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I feel exactly the same, although for me it's Jungleland for me. Really the only Springsteen song I truly enjoy.
Strange...I know more people in the don't like (take or leave) Springsteen category than like, yet he always ends up high in all time rankings.
I‘m definitely not a Bruce fan, but he’s huge out east. Segar is the midwest version of Bruce.
Catching up on this thread, great to see this. my fav Zep album, had 7-8 songs in my top 25 of the zep thread. Sick Again was a surprising add to their later tours. Love The Wanton Song, The Rover, and Sick Again - they sound great loud .
If you’re thinking of The River it didn’t make it. It has two songs that made the radio which would qualify it but I didn’t think it was overall strong enough to make the cut.
glory days indeed
All I remember about that tour was Springsteen played a total of 16 shows in New Jersey and 800,000+ tickets sold out in about 8 and a half seconds. I hadn't seen anything like that again until Taylor Swift this year.
This is more or less how I feel. The songs I like include Atlantic City, The River, Backstreets, Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out and Tunnel of Love.
Would you put it ahead of the Jimmy, Zep, Floyd, VH, Boston selections?
I totally understand not liking Plant. He tends toward shrill quite often for instance. I still think he's one of the greatest front men of all time, but I get why many don't dig him.
I’m the same way. Plant teeters on the vocal fence for me but I still love Zeppelin. Page and Bonham were so creative with how they played that the music sucks me in every time I throw it on.
But is it? Based on the criteria in this thread, where albums need to have multiple songs regularly played on classic rock radio, it falls way short. I know stuff like this varies from city to city and station to station, but the title track is the only song from this album I remember hearing with any regularity on the radio. Jungleland (damn good song for sure) was more of a classic tune (meaning one that would get played on the weekly classics show), and Thunder Road would get the occasional play, but I don't remember hearing any of the others Tim mentioned on the radio.
I was 11 when this record came out and 13 when I bought it. I guess it appears to be cooler to diss this record and the artist. But, I pulled it out during COVID when I set up my turntable again and ....I love this record. I didn't have a full appreciation for this record at 13, but I definitely do now.
Fair enough.
As I have said before, the order here is largely incidental, but it is fun to discuss order and rankings and if this or that should really be this high or that low. Many love Born to Run. I merely like it. It's all good.
I have always liked some of Bruce’s music but really started to appreciate his music in the last year. I must be getting old! Born to Run is good album but probably 20 spots too high on the list. There have been some heavy hitters listed in the last 10 spots and this album just doesn’t measure up. The title track is great but the rest of the album is just ok. As always, that is only my opinion. People like what they like.
Didn't hear "Monkey Man" on the local CR stations in the 1980s and early 1990s, but it started to get airplay about 25 years ago. These days, Classic Vinyl on Sirius XM keeps it in their rotation.
I think MM got a boost from its use in Goodfelllas back in 1990.
Yep, I know Monkey Man because of Goodfellas. Good tune.
Try the title track — I bet it rings a bell.
I’m pretty sure I speak for all of us by suggesting that you need to better prioritize your schedule to attend to things that are most important. Like the Top 10 list, for example.
Spot on.
I feel like you are either correct or very close to being correct. Can't argue that list.
That was mostly tongue in cheek since I know there are a couple that should crack the top ten outside of those bands, including what I think is a Tim favorite.
I'm not sure how I would handle the Beatles. I rarely heard them on classic rock and my friends never played them. Last live concert was in 1966. To me they were just a different era.
I know you're kidding around. You're not too far off, though. There's one that can't be from your list that I'd bet a lot will be in the top three.
