning for true happiness and salvation from the spiritual and material poverty of the streets of New Jersey. This album is all classic material with no filler. It opens with the bittersweet "Thunder Road" which sets the theme for the rest of the album, of yearning to break out of the restrictive atmosphere of a small town of "losers". It begins with a slow, plaintiff harmonica wail, speeds to a feverish pitch along the way and ends with Bruce's defiant cry of "I'm bustin' out of here to win!". ...  Read the complete review