Hear This: Bruce Springsteen can overcome even the moodiest teenager’s hate

Source: www.avclub.com - Monday, December 28, 2015
In Hear This , The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Songs our families made us listen to repeatedly. Bruce Springsteen, Badlands (1978) My mom has solid taste in music, something I didn’t appreciate but benefited from greatly growing up. She started taking my twin and me to concerts when we were in middle school, highlights including Elvis Costello, Tom Petty, and Bob Dylan—all artists I like and respect now, but didn’t necessarily stack up as better than Good Charlotte when I was 13. But the crowning voice of my childhood was Bruce Springsteen, whether I liked it or not—his were the songs my mother played repeatedly, and his concerts were the ones she (awesomely and daringly) pulled us out of school for days at a time to see. I’m going to see Springsteen in Boston on his ...

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