10 Underrated Bruce Springsteen Songs You Should Listen To

10. 57 Channels (And Nothin' On) (1992)

One of - if not the - most atypical single Bruce ever recorded, it is musically distinct from the rest of the album, and the rest of his discography up until that point (the EP Tracks does have other similarly minimalistic songs). If you think of Bruce as a rock star who screams over loud guitars, you may not recognize this fella who's playing the bass while reciting spoken word poetry.

You can take this song to be a criticism of America's consumerist society, but you can't it take to be only that. Bruce's art always mixes the political with the personal. As such, this song also stands as a bleak, atmospheric portrayal of modern-day solitude. This allegorical use of the television is spot-on. Nowadays, in a world saturated with screens, it is more relevant than ever.

After all, which of us hasn't lost valuable minutes flipping through the catalogues of streaming platforms or endlessly scrolling down our news feed, looking for the one piece of content that'll turn the day into a memorable one, only to feel as empty as ever when an hour and a half later, we realize there's nothin' on. In a sense, there's never anything on. So, if "in the blessed name of Elvis", you want to shoot your computer or your phone, go ahead. Just finish this article first.