Born to Run

    I'm not gonna try to fluff this out with my usual prose and expounding, I don't like this album. I'm sorry but it's just not that good. Firstly, Springsteen cannot sing; he just isn't a good singer and it kinda muddied the whole experience. Not to rag on it too much, but it sounds like his mouth is full of cotton and he doesn't know what words are next and is reading them on the spot. On top of that the instrumentation just isn't much of anything, it's just sort of there. It feels like... nothing, I can't find a way to describe it, that's how little of an impact it left on me. I will say that Clarence Clemon's performance on saxophone is really phenomenal though, easily the best aspect of the music. Along with that, I did like some of the lyricism at points; it had moments where it had really vivid imagery and brought the scene to life. Aside from that, the music is mostly just nothing to really talk about with moments of great stuff, which are unfortunately few and far between. Close call on the ranking but had just enough enjoyable stuff to bump it up a number. 

    Highlights: Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out, Meeting Across the River, Jungleland.

Rating: 3/6