Bruce Springsteen names his ‘top five’ songs from his discography – including title track from classic album

Bruce Springsteen has picked the “top five” of his own discography, and included a title track from one of his very best albums.

The Boss is spoilt for choice when choosing his career-best works, and was asked for his five favourites during an interview with Stephen Colbert. Springsteen confirmed his favourites included three of his biggest hits, though he also left room for a classic track from one of his more recent albums. The “tough” question was put to The Boss, who made quick work of listing his top five. Springsteen recently released the Land of Hope and Dreams EP, a selection of songs recorded at the first show on his tour of the same name. Springsteen performed Bob Dylan’s Chimes of Freedom, along with a series of his hits and hometown classics in a set openly critical of President Donald Trump.

The Land of Hope and Dreams tour has since continued on to France, with Springsteen also set to play gigs in Germany, Spain, and Italy. In an interview preceding the tour, Springsteen suggested his five favourites were his hits, and a track which has not received the same legendary status as the likes of Born in the U.S.A or 10th Avenue Freeze Out.

Springsteen said: “Born to Run. I guess for me, The Rising is a big song. What do we play every night? Thunder Road. But Nebraska was a good one. I’m trying to skip around, I’ll go Jungleland, or Racing in the Street that was a good one.”

Despite picking six songs for his top five, Springsteen’s selections narrowed down his hits, with many fans praising The Boss for his tough choices, while others picked their favourites. Comments on the YouTube post had some lesser-known songs selected by dedicated fans.

One user wrote: “I’m Goin’ Down. Because The Night. Radio Nowhere. Brilliant Disguise. Prove It All Night.” Another added: “An impossible task but here goes: Thunder Road, Promised Land, Racing in the Street, Darkness on the Edge of Town, Land of Hope and Dreams.”

In a separate interview, Springsteen picked the eight songs he could not live without, citing Dylan’s Like a Rolling Stone, The Beatles’ I Want to Hold Your Hand, and The Rolling Stones’ It’s All Over Now as three of his all-time favourite songs.

He said of the Dylan penned Like a Rolling Stone: “Like a Rolling Stone’ feels like a torrent that comes rushing towards you. Floods your soul, floods your mind. Alerts and wakes you up instantaneously to other worlds, other lives.

“Other ways of being. It’s perhaps one of the most powerful records ever made, and it still means a great deal to me along with all of Dylan’s work.”