Question of the Day!

So, bit of history here: Springsteen released three albums in the 1980s. The one I linked was, as I said, 1987. Pretty much everyone knows Born in the USA, from 1984 (even though many people still think the title song jingoistic, because they don't listen to the lyrics, which is just plain wrong because Bruce is a poet and the song is a cutting condemnation of Reagan's USA).

The one before BitUSA, though, is kind of a niche thing. It's just Bruce, no band. Largely acoustic. Meant to be a demo tape, from what I've heard, recorded at home, minimal engineering, no frills, no "hits," no big concert halls, and mostly songs that probably could have made Leonard Cohen go, "Damn, that's really depressing." That album was titled Nebraska, and that's what the comments that you saw refer to. And yet there's only one line in one song on the whole album that mentions the state; it's more of a metaphorical title, referring, I think, to the beautiful desolation and the feeling of being stripped to the bare bones.

(This isn't just for you, Kåre เลียม Enga , but anyone else who might see the thread.)