When U2 toured with the Achtung Baby album, they took a break during which they recorded Zooropa. It wasn't much of an album, but bearing in mind the rushed circumstances in which it was written and recorded, U2 fans treated it as a bonus and were grateful.
Working on a Dream is much the same.
It was written and recorded during the tour which promoted the previous album. Judged by the same lowered standards as Zooropa, it's not a bad album. In fact the last 2 songs on it are pretty good. But the rest is pretty poor. A neutral observer would struggle to come up with many reasons as to why this album is better than his most derided album, Human Touch - perhaps, other than the fact that this album genuinely shows the human side of ourselves more than the inappropriately named Human Touch managed. However this album has material which must rank among the most rank that Springsteen has produced. Surprise Surprise and Queen of the Supermarket sound almost like someone badly impersonating Springsteen, albeit by adding a previous unencountered trait of writing unintentionally funny lyrics.
Bruce, I still spend too much of my money on you and too much of my time listening to you. In this one isolated incident, I'm afraid that it wasn't worth it.
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