i bought this last week and it's amazing. the whole album is really eerie.I love all the songs on here esp "Highway Patrolman" and "My Fathers House". I need to get some more Springsteen cd's.

Nebraska is the first Boss album I bought. I still love this album a lot and it ranks among my favorites. 'State Trooper' is my favorite song, closely followed by 'Nebraska' and 'Atlantic City'.
I now own every Boss album, he's simply the best.

Eraserhead said:

I just bought Born to Run, my first (other than Lucky Town, which I didn't get too into). I've always heard about Nebraska, but I'm more into the rocking stuff right now. I might pick up The River next. Or even Live 75-85.

How would you rank his stuff?

1. Born To Run
2. Darkness on the edge of town
3. The Rising
4. Nebraska
5. Tunnel of Love
6. The River
7. Born in the USA
8. Devils and Dust
9. The Wild, the innocent and the E street shuffle
10. Greetings from Asbury Park
11. The ghost of Tom Joad
12. Lucky Town
13. Human Touch

And the great live set 1975-1985 is also a must.

BillieSparks said:

If you liked Nebraska, you should like Darkness On The edge of Town, The River, The Ghost of Tom Joad and Devils & Dust. They're similar thematically, if not musically.

The story behind Nebraska, in a nutshell, is that it was originally a demo tape Bruce recorded at home in New Jersey after the end of The River tour in 1981. He intended to record the songs with the E Street Band. Numerous attempts were made at this during 1982, but Bruce felt that the band performances lacked the spirit of the demo versions. He then recut the album solo in a proper studio, but again deemed these fresh takes way off the mark. He then decided to release the demo tape as it was - minus four songs: Born in the USA, Downbound Train, Child Bride (which was later reworked as the hugely inferior "Working On The Highway") and Losin' Kind (which was later rewritten as Highway 29 on the Tom Joad album - the original is much better). The original tape was sold - along with hours and hours of studio outtakes and demos from 1977-1983 - to bootleggers, allegedly by Mike Batlan, the guitar roadie who helped Bruce tape "Nebraska". Batlan sued Bruce in 1986. He lost the case.