Word: springsteen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel risk big and score...
...pure products of America go crazy," William Carlos Williams said. The new albums by a couple of rock's most formidable figures, Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel, use that kind of down-home craziness as a centerpiece, setting it out for examination like a death's head on a coffee table. Springsteen's haunted and haunting Nebraska, Joel's hallucinatory The Nylon Curtain are not just tours across some nightmare landscape. They are not mere descriptions of madness. They are about the process of contemporary craziness, and they are devastating...
KEEP THE FAITH--that's been the standard Springsteen line. But the racing in the street, pretty darlings and rockin' and reelin' which have filled life's empty spaces in previous songs don't quite suffice in Nebraska. Springsteen addresses this familiar and reassuring theme in the album's final song, but the track, "Reason to Believe," is not so comfy. Here the narrator distances himself from his own chorus: "Struck me kinda funny, funny yea indeed, how at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe." On this album, Springsteen addresses more directly...
...addressing disturbing topics so unequivocally, Springsteen has markedly added to his accomplishments. With The Boss around, there will always be a reason to turn on the stereo and plunk down $15 for a concert...
Townshend has a tortured, pessimistic view of the world. He paints, not unlike Bruce Springsteen, pictures of shattered dreams and lost illusions. And there are no easy answers. "People are suffering," growls Daltrey, "I'll sing it again...