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Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen
"Last night I dreamed that I
was a child/Out where the pines
grow wild and tall."
That sums up Bruce Spring
steen's feelings on his new solo
album, "Nebraska " It's the
feeling of hearing Springsteen
for the first time, innocently and
without prior expectations
Because this album was so
shrouded in secrecy and didn't
utilize the vast talents of the E
Street Band, even hardcore
Springsteen fans had no idea
what it would sound like
“Nebraska’ doesn't sound
like any of Springsteen's five
previous albums, including the
often-mediocre "The River "
But despite critics' claims, it
isn't exactly a sparse, primitive
sound Using mainly acoustic
guitar and harmonica, a little
light electric guitar and some
occasional organ and echo,
Springsteen weaves a decep
tively intricate framework of
sound
Lyrically, the songs deal with
familiar territory: passions
between brothers, down and
out people, his father and even
a token car song What distin
guishes 'Nebraska" is that
these familiar themes are not
transformed into anthems like
"Born to Run" or "Prove it all
Night," but are left without easy
resolutions
On an artistic level, "Nebras
ka" is a wise move By not
releasing a typical Bruce
Springsteen album,' Spring
steen forces both admirers and
detractors to listen carefully
Secondly, this album should
save Springsteen from the trap
of being both a popular and
critically acclaimed artist who
always has to balance commer
cial concessions against critics'
expectations
For now, though, Bruce
Springsteen has released his
most personal album, a some
times gloomy album with no
cheap answers The songs on
Nebraska' deal with emotions
and feelings, the very things that
give real people a "Reason to
Believe "
MEN AT WORK
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Who Can It Be Now
Men At Work
It is usually a bad sign when
the first album by an unknown
group yields a Top 40 single
The automatic assumption is
that the band isn't too talented,
but just followed a hot style
Men at Work, a new Aus
tralian band (remember Cold
Chisel?), and the group's debut
album, "Business as Usual,'’
almost avoids this problem
What is troubling, is that "Busi
ness as Usual'" is so instantly
likeable one expects to find
some hidden flaw But after six
close listenings it still sounds
good
The hit single, Who Can It Be
Now?," is a great Top 40 song
Its picture of a paranoid locked
in his house to avoid bill collec
tors is a rather vivid cut The
song has a good beat, is very
danceable and I give it about an
80
Every album should have a
highlight, although with quite a
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