Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Having grown up in the area, people took sides on rock and roll, like everything else.

You were either a Billy Joel person, or a Bruce person (Bon Jovi came much much later and frankly, just doesn’t count).

Always was a Bruce person. But think his best song was Badlands. Most subversive? By a huge margin, it’s got to be Born in the USA. It sounds like a rock anthem, but it really can and should be played as a dirge (he’s played it acoustically in that fashion countless times). That you had people think it was an uplifting song like the GOP and Reaganites did ignoring what the lyrics actually said, speaks volumes.