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Today's album of the day

Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1975.
Country:
Overall rank: 39
Average rating: 84/100 (from 778 votes).

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Tracks:
1. Thunder Road
2. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
3. Night
4. Backstreets
5. Born To Run
6. She's The One
7. Meeting Across The River
8. Jungleland

About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.

[drakonium]

It's fucking amazing and by a good margin my fave of his first four. On the edge of my chart.

[Goodsir]

It's a fantastic album with brilliant songwriting and honesty. I love this album very much and it's in my top 40.
Also it has that New Jersey swag

[Norman Bates]

Apart from his last ten years, this is quite possibly the only Springsteen album I have never listened to.

[Precedent]

[drakonium]

[NickVolos]

It is OK in my book. I like The Wild, the Innocent..., Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. & The River better.
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"And can’t you see you’re in on it?
You were born though you need not
And is that not some cause
For worship, being born among these trees?"

[Guest]

Prefer Darkness and Live at Hammersmith '75, but this album is fantastic too. Fun, poignant, smart, inclusive rock music. I fux widdit.

[sp4cetiger]

Springsteen's take on Americana has always seemed a bit cartoonish to me, but I have to admit this is a good album. At the moment, it's the only one I can see myself going back to, but I won't claim to have heard his whole discography. Favorite track is "Meeting Across the River".

[AAL2014]

Here's my story with this album... and Bruce Springsteen in general. I was a freshman in high school and it was a Friday. Normally my dad would pick me up from school and we would go a couple places to hang out. But this Friday in particular, I get to my dad's car in the parking lot of the high school as he's getting off of the phone with a friend. He says "So, do you wanna go see Bruce Springsteen tonight?".... Me, not expecting that in the slightest, and really not even knowing Bruce was in town, was perplexed but immediately said yes. My dad's friend could not go that night so we went to his house to pick up the pair of tickets.

That night Bruce and the band played an amazing 3 hour show, they played Born To Run in it's entirety, and it was the infamous "Good evening.. Ohio" show in Auburn Hills, Michigan. It was my first concert.

I went home, fell asleep, woke up the next morning still trying to take in what I had witnessed the night before, and decided to go buy the Born To Run album right away, and to this day roughly 4 to 5 years later, it's in the running for my favorite album of all time. It means a lot to me, to say the least.