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Born in the U.S.A. (Music)
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Born in the U.S.A. is the seventh studio album by American Rock & Roll singer/songwriter Bruce Springsteen. It was released by Columbia Records on June 4, 1984.Bruce started working on this album while recording Nebraska. He was looking for a sound that was more accessible to the mainstream, while still carrying his message. He and the E Street Band released a preliminary nameless mix tape in 1982 which featured many of the songs that would appear on this album. A few of the songs would not make it, including "Murder Incorporated", which wouldn't see release until 1995.A second mix tape release was made in July 1983. That tape included "Pink Cadillac", which also would not make the cut.The final track set was solidified in May 1984, and released the next month with 12 songs, seven of which would become singles: "Dancing in the Dark" ("Pink Cadillac" became its B-side), "Cover Me", the Title Track, "I'm on Fire", "Glory Days", "I'm Goin' Down", and "My Hometown".It is said that, all told, more than 80 songs were recorded in total during the sessions that produced this album and Nebraska. At one point, Bruce considered combining the two into one double album.Ironically, the title track, which was a lamentation of the plight of Vietnam veterans, became a patriotic anthem for many. He had to expressly forbid Ronald Reagan from using it for his 1984 re-election campaign. Bruce was never happy about that. Realizing the Sarcasm Failure, he would make a point of playing the song far less bombastically than it was originally recorded whenever he played it on tour.Regardless, the album became a runaway hit. It sold 15 million copies in the United States, being certified Diamond by the RIAA. It's also certified Diamond in Canada, and sold a total of 30 million copies worldwide. It was in the year-end Billboard 200 album chart for three consecutive years, and was the #1 album of 1985 in the United States.All seven released singles were Top-10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. "Dancing in the Dark" remains his highest-charting single on the Billboard Hot 100, hitting #2, and would be his first #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. The seven top-10 hits on the Hot 100 would match a record set previously by Michael Jackson with Thriller, subsequently joined by Janet Jackson (Rhythm Nation 1814) and Drake (Scorpion).The music video for "Dancing in the Dark" became famous in hindsight for the inclusion of future actress Courteney Cox.Bruce went on a 156-show world tour to promote the album from July 1984 through October 1985. During the tour, he promoted all the songs from this album and from Nebraska. Four of his performances on the tour are in Bruce's archives. It was the fifth-highest-grossing concert tour of the 1980s.On a more trivial note, the album holds the distinction of being the very first to be pressed onto a Compact Disc in the United States, through Sony's Digital Audio Disc Corporation on September 21, 1984. The exact discs pressed were never commercially released, having mainly been made simply as a promotional stunt for the factory. After all, what better way to kickstart American involvement in CD manufacturing than with an album called Born in the U.S.A.? The master from this release would be repurposed for the album's actual commercial debut on the format, though. | |
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Dying Town: "My Hometown", which is about Springsteen's hometown of Freehold, NJ, which was plagued by racial tensions and increasing unemployment. | |
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Title Track: "Born in the U.S.A.", natch. | |
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Working on the Chain Gang | |
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Working on the Chain Gang: "Working on the Highway", as a result of the singer getting with someone underage. | |
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Echoing Acoustics | |
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Echoing Acoustics: The album is noted for its gated reverb snare drum sound, which was caused by running the snare microphone through a broken reverb plate and a noise gate. | |
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Embarrassing Damp Sheets | |
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Embarrassing Damp Sheets: What the singer wakes up at night to thinking about his subject in "I'm On Fire". | |
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Friendship Song | |
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Friendship Song: "No Surrender" and "Bobby Jean" both deal with the importance of friendship and love. | |
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The Vietnam Vet | |
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The Vietnam Vet: "Born in the U.S.A." is about a Vietnam veteran who returns home to find that he can't make any employment or even receive any support from the VA. | |
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Glory Days | |
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Glory Days: The song "Glory Days" became the Trope Namer. The song itself is about three different individuals who reflect on their high school years while being disappointed in their current life. | |
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Sarcasm Failure | |
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Sarcasm Failure: The upbeat playing of "Born in the U.S.A." was intended to be ironic to the subject of the song, which was the effects of the Vietnam War on its veterans. It immediately became an unironic patriotic anthem for all too many. | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance: "Born in the U.S.A." is a prime example, being a bombastic, cheery rock anthem about a downtrodden, unemployed Vietnam veteran. | |
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All Just a Dream | |
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All Just a Dream: In "Downbound Train", the narrator dreams that his lover came back, saying that her love "never died", only to wake up and find that he's still alone. | |
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