Badlands (track) by Bruce Springsteen
Year: 1978
From the album Darkness On The Edge Of Town (track #1)
Badlands appears on the following album(s) by Bruce Springsteen:
- Darkness On The Edge Of Town (track #1) (this album) (1978)
- The Essential Bruce Springsteen (track #9) (compilation) (2003)
- Greatest Hits (track #3) (compilation) (1995)
- The Album Collection: 1973-1984, Vol. 1 (track #25) (compilation) (2014)
- Chapter And Verse (track #9) (compilation) (2016)
- Collection: 1973-2012 (track #4) (compilation) (2013)
- Meadowlands Arena, East Rutherford, NJ July 25, 1992 (track #8) (2019)
- Boston 12/13/92 (track #8) (2021)
- Waldbühne, Berlin Germany. May 14, 1993 (track #9) (2022)
- Best Of Bruce Springsteen (track #5) (compilation) (2024)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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90/100  | 09/12/2025 21:11 |  genialbibi | | 92/100 |
85/100 | 07/19/2025 14:36 | machiaj | | 74/100 |
100/100 | 06/23/2025 03:28 | syd1967 | | 100/100 |
100/100 | 06/23/2025 03:25 | curtis80jd | | 100/100 |
100/100 | 06/09/2025 10:09 | ShenBapiro | | 78/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 86.3/100, a mean average of 85.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.6/100. The standard deviation for this track is 14.3.
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Fun rocking song, though a little bit campy. But it's an enjoyable, high-energy start to the album.
Great opening track. It does to, Darkness, what, Thunder road does to, Born to run. Now a constant in the Springsteen live set it's in Bruce's all time top ten for me. Great track.
This track is very much like a Bat Out of Hell single.
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