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94. To be fair, "Born in the USA" has a terrible, terrible arrangement.

Mon Jan 2, 2012, 06:03 PM

Jan 2012

I'm only a casual fan, but Springsteen does have much better songs than that one. Plus, if it had been recorded with the spare arrangement of the songs on the Nebraska album (it was written around the same time), it probably wouldn't have been misinterpreted as a rah-rah patriotic song, even by Reagan.

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