I've long thought Springsteen was the most overrated guy in rock and roll. It's not that he's bad, I'm just at a loss to see how he's so fantastically great. I don't get that at all.
I can see people liking his music, and I don't disagree when they say he's a good songwriter, or at least he used to be, but this notion that he's a genius, or even anything close to it, is the biggest pile of excrement I've ever heard.
Frank Zappa, whether you liked him or not, was probably the closest thing to a true musical genius in that time and for that kind of music.