Claude says:Springsteen's commercial breakthrough took more than 14 months to record — six months on the title track alone — as he chased a wall of sound he could hear but couldn't articulate, burning through Columbia's last-ditch budget with new collaborators Roy Bittan and Max Weinberg. It's the one that made him a national act, home to "Thunder Road" and the title track, which got him on the radio after an early mix leaked to progressive rock stations. You've logged a handful of plays since 2019, mostly a brief cluster in late 2022, but it hasn't stuck — "Born to Run" and "Thunder Road" are the only tracks that pulled you back more than once.