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Born in the U.S.A. | 
| Artist: Bruce Springsteen
Label: Columbia
Category: Music
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 985
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
EAN: 5099751125624
ASIN: B00008Z5G9
Release Date: May 5, 2003
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Born In The USA | | • | Cover Me | | • | Darlington County | | • | Working On The Highway | | • | Downbound Train | | • | I'm On Fire | | • | No Surrender | | • | Bobby Jean | | • | I'm Goin' Down | | • | Glory Days | | • | Dancing In The Dark | | • | My Hometown |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
With its roller-rink keyboards, trash-can drums and generally festive air, this is Springsteen at his most joyous and radio-friendly. Spinning off seven hit singles ("Dancing in the Dark", "Cover Me" and "I'm on Fire" among them), iUSA/i is deceptively accessible. Underneath, the tales are often dark and the characters grim--the shafted Vietnam vet of the title track, the prison-gang of "Working on the Highway", the ageing folks of "Glory Days"--but the E Street Band party like it's 1984. Only the album's forlorn closer, "My Hometown" has the tension and regret of Springsteen's later work. For this moment, at least, Bruce ruled the world and iUSA/i sounds like it. i--Rob O'Connor /i
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 a definition of rock at its finest October 24, 2000
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
in my opinion, born in the USA is one of the best albums ever! it has everything any rock or pop music fan could ever ask for. from its opening collection of thundering stadium rock tracks ('darlington county', 'working on the highway'and the title track 'born in the USA') further listening to them tells a much darker, meaningful story than the music suggests. included are the more softly spoken tracks such as 'I'm on fire' and 'my hometown' which are just as thought provoking and help to demonstrate bruce's vocal skills. this album launched bruce into a global megastar and its easy to see why. this is an essential purchase for any springsteen fan or any music fan in general!
Sheer perfection November 22, 2002
ad_crumenam (United Kingdom)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is American rock roll in a nutshell....brash, loud, and fun...but it's not all sweetness and light. If you actually listen to the lyrics (which many don't) you'll see that each song has meaning. Springsteen is one of the best musical storytellers of the modern era (Billy Joel is another) and he is quintessential American rocker: soulful, fun but with a dark side, and endlessly talented. U.S.A. was by far his biggest and most "accessible" album (whatever THAT means) but it's not much different from his other work in that he pours his heart and soul into it and gives you all he's got every single time you play it. BRAVO BRUCE!
5 STAR MELANCHOLIA YOU CAN DANCE TO January 8, 2008
DAG (DERBYSHIRE UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm sure someone, somewhere, has already coined the 'melancholia(y) you can dance to' phrase, but it perfectly describes this great album. Springsteen's BITUSA divides Brucefans simply because there are those who saw it as a sell-out, while others just saw it as a natural progression from what he'd produced before. I fall into the latter camp - his earlier classics like 'Sandy', Born to Run, 'Jungleland' and Badlands' had helped to raise Springsteen's stock, but BITUSA was so full of melodic hooks that it simply couldn't fail. Many heard the noise but hadn't listened to the words - Ronald Reagan for one - but beyond the familiar tunes were words as hard-bitten and melodramatic as anything he's produced before or since. The title track itself is a stone cold classic, while my favourites were the songs of regret and melodrama - 'Bobby Jean', Glory Days' and 'No Surrender'. Springsteen reportedly recorded 100s of songs for this album and what a double it could have been! Imagine 'None but the brave', 'Frankie', 'This hard land' and 'My love will not let you down' added to this platter! Anyway, not everyone is 45 and over, and there will be new listeners wondering what the fuss was all about; so for them, it's loud, it's noisy, it's melodic, it's tells great stories, it might make you cry, it's full of melancholy...and you can dance to it. Enjoy it.
Born to rock June 5, 2008
D. J. H. Thorn (Hull, UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Like Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumours', 'Born In The USA' became the artist's biggest album because it appealed to a much wider audience than earlier material did. It was commercial. So what? There's nothing wrong with appealing to more people by making your music more accessible. Bruce Springsteen's previous album 'Nebraska' may possess greater snob value because, wow, it's dark and stripped down, but there is no disguising that much of it is also dull. As Tommy James commented when criticised for creating 'Mony Mony' at the height of the revolutionary, anti-war sentiments of 1968, why can't you make people want to dance?
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br /The most obvious slice of glossy pop is, of course, 'Dancing In The Dark' and it soon palls, but nothing else is as disposable, and throughout Springsteen maintains a combination of intelligence and vitality, backed by a superior band. Mostly, the songs appear celebratory or defiant, while the title track is obviously ironic. The ghostly 'I'm On Fire' and 'My Hometown' provide the wind-downs.
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br /It is misleading to suggest that 'Born In The USA' was calculated to lift Springsteen to stardom. He may not have been a household name in the UK before this, but anyone who subscribed to the music weeklies knew of him, his reputation, and had probably at least heard 'Born To Run'. More significantly, he was already big in his homeland. So enjoy a high quality rock album and don't worry about what is or isn't 'cool'.
Probably The Best Album In The World! July 19, 2000
G. P. Rasch
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
However You're Feeling this album would sum up your every emotion, Sad, Happy Whatever. Every track a classic. If you haven't heard it you've missed out on a real masterpiece , Your Loss.
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