Born in the USA
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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.
Link to video@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** -
@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.
Link to video@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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"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.
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I never understood the appeal of Springsteen.
Early Elvis was pretty good for a white guy. Later Elvis was frequently just plain embarrassing.
I was only joking
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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.
@Loki Thanks Loki. Interesting article.
Here is another Bruce Springsteen song related to Vietnam that I like, but written from the point of the wife back home.
"A Good Man is Hard To Find"
Link to videoI think Bruce Springsteen is one of my favorite US artists.
There is a famous Taiwan artist whom I also like called Wu Bai, who is called the Bruce Springsteen of Taiwan for his storytelling songs and long, high energy live shows. He was one of the first big modern artists to sing in Taiwanese and become popular (though he also sings in Mandarin Chinese also).
Link to video -
I never understood the appeal of Springsteen.
Early Elvis was pretty good for a white guy. Later Elvis was frequently just plain embarrassing.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Born in the USA:
I never understood the appeal of Springsteen.
Elvis never did much for me. I could appreciate his talent, his appeal, in an academic sort of way, but he never really moved me. Whereas I got Springsteen -- his drive, his un-slickness, his passion.
Can't explain it exactly.
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I never understood the appeal of Springsteen.
Early Elvis was pretty good for a white guy. Later Elvis was frequently just plain embarrassing.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Born in the USA:
I never understood the appeal of Springsteen.
Same here. Never got it.
Some catchy tunes, but otherwise...meh.
