Worst/Best/Overrated/Underrated Bruce Springsteen songs/albums?

Best darkness
Worst tunnell of love

 

Worst Song - Hungry Heart, most of Tunnel of Love
Best Song - either Adam Raised A Cain or Candy's Room
Overrated - Born In The USA
Underrated - Nebraska the song

Worst Album - Tunnel of Love
Best - Darkness
Overrated - Tunnel of Love
Underrated - The Wild The Innocent

 

Songs

Worst: A difficult choice. If he has any songs that I despise, I haven't heard them yet. I'll say "All I'm Thinkin About" because it sounds like he's elected to sing it in the wrong key.
Best: Rosalita
Overrated: Radio Nowhere
Underrated: Queen of the Supermarket - This one often seems to get singled out as his worst. I can think of a lot of his songs that I enjoy less.

Albums

Worst: High Hopes
Best: Born to Run
Favorite: The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle
Overrated: Tunnel of Love
Underrated: Lucky Town- An album that endeared itself to me when it was new. For that reason, I can see past the early 90s production. That said, I couldn't really fault anyone for naming Leap of Faith as his worst song.

 

My favorite is The Wild and Innocent E Street Shuffle also. It's such a great album, He hasn't made a album like this since.

 

Worst song: Outlaw Pete
Best song: Incident on 57th Street
Overrated song: Glory Days
Underrated song: Secret Garden

Worst album: Human Touch
Best album: Born to Run
Overrated album: Born in the U.S.A.
Underrated album: Tunnel of Love

 

It's all good

 

Although I know that you're not completely serious, Springsteen is remarkable in his consistency. When I think of major recording artists, only Dylan, Neil Young, and Bowie are comparable. I say "major recording artists" because there are many lesser-known artists who are even more consistent. For example, Richard Thompson, Yo La Tengo, and Wilco.

 

Owned it one day; couldn't trade it fast enough. Glad someone else liked it; cut my losses.

 

Songs...
Worst - Queen of the Supermarket
Best - Prove It All Night
Overrated - not sure yet
Underrated - Fade Away

Albums:
Worst - Working On A Dream
Best - Darkness On The Edge Of Town or The River, toss up
Overrated - Magic
Underrated - Lucky Town

 

One person's over-rated is another's under-appreciated. Plus the old addage "the higher you climb the harder you fall" is true.
With that:
Born to Run
Born in the USA
I'll let you decide which is which.

 

Worst Album: 'The Ghost of Tom Joad'
Worst Song(s): Every song on 'The Ghost for Tom Joad' with the exception of the title track and 'Youngstown'
Best Album: 'Born to Run'
Best Song: Far too many to narrow it down to one. 'Brilliant Disguise" maybe?

 

Songs:
Worst - Outlaw Pete
Best - Born to Run (Cliche, I know)
Overrated - Jungleland
Underrated - Devils & Dust

Albums:
Worst - Human Touch
Best - Born to Run
Overrated - The Rising
Underrated - Devils & Dust

 

You have what's considered his peak 1975-1984, Born to Run-Born in the USA. I guess everything he's made after the 1992 comeback is in its shadow to a degree. I can understand why because Springsteen's golden years is of an unreal quality. But... "The Ghost of Tom Joad" (1995) is his most literate album. It's not 'catchy' but it's well written songs/stories and a great album.

 

Worst song: "The Wrestler."
Because he obviously wasn't thinking when he wrote the lyrics (just wanted something to go with the "one trick pony" thing), and nobody in his entourage had the guts to say: "Well, about that dog, Bruce..."

Have you ever seen a one legged dog makin' his way down the street
If you've ever seen a one legged dog then you've seen me​

 

Overrated: Nebraska (probably wouldn't be the case if it'd come out as an E-street record)
Underrated: Tunnel of Love

Worst: Working On a Dream, by a mile. (even the not-great Human Touch has the fantastic title track and a couple other gems)

 

The Rising isn't only Springsteen's most overrated LP -- it's the most overrated LP of all time. Absolutely cringeworthy.

 

I refuse to accept that the album Born in the USA is overrated.
I understand very well that overrated doesn't mean bad, it only means that it's not as good as so many claim it is,
But I disagree.
Many who claim it's overrated do so because it's his biggest seller and the one that every casual fan owns.
I own every Bruce album on cd through 1992.
I can't speak for the albums after that but I can tell you that Born in the USA holds up extremely well with all his albums that came before.
I'm not saying it's his best but I also don't think it's really beneath any others.
So it's only overrated to those who know the majority of his work.
But ask yourselves this.
Do you think any of his other albums could be so well received by the masses?
Born in the USA is a more commercial album, but that's not a bad thing.
I know it's hip to claim the most successful album isn't one of the best ones, but song for song Born in the USA is not just a good album, it's a great album. So imagine that the individual songs on it were different albums. Would you hear them the same as you do now? Imagine the a album never existed and spread all of it's songs out among other albums. I'm confident they would be perceived differently.

 

LPs
Worst: Human Touch
Best: Nebraska
Overrated: The Ghost Of Tom Joad
Underrated: Lucky Town

Songs
Worst: "Mary's Place"
Best: "Thunder Road"
Overrated: "Jungleland"
Underrated: "Human Touch"

 

best: I'm On Fire...

 

Inaccurate lyrics. Springsteen, Lost in the Flood and others » here's a link to a thread I started once

 

Albums:
Best: Magic
Worst: Lucky Town
Overrated: The Rising
Underrated: Working on a Dream

Songs:
Best: "Over the Rise," "Cover Me," "This Depression," "Death to My Hometown," "Something in the Night," "The Promised Land."
Worst: "You Got It"
Overrated: "Born in the U.S.A."
Underrated: "This Depression"

 

Thank you, Price.
So we'll just add the poor one-legged pooch to those.

 

Hmmm. Interesting perspective.

 

Underrated: Nothing Man
Overrated: Born in the U.S.A.

 

This version of The Promise has always been one of my favorites....
Least would be any song he uses the fake drawl on, very distracting...