my hero! bruce rules forever! how he sings this song is unique. i never heard a person doing like this. he shows all the feelings a prisoner and his crime can have. he is touching me, he is an outstaning performer and songwriter.
johnny 99 ist great also.
bruce, i`d like to work on your ranch, i want to have you as my "boss"!
I believe this song is about Charles Starkweather and Carol Ann Fugate. The two went on a killing spree in Lincoln Nebraska in 1957. Charles used a shotgun most of the time. Starkweather was electrocuted for his crime in 1959, Carol Ann got life but was paroled in 1976
What kushphog meant to say was: Not bad for a talented, 30 something Senorita from Spain who would break my heart in Spanish and my ignorant ass wouldn't even know I had just been OWNED!
i always thought that when he did this kind of stuff, it was some of his best music. I like the e-street music, it's alright, but i always thought none of it was as good as this and his Tom Joad album.
why is it that Nebraska's only notable historic events are all bad? Mall shooting, serial killer, tornados, dust bowl... Lewis and Clark didn't even stop.
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Gee I wonder about that. Starkweather goes on a killing spree. Robert Hawkins goes on a killing spree. Why do teenagers like to go on killing sprees there? Guess there's nothing else to do there.
made a movie of this terrible ballad. with Sheen. check it. fkn nutter. great song for a great tragedy. not sure what Bruce was thinking, must a been in the mind of Stark. Channnled him. though I doubt stark thought like this. hate and love this song.
I read that Bruce wanted a change from the big studio production so he recorded the "Nebraska" album in his bedroom on a 4-track recorder. He recorded the songs later with E-Street but trashed it and handed to Landau the demo from his bedroom. Bruce said he wanted it to be an album that you could listen to without the lights turned on. All his albums are great!
his name was charles starkwhether, i'm pretty sure he was the only serial killer nebraska has ever had. besides the huskers of course, they killed lots of people. and will return to kill again. just wait.
it's one of my alltime favorites. it is supposed to be spare, the songs are so depressings. i like how he did the recordings without any frills and studio nonsense. how many artists out now could do the same???
Sounds like you know a bit about TRAILER TRASH friend!!Question is, if you do not like, why do you listen?? You are obviously musically illiterate! Bruce is the BOSS! you don't like it, you don't listen to it! HELLO!!YEECCH to YOU! :(
Insofar as we define "something" as indicated primarily by the ephemeral plaudits of the rabble, I'd have to be a mongrel hermetic recluse not to have noticed that he's "something"; insofar as "something" connotes more perduring notions of surpassing aesthetic triumph wrested from the ubiquitous gravity of the mediocre and the ineluctable erasure of time, well, now, that's "something" altogether different...
Either way, I'm glad my snide snipe unexpectedly baited a few peevish ripostes. ;)
You need to get out more!Bruce is much more than something, what the hell planet have you been living on? Seems to me he is doin just fine my friend, His career spans over 35 years and he is still going strong and selling out his shows!You are on youtube checkin him out????? Hmmmm??
people, get back to the song. it is hypnotic and beautiful. it is about a massacre, but it doesn't make saddos like you need to get your knickers in a twist.
echocannon89 you don't know much about the history of this song do you... go research it.. it's about starkweather, the whole song is based on what he did and how he did it
warren buffet? what in the blue fuck are u on about? this song is about Charles Starkweather the guy who went on a killing spree with his girlfriend you dumb bastard. Warren buffet? jackass
No, it's about Warren Buffett. Bruce Springsteen is on the board of directors for Berkshire Hathaway and they have a very close relationship. Warren Buffett actually cowrote the song "Born to Run" w/ Bill Gates.
Please...i think everyone knows by now that this song is about Starkweather...he was a crazy guy...thats all we need to know..so can someone just leave a comment that this happens to be a great song?
go fuck yourself, seriously. RIP to a mass murderer imo...he was my great uncle and a psycho yes. but still a member of my family and I dont appreciate DOUCHEBAGS like you.
charles starkweather???? wow. that has to be a hard one to explain. people probably look at y'all funny, as if it is catching when they find out. he was your family, and as such, you have every right to love him, but hate what he did. even atillah the hun was someone's baby once.
