Songs that would not work together on a plate in the context of Darkness, Badlands, Factory and Promised Land. Through a legal dispute with his manager plates prevented publish, Springsteen wrote under the influence of pop music of the sixties love songs.
And what what!
I think Mick Jagger once said: It "s The Singer Not the Song!
And where he is right, because the Mick's right.
Would a Tom Jones, Engelbert or Carpendale sing these songs, it would be schmaltzy, or from me also hit.
Springsteen but turns it into pearls of pop music!
I can only say: everything right, Bruce: 1978 released an album of rock music of the century and now nachgeschoben called outtakes as an independent album with love songs.
It would not work the other way around.
I am grateful that now those treasures will be published by the "immortals" of popular music. Dylan, Lennon, Springsteen, Stones, etc. are not casted Young musician or singer but outstanding artists of the cultural history.
Thanks Bruce