The Huffington Post has printed a list of the Top 25 Bruce Springsteen songs, as conceived by Ben Mankiewicz, a host at Turner Home Movies.
We give him props for thinking outside the box and selecting songs off Magic, The Seeger Sessions, Lucky Town and Tracks. And we recognize that he’s not really trying to be an authoritative voice: “The criteria are flexible. They’re a combination of songwriting, listening pleasure, live performance and at what point in the song I begin to cry like an 11-year-old girl.”
The Huffington Post’s Springsteen List:
#1: Backstreets
#2: The Price You Pay
#3: Incident On 57th Street
#4: Darkness On The Edge Of Town
#5: Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
#6: This American Land
#7: The Ghost Of Tom Joad
#8: Growin’ Up
#9: Racing In The Streets
#10: Born To Run
#11: Tougher Than The Rest
#12: Reason To Believe
#13: Atlantic City
#14: The Rising
#15: Youngstown
#16: Ramrod
#17: Thunder Road
#18: Cynthia
#19: Downbound Train
#20: Murder Incorporated
#21: Magic
#22: This Hard Land
#23: Glory Days
#24: Factory
#25: Lucky Town
Give us your Top Ten in the comments section.
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