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Welcome back to Hit Parade, a podcast of pop chart history from Slate magazine about the hits from Coast to Coast.

I'm Chris Malampi, chart analyst, pop critic, and writer of Slate's Why is this song number one series on our last episode.

We talked about Bruce Springsteen's long evolution from Bard of Asbury Park to Rockstar.

By the turn of the 80s, Springsteen finally scored his first major pop hit,

but his transformation into an MTV era icon was yet to come.

In essence, in 1982, Bruce Springsteen had laid the groundwork for two albums at once,

and he was the only one in the world.

In essence, in 1982, Bruce Springsteen had laid the groundwork for two albums at once,

and the differences between the songs on 1982's Nebraska,

and the ones he held for his next LP, which would be a full E Street band rocker, were largely cosmetic.

Some songs on Nebraska, apart from their naked production, could have worked as full band rapes,

like Johnny 99, or Open All Night.

Compare this to a track that did wind up on the next album,

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