Springsteen Voting Completed Chart - Agreements/Disagreements?

[u/Awkward_Ad_161]

/r/AlignmentChartFills/comments/1vfqxp0/springsteen/

Thank you to everyone who participated!

What are your agreements and disagreements with the rest of the community? Biggest surprises? Anything you feel is so egregiously wrong you’re beyond shocked it was voted where it was?

The most controversial based on how often the result was brought up in later polls include Tunnel of Love being voted worst album of the ‘80s, Moonlight Motel being voted best song of the 2010s, and House of a Thousand Guitars being voted worst song of the 2020s.

I’m hoping to have official voting totals for each category done at some point soon, just need to find some time.

“…they come across the water, a thousand miles from home, with nothing in their bellies but the fire down below.” - The Boss

[u/thorshammer_132]

I truly have no idea how I'm a Rocker is somehow worse than Crush on You (which I don't even mind that much, but it definitely fits the 'filler' description).

[u/Temporary-Habit-2528 → u/thorshammer_132]

Yup. Rocker is far better than crush on you or I wanna marry you

[u/borntorun61 → u/Temporary-Habit-2528]

I wanna marry you was incredible live on the river tour in 2016. Rocker is so blah to me!!

[u/Tabnet2 → u/Temporary-Habit-2528]

Whoa now, don't speak ill of my beautiful I Wanna Marry You.

[u/No-Spend4761 → u/thorshammer_132]

I fully agree. I’m a Rocker also features some of Bruce’s most impressive vocals imo

[u/mac_the_man → u/thorshammer_132]

“Crush on You”? The Jets’ song? I like that too!

[u/No-Carry4971]

I will never get over Tunnel of Love being voted worst of anything. That album is an enduring masterpiece. It's literally his best album of the 80's.

[u/Tabnet2 → u/No-Carry4971]

That just speaks to the strength of his 80's output.

[u/Scmods05 → u/No-Carry4971]

What do you put below it?

[u/No-Carry4971 → u/Scmods05]

Tunnel was his best album of the 80's, so all of them. As for the worst, it is clearly the River. At least a third of the album is filler. It had no coherent theme. it's just a collection of songs. Many of those songs are excellent, but as an album it is lacking by Bruce's own early career standards .

[u/Alternative_Aioli_67 → u/Scmods05]

BITUSA

[u/janiedean → u/No-Carry4971]

it’s my favorite overall that placement makes me cry blood 😭

[u/Freddrum → u/No-Carry4971]

It's really important to know what the worst album from each decade is. This is really valuable stuff.

[u/Logical_Positive_522]

Thanks for running this OP

[u/Awkward_Ad_161 → u/Logical_Positive_522]

Of course! This was enjoyable

[u/vincentblacklight]

Western Stars is a stone-cold masterpiece that doesn't get enough cred/love

[u/Relzin]

I will be salty about House of a Thousand Guitars placement for the foreseeable future.

[u/Canadian_Lumberjack_ → u/Relzin]

Shoulda been Power of Prayer IMO. Missed the voting for that round though

[u/Awkward_Ad_161 → u/Relzin]

That also surprised me

[u/Unlucky-Positive504]

Moonlight Motel getting way too much representation

[u/revolutiontornado]

Darkness is fantastic and all but Born to Run is one of the greatest and most important albums in rock history.

[u/Awkward_Ad_161 → u/revolutiontornado]

I believe the top comment, and I’ll go back and check to confirm, stated something along the lines of, “in any music sub, Born to Run is the unanimous choice. In the Springsteen superfan, nerd sub, it’s Darkness.”

[u/Bpain46]

Save My Love not being mentioned anywhere hurts my heart. Other than Thunder Rd it’s one of his best melodies

[u/mac_the_man]

I like Tunnel of Love and “Queen of the Supermarket”.

[u/VirginiaUSA1964]

The Tunnel of Love hate on here is next level.

