It's a good song, but if that's the only Bruce Springsteen song in your top 100, I think you may need to hear more of his catalogue.
Yes, it is, it's about this guy who is dying from AIDS and it was on the Philadelphia soundtrack. Besides from the lyrics, I really like the music as well. What could easily have turned into an overwaught song is instead full of melancholy and this is also reflected in how he sings it. I think he has a great voice.
Here are 100 songs I love (in no particular order). I've gone for no more than one song from each act:
1) the Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
2) Otis Redding - Sittin on the Dock of the Bay
3) the Four Tops - Reach Out I'll Be There
4) Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
5) the Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
6) Cher - Just Like Jesse James
7) Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
8) Babylon Zoo - Spaceman
9) Metallica - Enter Sandman
10) Foo Fighters - Everlong
11) Biffy Clyro - Living is a Problem and then you Die
12) Toto - Africa
13) Pilot - January
14) Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
15) Pet Shop Boys - What Have I Done to Deserve This?
16) Prince - Purple Rain
17) Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
18) Take That - Rule the World
19) Bryan Adams - Thought I'd Died and Gone to Heaven
20) Suzanne vega - Luka
21) Funeral for a Friend - Into Oblivion
22) Madonna - Like a Prayer
23) Talk Talk - Life's What You Make It
24) ABC - When Smokey Sings
25) Don Henley - the Boys of Summer
26) the Shamen - Ebenezer Goode
27) Feeder - Lost and Found
28) Ash - There's a Star
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Here are 100 songs I love (in no particular order). I've gone for no more than one song from each act:
1) the Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
2) Otis Redding - Sittin on the Dock of the Bay
3) the Four Tops - Reach Out I'll Be There
4) Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
5) the Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
6) Cher - Just Like Jesse James
7) Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
8) Babylon Zoo - Spaceman
9) Metallica - Enter Sandman
10) Foo Fighters - Everlong
11) Biffy Clyro - Living is a Problem and then you Die
12) Toto - Africa
13) Pilot - January
14) Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
15) Pet Shop Boys - What Have I Done to Deserve This?
16) Prince - Purple Rain
17) Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
18) Take That - Rule the World
19) Bryan Adams - Thought I'd Died and Gone to Heaven
20) Suzanne vega - Luka
21) Funeral for a Friend - Into Oblivion
22) Madonna - Like a Prayer
23) Talk Talk - Life's What You Make It
24) ABC - When Smokey Sings
25) Don Henley - the Boys of Summer
26) the Shamen - Ebenezer Goode
27) Feeder - Lost and Found
28) Ash - There's a Star
29) Gerry Rafferty - baker Street
30) John Miles - Music
31) Garbage - Hammering in my Head
32) Cutting Crew - I Just Died in Your Arms
33) Michael Jackson - Thriller
34) Guns n Roses - November Rain
35) Bon Jovi - Keep the Faith
36) Primal Scream - Loaded
37) Hard Fi - Living for the Weekend
38) Modestep - Sunlight
39) System of a Down - Toxicity
40) Smokey Robinson - Tracks of my tears
41) Slipknot - All Hope is Gone
42) Skunk Anansie - Hedonism (Just Because You Feel Good)
43) Simon & Grafunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
44) Blondie - Atomic
45) Abba - fernando
46) Samantha Mumba - I'm Right Here
47) Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone
48) Saint Etienne - Who do you Think You Are
49) Paramore - Aint it Fun
50) Robbie Williams - She's the One
51) Sugarbabes - Freak Like Me
52) Savage Garden - to the Moon and Back
53) Nirvana - rape Me
54) Radiohead - Creep
55) Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
56) Level 42 - Living in the Family
57) Korn - Freak on a Leash
58) Inspiral Carpets - This is How it Feels
59) Eminem - Lose Yourself
60) Alice in Chains - Dirt
61) Chase & Status - Blind Faith
62) Christopher Cross - Ride like the Wind
63) Def Leppard - Animal
64) Depeche Mode - Personal jesus
65) Glenn Campbell - Wichita Lineman
66) Embrace - Ashes
67 - Heaven 17 - Temptation
68) the Human League - Don't You Want Me?
69) Linkin Park - In the End
70) Manic Street Preachers - Another Immortal Disease
71) the Lightning Seeds - Life of Riley
72) Oasis - Half the World Away
73) Nickelback - Never Again
74) New Order - True Faith
75) Electronic - Getting Away with It
76) the Hollies - Air that I Breathe
77) Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance
78) Bruce Springfield -Born in the USA
79) Thunderclap Newman - Something in the Air
80) Evanescence - Going Under
81) Gladys Knight - A Licence to Kill
82) Laura Branigan - Gloria
83) Nik Kershaw - Wouldn;t It Be Good?
84) Lostprophets - Hello Again
85) Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - AKA ... What a Life
86) ELO - Mr Blue Sky
87) Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
88) Puddle of Mudd - Blurry
89) Staind - Outside
90) Phil Collins & Philip Bailey - Easy Lover
91) Good Charlotte - Girls & Boys
92) - Bee Gees - Jive Talking
93) earth Wind & Fire - September
94) John Lennon - Imagine
95 - En Vogue - Don't Let Go
96)Faith no More - Epic
97) the Rasmus - In the Shadows
98) Duran Duran - Ordinary World
99) Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams
100 Kate Bush - Babooshka
Yes, it is, it's about this guy who is dying from AIDS and it was on the Philadelphia soundtrack. Besides from the lyrics, I really like the music as well. What could easily have turned into an overwaught song is instead full of melancholy and this is also reflected in how he sings it. I think he has a great voice.
