Bruce Springsteen - Born In the U.S.A. Album

The Born in the USA album features some of Springsteen's best pop songwriting efforts, offering a steady diet of radio ready populist anthems. This includes "No Surrender," "Dancing in the Dark," "Bobby Jean," and "Glory Days," as well as the title track which was co-opted by politicians as a song of pride in America when in actuality it was a diatribe against the Vietnam War. This album reflects the fact that all those predictions from a decade earlier--that Springsteen was the future of rock--had come true. In this one album Springsteen made the leap from rock star to cultural icon.