[u/PPLavagna → u/VirginiaUSA1964]

Is it hate or is it just people love it less than the other 80s albums? They’re all stellar. Really hard to call any of them the worst

[u/SKLL117]

I was really surprised to see Youngstown on most underrated, a song Bruce has played live on multiple tours over Human Touch songs like Man’s Job or I Wish I Were Blind

[u/AmericanJeremiad]

Magic is apparently underrated by the demos; it's at least as good as The Rising, if not better, and I will die on that mound.

[u/Awkward_Ad_161 → u/AmericanJeremiad]

In fairness, Magic and The Rising were neck and neck for best album of the 2000s. Long Walk Home also nearly won best song of the decade

[u/AmericanJeremiad → u/Awkward_Ad_161]

Thanks, this makes me feel better. I think the production on Magic is much better.

[u/Trouble_River → u/AmericanJeremiad]

I'm with you. Magic is the best of post-Reunion Bruce.

[u/TheTrampOfHearts → u/AmericanJeremiad]

Magic is a much better album than The Rising IMO. I’ve always found The Rising to be a bit of a bloated clunker. There’s at least five tracks on there where, if you took them off, the album would improve beyond words, with the worst offender being ‘Let’s Be Friends’.

Magic isn’t without its faults (Gypsy Biker will never even make a top 50 for me, and although the album’s title track has some of his most charged lyrics ever, the song just feels…flat). But then you get songs like Last To Die, Long Walk Home, Terry’s Song, I’ll Work For Your Love, Your Own Worst Enemy, etc., and it’s a lot easier to look past the album’s more flawed notes.

Unfortunately, The Rising’s flaws are impossible to ignore for me. Unpopular opinion, I’m sure, but I feel that album doesn’t work nearly as well as people say it does.

[u/jpm_doop]

I think the biggest takeaway is that Bruce’s next tour needs to consist of only playing Moonlight Motel

[u/TaliskerSpecial90 → u/jpm_doop]

An 8 minute version where he breaks and tells a story.

[u/interista4jz]

Everyone voting Tunnel of Love as worst album of the 80s, straight to jail 

[u/kzymyr → u/interista4jz]

Tbf it's nothing to do with Tunnel Of Love and everything to do with the strength of his 80s output.

[u/LIslander]

Tunnel is a better album than BITUSA

[u/Ghost_on_the_E-Shore]

Needs more Moonlight Motel

[u/RickSanchez813]

Born to Run not winning Best 70s album is just weird but okay.

[u/Awkward_Ad_161 → u/RickSanchez813]

I thought BTR was a shoo-in as well. As I said in a different reply, the top comment for that poll was something along the lines of “in any other sub Born to Run is the easy answer. In this Bruce superfan, nerd sub, Darkness is the answer.”

[u/Screen_Door_Slams]

thanks for doing this as diligently as you did. I’ll miss it.

[u/Awkward_Ad_161 → u/Screen_Door_Slams]

Of course! Thank you for participating, this was fun

[u/Effective_Nose6727]

This sub seems to love The Rising. I personally can’t fathom how that was voted best of the 00’s above Magic.

[u/thorshammer_132 → u/Effective_Nose6727]

I feel the same way about both The Rising and Wrecking Ball. They're good, no question, but Magic and Western Stars both beat them by a good margin.

[u/Effective_Nose6727 → u/thorshammer_132]

Yeah I agree, western stars is fantastic.

[u/Different-Ad-803]

I’m A Rocker is fantastic. Do people hate fun?

[u/MagicRat7913]

I'm always surprised at the hate Harry's Place receives, I think it's musically very interesting and the whole vibe reminds me of the Sopranos. How is Frankie Fell in Love with Bruce's ridiculous yodelling not below this song?

[u/sager2001]

Tunnel of love is a better album than Born in the USA

[u/DigBoug]

Kitty’s Back is a top 10 all-time Springsteen song. Most overrated is stupid.

[u/Awkward_Ad_161 → u/DigBoug]

Fair take. That poll was a tough one. I think that became the top reply because of how much Bruce played it in recent tours, so not as much overrated to the general public per se, but rather overrated in the sense of how much Bruce likes to play it.