This song has nothing to do with forgiveness or Christianity it is simply a story about Starkweather and his killing spree with his under age girl friend. Not everything has a hidden meaning. Just listen to the lyrics.
You know, Bruce was pitched as the "next Dylan" by his label in the early 70s when the industry was desperate for the next big singer/songwriter...when he arrived on the scene with his big band sound most people thought there was no validity to the comparison. I think Nebraska showed that there were was at least something to those comparisons.
there's nothing REMOTELY christian about this song - it's about the kind of compassion and tolerance that american's so-called 'christians' have long forgotten about...anyone who would ever even consider voting for george w bush is not, by definition, a christian.
No, the song is not Christian; but other than that rather obvious point, you have not one clue about what you are talking about whatsoever and it seems you, little old you, are the sum of all things and are so superior, you unabashedly cast your ill informed and pretentious aspersions on entire people groups based on...your ignorance .. bravo.
Yea well Im from rural Nebraska. My grandma actually KNEW Starkweather's girlfriend a couple years before the tragedy. I doubt that makes me special, but just thought I'd let you know.
Is there another song that's been written and sung the way it has that can descibe the compassion the singer feels for two "lost souls". Truely a very Christian example of forgiveness. I believe the man did indeed receive his redemption in the end.
Thanx for some history on the song. Did some research using Starkweather's name. Dude whom talked to me about it has lost alot of credibility. Thanx again. What a story that was the two of them going down that dark road.
You would probably like Tom Waits if you like this kind of Bruce's stuff. Springsteen even covered one of his songs "Jersey Girl". Rod Stewart covered "Downtown Train" but Waits original is so much better. He sounds like Louis Armstrong who just ate some broken glass with lyrics written by Charles Bukowski.
What's great about this song is that it makes no value judgments. It isn't a pro or con death penalty song. There is no moral to the story. Unlike other movies or songs about capital punishment the main character isn't conveniently innocent. Starkweather was (and his girl friend) a cold blooded killer, a sociopath. "I can't say I am sorry for the things we have done, at least we had some fun". It is just a first person narrative from the killer to the judge. Man he is such an underrated writer.
I guess this is not any pro or con death penalty... the guy in the song has accepted his sentence to death... "but just make sure that my pretty baby is sitting right there on my lap".. In Norway we do not have death penalty.. don't know why... we have crime here too that in the US would give DP but we have chosen not to have it...
Despite popular press most states don't have it here either. Very few people actually get put to death here, 60 people in 2001 for example. We are a country of nearly 300 million. The average amount of people hit by a bolt of lightning in the US each year is 100.
i think the issue with the death penalty vs. lightening, which isn't a bad point, is that it's man killing man willfully and not nature killing man. right or wrong, it is a point of contention whether man has a right to kill another man for his sins.
Fans of Bruce Springsteen are not only devoted but articulate about why they worship the Boss. The new book 'For You: Original Stories & Photographs by Bruce Springsteen's Legendary Fans' is the work of disciples from Boise to Barcelona. The mayor of Delray Beach, Fla., says it best: 'Bruce fans are a fraternity - we share something deep and special, a relationship with the artist and with each other.
Starkweather was one creepy kid. He took his last ride in Nebraska's 'lectric chair. Reckon they'll sell it to a museum or something now that they're done with it?
7806343213, basically he was a guy who killed his girlfriends parents then went on a murder spree killing innocent people in the 50's. He was known to have virtually no compassion at all. Put his name in Wikipedia, it will do more justice than I can.
he basically told it...'cept he did it just for the hell of it...cause they said something he didn't like...and the daughter didn't mind so she helped him kill people. He left her behind after someting happened and then he got caught...i don't think she did...they went on a killing spree across the country
She got caught but didn't get the chair like he did. Starkweather said she (Caril Ann Fugate) enjoyed killing more than he did. I got to kind of believe him because she had no problem with him killing both of her parents and clubbing her 2 year old sister to death. She served 18 years and was released in 1976. She worked in a hospital as a janitor, wow I wouldn't sleep well in that hospital knowing she was mopping the floor.
charles starkweather inspired terence marlick who made badlands and this movie inspires Quentin Tarantino who wrote the screenplay for natural born killers which was made by oliver stone.
