Complex sentence: Originally, the album was going to be a single set entitled "The Ties That Bind" and released in late 1979, but Springsteen decided it was "too pop" and added darker material after he'd written "The River".
Split into simpler sentences: Originally, the album was going to be a single set entitled "The Ties That Bind" and released in late 1979. But Springsteen decided it was "too pop" and added darker material after he'd written "The River".