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Bruce Springsteen Sings the Alphabet is a podcast that explores every Bruce Springsteen song in alphabetical order.
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- Sep 14, 2026
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Episode 5 | "Born in the USA" (opens the original)
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Today on Bruce Springsteen Sings the Alphabet: We kick things off with a world-wide unanimous banger from the boss. The song is as famous for its perceived patriotism as it is for its cease and desist letters to presidential campaigns. It’s somehow patriotic and ironically patriotic all at once. A satire packaged inside a genuine, heart-felt, sing along of a pop rock song. While this song feels like a case of, “What hasn’t been said about this song,” it turns out we found plenty to say. We’d als
Episode 4 | "Hey Blue Eyes" (opens the original)
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Some people hear this one and file it away as a slow, sexy love song. It is not a love song. It is about Abu Ghraib. Side two, track two. The last song on the EP and the last day of American Beauty Week. We get into: The trick Bruce is pulling: pedal steel, twinkly piano, a whisper in your ear, before he walks you straight into the worst thing we’ve ever done. Genesis chapter three. One of the few times Bruce swears on a record and exactly why it hits. JB coins the phrase "sexy doubt.” And the d
Episode 3 | "Hurry Up Sundown" (opens the original)
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Coming at you with a friggin’ power-pop song today. Hurry Up Sundown may seem like a shimmery, empty, late-summer dream, but Rob drops a homily in here that would make even the harshest shut-up-and-singer reconsider. Since it’s side two, track one, Bruce reminds us that we are supposed to be having a good time here. It is a wall of sound power pop song, it is almost entirely one guy playing everything he could find in the room, and it has never been performed live for a human audience. Not once.
Episode 2 | "Mary Mary" (opens the original)
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What does the album High Hopes, Tony Toni Toné, Record Store Day, and the Farfisa have to do with each other? This song. Kind of. Join us for the second song in our track-by-track exploration of Bruce Springsteen's American Beauty EP. We also revisit Rob's campaign to have Dream Baby Dream scratched from the historical record and why JB played an out of tune piano with a bottle of Evan Williams in a fur cap. Anyway, seems like there might be something about Mary (Mary). Let's go find out. Maybe
Episode 1 | "American Beauty" (opens the original)
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