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“Land Of Hopes And Dreams” by Bruce Springsteen
“Land Of Hopes And Dreams” by Bruce Springsteen appears on 8 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 2012 and 2025. Its best result is #5 on the KFOG Foghead Favorites 2012. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #40 indie & aaa song of 2012 and #5,346 indie & aaa song of all time.
Bruce Springsteen played "Land of Hope and Dreams" on tour and put it on several live albums long before a studio version finally landed on Wrecking Ball in 2012, with Ron Aniello producing. He wrote it in 1998 or early 1999, before the E Street Band's 1999–2000 reunion tour, and it turned up on that tour's Live in New York City.
It came at the end of a decade in which Springsteen had split from the E Street Band, remarried, started a family and released hardly any rock music, and he later admitted he'd been struggling to find his rock voice. The song sounds like the cure. Even the mandolin riff had a past: it first turned up on "Labor of Love", from Joe Grushecky's 1995 album American Babylon, which Springsteen played on. In 2012 TBS made it the theme of its Major League Baseball postseason coverage.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
Classic Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | KFOG San Francisco Bay Area, CA | KFOG Foghead Favorites 2012 | 40 |
| 2012 | 31 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2012 | 107 |
| 2012 | 118 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2012 | 200 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 506 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
| 2020 | 1092 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2024 | 877 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2024) | 1043 |
| 2024 | 367 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 263 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
Also listed as: Land of Hope and Dreams; Land Of Hope And Dreams; Land of Hope And Dreams.
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