Product Description
Hard To Find Early New Zealand Pressing Of The Classic Bruce Springsteen Album! Gatefold Cover & Vinyl Still In Top Condition! Features “Thunder Road”, “Tenth Avenue Freeze Out”, “Jungleland” & “Born To Run”.
Condition – Vinyl: EXCELLENT!
Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT!
With two ambitious but under-selling albums behind him, Springsteen needed a hit for his third, and he knocked it out of the park. A sheer epic fueled by tangible energy, the idealized notion of escape, and the romance of youth, Born to Run scorched earth upon release and remains a career-defining classic.
Side 1:
Thunder Road
Tenth Avenue Freeze Out
Night
Backstreets
Side 2:
Born to Run
She’s the One
Meeting Across the River
Jungleland
AMG –
Born to Run was an intentional masterpiece. It declared its own greatness with songs and a sound that lived up to Springsteen's promise. Springsteen's make-or-break third album represented a sonic leap from his first two. Springsteen's backup band had changed, with his two virtuoso players, keyboardist David Sancious & drummer Vini Lopez, replaced by the professional but less flashy Roy Bittan and Max Weinberg. The result was a full, highly produced sound that contained elements of Phil Spector's melodramatic work of the 1960s. Layers of guitar, layers of echo on the vocals, lots of keyboards, thunderous drums -- Born to Run had a big sound, and Springsteen wrote big songs to match it. The overall theme of the album was similar to that of The E Street Shuffle; Springsteen was describing, and saying farewell to, a romanticized teenage street life. To call Born to Run overblown is to miss the point; Springsteen's precise intention is to blow things up, both in the sense of expanding them to gargantuan size and of exploding them. If The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle was an accidental miracle, Born to Run was an intentional masterpiece. It declared its own greatness with songs and a sound that lived up to Springsteen's promise.