Bruce Springsteen's fifth album, The River (1980), sounds like a release from the hard times. Coming off the Darkness Tour, Springsteen wanted to showcase the power of his live band. He used the ...

Asbury Park (Sandy)” tugs at the heart strings in a different way. It's a moving farewell to the Asbury Park boardwalk life.

If you pick any of the 20 albums below, those well-known (some of them even overplayed), and those possibly not that much, ...