The Wild, The Innocent & the E Street Shuffle

pastemagazine

Every Saturday, Paste will be revisiting albums that came out before the magazine was founded in July 2002 and assessing its current cultural relevance. This week, we’re looking at the record Bruce Springsteen made as his opus was knocking on the door of his imagination—an album full of ghosts, summer memories and characters forced to grow up and out of innocent love in the sweaty, damning New Jersey and New York heat.