Bruce Springsteen: The River, Revisited (The Imaginary Album)

Time for another reconstructed, imaginary album...

My love for Springsteen has always run hot & cold. As a kid first discovering classic rock in the 70s, I was a big fan of Born to Run and Darkness on the Edge of Town. Especially the latter. I remember one summer at overnight camp, one of my counselors cranking up "Badlands" and "Candy's Room" and "Adam Raised A Cain," partly to piss off another one of my counselors who truly hated Bruce.

But by the time The River came out in late 1980, my interes...