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Nebraska by: Bruce Springsteen List Price: $11.98 CD-Charts Price: $10.99 You Save: $0.99 ( 8%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0074643835824 Label: Sony Manufacturer: Sony Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Sony Release Date: October 25, 1990 Studio: Sony Sales Rank: 2378 MPN: 38358 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Album Description: Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. Amazon.com essential recording: Hot on the heels of The River, his commercial breakthrough, Springsteen's decision to release the stark, demo-quality Nebraska seems downright perverse. But the genius of the album is unmistakable--with just an acoustic guitar and his howling harmonica to back him, Springsteen tells the stories of characters walking on both sides of the law, some of them directly on the line in between. The effect is that of a powerful series of black-and-white photographs--the details are bleak in and of themselves, but they ignite the imagination in ways that are more satisfying than full-color shots would be. "Mansion on the Hill," "Highway Patrolman," "Atlantic City," and the frightening "Nebraska" are among the most sharply rendered and memorable works of Springsteen's career. --Daniel Durchholz Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - The power is in the lyrics - you need to listen!Twelve and a half years after the release of his debut, Greetings from Asbury Park N.J. and two years after The River was delivered, Bruce Springsteen gave us Nebraska. This 1982 record represented an abrupt change in direction for this most popular of American artists. Springsteen's new course was so surprising and dramatic that you would be hard-pressed to find adequate words to describe it to a fan who had not yet been exposed. Gone are the horns; gone are Springsteen's electric guitar solos; gone are the anthems. We are no longer cruising in Jersey. We have moved to the mid-west and we are running from murder. Rock music is replaced by folk music - not gentle folk music either, but, rather, sparse music that is roots-driven, edgy and minimalist. ... Read More: Rating:  - Tales of cops and robbersIf you painted pictures from these songs, they'd be in starkest black and white with splashes of red. The music itself is stark--just Bruce singing with his guitar and a harmonica howling sharp. The title track is probably one of the scariest songs I have ever heard. The opening lyrics will make your hair stand up on end: "I saw her standin' on her front lawn just twirlin' her baton Me and her went for a ride sir and ten innocent people died" If Bruce isn't talking killers, he's talking cops. In "Highway Patrolman", Sgt Joe Roberts has got to put up with family trouble: "Now ever since we was young kids it's been the same come down I get a call over the radio Franky's in trouble downtown ... Read More: Rating: - Rusty metalTake your car on a late afternoon and drive to a wide open place far from the city, with short wild vegetation and rocky mountains in the background. Find a spot beside the road where to park your car, get off and walk to some old abandoned rusty car frame. Sit down, while the sun is setting and the soft wind is clanging against and through the metal. Listen. This is Nebraska. Rating: - Through to the badlands of Wyoming ...The atmospheric sound of this classic album is made up of only voice, guitar and harmonica. The stories are told in compelling imagery over stately melodies. Although the sentiment is deeply melancholic, the promise of redemption is never entirely absent. Places like Lincoln, Atlantic City, Ohio, Michigan, New Jersey, Johnstown, Wyoming and Linden Town provide the setting for these tales of nostalgia, trouble and heartbreak. If you've seen the 1973 movie Badlands (Sissy Spacek and Martin Sheen) you'll have a more profound understanding of the title track. Both it and Mansion on the Hill are slow and mournful whilst Atlantic City has a lilting beat and Johnny 99 is edgy with its nervous guitar riffs that also infuse State Trooper, a song that ... Read More: Rating: - I love this one...Sparse, stark and brilliant--Springsteen at his best--all alone with just an acoustic guitar and a harmonica. When I first heard this one(many years ago) I wasn't quite sure what to make of it, but after a couple more listens it grew on me more and more until it really became one of my favorite Springsteen albums. I love his stuff with the E St. Band, but this is a nice change of pace--The Boss at his basic best.Give this one a couple of serious listens and I bet you'll come away feeling the same. |
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