Only The Strong Survive (studio album) by Bruce Springsteen
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Only The Strong Survive is ranked 25th best out of 149 albums by Bruce Springsteen on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Bruce Springsteen is Born To Run which is ranked number 72 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 16,539.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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50/100 ![]() | 03/06/2025 19:20 | fabm0 | ![]() | 59/100 |
35/100 ![]() | 02/22/2025 11:05 | raymondphill | ![]() | 81/100 |
80/100 ![]() | 02/20/2024 20:12 | Springsteen | ![]() | 81/100 |
75/100 ![]() | 01/17/2024 18:40 | Stehako | ![]() | 74/100 |
75/100 ![]() | 12/10/2023 23:06 | Peio72 | ![]() | 78/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 65.5/100, a mean average of 62.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 62.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.0.
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"Only the strong survive" is Bruce Springsteen's soul covers album featuring 15 songs by artists such as Jimmy Ruffin, Jerry Butler and The Commodores. Bruce does a fine job vocally but the fact that he just basically recreates the originals without any interest in reinterpretating them means the tracks have no chance of standing up to the original recordings. And that also means that once you've heard the record there is nowhere else to go, nothing to dig deeper into. It basically just does what it says on the tin. At the end of the day Bruce plays it a little too safe and leaves the listener with a kind of so what attitude. It's an enjoyable record in it's own way but not one I will be going back to too often. A stop gap. Nothing less, nothing more.
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