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

Ooh wee! Glad my vote helped NYC Serenade squeak in.

I debated cutting "NYC Serenade" because I had so many Wild, Innocent tracks already but I'm glad I didn't because it's a stunner. Euler otm on it's value vs. "Jungleland".

I'll take Joe Roberts over the Junkman any day

58. Independence Day from The River (1980)
74 points, 3 votes

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

57. Land of Hope and Dreams from Wrecking Ball (2012)
75 points, 4 votes (one voter specifies the version on Live In New York City, 2000)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__BORWT33p0

only 3 votes for independence day eh

also: q for everyone but jamie - will that be the highest wrecking ball song

Playlist: http://open.spotify.com/user/mondosalvo/playlist/5sS8pSeutHuNnIpGkaUwye

i did not specify the live version of "Land of Hope and Dreams" on my ballot but that was definitely the version i was voting for, Wrecking Ball version was a massive disappointment imo

56. Wreck On The Highway from The River (1980)
76 points, 4 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YSr1ZT0PkE

I feel bad for not having much to say about the results so far, except I'll agree with some dude that the live version (ANY live version) of "Land of Hope and Dreams" is superior to the studio version.

55. No Surrender from Born In The USA (1984)
80 points, 4 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD3DdskaPhs

54. Stolen Car from The River (1980)
84 points, 4 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPobte6iqSU

Yaay No Surrender -- it's so cheesy but it's my kind of cheesy. I feel like Bruce writes songs like this in his sleep.

Ooh shit I almost missed the rollout!

No Surrender is CLASSIC anthemic Bruce. he should write national anthems for all nations

my least favorite BITUSA track :(

It's way better than Workin on the Highway!

oh you!

I thought "Downbound Train" was the consensus clunker on BitUSA?

53. Cover Me from Born In The USA (1984)
88 points, 4 votes

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

Downbound Train is in my top 2 or 3 on the album, easily. it is fucking amazing.

oh shit I love Cover Me

and yeah Downbound Train owns, wtf 'clunker' gtfo

:)

Cover Me's a dive bar dancin' in front of the jukebox song if ever I heard one

52. Meeting Across The River from Born To Run (1975)
89 points, 4 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma8shnd04eg

"Cover Me" is the BITUSA track that grew on me; love his solo.

wtf, Only 4 votes for "Cover Me"? Also My first to place and this my post 9000.

xpost, yay for "Meeting Across The River" & noir Bruce!

Cover Me is so fantastic. I don't think I voted for it in the end, but damn what a song.

51. Blinded By The Light from Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. (1973)
89 points, 4 votes (equal with Meeting Across The River)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Iaca30QbOo

oh no! how did i miss this, and it's gone more than a hundred posts without me. this is literally the only list i care about!

his solo on Cover Me is so so Neil Youngish. i love it too.

okay that's enough for today, mainly as i've been awake for about 35 hours and going insane. need to sleep.

vs eg "no surrender"/"cover me," "downbound train" is just in a whole other league AS WILL BE PROVEN BY SCIENCE IN THIS POLL

1. i'm glad NYC Serenade got in cause i didn't vote for it. five years ago it would've been top 10, but lately in my relistens to WIESS (quite often this past month) i've found myself skipping it. maybe it just sounds better in headphones, in my car speakers right now it's a bit too loose for me to grasp on like i used to.

2. i am the one snob who specified the live version of Land of Hope and Dreams. that version is connected to a Big Important Teenage First Love Memory for me, so of course.

bruce's "blinded" is so much better than the cover, god i hate manfred mann

I like 60s Manfred Mann, but yeah...70s onward is just garbage.

So far almost every track on here is one I did not vote for, and yet just about all of them so far make me feel like I should have voted for them instead. Love Bruce.

I'm sad to see "Independence Day" so low, but at least it made it. "Cover Me" was hard for me to cut so I'm happy to see it.

there are many days when "meeting across the river" is my fave bruce song, period. it's easily top 10 for me on any other day. it's very much of a piece with a lot of other songs on born to run, in which nothing actually happens but the singer describes in compellingly mysterious detail about what might possibly happen if you just come along for the ride.

also, that trumpet.

zachlyon otm re Blinded -- I grew up only knowing and HATING the Manfred Mann version and when I heard Bruce's version I was like THANK GOD YESS it's so much better and more poetic and understated

I mean, fucking CHOPSTICKS in the bridge? And deliberately eliding the deuce so it sounds like DOUCHE. 70's Manfred Mann are jerks, imo

"downbound train" def falls into the clunker category for me. "the car wash, where all it ever does is rain." ugh.

and yeah Downbound Train owns, wtf 'clunker' gtfo

:)

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, February 26, 2013 4:53 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh, I dig it; it's not my favorite, but I dig it. I just remember reading a few reviews that singled it out for clunkerhood.

Also woo-hoo! at "Meeting." Same bassist (Richard Davis) played on Astral Weeks and with Albert Ayler at John Coltrane's funeral.

i'm surprised to see 'meeting', glad. a while ago there was some dumb av club list that said it was pointless or unnecessary or something, which is literally dumb

I've never understood why people single out that carwash/rain line as being particularly bad.

I like the carwash/rain line. Like you've got a job but you dont' get to work because even the weather is fucking with you

It's perfect

zachlyon otm re Blinded -- I grew up only knowing and HATING the Manfred Mann version and when I heard Bruce's version I was like THANK GOD YESS it's so much better and more poetic and understated

I mean, fucking CHOPSTICKS in the bridge? And deliberately eliding the deuce so it sounds like DOUCHE. 70's Manfred Mann are jerks, imo

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, February 26, 2013 5:08 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

as a formal introduction to baby brooce it's perfect. and i really like the sounds of mann's fancy production obv but he destroys those vocals and throws out everything good about them and the lyrics all end up stuck in some half-chopped purgatory of nothingness

maybe the problem is that bruce's lyrics were already arbitrary and pointless but mann actually made them SOUND that way. completely misses the tone. and i'm bitter about 'douche', won't lie

While Bruce obvs shits on Manfredd Mann from a great height, there is something 70s-AM radio glorious about "And little Early-Pearly came in by her curly-wurly and asked me if I needed a RIIIIIIIIIIDE (doodle doo doo doodle doodle synth bit)."

also: q for everyone but jamie - will that be the highest wrecking ball nebraksa song

phil don't even

I'm gonna have chopsticks in my head all fucking day now jfc

xxpost atlantic city