BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

BORN IN THE U.S.A. (REPOSTED UPDATE)

(THE FREEDOM MIX)

(DUB MIX)

(RADIO MIX)

Recently, I have received an email from the man himself Arthur Baker, thanking me for posting his remixes and also correcting me on a few facts. Check it out! I've been told by Arthur Baker! Pretty cool! Thanks Arthur.

"Hi, thanks for putting up my Springsteen Born In The USA remixes. Unfortunately they don't seem to be commercially available on any of Bruce's compilations. However, you are wrong about him not liking the 3 mixes I did for him. On Dancing In The Dark, he actually came to the studio and hung out with us, going as far as popping out for beer when the studio-Power Station- had a momentary blackout. I did the mix for Cover Me inpart to give Bruce some new ideas for that the band could use for its live arrangement (they ended up using dub effects on the vocals and drums). Lastly, with Born In The USA, again some of the arrangement was used in the E Street Band's live performances. Again, thanks, ab."

Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A., taken from the 1984 album of the same name, it is most definately one of his best-known singles if not one of the best known sinlges of the 80's. Rolling Stone ranked the song 275th on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In 2001 the RIAA's Songs of the Century placed the song 59th (out of 365). Lyrically, the song deals with the effects of the Vietnam War on Americans, although it has sometimes been misinterpreted as purely patriotic and jingoistic.

On January 10, 1985, Arthur Baker's 12-inch "Freedom Mix" of "Born in the U.S.A." was released. It was a fairly radical remixing, even more so than those Baker had done for the album's previous singles "Dancing in the Dark" and "Cover Me". The mix removed any (possibly misleading) anthemic elements and pushed the song's mournfulness to the front. Synthesizer, glockenspiel, and drums were chopped up and isolated against Springsteen edited vocal fragments.

This remix was the least commercially successful of Baker's efforts, however, as unlike the prior two it failed to appear on Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.

I am sure that Springsteen himself was not impressed whatsoever with these or any other remixes of his music.

BORN IN THE U.S.A. (THE FREEDOM MIX).mp3

BORN IN THE U.S.A. (DUB MIX).mp3

BORN IN THE U.S.A. (RADIO MIX).mp3

The music video for "Born in the U.S.A." was directed by noted filmmaker John Sayles. It consisted of video concert footage of Springsteen and the E Street Band performing the song, poorly synchronized with audio from the studio recording. Released in mid-December 1984, there supposedly had not been enough time to mix the audio from the concert.