Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA (w/ guest Jack Linden)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2016

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian close out Massive Album November with singer songwriter Jack Linden of Rose Boulevard (roseboulevard.bandcamp.com) talking about Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA (1984, Columbia). Springsteen was a good ways into his career, but with this album and its 7 top 10 singles, he became a household name. Jack talks about growing up having been "born into Bruce" and not really remember when he first heard these tunes. He also shares how his fandom ebbed and flowed, cementing itself as he reached adulthood. Brian, Bill, and Jack also discuss synthesizers, the E Street Band, Springsteen's effect on Jack's writing, how Bruce synthesizes his influences to be unrecognizable, Bruce's falsetto and (in)ability to harmonize with himself, and much more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	Born down in a dead-nass town, the first kicker took us when I hit the ground
0:24.0	Hello, welcome to the great album's podcast. My name's Bill. And I'm Brian.
0:41.7	What are we just listening to right there, Brian? That was born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen
0:47.1	from his 1984 album of the same name. If you've never listened to the podcast, what we do
0:52.4	hear every week is take a different album
0:54.3	of music and talk about what makes it great.
0:56.9	We're going to try and have the kind of conversation about the album that kind of happens
1:01.5	around being a fan of the music.
1:03.5	Cool.
1:03.9	We're going to talk about how we got into the music.
1:05.8	We're going to talk about what makes it cool.
1:07.5	We're going to give a little bit of a band bio so that way everybody's on the same page for the conversation. Yeah, no, I know a lot of people don't really know this album.
1:15.6	No, that's not true because it's massive album November where everybody knows these albums.
1:21.9	Yeah, this is the last week of massive album November. It's a little sad, too. We've had a lot of nice
1:26.9	things happen to us. Yeah. A little bit of Who's a little sad, too. We've had a lot of nice, a lot of nice things happen to us.
1:29.0	Yeah.
1:29.7	A little bit of who,
1:30.5	a little Pink Floyd,
1:31.8	a little Madonna.
1:33.4	And how many did this one sell?
1:35.7	30 million to date.
1:37.7	Worldwide.
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