![]() Then see him live, fresh in the knowledge that beneath the four-hour live-show cliché of self-regard that is ‘The Boss’, runs a deep strain of self-doubt and Catholic guilt, directed at himself, his songs’ troubled characters and the country in which they dwell. by William Ruhlmann + Bruce Springsteen's make-or-break third album represented a sonic leap from his first two, which had been made for modest sums at a suburban studio Born to Run was cut on a superstar budget, mostly at the Record Plant in New York. ![]() This list is more for the newcomers, neophytes and non-believers than established fans, concentrating on self-penned studio albums in the belief that the best route to Springsteen is through the songs. It’s what his fans love about him and what his detractors carp on about, failing to realise that the multimillion-selling mythopoetic audacity of 1975’s Born To Run, the bandanas, cut-offs and gated drums in the Born In The USA package, The Rising’s arena-scale emotional storytelling about a post-9/11 America, and the joyous anti-war knees-up of The Seeger Sessions, all succeeded or failed as a consequence of conviction and faith. ![]() He is too emotional, romantic, impassioned and flawed for ‘cool’. The opening track to Springsteens breakthrough Born to Run album, 'Thunder Road' sets the stage for the album: Promises of starting over somewhere new, but not necessarily somewhere glamorous. to a recent championing of Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello, Springsteen has never looked for ‘cool’. ![]() Springsteen is too emotional, romantic, impassioned and flawed for ‘cool’.įrom his defiantly gauche 1973 debut, Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. ![]()
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