My mom told me stories of them locking the doors and hiding, He wasnt even within a 100 miles. Can you imagine something like that before media, internet?
I've been a fan of bruce, and this album especially for quite some time and I had never heard the name starkweather untill i read the comments here. Almost wish I didnt know, but one has to know what bruce was singing about to fully appreciate the song I think, so thanks
can we enjoy a fuckin bruce video without the spic subtitles ? jesus christ it ain't a fuckin cucaracha cucaracha song u spics need to learn some manners after u jump the fuck back the other side of the border
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A canadian friend of mine used to tell me this: "Once me and my friends just crossed the border into the States. The most frecuent comment was: Oh! Canadians! Must be cold there!"
This is so cool to chat with you here on you tube! My, you are up kinda late arent you? I cant wait to see the videos you are uploading,and I will be looking forward to your cover of Nebraska! Good Night Antonio!
Nowadays it would be just another story but back then the times were different and things as this wasnt heard of since the early thirties.For it to happen in Nebraska was even more unheard off. It caught the terrified public up in a manhunt played out everyday in the media and that is why your hearing it today.
Nebraska has always been my favorite album. I am a fan of stripped back and soul bared music... it's the only Bruce Springsteen album I own.
bebopalola 3 weeks ago
I'm the only one in the family born in Lincoln, Nebraska so this album hit home.
KFCVideos1 1 month ago
Thanks for posting...peace...
JohnnyOhio 2 months ago
my hero! bruce rules forever! how he sings this song is unique. i never heard a person doing like this. he shows all the feelings a prisoner and his crime can have. he is touching me, he is an outstaning performer and songwriter.
johnny 99 ist great also.
bruce, i`d like to work on your ranch, i want to have you as my "boss"!
greetings from (ashbury park) vienna
gerald
geraldru 4 months ago
i love this fool too this is by far this is hise greatness album
jessibet89 1 year ago
bruce at his overrated best
itsallgoodtoo 1 year ago
@itsallgoodtoo Overrated...? never.. his lyrics are very illustrative
dannyramone7 2 weeks ago
Beautiful song, way better than "Born in the USA".
ThrowntoReality 1 year ago
bruce spingstein has written songs that are the definition of haunting
jrleftfoot 1 year ago 2
It's simply amazing!!!
RockyFeduz 1 year ago
i can still see Sissy twirlin' that baton... notta bad movie but what an effin excellent song :)
thank you for sharing
MrBuckwilliam 2 years ago 3
This is classic Springsteen!
JPPT1974 2 years ago
I believe this song is about Charles Starkweather and Carol Ann Fugate. The two went on a killing spree in Lincoln Nebraska in 1957. Charles used a shotgun most of the time. Starkweather was electrocuted for his crime in 1959, Carol Ann got life but was paroled in 1976
bluegsp 2 years ago 16
yup and married her lawyer
TruthIsWatISeek 2 years ago
402 baby
TruthIsWatISeek 2 years ago
@bluegsp It is.
jasonsbitch73 1 year ago
@bluegsp the movies "balands" and "Natural Born Killers" were heavily inspired by the Starkweather/Fugate killing spree as well
unknowable1968 3 weeks ago
The girl in the beginning looks like Sissy Spacek
bluegsp 2 years ago 2
It's her - from the Terrance Malik movie "Badlands."
planetgroucho 2 years ago
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BeSound84 2 years ago
This song just bodes...
SuzzyStohelit 2 years ago
anyone know what key this song is in? i'm trying to figure the harmonica part out... any help is appreciated.
m4drummer 2 years ago
You can put it in any key you have a harp for. I'm going to guess that it is in A. that is, A, D | A, D | G, D | A, D... transpose at will.
eatyourtv 2 years ago
Scratch that. I guess that's D. It resolves to D at least.
eatyourtv 2 years ago
sweet they used clips from bad lands for this video.
stillnobodysnothing 3 years ago 2
What kushphog meant to say was: Not bad for a talented, 30 something Senorita from Spain who would break my heart in Spanish and my ignorant ass wouldn't even know I had just been OWNED!
ReggiesReply 3 years ago
Bravo Enricsalas! Incredible concept video! Gracias Amigo! Vaya con Dios...
