Howard Stern Dubs 'The Rising' As The Best Bruce Springsteen Song

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Well, it's settled. "The Rising" is the best song Bruce Springsteen ever, as proven by the one and only, Howard Stern.

A fan wrote in to The Stern Show with the burning question: what is the best Bruce Springsteen song? "When I got this message, I listened through the entire catalog," Stern said.

It took him four days. And in the end, "The Rising" is the musical rendition that stuck with him.

"I wonder how that guy feels about it," Robin pondered. Perhaps we'll hear the caller weigh in on Stern's choice.

It was a very musical morning on The Stern Show Monday.

With the corpse of Casey Kasem gone from the show's bit line up, Stern counted the top 5 songs down himself. Stephen Hawking "appeared" to cover a couple (like #5 "Bang, Bang"), and staying at number one, Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off."

Stern "sort of met Taylor Swift, but not really" at the New York Knicks game, Saturday night. He got a chance to look her over when she stood up to take a picture with Kate Upton, and finally concluded that she is, indeed hot.

He gave her a quick wave later in the night, and she didn't ignore him. She waved back. Another successful interaction for Howard Stern.

In a fitting array of events, it just so happened Swift was having a "Bruce Springsteen Week" last week.

Vulture.com reported: "It takes a special person to land two national magazine covers at the same time: Bruce Springsteen, Osama bin Laden ... and now Taylor Swift, whose haunting visage appears on the covers of both Time and Bloomberg Businessweek."