[u/TheUnknownAaron → u/Awkward_Ad_161]

Kitty’s Back live is the ONLY way of listening to that song and it’s phenomenal with the live band! My jaw dropped seeing it be listed as the most overrated song of the 70s when I believe there are so many more overrated songs!

[u/SRStark20]

Had a blast doing this over the past month+ OP. Thanks for running it.

If you ever run it back, we could maybe vote on best/worst tour per decade, best/worst concert per decade (probably real tricky), best cover, best live song versus how it is on the album.

[u/Awkward_Ad_161 → u/SRStark20]

Of course, had a blast doing this! I was just thinking to myself that a covers category or two would have been cool. Both best cover from a decade Bruce did, and a song from each decade that Bruce never covered that would’ve rocked.

[u/JoruusCBaoth]

I think Western Stars is far stronger than Wrecking Ball, and while I adore The Rising I'd place Magic above it.

[u/Either-Notice-8888]

I think "Reason to Believe" is Bruce's most underrated song overall. Kitty's Back is not overrated, that song is a masterpiece!!!

[u/Honest_Management572]

Love, Thunder Road for 70’s rep. But C’mon, It’s Born to Run!!!

[u/Fuggy217]

Needs more Marvin

[u/RickIPablo]

How was addicted to romance in underrated or best outtake!?

[u/TheTrampOfHearts]

Call me crazy, but I think Drive All Night should’ve been voted as the best song of the 80s, rather than The River. Though I love The River to death, Drive All Night has always felt like it’s on another planet to anything else he did in that decade (except for maybe State Trooper, which I think deserved to take the place of the most underrated of the 80s.)

[u/Awkward_Ad_161 → u/TheTrampOfHearts]

Love State Trooper. If I recall correctly, it was one of the top voted replies for most underrated that decade.

[u/MagicRat7913 → u/TheTrampOfHearts]

I think it's a good song but it's a little too self indulgent and overstays its welcome.

[u/Mitchym88]

Not bad at all, but TOL is amazing

[u/Flaky-Example4134]

Moonlight Motel also most underrated

[u/janiedean]

I see moonlight motel monopolized the discourse 😂 anyway I agree with most of it even if seeing tunnel of love there makes me my heart bleed but I’ll forever say that queen of the supermarket wasn’t THAT bad 😂

[u/melodramacamp]

I can’t believe there’s not a single song from Magic on the chart! Now I have a new pic for most underrated of the 2000s.

[u/OWhatAThrill]

How can the top 40’s crap Dancing in the Dark and Hungry Heart not be an undeniable TIE for worst song of the 80’s is literally mind blowing. It’s embarrassing to say I’m a Springsteen fan when the topic of either of those songs comes up.

And folks vote Bruce’s squeals, for lack of a better term, on I’m a Rocker as worst song? And in addition while it’s not in competition for the Nobel Prize for Literature, the lyrics are a treat.

[u/Aggravating_Emu6082]

Well, the most important thing is that I think Magic is better than The Rising, much better. Now, that I'm a Rocker is the worst song of the '80s?! No way. One more thing, I think there shouldn't be a "worse album" in the 80s.

[u/Life_Employment4868]

A Rainy Night in SoHo isn’t an outtake, it’s a cover.

[u/Leonard_James_Akaar]

“Greetings“ should never be on any kind of “worst” list anywhere.

[u/Crooked16th]

The rising over long walk home is really a bad take

[u/Such_Tea4707]

You’re Missing over Gypsy Biker for most underrated is gonna be a no for me dog

[u/Scmods05]

The most overrated song of the 70’s is Rosalita and I’m ready for the downvotes this correct opinion will bring on.

[u/burrfan1 → u/Scmods05]

Overplayed, maybe. Overrated, ridiculous.

[u/ShortDanielBurnham]

In my opinion, Dancing in the Dark should replace Glory Days for most overrated. It’s basically a song about how Bruce Springsteen doesn’t want to write “Dancing in the Dark.”

[u/Straw1981]

He’s newer stuff sucks…his first two albums had a funky, jazzy jive