Ranking #42 singles, US edition: 1976-1979 (opens in new tab)

Obstinate about Springsteen as garrulous post-Dylan babbler and vinyl fetishist, I didn’t come around to the dude until 1984 and, blessedly, his 1987 follow-up; but I can’t deny the tug and roar of his guitar solo in “Badlands,” a necessary discordance during the peak of disco. Not superior to disco, mind, but, as Wallace Stevens […]