Before now, I only knew the studio version. How could a live version top that? Well....

The fast performance was riveting, especially the sax and piano. Surely the best live version....

Except for the slow, acoustic version. Stripped to the basics, Springsteen's vocals bring out subtleties and complexities nowhere evident in the original....

And then the NJ concert. Nothing here is the star, which means that the song is the star, and there's none brighter.

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Numbers adjusted solely for purposes of comparison.