All the best Magic songs are on side 1!

Long Walk home is a top tier Bruce song. Just love the melody, the guitar tone, the lyrics....

So great.

Here everybody has a neighbor
Everybody has a friend
Everybody has a reason to begin again
My father said "Son, we're lucky in this town,
It's a beautiful place to be born.
It just wraps its arms around you,
Nobody crowds you and nobody goes it alone"
"Your flag flyin' over the courthouse
Means certain things are set in stone.
Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't"

It’s all right but it sounds too similar to Gypsy Biker. Sonically, I think it winds up serving as repetitive flab on the album.

The vinyl for Western Stars sounds lovely and crisp.

So this album made for the most awesome drive yesterday on my way to Bozeman. This is probably my favorite Bruce album of all time, and being able to take it around the Rocky Mountains helps amplify the imagery.

These are just pics from Google, but they are all actual locations from the route I took so you should get the idea:

Ranking time!

Born in the U.S.A.
Born to Run
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Western Stars
Lucky Town
Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
The Rising
Magic
High Hopes
The River
Human Touch
Nebraska
Working on a Dream
Tunnel of Love
Devils & Dust
Wrecking Ball
The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
The Ghost of Tom Joad

If I were ranking with my retracked versions of certain albums (* indicates retracked):

The Rising*
Born in the U.S.A.
Darkness on the Edge of Town*
Born to Run
Western Stars
Magic*
Human Touch*
The River*
Lucky Town
Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
High Hopes
Nebraska
Working on a Dream
Tunnel of Love
Devils & Dust
Wrecking Ball
The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
The Ghost of Tom Joad

Too daunting for entire catalogue.

Post 2000

Magic
The Rising
Western Stars
Wrecking Ball
We Shall Overcome
Working On A Dream
Devils and Dust
High Hopes

American Beauty would slide in after WOAD I think.

I despise the whole ranking thing but you retracked The Rising?

sounds ideal, trag!

Absolutely. It's the most egregiously bloated album in his discography.

The River exists, you know.

Close second

Both could be sleeker for sure.

I need to re-listen to them all to get a proper ranking. I swear I will do it before the summer’s out.

Tom Joad is way too low in that list, and Nebraska needs to be higher too

Well, ranking the whole catalog right now is impossible, but I'd say these are my all time Bruce favorites:

The Ghost of Tom Joad
Nebraska
The Wild, the innocent & The E Street Shuffle
Born to Run
Devils & Dust
Tunnel of Love

+ Hammersmith Odeon, London ´75 (excellent live album)

I retracked The River but never really feel the need to do the same for a single disc album.

The Seeger Sessions is a cover album I guess but does it not count?

It counts, I just haven’t listened to it

It’s outstanding. You should give it a try.