The Beatles, Dylan and Springsteen plunder the archives: Rock in liquidation?

Bruce Springsteen digs through his discarded material and releases seven albums in the Tracks II: The Lost Albums box set. Listening to this is either bittersweet or disheartening, depending on your taste. If, in 1998, the first installment of Tracks was a treasure trove of rejected songs that deserved to be on his best 1970s albums, almost 30 years later the material simply reveals how he once ventured down erroneous paths, and half-heartedly at that. Electronic arrangements, debatable incursions into country, orchestral pop and Mexican heritage all diverted him momentarily from producing the sounds that filled stadiums and turned him into The Boss.

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