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Born to Run é o terceiro álbum do cantor americano Bruce Sprigsteen, lançado pela gravadora Columbia Records em 25 agosto de 1975. Sua gravação ocorreu no estúdios Record Plant, em Nova York entre 1974 e 1975, sobre a produção de Mike Appel, Jon Landau e o própio Springsteen.
O álbum se caracteriza pelo uso de introduções geralmente instrumentais em cada música. Teve uma boa recepção por parte do público, chegando ao número três na Billboard 200 e alcançou de igual maneira um alto desempenho no resto do mundo. Se extraíram os singles «Born to Run» e «Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out», mesmo que nas rádios orientadas ao rock também se escutaram "Thunder Road" e "Jungleland".
Sua recepção por parte da crítica foi boa, muitas vezes considerado como o melhor trabalho de Springsteen, e um dos mais importantes da história do Rock. Em 2003 a revista Rolling Stone o colocou n.º 18 da sua lista de 500 Melhores Álbuns de todos os tempos. Em 2004 um juri composto por experts em preservação de música e som dos Estados Unidos à anexou no Registro Nacional de Gravações da Biblioteca do Congresso dos Estados Unidos, devido à sua "significância cultural ou histórica" na vida norte-americana. Em 14 de novembro de 2005, foi lançada a edição de "30º Aniversário" que inclui uma versão remasterizada do disco e dois DVDs, um contendo um filme com a produção de Born to Run, e outro com um show.
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Born To Run’s eight songs run to less than 40 minutes in length, but comprise a whole as satisfying as a portion of exquisitely rich chocolate cake. It seems Springsteen truly went for broke in 1975 after his first two albums had been critically well-received but less so commercially. Music critic Jon Landau became his producer and joined Bruce with his E-Street band in the studio to make what remains a classic, honest musical expression of hope, dreams and survival.
The colossal wall of sound production would make Phil Spector proud. Clarence Clemons’ triumphant yet bittersweet saxophone wailing and Roy Bittan’s nagging piano riffs augment the tough Telecaster guitar sound, while chiming glockenspiel and Max Weinberg’s drumming cement the heady mix.
Lyrically, it’s a dramatic collection of blue-collar tales of love and making ends meet that could only come from New Jersey’s favourite son. He clearly took a few ideas from storytellers like Van Morrison and Bob Dylan but also forged his own uplifting style. In ''Meeting Across The River'', a street tale Lou Reed would be proud of, listeners can ponder on a great deluded hustler’s line: 'That two grand’s practically sitting here in my pocket.' ''Thunder Road'' meanwhile, is almost effortlessly cinematic. In two lines there’s imagery more striking than most songwriters can manage on a whole album: 'In the skeleton frames of burned-out Chevrolets… Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet.' On the excellent title track familiar BS motifs are returned to, particularly running away and the allure of fast cars, 'Chrome-wheeled, fuel-injected and stepping out over the line…We gotta get out while we’re young.' Few tunesmiths can make a bad situation sound so good.
Like Ry Cooder, over a lengthy career the working-class NJ hero has proved himself to be a remarkably versatile operator. He’s taken on rootsy American folk material, written about 9/11 and, of course, had gargantuan commercial success with Born In The USA. Contemporary bands are never slow in praising him and his influence is still keenly felt. In songwriting terms alone Arcade Fire, REM and Mercury Rev have all clearly borrowed his ideas down the years and it’s unlikely they’ll be the last.
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