The dazzling and dizzying track that kicked off Springsteen’s fifty-year recording career and burned his rhyming dictionary to cinders
Category: Roll of the Dice
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.
This early post-Nebraska outtake sows the seeds for an entire crop of cautionary tales.
Fifty years after they played together, Bruce Springsteen found himself the last surviving member of his very first band.
It’s a bit of a mess on its own merits, but this early Steel Mill song paved the way for a Born to Run classic years later.
An early Wild and Innocent outtake based on a still-standing bar bears the seeds of classic songs still to come.
Jon Landau logs a lone performer credit on this obscure hybrid outtake from the Darkness era.
This Nebraska-era demo uses cinematic vocabulary to devastating effect.