This album has some of Springsteen's sharpest pop songwriting ("Dancing In The Dark," title track, "Glory Days") as well as some of his softest introspection ("I'm On Fire," "My Hometown"), and I would rate it as his second best overall effort after "Born To Run."  The Reagan Administration's ironic use of the title track, as well as the raving one-star reviews posted below, only go to show how subtle and pointed (and thus inaccessible to many right-wingers) the messages in the Boss' songs are.  Classic.