Bruce Springsteen was not satisfied with “Born in the USA”
On June 21, 1985, forty years ago, Bruce Springsteen He held his first Italian concert. For those present at the San Siro stadium in Milan it was an epiphany. A revelation. It was the tour in support of the album “Born in the USA” (Read the review here). That evening the boss performed nine of the twelve songs on the album, the exceptions were “No Surrenter”, “Darlington County” And “I’m goin ‘down”.
In days, on June 27, the box will be published “Tracks II: The Lost Albums”. In the cover notes included in the box, Springsteen reports that “was not satisfied” of “Born in the USA” The disc had a huge success and those words can play strange. In a recent interview by Andy Green for the Rolling Stone magazine, Springsteen was therefore asked why he wasn’t satisfied with it. This is the response of the US rocker: “It was a record I published. It became the record I made, not necessarily the disc that was interested in doing. I was interested in taking” Nebraska “and making a disc that had more or less the same feeling. If you listen to” My HomeTown “and” Born in the USA “, in a certain sense it was what I had in mind. The rest of the material was … what I had at that time. Written. Those were the songs I had recorded.
The journalist tells him that he is surprised by what he feels because in his opinion
“Born in the USA”
It is like a press release of various people left behind in the eighties by the America of President Reagan. “I think it was also for many other people. Maybe I was looking for something darkest. But apart from this, the themes of” Nebraska “are present, in” Downbound Train “, are present, in some way masked by pop music.”
Setlist concert milan 1985:
Born in the USA
Badlands
Out in the Street
Johnny 99
Atlantic City
The River
Working on the Highway
Trapped (cover of Jimmy Cliff)
Test it all night
Glory Days
The Promised Land
My HomeTown
Thunder Road
Two set
Cover me
Dancing in the Dark
Hungry Heart
Cadillac Ranch
Downbound Train
I’m on fire
Because the night
Backstreets
Rosalita (like Out Tonight)
Encore:
Can’t Help Falling in Love (Elvis Presley cover)
Born to Run
Bobby Jean
Ramrod
Twist and Shout (Top Notes cover)
Do you love me? (Cover of Accountrs)
Rockin ‘All Over the World (cover of John Fogerty)
