![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Their familiar romance is half their power: The promise and the threat of the night the lure of the road the quest for a chance worth taking and the lust to pay its price girls glimpsed once at 80 miles and hour and never forgotten the city streets as the last, permanent American frontier. It is the drama that counts the stories Springsteen is telling are nothing new, though no one has ever told them better or made them matter more. The song titles by themselves - "Thunder Road," "Night," "Backstreets," "Born to Run," "Jungleland" - suggest the extraordinary dramatic authority that is at the heart of Springsteen's new music. And it should crack his future wide open. Born To Run is a magnificent album that pays off on every bet ever placed on Bruce Springsteen - a '57 Chevy running on melted down Crystals records that shuts down every claim that has been made. ![]()
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