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Title:
Nebraska (Japanese Remaster)
Description:
Scaruffi: 6.5/10
River marks the definitive consecration of Springsteen as a folk hero. But two years later Springsteen doubles back and records Nebraska, in the most ascetic style of folk (guitar and harmonica), an homage to his background and an opportunity to redress his vocal chords. His cold street ballads are sung mutedly (Highway Patrolman) with hints of Guthrie, of dust and sweat, of American Graffiti and of the beat generation. Nostalgic rhetoric propagates stories of history, drama, desolation and jail (Nebraska) which deviate from the grit and enthusiasm that have marked all previous endeavors of the hero. The unifying theme is the struggle to survive in the age of Reaganomics. The most compelling ballads are those (Johnny 99, State Trooper, and the masterpiece, Open All Night) punctuated by an accentuated rhythm that puts on a neurotic and hallucinatory air to the moral scenery of the stories of failure. Nebraska is a sullen and haunting record, which presents the point of view of the working class, powerless victims of moral indignities.
Christgau: A-
Nebraska [Columbia, 1982]
Literary worth is established with the title tune, in which Springsteen’s Charlie Starkweather becomes the first mass murderer in the history of socially relevant singer-songwriting to entertain a revealing thought--wants his pretty baby to sit in his lap when he gets the chair. Good thing he didn’t turn that one into a rousing rocker, wouldn’t you say, though (Hüsker Dü please note) I grant that some hardcore atonality might also produce the appropriate alienation effect. But the music is a problem here--unlike, er, Dylan, or Robert Johnson, or Johnny Shines or Si Kahn or Kevin Coyne, Springsteen isn’t imaginative enough vocally or melodically to enrich these bitter tales of late capitalism with nothing but a guitar, a harmonica, and a few brave arrangements. Still, this is a conceptual coup, especially since it’s selling. What better way to set right the misleading premise that rock and roll equals liberation? A-
River marks the definitive consecration of Springsteen as a folk hero. But two years later Springsteen doubles back and records Nebraska, in the most ascetic style of folk (guitar and harmonica), an homage to his background and an opportunity to redress his vocal chords. His cold street ballads are sung mutedly (Highway Patrolman) with hints of Guthrie, of dust and sweat, of American Graffiti and of the beat generation. Nostalgic rhetoric propagates stories of history, drama, desolation and jail (Nebraska) which deviate from the grit and enthusiasm that have marked all previous endeavors of the hero. The unifying theme is the struggle to survive in the age of Reaganomics. The most compelling ballads are those (Johnny 99, State Trooper, and the masterpiece, Open All Night) punctuated by an accentuated rhythm that puts on a neurotic and hallucinatory air to the moral scenery of the stories of failure. Nebraska is a sullen and haunting record, which presents the point of view of the working class, powerless victims of moral indignities.
Christgau: A-
Nebraska [Columbia, 1982]
Literary worth is established with the title tune, in which Springsteen’s Charlie Starkweather becomes the first mass murderer in the history of socially relevant singer-songwriting to entertain a revealing thought--wants his pretty baby to sit in his lap when he gets the chair. Good thing he didn’t turn that one into a rousing rocker, wouldn’t you say, though (Hüsker Dü please note) I grant that some hardcore atonality might also produce the appropriate alienation effect. But the music is a problem here--unlike, er, Dylan, or Robert Johnson, or Johnny Shines or Si Kahn or Kevin Coyne, Springsteen isn’t imaginative enough vocally or melodically to enrich these bitter tales of late capitalism with nothing but a guitar, a harmonica, and a few brave arrangements. Still, this is a conceptual coup, especially since it’s selling. What better way to set right the misleading premise that rock and roll equals liberation? A-
Band or Artist:
Bruce Springsteen
Release Year:
1982
Barcode:
4571191052162
Format:
CD
Genre:
Rock
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Date Added:
2018-06-28 16:45:26
Date Added:
2018-06-28 16:45:26
