New Jersey Musicians Are Well Represented On Best Songs List

New Jersey musicians are well-represented on a list of the 25 greatest songs of all time. Sort of.

This list of the greatest songs of all time was published by Rate Your Music, and it includes amazing tunes like Layla by Derek & The Dominoes and Yesterday by the Beatles.

New Jersey Artists Made The Best Songs List

25 songs is a short list, so having any representation by New Jersey musicians would be special.

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As it turns out, New Jersey has two, not one representative on the list, even though one of the songwriters might not be a name that comes to your mind when you think of Garden State celebrities.

Undoubtedly, you have already guessed that Bruce Springsteen is one of the Garden State stars on the list, and you'd be right.

Bruce Springsteen Is Among The Artists On This Best Songs List

This list has Born To Run as the #14 song of all time, but that's not the highest-ranking song from a New Jersey artist.

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If you go to #4 on this very solid list, you'll find Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water.

Many New Jersey residents forget the Paul Simon New Jersey connection. On October 13, 1941, Simon was born in Newark.

That means that New Jersey has a big part of the #4 song of all time, and with Bruce Springsteen added to the mix, this list proves that the Garden State is one of the strongest music states in America.

According to this article, the best songs of all time are (from 3 to 1) John Lennon's Imagine, Blowin' In The Wind by Bob Dylan, and the Beatles' A Day In The Life.