Album Review: Bruce Springsteen - Working On A Dream

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Rating: 2 out of 4 Stars

We're all working on a dream in life to be the best that we can be. As Bruce Springsteen once sang, "You can't start a fire, you can't start a fire without a spark." Sadly, in his latest album titled Working On A Dream, that spark that made Springsteen famous is sadly missing. Instead, we are left with what seems like a broken down Springsteen. While the album features a few good tracks in Working On A Dream -- which he performed at Super Bowl XLIII, an eight-minute version of Outlaw Pete, and the bonus track in The Wrestler from the recent Darren Aronofsky and Mickey Rourke flick, sadly, Springsteen's album sounds unpolished and unfinished.

Maybe it is the raspiness in his voice, or the fact that he seems to have channeled the feeling from The Wrestler, a movie about a 'one-trick pony' going through life. While we have come to expect more from The Boss, regressing back to what it is like not to be famous and to always be working, working on a dream seems to be his mantra in his newest album. Springsteen is definitely no one-trick pony though, and fans shouldn't expect anything less (Christian Karasiewicz).