I'm like the only person I know who thinks the River is his best album

Album Rating: 3.5

i agree with that wholeheartedly

river t/t is maybe his best song. that or "racing in the street"

Album Rating: 3.5

The River was a pronounced decline in quality from the four albums that preceded it

its a good album
a lot of disc 1 is really good (the ties that bind, sherry darling, independence day, t/t) but hungry heart is one of the worst songs of his classic era

Album Rating: 4.0

I agree that "The River" can represent a decline compared with the two previous ones. But I also agree with Ryus. Disc 1 has some of their best tracks.

Album Rating: 3.5

Had to do it to em. The Boss, RANKED:



1. The River [9] - sprawling and unwieldy but in a very 'hey lets go down to the dock and shoot beer cans with a pellet gun' sort of way, incredible achievement in heartland rock.

2. The Wild, the Innocent & The E Street Shuffle [8] - not underrated but often overlooked. 'Rosalita' is one of the best anthems of the 70s.

3. Born to Run [8] - a bone fide classic. it insists upon itself.

4. Darkness on the Edge of Town [8] - another classic without a single weak track. highs not quite as legendary as on 'Born to Run', but songs like 'Badlands' and 'Prove It All Night' come close.

5. Greetings From Asbury Park [7] - underrated, ton of great jams here and this version of 'Blinded by the Light' is so much better than that other douche who covered it.

6. Nebraska [7] - great album indeed, but a little too overarchingly somber and whiny to be truly excellent.

7. Born in the USA [6] - title track is absolute cringe, maybe his worst song (and yes that's even with the sATiRe taken into account). 'Glory Days' is also massively overrated. however, songs like 'Bobby Jean', 'I'm on Fire', and 'Downbound Train' approach classic status and give this album some life in spite of those duds.

8. The RIsing [6] - a little too long for its own good and lots of mediocre songs bog down the middle, but Bruce added some staple tracks to his repertoire here, namely 'Waitin' on a Sunny Day', 'Mary's Place', and 'My City of Ruins', and I also think 'Let's Be Friends' is one of his most underrated tracks.

9. Tunnel of Love [6] - a little all over the place, but on average still pretty good. 'Brilliant Disguise' is excellent, but the album starts and finishes with two duds and has a few so-so tracks throughout ('Spare Parts', title track).

10. Magic [6] - nothing terribly outstanding here but just a solid album through and through. my favorite track was actually unlisted on the original track list ('Terry's Song') but there are plenty of decent rock jams front to back. and at 47 minutes the album doesn't overstay its welcome.

Album Rating: 3.5

11. High Hopes [6] - similar sentiment as MAGIC, nothing fantastic here but nothing awful, either. i'm actually surprised this album has such a unanimously worse reputation across most review platforms (compare its score of 2.91 to MAGIC's 3.44 on rateyourmusic). Title track and 'American Skin' are very good. Everything else is solid.

12. Letter to You [6] - noticeable step down from MAGIC and HIGH HOPES but still pleasant and littered with enough clever Bruceisms for me to call it 'good'. You won't find any classics here but you won't find any total skippers outside of 'The Power of Prayer', either, which is one of Bruce's most awkwardly spiritual songs.

13. The Ghost of Tom Joad [5] - poor man's NEBRASKA. might be better if that album didn't exist. but it does. decent songwriting but nothing remotely stirring here.

14. Western Stars [5] - wanted to like this more than I actually did/do. gets off to a middling start ('Hitch Hikin' through 'Tucson Train' might be the weakest three-track run on the album, though 'Somewhere North of Nashville' to 'There Goes My Miracle' comes close'). FInishes surprisingly strong, however, with what are possibly its two best tracks - 'Hello Sunshine' and 'Moonlight Motel'.

15. Devils & Dust [5] - Another mostly middling affair. title track (which is also the opener) is easily the best song here, and sadly nothing thereafter delivers the same energy or magic.

16. Wrecking Ball [5] - Several solid tracks ('We Take Care of Our Own', title track, 'Land of Hopes and Dreams' and 'We Are Alive') are bogged down by some absolute duds ('Easy Money', 'Death to My Hometown', and 'Rocky Ground') with a bunch of fine-to-okay filler in between.

17. Working on a Dream [5] - very inconsistent, and 'Good Eye' is one of the worst tracks Bruce has ever put out (barring most of HUMAN TOUCH). I do like and return to a couple songs here (e.g. 'This Life' and 'Life Itself') but a mostly uneventful and forgettable album.

Album Rating: 3.5

18. Lucky Town [5] - even more inconsistent than WORKING ON A DREAM. opening track is actually a total banger ('Better Days') but then the album takes a quick nosedive from which it never fully recoveres, and reaches its absolute nadir around the midpoint with the laughable 'Big Muddy'. It almost gains retribution with 'Book of Dreams' and 'My Beautiful Reward', but those tracks envelope another total bom - 'Souls of the Departed'.

19. Human Touch [4] - easily Bruce's worst, like a strange experiment gone wrong. feels almost like self-parody at times. the only tracks I even bother with are the opening two - nothing wrong with 'Human Touch' and 'Soul Driver'. But there's nothing redeeming from that point forward, and the album unfortunately closes with what is most definitely the Boss's biggest misstep, 'Pony Boy'.

Album Rating: 4.0

My top seven is probably this one:



1 - Darkness On The Edge Of Town

2 - Born To Run

3 - The River

4 - Nebraska

5 - The Wild, The Innocent, And The E Street Shuffle

6 - Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.

7 - Born In The U.S.A.



Sincerelly, since "Born The U.S.A." I stopped being interested in their works. Maybe it has some other good works, but as I said, I lost the interest.

Album Rating: 4.0

is this the guy whose sound was so talentlessly aped by gasshite anthem [2]

Album Rating: 3.5

The Gaslight Anthem sounds very little like Bruce Springsteen to people who listen with their ears

Album Rating: 3.5

Sure, but to imply that they aren't clearly trying to mimic Bruce's brand of Heartland rock is to admit that you know nothing about music. Whether they've succeeded is a different story entirely.

Album Rating: 3.5

mimicking it by being a completely different genre and not sounding like him, sure

Album Rating: 3.5

"completely different genre"

now you are just trolling.

what else is new i guess.

Wonderful album

Album Rating: 4.5

Pika might talk about Gaslight Anthem more than any other single user on this site. Rent free man

Go hammer like the gaslight anthem, surprisingly handsome

Album is a balm to the soul

Album Rating: 4.5

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