These days you don't wait on Romeos you wait on those BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN POLL RESULTS

i'm drivin in my car
i turn on the radio

(don't know why but i'm ok with 'fire' just ending there, everything else is cherries)

still prefer the Pointer Sisters version but this is fine.

33. Growin Up from Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. (1973)
149 points, 8 votes inc two votes for the version from live 1975-85

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBOMXBbQnw4

Yeah, I was one of the votes for "Fire," specifically that version although the one on The Promise ain't half bad.

big fan of the Tracks version of "Growin' Up." actually all the early versions of Greetings songs on there.

tooooooooooooooootally -- that's my favorite version of a lot of those songs. i'm not sure i'd even really like them otherwise?

just hit me how much '70s bruce looks like pacino

32. Nebraska from Nebraska (1982)
153 points, 7 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPQVKzDCY4c

my first TOO LOW

I sometimes get the idea that David Krumholtz has his agent waiting by the phone for Hollywood to announce a Bruce biopic.

http://handson.provocateuse.com/images/photos/david_krumholtz_02.jpg

31. The Ties That Bind from The River (1980)
157 points, 8 votes

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

^^Bruce beating Tom Petty at his own game.

That's it for today, other than this picture of my dad in the 70s totally rocking it Bruce style

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/68300_10152213856540367_531386221_n.jpg

Fire is so good, sooooo good!

even if Mr Veg always sings it as Robin Williams/Elmer Fudd :/

The Ties That Bind was in my top 10. It's absolutely perfect, with one of his best vocals, and lyrics. "We're running now but darling we will stand in time..." still gets me and I've heard it a trillion times.

The definitive version of Saint In The City is his COlumbia records demo on the Tracks box. It's a staggering display of talent.

Nice run of tunes tonight. Can't argue with the awesomeness of any of these.

Oh and Growin' Up. Love the way he plays with the "When they said sit down/come down" etc refrain

Can't argue with the awesomeness of any of these.

otm. "Nebraska" was the only one I voted for, but "Fire," "Ties," and "Growin Up" were all on my long list. But "Nebraska," that song stands alone even on that album. It's like a black hole in the middle of a black hole. With a little wry smile, somehow. Everything about it is perverse and unapologetic.

I made room for "Ties", "Fire", and "Saint". Cutting "Nebraska" was brutal but I wasn't afraid of it missing the countdown.

just hit me how much '70s bruce looks like pacino

the darkness cover makes that very clear.

the line that kills me in the murder ballad/love song "nebraska" is the one about how he wants his girl sitting on his lap when the state electrocutes him. is it because he loves her or because he thinks she deserves to be zapped too, or maybe both? no matter. in it's chilling matter-of-factness, it reminds me of bo diddley's fantastic "dearest darling," in which bo promises his beloved that if he should die before she does, he will reach back from the great beyone and take her with him.

the great beyond, that is.

Wow, never made that "Dearest Darling"/"Nebraska" connection before; love that Bo song.

"Growin' Up" and "Saint" are two songs that I nearly-dislike as studio recordings, but love on Live. And "Ties" was in my top 10.

I love this solo version of Growin' Up from 1972

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dy7RTicVr0

fun to listen to the playlist, just easing in with those 3 slow songs at the beginning

30. 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) from The Wild, The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle (1973)
162 points, 7 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgFHM8HMbWQ

just wondering are there any non bruce fans reading/listening? would be good to get some insight from non fans

I debated leaving "4th Of July" off my ballot, but when I relistened I couldn't help but be swept up in it.

Depends what you mean by non-fans - I'm pretty non-BROOOOCE, so am looking on with despair at the dwindling prospects of tracks from Nebraksa / Tunnel of Love / Tom Joad appearing.

TOO LOW

dwindling prospects of tracks from Nebraksa / Tunnel of Love / Tom Joad appearing.
don't worry! state trooper has to make it, and ToL -- PLEASE. i can think of at least two songs that will make it. we're only at 30!

atlantic city probably top 10?

I was wondering if "State Trooper" would make it; I have no idea how it's generally regarded among Broooce fans. It has my favorite sound on a Springsteen record, the echoplex scream at the end.

i wouldn't be surprised if "Brilliant Disguise" is way way high

see now we're talkin

but that's not the ToL song i am hoping for the most, or even the second most

I voted for two ToL tracks but not "Brilliant Disguise".

I was wondering if "State Trooper" would make it; I have no idea how it's generally regarded among Broooce fans

I voted – the scariest song he ever recorded imo.

See, yeah, that's how I feel about it too (and it's on my ballot). But not knowing too many Bruce fanatics, I had this sense that maybe it's thought of as a throwaway...not sure why.

really? Hm. One of the two or three Nebraska songs I listen to.

i'm gonna make one of my famous overly confident predictions and say c'mon OF COURSE "brilliant disguise" will be the highest tunnel song

29. Incident On 57th Street from The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (1973)
164 points, 7 votes including one first place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtPEZX6wAzg

Voted State Trooper and Brilliant Disguise, plus one other Nebraska cut and maybe two other ToL.

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sha na na na na heey
sha na na na na na oohhh

sha na na na na heey
sha na na na na na oohhh

sha na na na na heey
sha na na na na na oohhh

sha na na na na heey
sha na na na na na oohhh

^^ what it sounds like inside the tunnel of love

stop teasing me

Yodel solo.

My depressing Bruce benchmark is that he was pretty much exactly my age when he finally got around to "Tunnel of Love." I better get cracking on my world-changing music career.

I should probably make clear that I haven't really heard and dismissed other albums, I'm consciously engaging in unfairly cheering on the stuff I know - I'm happy you're all happy.

Also though I know that everyone says live Bruce is not the same as other Bruce, everyone always says that about everyone, so I was genuinely surprised to see the JB-channeling, band-introducing, master of ceremonies and setter of the pace in the Rosalita clip in the first post here, which I think has possibly been de-emphasised in his public persona behind Bruuuuce and the train-jumping poet of the dispossessed. Or as always I may be generalising my own ignorance :)