Several years ago, somewhere ten miles or so east of New York City, on the side of the Long Island Expressway in Queens, a billboard for the city’s only classic rock station, Q-104, read, “Keep On Rockin’ in the Free World.” The billboard was facing west but was meant for the commuters heading east...
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The following is the final installment of an exploration into the 80′s pop classic, Born in the USA, one of the most misunderstood albums of the twentieth century. “I hate this song,” I remember her telling me in a bar. “It’s so cheesy.” I suppose she was right, in the sense that, like...
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A few months ago, in the Umpteenth Times, I wrote a piece describing Springsteen’s “My Hometown” as a portrait of small town America decaying into a lifeless, almost abandon landscape, where its inhabitants left long ago for more prosperous opportunities. Before that, I wrote a piece for Operation Itch (http://operationitch.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/the-“anti-anthem”-yesterday-and-today/) describing the song, “Born...
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Last year, I wrote a piece addressing the misconceptions people have in regards to the song, “Born in the USA.” This following piece is a companion piece, focusing on “My Hometown,” another cleverly rich, often misunderstood song. Born in the USA is bookended with two of the most misunderstood songs on the album. It...
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ASBURY PARK—Early this morning, the Lebanese Embassy in New York released a statement claiming that a birth certificate for a child named, “Walid Saad,” actually belongs to legendary rocker, Bruce Springsteen, causing the rock establishment, as well as millions of faithful fans, to question whether or not the singer’s longtime claim of being “Born...
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