Oh I think both the vocal and instrumental parts work. I guess Born To Run would’ve been a different album if David Sancious had still been manning the keyboards. I am not sure if Vini Lopez was a better drummer than Max Weinberg.

BITUSA is the one album from Bruce’s classic period (1973-84) that doesn’t hold up from a production point of view. I’m sorry, but the synths only work on “I’m On Fire” and “Dancing In The Dark,” which are the two classics along with “No Surrender” and “Bobby Jean.” The rest of that album you can have–I dislike the title track and “Glory Days” immensely, the former is badly dated and the latter is Springsteen doing a dumbed down John Mellencamp song, which is the master imitating the apprentice. The production sounds like Mellencamp too.

The funniest thing to me on George’s old Springsteen page is that he singled out “Adam Raised A Cain” as the best Springsteen song, and I think it’s one of his weakest.

Of course, as you’re probably well aware, he was actually nice to that album when he re-reviewed it after converting his site into a blog.