at the time, disco and electronic organs( OMD, depeche mode,new order, bee gees) were becoming mainstream .
Springsteen delivers and this album, for me is phenomenal.
Disco was dead in 1984, chief. At the very least it was on life support.
The Bee Gees were going through a rough time, Donna Summer was reinventing herself, and other landmark disco sounds had shifted toward synth funk and smooth R&B (Lionel Ritchie, etc.) Rock was plenty alive as well. Whether it was the AOR sounds of Foreigner or the metal revolution in LA and the UK. New Wave and New Romantic didn't kill rock music nor did R&B. This is a false equivalency and a bad read of history that people make. Other genres were just becoming just as popular and rock music didn't have a monopoly on popular music anymore.
My recollection is that Springsteen had really good (if not perfect) timing, putting out a nice accessible rock album (complete with red baseball cap!) at the very moment when people finally decided they were tired of seeing Thriller at the top of the charts for two whole years.
Not even Kajagoogoo could knock Thriller out of the top spot. It was a once-in-a-lifetime thing (though not quite like the Talking Heads' song, "Once in a Lifetime," since that came out in 1980).
What's more, the Plasmatics were in a long hiatus at that point, so as far as Bruce was concerned the field was basically wide open...
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