This is one Boss of a bracket.
A March Madness-style bracket had almost 200,000 fans vote on Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bruce Springsteen’s songs to determine which one is the best of all time.
Out of the 64 hits on the list, his 50-year-old anthem “Thunder Road” took the crown.
The rockin’ competition, which was created by the Asbury Park Press, came down to “Thunder Road” and “Born to Run” — both off Springsteen’s breakthrough 1975 album “Born to Run.”
The 20-time Grammy winner, who grew up in Freehold, wrote “Thunder Road,” its opening track — which ranks at No. 111 on Rolling Stone’s list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time — when he was just 24.
“Thunder Road was just so obviously an opening, due to its intro,” Springsteen told Brian Hiatt, author of the book “Bruce Springsteen: The Stories Behind the Songs.”
“There is something about the melody that just suggests ‘new day,’ it suggests morning. That’s why that song ended up first on the record, instead of ‘Born to Run.’ Which would’ve made sense, to put ‘Born to Run’ first on the album – [and we] still put it on the top of the second side.”
The other two tunes in the Final 4 were “Jungleland,” also off “Born to Run,” and “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight),” off Springsteen’s second album, “The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle.”
The other songs in the Elite 8 matchup included “Backstreets,” “The River,” “4th of July, Asbury Park” and “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out.”
This year is a big one for the rocker, a dad of three who has been married to his longtime love, singer and guitarist Patti Scialfa — whom he first laid eyes on at the Asbury Park watering hole The Stone Pony — since 1991.
His net worth has hit a staggering $1.2 billion, according to Forbes, putting him in the billionaire’s club for the first time. And the music legend is also the subject of an upcoming, highly buzzed-about biopic, “Deliver Me from Nowhere,” starring “The Bear’s” Jeremy Allen White.
Springsteen, now 75, stopped by the film’s Bayonne, NJ set and said he was momentarily taken aback by the sight of White, a three-time Golden Globe winner, portraying him.
“A little bit at first, but you get over that pretty quick and Jeremy is such a terrific actor that you just fall right into it,” Springsteen told SiriusXM host Jim Rotolo.
“He’s got an interpretation of me that I think the fans will deeply recognize and he’s just done a great job, so I’ve had a lot of fun. I’ve had a lot of fun being on the set when I can get there.”
