Amazon.co.uk Review
With its roller-rink keyboards, trash-can drums and generally festive air, this is Springsteen at his most joyous and radio-friendly. Spinning off seven hit singles ("Dancing in the Dark", "Cover Me" and "I'm on Fire" among them),
USA is deceptively accessible. Underneath, the tales are often dark and the characters grim--the shafted Vietnam vet of the title track, the prison-gang of "Working on the Highway", the ageing folks of "Glory Days"--but the E Street Band party like it's 1984. Only the album's forlorn closer, "My Hometown" has the tension and regret of Springsteen's later work. For this moment, at least, Bruce ruled the world and
USA sounds like it.
--Rob O'Connor
CD Description
'Born In The USA' was Bruce Springsteen's seventh album andwas originally released in 1984. This was the last studio album to be recorded alongside the E Street Band until 2002's'The Rising'. Spawning two top five and two top twenty hitswhich were 'Dancing In The Dark', 'Cover Me', 'Glory Days' and the double a-side 'Im On Fire/Born In The USA'