Definitely Springsteen's best CD. Already when I pull the album out of the closet and my look at the cover falls, countless memories are highly swept. Black and white is the tattered cover photo, the font in oversized red letters. A view from inside the car, the road loses itself on the horizon in the void. No more radiant sky, clouds instead, as "un-American", after all, appeared Nebraska 1982 amid the Cold War, there were less critical aspects of artists usually asked. On the hood is dirty snow, the light is diffused. An unadorned piece of land, and it is this sentiment is reflected in the music. In Nebraska Springsteen returns the E-Street Band for the first time to the back. It is his first solo album, full of ballads, nothing but Springsteen's guitar and his harmonica. It is about the simple man on the street who has no future ("Thunder Road") and must be motivated every day anew ("how at the end of every hard earned day - People find some reason to believe"). It's about the poor, who have not lost their pride ("Mansion On The Hill"), it comes to highway police, but also a serial killer comes to word ("Johnny 99"). It's about simple everyday images to the moon, to the murmur of cornfields in the wind. It is significant that Nebraska has achieved no real hit - respect, Springsteen is unfaithful, it was but a few years earlier called "the future of rock 'n' roll. Nebraska is an artistic oeuvre, a road movie, the liking less a matter of musical taste is as a matter of attitude.
