Born to Run (the album) is a regular on my music player and songs like Jungleland can now be appreciated as proper multilayered musical poetry.
I have to say, I lost interest after Born In The USA, but Springsteen’s first three albums are just superb poetic lyric writing, Greetings From Asbury Park, New Jersey, and The Wild, The Innocent and the East Street Shuffle are two of my all-time favourites, along with Born to Run. From then on he changed his style of writing, and I just couldn’t get into it, for some reason.
ABBA were another band who, while I could appreciate their way with a catchy pop choon, I pretty much dismissed, but then I heard one of their last recordings, The Day Before You Came, which completely changed my opinion, it’s a really great piece of song writing, in fact their later recordings are much more melancholy, and Cassandra, Our Last Summer, and When All Is Said And Done are as good as anything out there. The ABBA Gold Vol 2 collection is brilliant, it took me a long time to work that out!