Where were you when you first heard ""Born To Run"?


It was 1975. I was on the floor of my childhood home listening to Syracuse University  college radio station, WAER,  on my Pioneer Sx-737 tuner. I was blown away from start to finish. 

Prior to that release, music critic Jon Landau was quoted, "I saw rock and roll future, and its name is Bruce Springsteen".

Where were you when you first heard it?

judsauce

Junior high school in Brooklyn. I thought the album was great, listened to it on a portable vinyl grainy ’leather’ covered stereo record player with two detachable speakers in my room. Still think Jungleland and She’s The One are the best tracks. In fact, just last night I heard She’s The One on a rock and roll station at 89.1 out of New Jersey and it’s still an exciting record that makes you reach for the volume.

I really came onboard with Darkness. That was my favorite Springsteen album for a long time. I’m partial to Tunnel of Love These Days

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@howardlee  could you define a bit about what post you are talking about?

And if it was mine, I do remember sitting on the floor in my basement hearing the news that Kennedy was shot. 

How does hearing a popular rock song become  tied in with a murder of a president?

@zx10  I have to be honest, I don't really like most of "stinkstien" either. Probably about 6 songs all told.

But, seems as if free speech only works, unless it doesn't fit your narrative. 

 

Go to Truth Social or X, but get off of Audiogon and come back when you want to talk about music and gear, etc. 

I first knew the title track as one of the many covers on Welcome to the Pleasuredome. I don’t recall when I first heard the original.