{"id":60414,"date":"2016-09-28T11:30:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T16:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60414"},"modified":"2016-09-25T13:00:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T18:00:12","slug":"a-heart-acheing-work-of-staggering-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60414","title":{"rendered":"A Heart-Acheing Work Of Staggering Genius"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writing at\u00a0Vulture.com<\/em>, Caryn Rose ranks all 314 Bruce Springsteen songs 1<\/sup> <\/a>from worst to first.<\/p>\n

First things first: \u00a0Rose found a break on one of the primary laws of Springsteen-fandom; there actually\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>a song worse than “Mary, Queen Of Arkansas” (from 1973’s\u00a0Greetings From Asbury Park<\/em>). \u00a0I won’t ruin the surprise.<\/p>\n

But otherwise, it was a herculean job. \u00a0And by the time you get to the top 100, it had to be hard to rank ’em. \u00a0But she did a decent job.<\/p>\n

I said “decent”. Not perfect. \u00a0 There is no way “41 Shots” (#22) outscores “She’s the One (#24), among many other examples.<\/p>\n

I’m here for the perfect. \u00a0I’ll do the\u00a0real\u00a0<\/em>top 10.<\/p>\n

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  1. Born to Run<\/li>\n
  2. Darkness on the Edge of Town<\/li>\n
  3. This Hard Land<\/li>\n
  4. Racing In The Street<\/li>\n
  5. Thunder Road<\/li>\n
  6. The Promised Land<\/li>\n
  7. Rosalita<\/li>\n
  8. The River<\/li>\n
  9. Night<\/li>\n
  10. Atlantic City<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Still, a noble – and needed – effort.<\/p>\n

    1<\/sup> That is to say, songs written by Springsteen that appeared on commercial releases. \u00a0 Sorry,\u00a0Seeger Sessions<\/em> and forty years of “Steel Mill” bootlegs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Writing at\u00a0Vulture.com, Caryn Rose ranks all 314 Bruce Springsteen songs 1 from worst to first. First things first: \u00a0Rose found a break on one of the primary laws of Springsteen-fandom; there actually\u00a0is\u00a0a song worse than “Mary, Queen Of Arkansas” (from 1973’s\u00a0Greetings From Asbury Park). \u00a0I won’t ruin the surprise. But otherwise, it was a herculean […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[172],"class_list":["post-60414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-springsteen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60415,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60414\/revisions\/60415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}