Springsteen

I like Bob Seger and Bruce Springsteen and blues based southern rock like Lynerd Skynard. Maybe my musical tastes are just more evolved than some of the posters. Liking one doesn't mean you have to dislike the other. Even leaving aside the lyrics about working class New Jersey types the Boss and his band still crank out some hard driving rock and roll

 

I don't like everything he has done. Most of his late 80s and 90s albums are largely forgettable. He is making some really good music in the last 10 years or so. The stuff he did in the 70s and early 80s is top notch all time great stuff.

The dude does have 8 Rolling Stone top 500 Albums. That puts him in the same company as Elvis, The Who, Clapton, and Neil Young, and a shade behind The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Dylan. He is almost in-arguably one of the top American rockers

 

You are talking about a radio station from a city that voted McDonald's the best french fries and Papa Murphy's the best pizza.

 

During my freshman year at LSU ('95), the Eagle 98.1 had a top 100 (or maybe 1,000?) songs of all-time. It was spread over a few days at a specific time of night. My roomate and I had been trying to guess the songs in the top 10. When they got to about #8, that song "Blinded by the Light" came on. It was followed by a few other songs that were obviously not in the top 10.

It turns out that they decided not to finish the top 10 since it was kind of late at night. We were drinking and really into the top 10 but they just stopped it without any announcement. I still hate whenever I hear that Blinded by the Light song.

 

A lot of these so called polls decide the winners according to who spends the most money advertising on their station or magazine. 225 magazine always has a "Best Burger" or "Best Poboy" or Best whatever and if you look through the magazine the winners always have prominent display ads in the magazine.

I do remember some years ago when some radio station had best rock n roll song ever contest. Stairway to Heaven won