tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1150481580326775902.post7045346479330382366..comments2023-03-24T05:45:16.146-04:00Comments on 9999 Songs: Song #304 of 9999 - Born to Run by Bruce SpringsteenFrank Caravellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00375572414987711772noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1150481580326775902.post-41706033598211443482012-11-19T22:16:15.339-05:002012-11-19T22:16:15.339-05:00Surprised you didn't pick the song At Seventee...Surprised you didn't pick the song At Seventeen by Janis Ian. It was overplayed as much as Born To Run in 1975...(Along with Magic & Jackie Blue. Yet so many other overplayed songs to choose from: Alice Cooper's Only Women Bleed. Third Rate Romance. Dance With Me -Orleans....etc). But you are right in describing it as "the universal American metaphor for liberation". Post-Steppenwolf's Born To Be Wild Easy Rider times, and pre-or Bob Seger's Roll Me Away or Bon Jovi's Dead Or Alive ...this was theme song for Biker's. Related to the culture of speed, freedom, patriotism, rebelliousness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com