ReggiesReply 3 years ago 2
not bad for a mex
kushphog 3 years ago
eu amo essa musica e o cantor é unico, sem igual.
tatapmf 3 years ago
best song ever...
chafty22 3 years ago
i always thought that when he did this kind of stuff, it was some of his best music. I like the e-street music, it's alright, but i always thought none of it was as good as this and his Tom Joad album.
dogman652 3 years ago 8
its about a serial killer. starkweather. don't really know much about him.
xvxsaintashlarxvx 3 years ago
Not a serial killer, but a mass murderer. Try doing a google search on him.
MrNWA4Life 3 years ago
why is it that Nebraska's only notable historic events are all bad? Mall shooting, serial killer, tornados, dust bowl... Lewis and Clark didn't even stop.
blessedbyacurse 3 years ago
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Gee I wonder about that. Starkweather goes on a killing spree. Robert Hawkins goes on a killing spree. Why do teenagers like to go on killing sprees there? Guess there's nothing else to do there.
MrNWA4Life 3 years ago
well there's always school...
blessedbyacurse 3 years ago 3
made a movie of this terrible ballad. with Sheen. check it. fkn nutter. great song for a great tragedy. not sure what Bruce was thinking, must a been in the mind of Stark. Channnled him. though I doubt stark thought like this. hate and love this song.
07102592 3 years ago
i read somewhere that he was depressed when he made this. the whole album has that kind of tone, so i wouldn't be suprised.
dogman652 3 years ago
I read that Bruce wanted a change from the big studio production so he recorded the "Nebraska" album in his bedroom on a 4-track recorder. He recorded the songs later with E-Street but trashed it and handed to Landau the demo from his bedroom. Bruce said he wanted it to be an album that you could listen to without the lights turned on. All his albums are great!
90265SE14 3 years ago
starkweather was a spree killer, not a serial killer.
Steveearle5 3 years ago
fuck off m******* bruce springsteen is a king, a god so shut the f*** off
rehloc 3 years ago
dude, he's right. Calm down dingbat.
thewalkingman 3 years ago
because it is the jail from him
iceteeman08 3 years ago
Why is it called Nebraska?
lnh40 3 years ago
becuz its about the dark histories that occurred in nebraska. mainly about a serial killer that was around in nebraska either 30-50yrs.
CJLAKE123 3 years ago
his name was charles starkwhether, i'm pretty sure he was the only serial killer nebraska has ever had. besides the huskers of course, they killed lots of people. and will return to kill again. just wait.
jarhead58 3 years ago
well said jarhead
HIGHROLLERJIW 3 years ago
i take it your a husker fan also
jarhead58 3 years ago
I love Husker Du
crassisdead 3 years ago
Husker Du rules!
jimtownresident 3 years ago
so this songs is about a serial killer?
lnh40 3 years ago
nebraska doesnt really have a dark history
lnh40 3 years ago
haha well what u call a guy an his g.f goin round shootin people .. id say thats pretty bad XD
nikiissexy 3 years ago
because it was the state of the first kill
rehloc 3 years ago
The boss is great in this song!Really can sing about the heartland of this country.
buddy444777 3 years ago
.....song..awesome
ZeroBlindTerry 3 years ago
Haunting - but beautiful!! Luv the video - great job!! Thanks for posting!!!
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Gaypher 3 years ago
My fav Bruce Sprinsteen song.
pjautuvas 3 years ago
sounds a lot like a dylan song
hutch05 3 years ago
best album
edgarkarg 3 years ago
i never understood why people couldn't like this album, its so haunting and powerful and the song writing is second to no one in rock n roll
This is truly one of Bruce's best albums
SW189 3 years ago 2
it's one of my alltime favorites. it is supposed to be spare, the songs are so depressings. i like how he did the recordings without any frills and studio nonsense. how many artists out now could do the same???
tranurse 3 years ago
this is a wonderful album.
tranurse 3 years ago
Springsteen is god - No wonder why he is called the boss every song means something - u can hear him and understand what he is singing about.
25137130 3 years ago 2
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Is it just me, or is Springsteen's voice really irritating in this song?
