Once he completed the sessions, he decided to put the 10 new songs on a separate album, which became Lucky Town, and to release it at the same time as Human Touch.

Human Touch consisted of mostly love songs, while Lucky Town focuses on more specific events in Springsteen's life.

"[10] Robert Christgau of The Village Voice called it a "ponderous, well-crafted disappointment, a shorter and by most accounts lighter piece of work than its more songful corelease Human Touch.

"[17] Bill Wyman of the Chicago Reader compared it favorably to Human Touch, calling Lucky Town "obviously the superior work" and "a much more interesting beast, primarily because of the potency of the first three numbers [which] could have made a respectable anchor to a strong album."

"[18] Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune later wrote that Lucky Town was "highly underrated...containing some of the strongest songwriting of Springsteen's career and ranks as one of his most completely realized albums.