Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Perfect World’ (ALBUM REVIEW)

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(Note: This is the seventh and last post in a series in which I have reviewed all the albums in Bruce Springsteen’s “Tracks II: The Lost Albums” boxed set, separately. The set will come out on June 27.)

Tracks II: The Lost Albums should really be called The Lost Albums Plus ‘Perfect World.” Because this album, unlike the six others, was never lost.

“That’s the one thing on this that wasn’t initially conceived as an album, but it was something I put together” for the boxed set, says Springsteen in the liner notes. That makes it, in a way, the least interesting of the Tracks II albums, since it’s really just a random collection of songs — not something that Springsteen thought, at some…