I have come to the conclusion that the Best Springsteen Album Ever is always the one that you first Really Heard. Which is why so many music people are enamoured of Born to Run, it was the first time they heard it (personally, I regard it as one of his weaker albums, a couple or three great songs and a bunch of…

He seems to have basically gone nuts in about 1988. Up to that date he was very good, promising to be Grand Master status or whatever one day. Then it all went south.