Criminally under-rated, this album contains his most sublime songwriting skills to date. Heartbreakingly moving, will he ever perform a song as elegiac and understated as Silver Palomino?

Springsteen's Blood On The Tracks? The soul searching doesn't always reveal a pretty picture on this suite of mostly bitter, brilliant love songs.

Almost forgotten in the Springsteen catalogue. These sensitive storys of people in poverty and desperation deserve to be better known. Musically of a piece with then-hit Streets of Philadelphia.

Muscular singing, intense backing from the E-Streeters.

A look past the 80s pomp of the title tune, reveals a consistently excellent rock record.