Made to Be Broken

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  • Artist: Soul Asylum
  • Rating: StarStarStarHalf Star
  • Release Date: 1986 01
  • Genre: Rock

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If Say What You Will...'s inchoate, raunchy blur is a bit much, then album number two, again produced by Bob Mould, straightens things out a bit and lets riffs emerge from the walls of distortion. The record's first single, "Tied to the Tracks," is a rip-snorting bull ride of volume and power, but then again, so is much of the record. Although they were derisively written off by some wags as Hüsker Jr., that was a critical view offered by the short-sighted. They may have shared the same sound, but were very different bands. ~ John Dougan, Rovi

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Made to Be Broken

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Made to Be Broken
Studio album by Soul Asylum
Released January 18, 1986
Recorded 1985
Genre Alternative rock,
Length 33:31
Label A&M Records Twin/Tone
Producer Bob Mould
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Soul Asylum chronology
Say What You Will, Clarence...Karl Sold the Truck
(1984)
Made to Be Broken
(1986)
Time's Incinerator
(1986)

Made to Be Broken is the second full-length album from Soul Asylum. It is also the first of three albums of Soul Asylum to be released in 1986.

The song "Never Really Been" contained the line "And where will you be in 1993." The band performed the song on their 1993 appearance on MTV Unplugged, by which time they'd seen their first platinum-selling album and number one single. They won a Grammy and performed at the presidential inauguration that same year.

Track listing

All songs written by David Pirner, unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Tied to the Tracks" – 2:45
  2. "Ship of Fools" – 2:48
  3. "Can't Go Back" – 3:05 (Murphy)
  4. "Another World, Another Day" – 1:59
  5. "Made to Be Broken" – 2:35
  6. "Never Really Been" – 2:52
  7. "Whoa!" – 2:32
  8. "New Feelings" – 1:46
  9. "Growing Pain" – 2:17
  10. "Long Way Home" – 2:27
  11. "Lone Rider" – 1:50
  12. "Ain't That Tough" – 3:34
  13. "Don't It (Make Your Troubles Seem Small)" – 2:48

Singles

  1. "Never Really Been"
  2. "Tied to the Tracks"
  3. "Made to Be Broken"



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