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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsTonight's Vinyl Selection
Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen
1975
The Boss' breakout album. His third effort yielded a big sound, big songs, lots of keyboards, big drums. And the big, classic, songs to match, with the theme of saying goodbye to a perhaps misspent youth. A classic and one I listen to often! Every single song a masterpiece!
Includes "Thunder Road," "Tenth Avenue Freeze Out," "Born To Run"
but my fave on this whole album is "Backstreets". Just wow.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Ohiogal
(31,995 posts)There are just too many good selections on this one!
thbobby
(1,474 posts)Often gives me insight into music I have forgotten or missed. I grew up in a rural area in North Texas. There were no rock stations here until mid to late 1980's. There is much music I missed as a kid. I went to college at NTSU in Denton. There we had FM rock. KZEW was my favorite station. The Zoo! Still, I always wonder what I have missed. Please keep your Tonight's Vinyl Selection posts coming. I love them!
Ohiogal
(31,995 posts)I'm so flattered that you are interested in reading my musings!
I amassed a good sized collection of albums in my high school and college years, so that's the time period most of my stuff is from. I kinda forgot the vinyl once CDs and streaming came around, and just recently decided to take a walk down memory lane and dig out my records and look at what I used to listen to. It's amazing how the songs and words all come back to you and remind you of the time period in which they were recorded. I can't imagine not having a rock station to listen to until the 1980's, I was one of those kids who had a little transistor radio when I was in grade school and thought I was super cool listening to the Cleveland rock n roll stations!
Thank you for such a nice post!