Re: What was the general mood like when the single Dancing in the Dark came out?
 

Those people must not have heard the rest of the album, because tracks like "Drop Dead Legs" are as tight as Van Halen ever got. But when your first single is "Jump" I can see how people could jump to the wrong conclusions.

Re: What was the general mood like when the single Dancing in the Dark came out?
 

As I recall, almost everyone loved the single "Dancing in the Dark" and its video and all the other singles from the "Born In The U.S.A" album. Nowadays all the synth on it sounds horribly dated, but back then that was just an accepted thing with popular music.

I myself liked the songs from the album that were getting a lot of radio and MTV play at the time (I never bought the album so they were the only ones I heard), but I wasn't familar with Bruce Springsteen's earlier stuff aside from the song "Born to Run" (but not the album of the same name). I do remember that the single I liked best from the album was "Cover Me" which I thought was just a better song than "Dancing in the Dark" or the song "Born in the U.S.A".

The only time I remember anyone saying something negative back then about the "Born In The U.S.A." album was when a friend of a friend who went to Florida State came up to Auburn for the Auburn/FSU football game (looking it up online, the game happened on October 13, 1984), and he mentioned that he didn't like Bruce Springsteen. So I jokingly said "That's so unAmerican!"

Re: What was the general mood like when the single Dancing in the Dark came out?
 

I guess I can listen to the best of Van Hagar (5150 and OU812) but it really sounds watered down and even pretentious when compared to the balls-out rock and roll of Fair Warning or the debut.

Re: What was the general mood like when the single Dancing in the Dark came out?
 

I never got Bruce at all. The only song I can even stand to listen to is Out on the Street. To me he is just Rolling Stone mags house band, blah.

Re: What was the general mood like when the single Dancing in the Dark came out?
 

? I don't think you've listened to most Bruce.

Re: What was the general mood like when the single Dancing in the Dark came out?
 

I had an hour drive yesterday so I took Born In The USA with me for the ride. Great road album. I can see how his politics can put some off but I lean so far to the left I almost fall over so he is one of my favorite artists.

Re: What was the general mood like when the single Dancing in the Dark came out?
 

The outro to that song is some of the best work EVH ever recorded :up:

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Springsteen should have replaced Roth instead of Hagar.

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Not to mention his pronunciation. Seems as though somebody would have noticed that "Calvary" and "cavalry" are not the same word...especially when the song was played repeatedly in school settings on the election trail.

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Way to tie the discussion together! :lol: