I Still Wish I Were Blind: The Often Terrible Album Covers of Bruce Springsteen, revisited.
Chris Klimek
Bruce v. Bruce. Drops 1/14/14.
That's The Boss's imminent album up there, all right. Over at NPR Monkey See this morning, I ask why it -- like pretty much every album Springsteen has made in the last 30 years (except for The Ghost of Tom Joad) -- must have such a terrible, awful, no good, inexpressive and irreducibly goddamn fugly cover.
I wrote a similar, much longer piece examining the covers of Springsteen's entire official catalog five years ago, after the horrific cover of Working on a Dream leaked.
The good ones:
The worst ones:
The best of the parodies, I reckon: