Happy Monday, folks! I was in a Bruce Springsteen mood over the weekend (thanks in large part to the release of Nebraska ’82), so here’s a list of ten of my favorite non-studio-album Bruce songs.

1. “Thundercrack”: This song always reminds me of “Rosalita.” It’s similarly-epic in scope and style, I feel, and features some great saxophone work from the Big Man.
2. “Losin’ Kind”: I’d never heard this song before this weekend, but damn is it haunting and more than a little troubling. The whole narrative around Nebraska and the man lost in the woods period feels very real here.
3. “Blood Brothers”: From the ’90s Greatest Hits collection, this sounds exactly like what you think a Bruce Springsteen song should sound like.
4. “Rockaway the Days”: The Boss is a strong storyteller, as seen in this song where a dude gets in a bar fight and then wraps his car around a tree.
5. “Follow That Dream”: From the recent Tracks II collection. Such a weird collection. Seven whole albums you recorded and never released? That’s a wild flex, Bruce.
6. “Johnny Bye Bye”: Is this song just a retelling of “Johnny B. Goode”? I think this song is just a retelling of “Johnny B. Goode.”
7. “Ain’t Good Enough for You”: Bruce has a lot of charisma, or “rizz” as the kids say these days. It’s hard to imagine someone rejecting him, but apparently it was a problem when he was younger? If this song is anything to go by, anyway.
8. “From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)”: Just a jumped-up blues song that’s way too much fun to sing.
9. “This Hard Land”: Another one of those Greatest Hits songs that just sounds like a quintessential Bruce song. It’s, like, the ur-material that all other Springsteen songs are extracted from.
10. “Open All Night (Electric Nebraska)”: One of my absolute favorite songs off of Nebraska, only with drums and bass.