Bruce Springsteen Music:

Description of Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits:
About as complete a selection of fan and artist favorites as any single-disc Bruce collection could be, this is a surprisingly coherent listen given the many stylistic and attitudinal shifts it charts. The inclusion of only four of Born in the U.S.A.'s seven Top 10 entries leaves space for less obvious choices like "Atlantic City" and four new cuts, among them songs recorded by a briefly reunited E Street Band. The pace lags a bit near the end--"Secret Garden" is turgid enough to take its place on a Sting album--but Greatest Hits earns its place in the car CD player with stuff like "Born to Run," "The River" and "Dancing in the Dark." --Rickey Wright

Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits Reviews:
Hits and misses
2009-10-23 - Springsteen's material is great on albums and great as individual songs; make an album out of assorted individual songs and the result is, well, stilted. I can't really complain about the song selection: this is a great set of songs, beginning with two off "Born to Run" (his first two records are ignored, since they were hitless) and running up to "Human Touch" and "Lucky Town" in '92, although it would be a stronger compilation if they'd replaced "My Hometown" with "I'm on Fire" and ditched "Better Days" altogether. The focus isn't on Springsteen's skills as a rocker and romantic so much as on his skills as a troubador; for the record, Springsteen the Troubador seems stodgy in comparison with Springsteen the Romantic Rocker. As for the oddities, you get the song from "Philadelphia," which is neither here nor there, the song from "Jerry Maguire," which every Springsteen fan in the world hates except for me, the song from the "Born in the U.S.A." sessions, which is almost a blast, and two songs that reunited Bruce with his E Street Band blood brothers at long last, with tired results. I'd say ditch it and go for the albums. Start with the one he did about America.

Good sound quality but not enough big hits
2009-09-22 - The sound quality was very good to my ear.

I counted 13 significant hits out of 18 total on the CD. I don't understand why more top 20 hits weren't included.

Reading allmusic's list of hits, I counted 17 top 20 hits that weren't on the CD, plus "Pink Cadillac", the popular flip side of "Born to Run".

Perhaps it's a matter of which chart one follows when selecting greatest hits. That could leave a lot of room for personal preference.

Great songs
2009-08-22 - While I came upon "The Boss" rather late in my life, I discovered I really liked this CD. "Born in the USA" is one of my particular favorites; in fact, so much so that I play this Greatest Hits CD over and over in my CD player every time I get in my car. Meantime, I'm wondering why TEOTSPRS thinks Bruce Springsteen changed his name from John Cougar Mellencamp.

Not the Best Way to Be Introduced to Springsteen
2009-08-09 - I enjoy all of the songs on this compilation, but for a new fan or someone wanting to be introduced to Bruce Springsteen I recommend purchasing the album "Born to Run". This album fits the title 'Greatest Hits' better and is a better starting point. I highly recommend the albums "Darkness on the Edge of Town", "The Wild The Innocent and E-Street Shuffle", "The River", and "Born in the USA" in that order to really appreciate his works.

Springsteens greatest hits, AMAZING!
2009-05-02 - This is an amazing CD. One of the best purchases I have made in years.
If you like the "Boss", you HAVE to have this cd.