Badlands: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska explained

Badlands: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
Type:Compilation
Artist:Various artists
Cover:Badlands_-_a_tribute_to_nebraska.jpg
Released:November 7, 2000
Genre:Rock, folk
Length:55:27
Label:Sub Pop
Producer:Jim Sampas

Badlands: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska is a tribute album containing songs by artists inspired and influenced by Bruce Springsteen's 1982 album, Nebraska. It was released by Sub Pop Records in November 2000.

A portion of the worldwide sales of this record were donated to the Nobel Prize-winning organization Médecins Sans Frontières.[1]

The album received a favorable review from PopMatters, which wrote that it "succeeds because the original work was so strong. The people in these songs live. They walk our streets, put gas in our car, and cry alone at night. The artists that allow the voices of the characters to dominate the song, instead of overshadowing with their own persona, come out the best."[2] AllMusic said "This is more successful than most tribute albums ... though like virtually all tribute albums, it's uneven."

Notes and References

  1. Web site: BADLANDS – A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska . https://web.archive.org/web/20080316091029/http://ogami.subpop.com/bands/badlands/about.html . March 16, 2008 . March 16, 2008 . June 11, 2012.
  2. http://www.popmatters.com/review/various-badlands/