Yes, it's a pity that most people have only heard a few of his "radio hits" like Born In The USA and Hungry Heart. Bruce Springsteen is a much more versatile writer and performer than he's given credit for.
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Yes, it is, it's about this guy who is dying from AIDS and it was on the Philadelphia soundtrack. Besides from the lyrics, I really like the music as well. What could easily have turned into an overwaught song is instead full of melancholy and this is also reflected in how he sings it. I think he has a great voice.
1) the Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
2) Otis Redding - Sittin on the Dock of the Bay
3) the Four Tops - Reach Out I'll Be There
4) Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
5) the Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
6) Cher - Just Like Jesse James
7) Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
8) Babylon Zoo - Spaceman
9) Metallica - Enter Sandman
10) Foo Fighters - Everlong
11) Biffy Clyro - Living is a Problem and then you Die
12) Toto - Africa
13) Pilot - January
14) Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
15) Pet Shop Boys - What Have I Done to Deserve This?
16) Prince - Purple Rain
17) Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
18) Take That - Rule the World
19) Bryan Adams - Thought I'd Died and Gone to Heaven
20) Suzanne vega - Luka
21) Funeral for a Friend - Into Oblivion
22) Madonna - Like a Prayer
23) Talk Talk - Life's What You Make It
24) ABC - When Smokey Sings
25) Don Henley - the Boys of Summer
26) the Shamen - Ebenezer Goode
27) Feeder - Lost and Found
28) Ash - There's a Star
29)
1) the Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
2) Otis Redding - Sittin on the Dock of the Bay
3) the Four Tops - Reach Out I'll Be There
4) Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
5) the Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
6) Cher - Just Like Jesse James
7) Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
8) Babylon Zoo - Spaceman
9) Metallica - Enter Sandman
10) Foo Fighters - Everlong
11) Biffy Clyro - Living is a Problem and then you Die
12) Toto - Africa
13) Pilot - January
14) Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
15) Pet Shop Boys - What Have I Done to Deserve This?
16) Prince - Purple Rain
17) Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
18) Take That - Rule the World
19) Bryan Adams - Thought I'd Died and Gone to Heaven
20) Suzanne vega - Luka
21) Funeral for a Friend - Into Oblivion
22) Madonna - Like a Prayer
23) Talk Talk - Life's What You Make It
24) ABC - When Smokey Sings
25) Don Henley - the Boys of Summer
26) the Shamen - Ebenezer Goode
27) Feeder - Lost and Found
28) Ash - There's a Star
29) Gerry Rafferty - baker Street
30) John Miles - Music
31) Garbage - Hammering in my Head
32) Cutting Crew - I Just Died in Your Arms
33) Michael Jackson - Thriller
34) Guns n Roses - November Rain
35) Bon Jovi - Keep the Faith
36) Primal Scream - Loaded
37) Hard Fi - Living for the Weekend
38) Modestep - Sunlight
39) System of a Down - Toxicity
40) Smokey Robinson - Tracks of my tears
41) Slipknot - All Hope is Gone
42) Skunk Anansie - Hedonism (Just Because You Feel Good)
43) Simon & Grafunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
44) Blondie - Atomic
45) Abba - fernando
46) Samantha Mumba - I'm Right Here
47) Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone
48) Saint Etienne - Who do you Think You Are
49) Paramore - Aint it Fun
50) Robbie Williams - She's the One
51) Sugarbabes - Freak Like Me
52) Savage Garden - to the Moon and Back
53) Nirvana - rape Me
54) Radiohead - Creep
55) Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
56) Level 42 - Living in the Family
57) Korn - Freak on a Leash
58) Inspiral Carpets - This is How it Feels
59) Eminem - Lose Yourself
60) Alice in Chains - Dirt
61) Chase & Status - Blind Faith
62) Christopher Cross - Ride like the Wind
63) Def Leppard - Animal
64) Depeche Mode - Personal jesus
65) Glenn Campbell - Wichita Lineman
66) Embrace - Ashes
67 - Heaven 17 - Temptation
68) the Human League - Don't You Want Me?
69) Linkin Park - In the End
70) Manic Street Preachers - Another Immortal Disease
71) the Lightning Seeds - Life of Riley
72) Oasis - Half the World Away
73) Nickelback - Never Again
74) New Order - True Faith
75) Electronic - Getting Away with It
76) the Hollies - Air that I Breathe
77) Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance
78) Bruce Springfield -Born in the USA
79) Thunderclap Newman - Something in the Air
80) Evanescence - Going Under
81) Gladys Knight - A Licence to Kill
82) Laura Branigan - Gloria
83) Nik Kershaw - Wouldn;t It Be Good?
84) Lostprophets - Hello Again
85) Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - AKA ... What a Life
86) ELO - Mr Blue Sky
87) Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
88) Puddle of Mudd - Blurry
89) Staind - Outside
90) Phil Collins & Philip Bailey - Easy Lover
91) Good Charlotte - Girls & Boys
92) - Bee Gees - Jive Talking
93) earth Wind & Fire - September
94) John Lennon - Imagine
95 - En Vogue - Don't Let Go
96)Faith no More - Epic
97) the Rasmus - In the Shadows
98) Duran Duran - Ordinary World
99) Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams
100 Kate Bush - Babooshka
Yes, it's a pity that most people have only heard a few of his "radio hits" like Born In The USA and Hungry Heart. Bruce Springsteen is a much more versatile writer and performer than he's given credit for.