I thought this week we could share some of our favourite second-best Bruce Springsteen songs and see which ones are the most popular and make the Top Ten.
The voting is closed now, thanks for taking part. The results are below.
If they’re in the list below they’re banned because they are the classics and that would be too easy.
| Banned Songs | Banned Songs |
| Dancing in the Dark | The River |
| Street of Philedephia | Thunder Road |
| Racing in the Street | Born in the USA |
| Born to Run | Atlantic City |
| Hungry Heart | Brilliant Disguise |
| The Rising | The Promised Land |
| Jungleland | Tougher than the Rest |
| Glory Days | Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) |
| Badlands | No Surrender |
| Ghosts | Backstreets |
And these are the Second-Best Bruce Springsteen songs as voted by you.
I’ve created a Spotify Playlist of all these songs, which I thought I’d share here:
Second-Best Bruce Springsteen Songs
Top Ten Second-Best Bruce Springsteen Songs
| Songs | Votes |
| 1. If I Should Fall Behind | 16 |
| 2. Mary’s Place | 12 |
| 2. Candy’s Room | 12 |
| 4. One Step Up | 11 |
| 5. Darkness on the Edge of Town | 10 |
| 5. She’s The One | 10 |
| 7. Waiting On A Sunny Day | 8 |
| 8. The Ghost of Tom Joad | 7 |
| 8. My Hometown | 7 |
| 10. American Skin(41 shots) | 6 |
Other Songs Voted For:
| Song | Votes |
| Because The Night | 5 |
| Youngstown | 5 |
| I’m on fire | 5 |
| Janey don’t you lose heart | 5 |
| Land of Hope and Dreams | 5 |
| Better Days | 4 |
| Bobby Jean | 4 |
| Cadillac Ranch | 4 |
| Downbound Train | 4 |
| Fire | 4 |
| Girls in their Summer clothes | 4 |
| Human Touch | 4 |
| Incident on 57th street | 4 |
| Johnny 99 | 4 |
| Long Walk Home | 4 |
| Murder Incorparated | 3 |
| My City of Ruins | 3 |
| New York City Serenade | 3 |
| Sherry Darling | 3 |
| Spare Parts | 3 |
| Tenth Avenue Freeze Out | 3 |
| Tunnel of Love | 3 |
| 4th of July, Asbury Park | 2 |
| 57 Channels | 2 |
| Adam Raised A Cain | 2 |
| Blinded by the Light | 2 |
| Book of Dreams | 2 |
| Brothers under the Bridge | 2 |
| Cautious man | 2 |
| City of Night | 2 |
| Cover Me | 2 |
| Devils & Dust | 2 |
| Does this bus stop at 82nd Street Drive All night Fade away From Small Things (Big things one day come) Growin’ Up Highway 29 I’ll see you in my dreams I’m Goin Down If I were the priest Independence Day Jackson cage Jersey girl Kingdom of days Local Hero Long time coming Loose Ends Matamoros Banks Meeting across the river My beautiful reward. My love will not let you down Nothing Man Old Dan Tucker Out in the street Point Blank Prove it all night Queen of the supermarket Radio Nowhere. Real World, Reason to believe Roll Of The Dice, Roulette Secret garden Seeds Shut out the light Sleepy Joe’s Cafe Stolen car The Promise Walk like a man Wild Billy’s Circus Story Chasin’ Wild Horses With every wish Working on a dream | These all got 1 vote |
If you want to leave a comment below about any Springsteen songs, then please do.
Thank you for taking part in the survey.
Take care and all the best,
Ian
Top Ten Second Best Bruce Springsteen Songs
I’ve always said the best Springsteen song is the opening bars of the next song
Very true indeed.
Yep Good Call
From All that Heaven will allow to Xero and Blind Terry and in between.I was 20 when I first heard Bruce and now I am 60 and a widower.Bruce has kept me company through both the good and the
truly awful times.Lets hope everybody gets tickets for next year.But only after I have secured mine first !
Hope you got your tickets Michael, sounds like Bruce as been there for you. I got some for Liverpool 🙂
So many to choose from. Got me hotel booked for Manchester. Let’s hope I get a ticket
Hope you got tickets Neil 🙂
Yes Manchester 17th on presale 🤘🤘🤘🤘
Brill, I’m going to Anfield on the 4th. Better book that hotel soon 🙂
Yep Good Call
Woohoo,3 others voted for Johnny 99! Ooh,any Elbow (the band,not the appendage….) in the pipeline? Thankyou, Stuart from sunny Workington…..(I lied about the sunny bit…)
Yes, good score for Johnny 99. Just glanced out the window to the west, you’re right about the sun. I will bump Elbow up the to do list 🙂
Proves my assumption that im the only bugger who likes “ The Hitter”
So many brilliant songs! ❤️
I agree 🙂