What do you mean by 'you disagree'?? Can you elaborate on that?
I hope you're not suggesting that Born to Run isn't a good Springsteen album.

Also, yeah Springsteen fans are hard to come by here, though there are a few people who do like him.

No, Born to Run is a great album - I just think that Darkness and Nebraska are better, probably because I like his darker stuff a little more. Nebraska is my favorite, but I think Darkness is more "essential" because it has more range.

Honestly it's hard to go wrong with the first six albums.

I'm not a fan of Darkness. Too dreary and slow. Born to Run is tied with Nebraska for his best album IMO.

That's fair - Darkness seems to be a little polarizing among fans, but I think "Racing in the Street" has gotta be in his all-time top 5 songs. Much as I love BTR, I can think of songs I'd cut from it; Darkness has none for me.

Racing in the Street is great, but the '78 version from the Promise is way, way, way better than the Darkness version.

Also, Born to Run only has 8 songs. Seems rather silly to cut a song(s) from such a short album.

Top 10 albums (currently):

1. Kid A - Radiohead
2. The Wall - Pink Floyd
3. The Ascension - Glenn Branca
4. Animals - Pink Floyd
5. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
6. Bookends - Simon and Garfunkel
7. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
8. Wrong - Nomeansno
9. Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
10. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco

HM: Illmatic - Nas, Anthology - The Clean, Bee Thousand - Guided By Voices, Rubber Soul - The Beatles

Subject to change pretty quickly with how much music I've been pouring over, though.

I agree with that, but it's still a great song in both versions.

True enough - I just think he probably had songs that were better than "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out", for example, great as it is live.

I thoroughly enjoy Tenth Avenue, so I'm not with you about that.

some of my favourite albums:

The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette, Strawberries, Damned Damned Damned
The Clash - London Calling, The Clash, Give Them Enough Rope
The Kinks - Greatest Hits
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here, Animals, Piper at the Gates of Dawn, The Dark Side of the Moon
The Beatles - the White Album, Abbey Road, Revolver
The Who - Greatest Hits
Velvet Underground - The Velvet Undergound and Nico
The Stranglers - Very Best of
The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
The Jam - Live at Bingley Hall
Sex Pistols - Bollocks
Magazine - Shot by Both Sides
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
White Stripes - Icky Thump
Allan Parsons - Ammonia Avenue, Eye in the Sky
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Best of
Talking Heads - Live in Rome
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
Rory Gallagher - Best of
The Stooges - The Stooges, Funhouse
The Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
The Police - Greatest Hits
Queen - Greatest Hits
The Pogues - The Essential Collection
Led Zeppelin - I, III, IV, Physical Graffiti
Jesus Christ Superstar, Andrew Lloyd Webber
The Doors - The Doors, Waiting for the Sun
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Very Best of
Deep Purple - Machine Head, Burn
Grand Funk Railroad - Greatest Hits
Rolling Stones - Best of
Eric Burdon and the Animals -
Ella Fitzgerald - The Very Best of, Ella and Louis
ELO - Twilight
Jethro Tull - Aqualung

1. McCoy Tyner - Fly with the Wind
2. Talking Heads - Remain in Light
3. Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
4. Omar Rodriguez-Lopez - Xenophanes
5. Frank Zappa - Roxy and Elsewhere
6. Cloudkicker - Beacons
7. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
8. Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
9. Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life
10. Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby