Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce SpringsteenSKU: QC 38653

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SLEEVE: NM- MEDIA: NM-   YEAR: 1984   ORIGIN: US   EXTRAS: Lyric sheet inner & picture sleeve.

Springsteen had become increasingly downcast as a songwriter during his recording career, and his pessimism bottomed out with Nebraska. But 1984's Born in the U.S.A., his popular triumph, which threw off seven Top Ten hits and became one of the best-selling albums of all time, trafficked in much the same struggle, albeit set to galloping rhythms and set off by chiming guitars.

That the witless wonders of the Reagan regime attempted to co-opt the title track as an election-year campaign song wasn't so surprising: the verses described the disenfranchisement of a lower-class Vietnam vet, and the chorus was intended to be angry, but it came off as anthemic. 

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