Unheralded Springsteen Songs Worth A Second Listen

Stand On It
Open All Night
Paradise By The 'C'
I'm Goin' Down
Held Up Without A Gun
From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)
Give The Girl A Kiss
The Big Payback
TV Movie
Two Hearts
Where The Bands Are
Be True
Thundercrack
Johnny 99 (particularly the unreal full-band version from Hyde Park a couple of years back)

 

Lost In Flood is on my list. Fantastic song.
Greetings From Asbury Park is still my favorite album

 

Held Up Without a Gun
The Big Payback

Oh, hell yeah. Great calls, Huggy.

I'll add "From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)"

And, probably because of the live performances, both "Prove It All Night" and "Ramrod."

Hell, one more: "Adam Raised a Cain" (I know, everybody knows it. Pretty much all of "Darkness" for me is gold standard.)

 

I don't know if they're unheralded, but "Growin' Up" and "It's Hard to be a Saint in the City" from "Asbury Park" fill that bill for me.

 

Does Blood Brothers qualify?
I know its on Greatest Hits compilation, but don't think many know it

 

Blood Brothers is a solid song. But how that makes a "Greatest Hits' album and Rosalita doesn't is unfathomable.

 

The Blood Brothers as performed at the end of the 2000 and 2004 tours does qualify.

 

Time to throw out my Springsteen geekdom knowledge here <g>

The version of Drive All Night that Shockey posted the video for was from the Hollywood, Fla. stop on the Devils & Dust tour. That was an amazing tour, especially the final two shows in Trenton in which he brought out the unreleased Hammond demo song - "Song for Orphans" which definitely is an unheralded song and one definitely worth checking out.

There are two officially released studio versions of "Blood Brothers" - the slow one on Greatest Hits and a rock version that came on an EP that was included with the "Blood Brothers" VHS which showed the band recording the bonus tracks for the Greatest Hits album. The rock version is definitely unheralded and worth a listen if you can track it down. The live versions that closed the tours in 2000 and 2003 were stunning with the extra verse.

Held Up Without a Gun and The Big Payback are great calls. Prior to their inclusion on Essential they were only available as B-sides (studio version of Held Up was the B-side for the Hungry Heart single and Big Payback was the B-side to the 45 of Open All Night that was released in Spain (which I grabbed a copy of because of The Big Payback).

 

Love your Springsteen geekiness!

 

There was a really good "Cold Case" episode that featured all music from Bruce Springsteen and I didn't recognize many of the songs but they were all very good.

 

I had the "Hungry Heart" single so I knew "Held Up Without A Gun" but I had never been able to get my hands on "The Big Payback" until it came out on the Essential set. I had scoured used record stores here in Toronto looking for it, considered sending away for some promo thing from Europe through Goldmine and then eventually gave up the quest.

 

Anyone listening tonite? It is freaking strong.