Springsteen and Madonna reckon with age, identity on latest releases

In early 1985, Madonna replaced Bruce Springsteen atop the Billboard 200 chart, her "Like a Virgin" having outsold his "Born in the U.S.A." during the week ending Feb. 9. Each album had actually come out the year before (and, in the case of Springsteen's, spent a stretch at No. 1 shortly after its release).

But pop super-stardom in the '80s - a decade dominated by these two giants along with Michael Jackson and Prince, whose "Purple Rain" was the blockbuster that "Born in the U.S.A." bumped from the top that February - was a longer-lasting experience than it is now; back in the slow-moving pre-internet era, MTV could help keep an album alive for ages.

Thirty-four years later,