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Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska Audio CD

A fair review of the Bruce Springsteen "Nebraska" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Bruce Springsteen reviews here, or go back to the Bruce Springsteen tabs.

Bruce Springsteen Band: Bruce Springsteen
Title: Nebraska
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Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Nebraska 2: Atlantic City 3: Mansion on the Hill 4: Johnny 99 5: Highway Patrolman 6: State Trooper 7: Used Cars 8: Open All Night 9: My Father's House 10: Reason to Believe

One of the Boss's best
Outrageously different than anything he did before, this album proved that he could deliver a lyric as good or better without a band accompanying him. This album can only be described as excellent. Many of his greatest songs are on this album, including "Atlantic City" (my favorite "Boss" song), "Highway Patrolman", and "State Trooper". And this is for gary mack, some dude who gave this album a ONE STAR REVIEW. Springsteen sings these songs similar to the way he sang "Sandy" on the The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle, to get as much emotion from the songs as possible. This, along with the great lyrics makes this a landmark Springsteen album.

P. S. gary, "Mary Queen Of Arkansas" is from his first album "Greeting From Asbury Park, NJ", and is a very good song!.


Masterpiece
Existential heaviness dominates as the characters search for some kind of deliverance, be it returning to a girlfriend or facing execution. Nebraska -- an acoustic album with subtle electric touches. The songs, like the cover photo, are black and white desolation and starkness. The performances have the same intimacy and loneliness of old Folkways recordings. Through it all, a sense of honesty, integrity, and beauty resonates.

Nebraska may be Bruce Springsteen's best album. It is certainly one of the best I have ever heard.


IT IS BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN


I am not fond of Springsteen CD's without the E Street Band but this CD displays some of his best lyrical work. This CD was purchased for the original versions of "Open All Night" and "Reason To Believe".


It's bleak in Nebraska
Dylan would craft something beautiful, melodic, eloquent, twisty, like "Simple Twist of Fate" or "Shelter from the Storm. Anyone who gives Bruce Springsteen a guitar and a harmonica and expects the same results they'd get by giving Bob Dylan the same instruments is, well, not going to get what they expect. " On "Nebraska," Springsteen adheres to his "working-class hero" formula, minus the salvation, plotting ten tales of hopelessness brought to life through ghostly vocals, weepy harmonica, and stark guitar. The crown jewel is "Atlantic City. " Other draws include "Johnny 99," a sharp homage to Chuck Berry, the bitterly sarcastic "Reason to Believe," and the expected "troubles with father" tune ("My Father's House"). Even if these pieces don't excite you--and they certainly strike me--this man certainly has stories to tell.


Like listening to fingernails raking a chalkboard.

In "Nebraska", too many of Springsteen's songs play at a tempo not suitable for a man with limited singing ability. Without a doubt, if Bruce Springsteen's "Nebraska",were to be looped and played in the depths of hell, all of Satan's victims would scream for God's mercy. Without a catchy melody, or any accompaniment, the slow and depressing songs make you cringe with every note and new verse. It's like listening to fingernails raking a chalkboard.
Clint Eastwood said, "A man has to know his limitations. " Springsteen should have watched the movie. His scratchy and washed-out voice is not able to deliver on its own. If you've ever listened to Springsteen's, "Mary, My Queen of Arkansas," you'll know what I mean. That song came from his second album. Had a good friend advised him then, Springsteen wouldn't have put us through Nebraska.
(As an aside, with as big as he is, Clarence Clemons needs to be the enforcer in the group. Any time the, "Boss," tries to sing on his own the big man should whack him on the side of his head with his sax. )
Put aside the dull and banal rythms and you have to ask yourself, once you listen to the bleak lyrics, why any one would want to listen to such an album? It's like looking at carnage after a train wreck. After getting through it, I sweated, convinced myself I was suicidal, and made sure my Xanax pills were with me at all times. If you seek music that is uplifting, this is antithetical to anything you've ever listened to before.
"Nebraska," is all gloom and doom. It's dark without hope. The darlings of the left have tried to prop up the album as some type of historic ground breaking work of art. Tell me where? That's nothing but a payback for all of Springsteen's political activist work. Somehow, without the aid of an education, the Jersey wharf rat learned quickly how to further his career through his associations.
With this album, if you strip away your bias for him, you can't help but hope and pray Springsteen gets some voice lessons or never reads another Steinbeck novel.
A melancholy lyric coughed out by an overreaching singer is a lethal combination. .


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