5 Star rating for Springsteen’s “Working On a Dream” my ass. We all know Rolling Stone really sucks up to Springsteen and praises everything he puts out so RS can get interviews and cover stories from him. A 5 Star rating means that it’s close to perfection and that album is anywhere near perfect nor better than “Magic”. RS – you have lost all credibility!

Hold on, when did RS ever have credibility?? If I wanted to read some Karl Marx I would break out the Communist Manifesto

the new Springsteen album is meh.The kind of hammy,upbeat schlock rock and sugar-dipped, schmaltzy sentiments RS did not give 5 stars to when it was Neil Diamond and Billy Joel doing it in the 80’s.

Wait, how many stars did “Working” get? I haven’t seen that mentioned 100 times on this site in the last week, so …

I think 5 stars should resemble absolute perfection, honestly. It’s OK. Just stop paying attention to RS’s reviews.

Having heard the new U2 album, it definitely deserves 5 stars from any publication. Simply amazing. Bruce’s new album is more of the same from him, I would say at most 4 out of 5.

so you’re telling me we’re going to be looking at music 25 years from now and the album working on a dream is going to be a seminal album from this decade? REALLY? I’ll try not to slag on that rating too hard, but seriously… this album is going down as nothing more than another Boss record that was pretty good, period. Not a 5 star (FIVE STARS!?!!?) album.

Working on a dream is an amazing album. Congrats! Boss.

This release deserves an extra star.
I have been playing this over and over again.
And is by far the only important release of 2009 .
Bruce Springsteen keep rocking
Forever

I remember reading Rolling Stone when it was good, but that was A LONG TIME AGO.

If you think the Boss’ album rocks (and it does) wait til u hear the new U2 album. Incredible.

I have been a Springsteen fan for more than thirty years and I really like the new album. I own every album and several boots to boot, but I gotta say that “Queen of the Supermarket” is undoubtedly the worst song Bruce has ever released. Nothing else that he has ever done comes close to it in terms of sheer awfulness. “Working…” should be docked one star just for that song.

The Boss has the ability to capture music in a special way, it brings back the days of my youth. When music painted word pictures, and songs jumped from the speakers. Rap is just ghetto garbage, Bruce reminds us that great music still can be made.

Whalespoon is spot on. That supermarket song is just atrocious. “Aisles and aisles of dreams”? Come on, Bruce. The word has to get out. Most of the tracks are pretty good on this album but I cannot for the life of me figure out how this ended up anywhere past the stage of him playing this on an acoustic guitar on the side of the bed and then shaking his head briskly from side to side saying “Man,that was crap”.

I am a huge Boss fan dating back almost 30 years, and to suggest WOAD is a FIVE STAR album is nothing short of preposterous. Admittedly I like it a lot more than I did at first listen, and of course I am stoked for the tour…but I agree with an earlier poster, Queen of the Supermarket is clearly the worst song Bruce has ever written, with another “Queen” son (Mary Queen Of Arkansas off of Greetings) a close second. FIVE STARS? More like 3 1/2…

Queen of the Supermarket is the best song on the cd. At least it’s funny.

I too am a long time Bruce fan, and as much as I’d like WOAD to be a 5 star album, it’s not, plain and simple. To truly be worthy of 5 stars, it would have to rank as one of Springsteen’s best albums. It certainly has its moments, but among his best? As “J” said, really? Go back and listen to BTR, Darkness, or even The River, and then tell me that WOAD is on par with these classics. I understand Bruce, and all of us, have aged with the passing of time, but a classic is a classic for all time. On the other hand, I do believe there is actually a pretty good album hidden under Brendan O’Brien’s muddy production. (Still not sure what Springsteen is trying to accomplish using O’Brien.) As “AZBossFan” states, 3 & 1/2 stars does seem to be more like it. Oh well, I’ll go see Bruce in concert in Chicago as I’ve been doing since 1980 and appreciate him all over again.

Maybe RS are just ahead of the curve and have picked up on the fact that WOAD is in fact an understated gem that’s genius only become apparent after having been lived with for a while.

I doubt it. It should have been disc five on Tracks. Or better yet, disc nine after Tracks Part II.

Every artist has to have a misstep, and as much as I’d like for this CD to grow on me, I’m assuming this is Bruces misstep here.

I have listened to this album and it’s fantastic. I think Queen is stunning, but not everyone will get it. Rolling stone mag was a great issue

Some folks get Springsteen and some do not and that will never change. Some only appreciate his hardest rocking. Some only appreciate his starkest-depression folking. He’s always been an artist of amazing range, versatility, and contrasts. If you are someone who only likes one genre of music, you may or may not like this newest music, depending on whether it fits into your “thing.” Personally, I absolutely love it.