Born in the USA
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@89th said in Born in the USA:
Bruce Springsteen’s song just came on the radio, and I had a thought, could you imagine this being released today?
Would be fun to watch. People would have collective aneurisms over "Money for Nothing."
Please love yourself.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Born in the USA:
People would have collective aneurisms over "Money for Nothing."
Luv that song. Feel like I shouldn't cuz of letting down the sisterhood, but wotthehell, cool is cool.
Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka
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@Catseye3 said in Born in the USA:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Born in the USA:
People would have collective aneurisms over "Money for Nothing."
Luv that song. Feel like I shouldn't cuz of letting down the sisterhood, but wotthehell, cool is cool.
Probably the best example I think of for illustrating how rests breathe life into a guitar riff.
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Read an interesting story about the song. It was wrote to be a much more "down" song, but when the album was produced, they wanted a more "big arena" sound, so he recorded it like that. But it was originally written to have a depressed feel to it.
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@taiwan_girl that's fascinating.
I still can't understand a word he's singing, other than "Born in the USA."
Are you familiar with the post-recording work that was done on "Sounds of Silence?" When Simon and Garfunkel recorded it, it was basically a folk song. The producer, whose name escapes me, added the electric guitar and drum track later.
The story may be apocryphal, but supposedly, S&G had no idea what had been done to their song until they heard it on the radio.
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@George-K Interesting!!! Thanks.
FYI, lyrics for the Born in the USA
**Born down in a dead man town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering upBorn in the U. S. A, I was born in the U. S. A
I was born in the U. S. A, born in the U. S. AGot in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow manBorn in the U. S. A...
Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man said son if it was up to me
Went down to see my V. A. Man
He said son, don't you understandI had a brother at Khe Sahn
Fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all goneHe had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms nowDown in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run aint got nowhere to goBorn in the U. S. A, I was born in the U. S. A
Born in the U. S. A, I'm a long gone daddy in the U. S. A
Born in the U. S. A., born in the U. S. A
Born in the U. S. A, I'm a cool rocking daddy in the U. S. A** -
@George-K said in Born in the USA:
Link to videoI still can't understand a word he's singing, other than "Born in the USA."
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https://www.npr.org/2019/03/26/706566556/bruce-springsteen-born-in-the-usa-american-anthem
An interpretation of what the song means.
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"The pride was in the chorus," Springsteen said to host Terry Gross in a 2005 interview. "In my songs, the spiritual part, the hope part, is in the choruses. The blues and your daily realities are in the details of the verses."
Yep, pretty obvious if you look at his songs.
