text:  The album that went on sale today was two years in the making. Bruce Springsteen reportedly wrote 60 songs, selected 12 to record. Rolling Stone rock critic Dave Marsh. I like this record. I like it a lot. I think it's one of the more comfortable records that he's made, just in terms of being able to listen to it. And I think it has two or three things on it that are among the best songs he's ever written. And it's got two or three things on it that give him a future that isn't simply banging out the same old stuff.