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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...
Nebraska, an acoustic bypass through the American heartland, sounds a little like a Library of Congress field recording made out behind some shutdown auto plant. Springsteen recorded these songs at home, on a four-track Teac tape deck, and meant them to be demos for material he could do with the E Street Band. But the songs seemed to stand best on their own, unadorned, and that is the way they appear in the album, with just a minimum of technical refinement. Beginning with the title track, a bone chiller about Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate, the ten songs...
...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...