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All 314 Bruce Springsteen Songs, Ranked From Worst to Best
New York Magazine ^ | Caryn Rose

Posted on 09/23/2016 3:19:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway

1. "Born to Run," Born to Run. The song that earns every great cliché about rock and roll. It is escape, it is freedom, it is four-chord liberation. If you don't like "Born to Run," you don't like Bruce Springsteen. The song distills every single element of Springsteen's sound into four-and-a-half minutes, which contains the essential question his entire catalogue tries to answer: "I want to know if love is real."* The performance is stellar. Tallent's bass is more complex than you'd think, sometimes vibrating like a car engine, other times fluid and melodic, and he leads the charge for the last minute and 15 seconds. Federici swoops in and out with such power and grace, especially the way his organ comes in at "Just wrap your legs 'round these velvet rims." After his initial opening attack, Ernest "Boom" Carter is sitting back there on drums, swinging away. (It would be Boom's sole appearance on a Springsteen track.) Bruce's voice is warm and sad and sexy and full of soul, and Clemons's solo is a reveille, a call to arms. "Born to Run" was Sancious's swan song before leaving the E Street Band, and his piano melodies are ethereal and majestic. What a way to go.

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To: NYC-RepublicanCT

“To hell with this Obama boot-licker liberal bastard”

That deserves repeating !!!


41 posted on 09/23/2016 4:48:00 PM PDT by snooter55 (People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do)
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To: LongWayHome

“Hollywood Nights” was Seegar’s best - great Rock and or Roll song. I can relate to much of it having moved to Hollywood at 19.

“Hollywood Nights” Live in 1978:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D4eUWBAE_A


42 posted on 09/23/2016 4:51:50 PM PDT by newfreep ("If Lyin' Ted was an American citizen, he would be a traitor.")
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To: LongWayHome

I listened to one of those late night radio shows that highlighted Bob.
His one comment about Springsteen: “He gives up on a song faster than anyone I’ve ever seen. He’ll drop a song in a heartbeat and never look at it again”.

I can see Bob keeping a song for years and fiddling with until he likes it.


43 posted on 09/23/2016 5:28:16 PM PDT by oldvirginian (If someone tells you biscuits and gravy ain't a meal, just walk away. You don't need the negativity.)
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To: newfreep

I hope you had a good of time in Hollywood as Mr. Seger:)


44 posted on 09/23/2016 5:35:27 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: nickcarraway

I still like the “Born In the USA” album, and the song “Tunnel of Love”, and a couple of others, but have to agree that most of his early stuff (and pretty much everything after “Born in the USA”) is way over rated (IMHO). I hate “Philadelphia” and “We Take Care of Our Own” is nothing but a tribute to Marxism. Yuck.


45 posted on 09/23/2016 5:37:51 PM PDT by Hardastarboard (This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: Death, destruction, terrorism and weakness.)
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To: oldvirginian

Get this....Seger has close to 700 recorded songs in his “vault”. He was going to do a retrospective disk this year with about 70 songs, but decided that he wants to put out a new album of current music. He actually helped the Eagles write “Heartache Tonight” because the band was stuck....he’s on the songs credit.


46 posted on 09/23/2016 5:38:34 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: LongWayHome

Almost word-for-word...


47 posted on 09/23/2016 5:46:31 PM PDT by newfreep ("If Lyin' Ted was an American citizen, he would be a traitor.")
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To: nickcarraway

Here’s what I don’t get. Listen to songs like “My Hometown” or “Glory Days” and they’re talking about people and places whose better days are behind them. You would think that Trump’s message of making America great again would resonate with people in such circumstances. And yet, for the singer of these songs, not so much.

Incidentally, “My Hometown” just makes me so incredibly sad. “Son, take a good look around; this is your hometown.” Said the first time with pride, but the last time with sorrow. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that so succinctly captures the heartbreaking decline of the Rust Belt as this song.


48 posted on 09/23/2016 5:57:16 PM PDT by bus man (Loose Lips Sink Ships)
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To: karnage

I have only purchased Nebraska - it is a masterpiece but music is very subjective - I love that record


49 posted on 09/23/2016 6:03:58 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: nickcarraway

They didn’t even list my favorite - ‘Jersey Girl’.


50 posted on 09/23/2016 6:04:20 PM PDT by chopperman
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To: LongWayHome

700 songs in his vault!?!
That’s going to be some retrospective whenever he gets around to it!
That’s more than most people record total over a lifetime.

I can’t think of one Seger album that wasn’t good.
An “okay” album from him is like a great album from anyone else.

The only thing I can’t get into is Live albums.
I have tinnitus and the live recordings end up lacking for me because of it.


51 posted on 09/23/2016 6:06:03 PM PDT by oldvirginian (If someone tells you biscuits and gravy ain't a meal, just walk away. You don't need the negativity.)
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To: nickcarraway

Why isn’t “Trapped” listed in this?


52 posted on 09/23/2016 6:16:31 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (It is a wise man who rules by the polls but it is a fool who is ruled by them)
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To: oldvirginian

Check out some of Seger’s rare songs on YouTube like: “Dark Eyes” & “A Man Broken”. These 2 songs were going to be on “The Fire Inside” album but Bob could not fit them in. Also on YouTube is a song called “Wildfire”....just as good as “Roll Me away”. Those are some of the songs from the “Vault” that leaked out.


53 posted on 09/23/2016 6:16:48 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: newfreep

Good place to meet & greet the ladies from back in the day...


54 posted on 09/23/2016 6:18:05 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: LongWayHome

I’ll write them down and check them out.
Internet is crazy slow here, I usually have to wait till I get around Wi-Fi before I can use YouTube without going crazy.


55 posted on 09/23/2016 6:23:15 PM PDT by oldvirginian (If someone tells you biscuits and gravy ain't a meal, just walk away. You don't need the negativity.)
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To: nickcarraway

“Hungry Heart”...

...because it says “Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, jack...”

but then, “I went out for a ride and I never came back”. :-\

Nah, seriously, I don’t know. It would have to be an actual hit, though. Not most of that 314 which you know isn’t hit material.


56 posted on 09/23/2016 6:26:11 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: oldvirginian

You will love some of this unreleased stuff. Another few are “Days When The Rain Would Come” “Yesterday Rules” & “Reckless Heart”. Also a rare B-side release from the 80s is out there called “East LA”.


57 posted on 09/23/2016 6:27:23 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: LongWayHome

Thanks.
I usually go to McD’s for coffee on the weekend, I’ll mooch their Wi-Fi and take a listen.

My favorite Seger song has changed as I’ve gotten older but Main Street has always been in the top three.
Same with Night Moves, and for just a rollicking good song I’ll listen to Kathmandu.


58 posted on 09/23/2016 6:44:21 PM PDT by oldvirginian (If someone tells you biscuits and gravy ain't a meal, just walk away. You don't need the negativity.)
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To: oldvirginian

Bob’s new 2014 CD “Ride Out” is also on the Net if you look. Great CD. Happy Listening.


59 posted on 09/23/2016 6:48:48 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: nickcarraway

I like Manfred Mann’s covers of “For You” and “Blinded by the Light” much better than the originals.


60 posted on 09/23/2016 7:59:11 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (They aren't being radicalized; they're being activated.)
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