Springsteen's landmark album: 10 million copies sold in the first year, 30 million total, seven Top 10 singles, supported by his only large scale stadium tour. The album that sent him from an established titan of rock music to a global pop culture superstar of undoubtedly iconic and legendary status.
How does it hold up?
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I can't say I know any of his songs besides Born in the USA, I'm on Fire, and Dancing in the Dark. And they are all corny as hell.
Dude is overrated boomer trash.
I'm On Fire is one of the best songs of all time.
^This.
No it's not.
Why not?
I just pulled up I'm On Fire on the tube and all I got was generic 80s arena/butt/cockrock lyrics with some cheesy synth effects and a pseudo-country vocal.
what makes the cheesy
Like seriously, it amazes me just how long he got away with songs like Prove It All Night that could have easily been a Foreigner tune and still get praised to the hilt by critics (the same bunch who would have shit on an arena rock band for doing the same exact song) because he sounded vaguely rootsy/soulful.
why do you care about critics
I'm saying it's laughable just how much the guy is overrated when his songs weren't anything that profound or even different from what his contemporaries were doing and he was given a blank check for stuff that many of his contemporaries got barbecued over a spit for.
There were lots of good covers to "I'm on Fire"
Tori Amos had a really nice one
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I sort of see the point you're getting at. Yeah I suppose his themes were fairly typical 70s-80s boomer rock shit. If you understand rock critics, they all had a huge hateboner for cheesy arena rock production gimmicks. They thought it was false and bands should sound like they were in a pub or something.
So maybe Springsteen wasn't as deep as they claim, but he was able to feign sounding rootsy enough instead of deploying dated studio gimmicks like Journey or something. Mostly. I mean, his arena rock move on BITUSA does get more cheesy and dated than the prior albums especially the godawful Dancing in the Dark.
>ah yes, milquetoast pop rock with light synths... now that's REAL music
>his songs weren't anything that profound
in your opinion
God I fucking LOATHE Bruce Springsteen
ITT zoomers who don't realize many of the songs from The River and Darkness On The Edge Of Town were real life representations of blue collar life for working class nobodies from Bumfuck, Nowhere
shut up fucking boomer jesus
To be fair, The Nylon Curtain did a far better "Life in the Rust Belt Sucks" job than Springsteen ever managed.
Listen to the albums Born to Run or Darkness on the Edge of Town , or your opinion is invalid
BAAAWWWWN EENNN THE EEEUUUEEESSAAAAYYYY
It's not Bruce's fault you weren't there. He might suck now but people were into him then, unless you were actually from Jersey. It's dumb to judge things from a world that doesn't exist anymore.
WE LEARNED MORE FROM A THREE MINUTE RECORD BABY THAN WE EVER LEARNED IN SCHOOL
I mean, I guess the guy was kind of proto-grunge.
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Fucked this post up and it's refusing to let me delete it (I can't delete posts this often?) What I meant was, the dude was like proto-grunge in a sort of sense.
>roots rock-ey
>mumble vocals
>flannel shirt
>macho but sensitive lyrics
so.... shit