I'm realizing that my choice of favorite album, Born to Run, has as much to do with my whole history of experience with it as it does with the music itself: my first vinyl copy, with the great gatefold and the huge picture of Springsteen and Clarence, with the great 'new vinyl' smell; my first...
Born to Run Probably my fave, start to finish. Bruce before he simplified the song structures, using lyrics that were a lot closer to Dylan than on later albums.