For a long time I didn't rate any of Springsteen's music as really ownable, until I heard Nebraska! The LP was placed in my hands and I was told to listen!!! So I did.

I can't say I didn't like it, and after the third or fourth listen (especally to side A) I loved it. What struck most was the simplicity of the song's natures! Telling one story at a time, but in an unusual way! The line on the first track for example

'sir I guess there's just a meaness in this world'.

Strangely powerful throughout, but definitely side A, of the album.

The only Springsteen album I owned, until they remastered The River.

This album is as much NOT CRAP as an album can be.

It's a good album, yes, but I'm sick to the gills with having to hear people go on and on about its brilliance. Tom Waits gets similar treatment.

I can listen to "Nebraska" and "Frank's Wild Years," but I can't stand listening to people talk about them.

I've spent too many years in record stores and bands, I suppose.

So far, the one Springsteen album as a whole that I've ever really enjoyed. The atmosphere that this album gets is really something I'd want for my acoustic-only album. (Ironically, the one track that features electric guitar features the worst sound.) I don't know how they did it, but the recording sound is glorious for just one little four-track. Makes me want to go out and buy a used Tascam on the jiffy.

And the songs are that rarest of things for Springsteen: subtle, to a fault. So subtle that some of the melodies blend into each other, yes. But the lyrics throughout are often fantastically well-observed, and Springsteen's vocals are usually beautifully well done.

I wish I liked Bruce more than I do.

Bruce Springsteen can eat a poisoned dick for all I care.
All the music in the world and I'm gonna put a fucking Bruce Springsteen album on? Pffft.
Yeah, I doubt I'll ever get that desperate.

Fuck "The Boss".

Bruce Springsteen made this one good record, and he is a Suicide fan. That's all I got.

Hiwatt wrote:Fuck "The Boss".

Yeah fuck all that phony blue-collar bullshit rock. Mellencamp, Seger...all that shit.

It's s shame he passed away earlier today
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Springsteen



EDIT: Dammit! that was like 3 seconds!

These people must just sit there and wait