Highly underrated album!

wow, I guess Disco was in... hehe.

Incident and NYC serenade!!!!

The start of the legend. You can see his song writing developing & Bruce getting more confident in the shaping & structure of the songs. Love it. Better albums later thro to Darkness but this is a gem.

This is not famous album, but no matter. Absolutely masterpiece!

Rosalita and New York City Serenade are great but the rest of this never grabbed me one bit and I think it's easily his worst album until the Lucky Town fiasco.

This is a different Bruce Springsteen than most people are familiar with. I've let a few people borrow this album that swear they hate Bruce and they love it. It's loose and has almost a jam band sensibility to it. This album caught his transition from the "New Dylan" to the "The Boss" as we know him. Longer compositions that feature the instrumental interplay of his rag tag band and his storytelling songwriting. If only he'd replaced "Wild Billy's Circus Story" with either "Thundercrack" or "The Fever" and this could have been one of my top 10 albums.

GREAT IMAGERY...ALA VAN MORRISON...GREAT STORIES...FAVS. ARE THE 2 NYC TUNES AND ROSALITA...

4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) is fantastic.

Bruce Springsteen is one of the biggest names in rock n' roll through all time no matter from which angle you look at it, but to a large part of the music audience this remains a bit of a hidden gem. Bruce and the band never got better than this, in large part because it seems they are doing what they want to do without a thought of chart positions, radio airplay or record sales on their mind. The arrangements are more elaborate, the lyrics are cleverer, and the general sound is more honest than anything that followed. Every track on this album is great, but do play The E Street Shuffle, Kitty's Back and Rosalita first.