Phew. And nice pick.

Goddammit!!

Thanks KD. I'm glad that was not taken as I really wanted a BitU era track on my team.

I think it speaks volumes that Bruce can have songs as good as "Rockaway the Days" lying around and not be able to find space for them on an album proper.

Teams are looking good guys.

Now to work on my YouTube playlist.

So far with my picks I've been trying to split the difference between personal favorites and what I thought were the best songs available at the time, but for my last pick I'm going squarely with a personal favorite. This is one of my absolute most beloved Springsteen songs, from the vivid imagery in the lyrics to the lilt of the melody to the gentle empathy in Bruce's delivery. I think it's better than every song on the "Tom Joad" album, from which it is an outtake, and probably my favorite Bruce tune of the '90's (among some pretty paltry competition, admittedly -- this was almost certainly his weakest decade).

"Brothers Under the Bridge"

Saigon, it was all gone
The same Coke machines
As the streets I grew on
Down in a mesquite canyon
We come walking along the ridge
Me and the brothers under the bridge

Campsite's an hour's walk from the nearest road to town
Up here there's too much brush and canyon
For the CHP choppers to touch down
Ain't lookin' for nothin', just want to live
Me and the brothers under the bridge

Come the Santa Ana's, man, that dry brush'll light
Billy Devon got burned up in his own campfire one winter night
We buried his body in the white stone high up along the ridge
Me and the brothers under the bridge

Had enough of town and the street life
Over nothing you end up on the wrong end of someone's knife
Now I don't want no trouble
And I ain't got none to give
Me and the brothers under the bridge

I come home in '72
You were just a beautiul light
In your mama's dark eyes of blue
I stood down on the tarmac, I was just a kid
Me and the brothers under the bridge

Come Veterans' Day I sat in the stands in my dress blues
I held your mother's hand
When they passed with the red, white and blue
One minute you're right there ... and something slips...

That track is pretty great. I have been waiting for you to draft this.

The Wrestler

My team needed some upbeat pop with some positivity.

Save My Love

Brave pick 'sleep.

War

I bet I played that track 10,000 times when I was a kid. Like it better than the original. One of the most powerful performances I've ever heard.

So let the frozen sands crumble, crumble and fall!!

I Wanna Be With You

Fuck it, I enjoyed this song a lot as a younger me so I'm gonna go with some nostalgia: Part man part monkey

I've worked out what to do with Tremor's team. I'll wait for the final picks first though. I've got a bracket going but I'll need to get on a computer to sort it out. It may be tomorrow.

Hope Tremor's alright.

Maybe he just came to his senses and got out of RM before he turned into a filthy pun-monster like the rest of us.

Since that a-hole dct took my pick, I have no idea what I'm doing for my final. May need to revisit Tracks or Tunnel of Love. Maybe I'll hit up The River for 3 songs off that one.

"Roll of the Dice" is still available. You're welcome.

I haven't listened to any songs, other than Roll The Dice now, from Human Touch. Is the general consensus that this album and the one released around the same time are both some of his weaker offerings?

The Rising still has some songs left, I may grab something from it.

Can lowlight and I fight for 10th Ave Freeze Out?