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Original 1975 COLUMBIA RECORDS pressing of the BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN album BORN TO RUN (PC 33795)

AMG 5 STARS: 's make-or-break third album represented a sonic leap from his first two, which had been made for modest sums at a suburban studio;  was cut on a superstar budget, mostly at the Record Plant in New York.'s backup band had changed, with his two virtuoso players, keyboardist  and drummer , replaced by the professional but less flashy  and . The result was a full, highly produced sound that contained elements of 's melodramatic work of the 1960s. Layers of guitar, layers of echo on the vocals, lots of keyboards, thunderous drums --  had a big sound, and  wrote big songs to match it. The overall theme of the album was similar to that of ;  was describing, and saying farewell to, a romanticized teenage street life. But where he had been affectionate, even humorous before, he was becoming increasingly bitter. If  had celebrated his dead-end kids on his first album and viewed them nostalgically on his second, on his third he seemed to despise their failure, perhaps because he was beginning to fear he was trapped himself. Nevertheless, he now felt removed, composing an updated West Side Story with spectacular music that owed more to  than to . To call  overblown is to miss the point; 's precise intention is to blow things up, both in the sense of expanding them to gargantuan size and of exploding them. If  was an accidental miracle,  was an intentional masterpiece. It declared its own greatness with songs and a sound that lived up to 's promise, and though some thought it took itself too seriously, many found that exalting.
Original inner sleeve included, the record ships in an anti-static dust free sleeve.
Condition: the gatefold sleeve grades EX, with a small discoloration on the back- see photo. The record grades NM. Check out my feedback score; you won't be disappointed.