More than a decade on, Bruce’s seventeenth studio album stands as one of his very best–and the strongest E Street Band album to date.
Category: Roll of the Dice
“Rocky Ground” may be wrapped in gospel trappings, but its themes are as Springsteenian as anything on Darkness on the Edge of Town.
Bruce closes out Lucky Town by revisiting the narrator who opens Tunnel of Love.
Who’d have thought a 60-year-old “Stand By Me” clone would become a fan-favorite centerpiece on tour?
The youngest song on Bruce’s album of covers would have made a fitting title track.
Beneath the overwrought production and busy arrangement lies the soul of a beautiful love song.
A rich, romantic predecessor to “I’m on Fire” inspired by a 1960 Ben E. King hit single, “Spanish Eyes” deserves more airplay than it received.
Written for The Ramones and influenced by The Byrds, The Four Seasons, and The Beach Boys, “Hungry Heart” gave Bruce his first Top Ten hit.
Bruce’s cover of this Motown classic may be the only track on Only the Strong Survive to rival the original.
A year after recording “James Lincoln Deere,” Bruce revisits his anti-hero and crafts a much strong and grayer tale.