Bonus Countdown - Bruce

Bonus Countdown - Bruce

E Street Radio is compiling votes for the 100 best Springsteen songs by asking listeners for their top ten.  Here’s mine.

 

10. Thunder Road - Greatest / most atmospheric opening to an album ever?  Debate amongst yourselves, but it’s such a great opening, it might as well open this list.

 

9.  Because The Night - Not every top ten Springsteen song has to be best sung by him.  At least I don't think so (didn't really pay too much attention to the rules).

 

8.  No Surrender - There are much better and much more important songs that can’t fit on a top ten list, but uptempo, defiant and wistful is kind of a thing with me.  

 

7.  Frankie Fell In Love - Not every song has to be so damn serious.  See also, Cadillac Ranch and Open All Night.  

 

6.  Brilliant Disguise / The Long Goodbye - Basically, the same song.  This is how you do introspection.

 

5.  The Rising - His most beautiful - and necessary - song ever?

 

4.  American Skin - His most chilling - and necessary - song ever?

 

3.  Born To Run - The most essential rock and roll song ever crafted.  You can tell the Nobel literature prizes are a scam because this ain’t won one.    

 

2.  Badlands / Promised Land - In college, I never knew where my next tuition payment was coming from and sometimes didn’t know where tomorrow’s food was coming from but I did know this - being hungry was ok, and giving up is the greatest sin.   

 

1.  Backstreets - I’m sure I’m not the only teenage, wrong side of the tracks ne'er do well to which this song tracks as a veritable autobiography, but this is me from age 13 to 20(ish).  Which is where we all remain, truth told.