The boss comes to major tour and his record company wants to sweeten the fans anticipation for this event with the publication of a new "Best Of" CD. In addition, Bruce Springsteen now 40 years in music business on the go and this anniversary then accompanied the apparent need to bring a new retrospective on the market. In itself a laudable idea. However, Sony Music has this idea not properly thought through, but let him be superficial and disappointing by some kind of snapshot. And so are just 18 titles, all of them known to all in normal versions on a CD. And at an output more than 40 years you can not banish all the classics and hits the American on just this one shekel of course by far. The result is full of holes, it lacks timeless hits such as, among others, "The River", "I'm On Fire", "Glory Days", "My Hometown" or "Tunnel Of Love". And if you are honest once, a compilation would have to appear as a 4CD box set for the 40th anniversary of such an exceptional artist. With a CD for each decade. Then space for about 100 titles would have been and it would become this megastar meet with such a publication. In addition, space would be enough been to new songs, maximum and live versions and other rare material to accommodate it. "Collection: 1973-2012" not even satisfy such expectations from the start and calling not only for the Bruce Springsteen fans out long faces and a lot of disappointment.
