Favorite Springsteen Song

[writing irish]

SportsJournalists.com is a goldmine of Springsteen knowledge. So, Springsteen fans, what's your favorite song by Bruce? Not best song musically-speaking...instead, personal favorite.

I'll go with "Meeting Across the River." Unusual song compared to much of his catalog- there isn't even a guitar on it. But very powerful and epitomizes the uneasy synthesis of optimism and weariness that characterizes much of Springsteen's work.

 

[shockey]

"thunder road."

oodles of personal reasons, but moving even w/o those. tremendous appeal to local, small town girl to take a chance on going after bigger dreams.

full band or just piano version will do fine.

about 20 other songs are tied for a close second.

 

[Beaker]

Wow...there are so many, but if you put a gun to my head, I might say "Spirit in the Night." The live version on that's on his Hammersmith Odeon concert cd is just electric.

If I were to choose a more obscure song, I might say either "Brothers Under the Bridge"--a poignant Vietnam song, or "The Fever" off 18 Tracks.

 

[writing irish]

I was pretty blown away when I first heard the piano version of Thunder Road. It sounded like he had moved the setting of the song from a city in New Jersey to a little town in Western New York.

Beaker, I love the part when he loses his groovy 70s hat during that version of "Spirit."

 

[chester]

I was pretty blown away when I first heard the piano version of Thunder Road. It sounded like he had moved the setting of the song from a city in New Jersey to a little town in Western New York.

Beaker, I love the part when he loses his groovy 70s hat during that version of "Spirit."

Love the piano version of "Thunder Road". When my little girl was just a newborn, I used to turn that song on to calm her down. Never failed.

Also a big fan of the live version of "Youngstown"

 

[Moderator1]

Badlands.
Or Out in The Street.

Or something else. Hell, there's so many.

 

[pa writer]

It depends on the mood I'm in, but right now it's "Candy's Room."

 

[User 4755]

Jungleland.

 

[EStreetJoe]

Thunder Road
If you've never heard the early versions from Feb. 1975 with the different lyrics, check this out:

rounding out a top 5 - in no particular order - would be No Surrender, Racing in the Street, Badlands, Across the Border. Promised Land could make it in there on any particular day as could at least a dozen other songs.

 

[Chef]

Human Touch

 

[Rambler]

Always loved "Trapped."

And "Because The Night."

And "Spirit in the Night."

 

[spnited]

Jungleland, Out in the Street, Prove it All night (esp. Live in NYC version), Night, She's the One.

That top 5 coould change in the next hour.

 

[kleeda]

I have a bootleg version of "Seeds," just Bruce a harmonica and a guitar. It has the kind of seering anger in it -- devoid of the silly anthemic grandeur of the popular live version -- the song actually deserves.

Similar to this Stockholm version, but much meaner:

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

SportsJournalists.com is a goldmine of Springsteen knowledge. So, Springsteen fans, what's your favorite song by Bruce? Not best song musically-speaking...instead, personal favorite.

I'll go with "Meeting Across the River." Unusual song compared to much of his catalog- there isn't even a guitar on it. But very powerful and epitomizes the uneasy synthesis of optimism and weariness that characterizes much of Springsteen's work.

Unbelievable.
Me, too, wi.
God bless Randy Brecker.

 

[shockey]

oh, if we're expanding to five:

thunder road
racing in the street
out in the street
rosalita
promised land

or.....
you're missing
badlands
lost in the flood
drive all night (the greatest slowest of all slow songs)
incident on 57th street

or......
well, you get the idea. the catalogue is too huge.

which is why can can still do a 25-song show and leave old timers grumbling about the list of songs he didn't do.

 

[Beaker]

I'd try and make a top 5 list, but I think it would change day by day...

 

[Trouser_Buddah]

I know Boss fans will laugh at my choice, but I never really got into a lot of his stuff... It's not that I don't like him, just never really gave most of his work a shot for whatever reason...

My favorite? "Brilliant Disguise"

 

[writing irish]

SportsJournalists.com is a goldmine of Springsteen knowledge. So, Springsteen fans, what's your favorite song by Bruce? Not best song musically-speaking...instead, personal favorite.

I'll go with "Meeting Across the River." Unusual song compared to much of his catalog- there isn't even a guitar on it. But very powerful and epitomizes the uneasy synthesis of optimism and weariness that characterizes much of Springsteen's work.

Unbelievable.
Me, too, wi.
God bless Randy Brecker.

When I was a kid growing up in a faceless Texas suburb, that trumpet said "New York" to me in a way that no picture of a Manhattan skyline ever could. I could just see the steam rising from the grates and hear the echo of a taxi cab's engine rumbling as it rolled through a near-empty concrete canyon at 3 a.m.

 

[forever_town]

Oh, I have a few to mention.

"Radio Nowhere" is quickly becoming a favorite.
"Murder Incorporated" (which has a great karaoke story behind it)
"Promised Land"

 

[Smallpotatoes]

Thunder Road