I'm not even sure if I would feel the same about it if I hadn't heard Manfred Mann's cover first. Sort of like Joni Mitchell's This Flight Tonight and the Nazareth cover.
Zackly. I keep trying to explain Manfred Mann to myself They WERE like an English prog band, I think, that got the mega-hit with Blinded By The Light then proceeded to do Springsteen covers (bad ones) after that ?
Meanwhile Springsteen seems to have got a pass to continue making albums based on that cover ?
Strange.