Boxed sets celebrating classic rock albums offer the joy of discovery, in all those abandoned alternate versions being brought into the light as bonus tracks, but usually also some simultaneous historical relief: How interesting these early arrangements sound… and thank God they didn’t ultimately get stuck there. In all those Beatles early takes you can almost always pick out something that didn’t quite work, that they found a way to fix for the better at the last minute. For the most part, though, Bruce Springsteen ’s “Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition” isn’t like that. Hearing all the different versions of songs that appeared on “Nebraska” or his next album, “Born in the U.S.A.,” there’s rarely any sense of “Glad that road was not taken.” Nearly all the alternate takes put on view here

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