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Bruce Springsteen says he wasn’t particularly happy with ‘Born in the USA’ when it first released

Los Angeles, June 24 (UNI) Grammy winning rock musician Bruce Springsteen says he had little interest in making his 1984 magnum opus ‘Born in the USA’, which ended up becoming the singer’s most successful album to date.
Admitting that he intended for the record to be something else, Springsteen said he wasn’t particularly happy with what came out in the end, reports People.

Speaking to Rolling Stone ahead of the upcoming release of his seven-album compilation ‘Tracks II: The Lost Albums’, the ‘I’m on Fire’ singer said that he recorded an entire album between his 1982 record ‘Nebraska’ and ‘Born in the USA’, which made deciding on the track list for the latter album more difficult.

"I enjoyed the recording and the experience of ‘Nebraska’, and thought I might continue in that vein with a small rhythm section, still very lo-fi, and a new group of songs," said the ‘Atlantic City’ rocker.

During the recording process of the album, the 75-year-old said he wasn’t yet sure of where he was even headed with the album, and what direction to take. “I had half the record, but I didn’t have the other half. And so, it was just a record that happened in between those two records."

Partly due to its unique recording process, Springsteen said that he wasn't particularly happy with the album upon its release in 1984.

"It was a record I put out. It became the record I made, not necessarily the record that I was interested in making. I was interested in taking ‘Nebraska’ and making a full record that had somewhat that same feeling," he elaborated.

Springsteen continued, "If you hear 'My Hometown' and you hear 'Born in the U.S.A.,' they were sort of the bookends I intended. And the rest of the stuff was … just what I had at the time. Those were the songs I wrote. Those were the songs I recorded."

"From conception to execution, it was not necessarily the record that in my mind I had planned on, but that’s the way creativity works,” he added.

“You go in the studio; you have an idea. It’s not necessarily what you come out with. So that was just the situation of that record for me personally."

Though he intended the album to be something darker and more tonally aligned with ‘Nebraska’, ‘Born in the USA’ became Springsteen’s most popular and best-selling album, becoming a rock classic through the years, and the most important album in the American heartland rock scene.

The making of ‘Nebraska’ will also be documented in the upcoming Scott Cooper biopic ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere’, which will star ‘The Bear’ star, Jeremy Allen White, as Springsteen. The film will be released October 24.



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