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50 years later, Bruce Springsteen still ‘Born to Run’
San Antonio Express News ^ | 08/24/2025 | Robert Seltzer,

Posted on 08/25/2025 3:59:19 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen

They called him “The Boss,” but he never pushed anyone harder than he did himself. It showed. In his lyrics, in his music, in his performances. Bruce Springsteen never sweat a drop that did not come from honest labor. All that ambition, all that energy and drive, converged in one of the greatest albums in rock ’n’ roll history, “Born to Run.” It was released 50 years ago Monday. ---SNIP--- What makes Springsteen different from other Trump critics is that there is not a hint of partisanship in his criticism; his assaults are based on a humanity that transcends party affiliations, a trait we see in both the man and the artist.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: borntorun; brucespringsteen; hack; leftistbuffoon
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Loved his first 3 albums (the others not so much). Little did I know The Boss would turn into a self righteous pompous libtard.
1 posted on 08/25/2025 3:59:19 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

Never liked him, horrible voice, mediocre songs. Being a leftist lunatic just fits him perfectly.


2 posted on 08/25/2025 4:04:25 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Born to run his commie yapper is more like it


3 posted on 08/25/2025 4:06:14 AM PDT by albie
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To: Kid Shelleen

“Spruce Springboard”, eh? That’s one pool I won’t be diving into!


4 posted on 08/25/2025 4:06:47 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

No surprise that anti Americans are often born in the USA.


5 posted on 08/25/2025 4:08:32 AM PDT by KierkegaardMAN (I never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.)
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To: maddog55

Agree 100% He’s yuk....looks, talent, politics...LOSER


6 posted on 08/25/2025 4:12:17 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Kid Shelleen; dfwgator

Bruce Springsteen and Bryan Adams

Both are pro-”transgender” bathrooms 🚽🚽🚽

MEN IN WOMEN’S BATHROOMS 😧🙀🤯😦

America apologizes for Bruce Springsteen

Canada should at least apologize for Bryan Adams...


7 posted on 08/25/2025 4:12:34 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Kid Shelleen

“What makes Springsteen different from other Trump critics is that there is not a hint of partisanship in his criticism”

Take another bong hit, Bob


8 posted on 08/25/2025 4:12:55 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: maddog55

ditto


9 posted on 08/25/2025 4:17:24 AM PDT by sasquatch (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit! c/o piytar)
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To: Freedom4US

(What makes Springsteen different from other Trump critics is that there is not a hint of partisanship in his criticism; his assaults are based on a humanity that transcends party affiliations)

Completely Delusional

Excellent catch 🎣🎣🎣 👍👍


10 posted on 08/25/2025 4:19:03 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Can’t stand him and never could. He has been doing more falling than running lately. Except for his big arrogant stupid mouth.


11 posted on 08/25/2025 4:19:20 AM PDT by dforest
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Never liked him

Same. Never understood the appeal. Seemed about as genuine a blue collar guy as Tim Walz.

12 posted on 08/25/2025 4:21:57 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: Kid Shelleen

I had been in the military about a year and I was in “A” school training. There was a room full of Bostonians down the hall...They played that Springsteen album constantly at high volume... when I went up to the Aleutions, there was a squid up there down the hall in the barracks, and all he played was Gary Rafferty Bakerstreet (saxophone...) When I hear those two artists to this day I still cringe.


13 posted on 08/25/2025 4:29:00 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The dawn cracks hard like a bull whip and it ain't taking no lip from the night before" Tom Waits)
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To: Kid Shelleen

(((YAWN))) He’s like John Legend and his wife. Most of us can’t figure out what they did to make them “legends’. They are cult ding dongs. Che’ Guevaras with guitars. Retarded college kidees love them.


14 posted on 08/25/2025 4:37:54 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Have you noticed how EVERY migrant scumbag has a prepared sob story ready for the "media"? )
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To: Sirius Lee

John Mellencamp was far better than Springsteen in every way.


15 posted on 08/25/2025 4:38:30 AM PDT by TheConservativeBanker ($;)
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To: KierkegaardMAN
At some point, people have to grow out of things. Things like Springsteen, for example.
16 posted on 08/25/2025 4:38:59 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

I was thinking about this the other day when one of his early songs came on. Here’s a guy who bills himself as a champion of the working class who is too stupid to realize that Trump is the best thing to happen to the working class in Springsteen’s lifetime.

To hell with this moron.


17 posted on 08/25/2025 4:41:34 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: TheConservativeBanker

[John Mellencamp was far better than Springsteen in every way.]


John Cougar is well to the left of Springsteen, and his lyrics accordingly far more maudlin.


18 posted on 08/25/2025 4:52:42 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: Kid Shelleen

I can still remember the first time I heard this bit of musical plagiarism.

I was driving home from my cousin’s place in a 1970 English Ford Cortina 2-door and this song came on the radio which sounded to me to be a direct ripoff of Roger McGuinn’s song with The Byrds “Chestnut Mare.”

No matter how many times I’ve heard it, all I can ever think of is George Harrison was sued - successfully - for doing something similar to “He’s So Fine” when he wrote “My Sweet Lord.”

My ex-wife was a YUGE (well, she was quite pear-shaped by the time we divorced) Springsteen fan and dragged me to a concert in München’s Olympiahalle one night where after about the first hour of his drivel I fell asleep.

She didn’t speak to me for days.

Some of the best days of my life.


19 posted on 08/25/2025 4:55:13 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. Non-native Tennessean.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Not political? Sure.


Easy Money

[Chorus]
If you put on your coat, I’ll put on my hat
If you put out the dog, I’ll put out the cat
If you put on your red dress for me tonight, honey
We’re going on the town now, looking for easy money

[Verse]
There’s nothing to it, mister, you won’t hear a sound
When your whole world comes tumbling down
And all them fat cats, they’ll just think it’s funny
I’m going on the town now, looking for easy money
Whoo!

[Verse]
I got a Smith & Wesson .38
I got a hellfire burning, and I got me a date
Got me a date on the far shore where it’s bright and sunny
I’m going on the town tonight, looking for easy money
Whoo!

Wrecking Ball 2009


Born to Run was OK but he sings like an ox with a hot poker shoved up ... well you know where.


20 posted on 08/25/2025 4:56:53 AM PDT by Locomotive Breath
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