How good a songwriter is Bruce Springsteen?<\/p>\n
So good that he can ad-lib a namecheck of his sound engineer in a song, keep it in the vault for over thirty years, release it when everyone<\/em> knows the guy’s name… and then magically, the lyrics make even more sense then they did when recorded.<\/p>\n Yeah, he’s that good. Or maybe just lucky. But we’ll get to that later.<\/p>\n We’re so used to Bruce taking his music so seriously that it’s almost jarring to see him casually throw an ultimate in-joke during an actual recording session.<\/p>\n But “Ain’t Good Enough For You” was never meant to be taken seriously.<\/p>\n Bruce wrote literally dozens of songs for the sessions that yielded Darkness on the Edge of Town<\/em><\/a>, and while Bruce ultimately curated a dark, serious selection of tracks for the album, he still gave his lighter side an outlet, writing and recording a pile of fun, even goofy, pop songs that he wisely preserved in his vault until he was ready to release them to the world on\u00a0Tracks\u00a0<\/em>in 1998 and\u00a0The Promise<\/em> in 2010.<\/p>\n “Ain’t Good Enough For You” was one of those songs.<\/p>\n