NYerintransit 3 years ago
Just you, don't worry you'll be fine.
boomac62 3 years ago
it is you.
mseales 3 years ago
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How can anyone listen to this trailer park garbage? Yeecch
NYerintransit 3 years ago
How can anyone read this provincial comment?
headachehaver 3 years ago 3
Sounds like you know a bit about TRAILER TRASH friend!!Question is, if you do not like, why do you listen?? You are obviously musically illiterate! Bruce is the BOSS! you don't like it, you don't listen to it! HELLO!!YEECCH to YOU! :(
warflynn 3 years ago
It is just me or are you really irritating?
ReggiesReply 3 years ago
Album recorded on a 4-Track. I hope it won the Grammy for that year ('82). Best of the Boss.
GhostOnTheStove 3 years ago
im not usually a bruce springsteen fan.
haven't really listened to him much.
i like a few songs.
a bit uninteresting, although catchy songs
but this song is really chill.
and pretty cool...in a way. :P
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yo wtf fuck you all im from lincoln nebraska and ill kill you all with a sawd off 4-10
cripton333 3 years ago
If only Springsteen had kept it sparse, haunting, lyrical, as on this album, maybe he would've become something...
youngleonardcohen 3 years ago
You think Springsteen didn't become anything? I don't even have a comment for that.
Grant692 3 years ago
he is something, more than you'll ever be
RuggedRose 3 years ago
Insofar as we define "something" as indicated primarily by the ephemeral plaudits of the rabble, I'd have to be a mongrel hermetic recluse not to have noticed that he's "something"; insofar as "something" connotes more perduring notions of surpassing aesthetic triumph wrested from the ubiquitous gravity of the mediocre and the ineluctable erasure of time, well, now, that's "something" altogether different...
Either way, I'm glad my snide snipe unexpectedly baited a few peevish ripostes. ;)
youngleonardcohen 3 years ago
cohen...(and no you do not sound like him)...
that round-a-bout remark will be met with my sawed off .410 if I ever catch you in Nebraska.
SystemADMINlSTRATOR 3 years ago
WOAH! How about speaking English man.
warflynn 3 years ago
You need to get out more!Bruce is much more than something, what the hell planet have you been living on? Seems to me he is doin just fine my friend, His career spans over 35 years and he is still going strong and selling out his shows!You are on youtube checkin him out????? Hmmmm??
warflynn 3 years ago
The whole album was as bleak as can be...but I still love it.
ScooterNerd 3 years ago
people, get back to the song. it is hypnotic and beautiful. it is about a massacre, but it doesn't make saddos like you need to get your knickers in a twist.
marvindabob 3 years ago
the whole album is hypnotic
thecrimsonfloyd 3 years ago
echocannon89 you don't know much about the history of this song do you... go research it.. it's about starkweather, the whole song is based on what he did and how he did it
86867878 3 years ago
I know, it's about Warren Buffett and how he bought the Nebraska Furniture Mart, you just have the name wrong, that's all!
EchoCannon89 3 years ago
Haha, it's about Starkweather. The fact that it's about Buffet is a fiction supported by corporate facists to relate to the working class.
walkinghomeatnight 3 years ago
Yeah you're right it's not actually about Warren Buffett I was wrong. It's actually about Tom Osbourne
EchoCannon89 3 years ago
warren buffet? what in the blue fuck are u on about? this song is about Charles Starkweather the guy who went on a killing spree with his girlfriend you dumb bastard. Warren buffet? jackass
LeeMahady 3 years ago
No, it's about Warren Buffett. Bruce Springsteen is on the board of directors for Berkshire Hathaway and they have a very close relationship. Warren Buffett actually cowrote the song "Born to Run" w/ Bill Gates.
EchoCannon89 3 years ago
its based off starkweather
Kurby1400 3 years ago
NO, starkweather is the investor, you are thinking of Warren Buffett. Unbelievable...
EchoCannon89 3 years ago
U r quite right...lol u go girl.
deltalions 3 years ago
ahhaha i just pissed myelf laughing. well done.
karlycatherine 3 years ago
thanks I think that a few of the previous posters need to brush up on their knowledge of the second richest man in the world
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RochesterFICS 3 years ago
A very, very haunting song.
fenster111 3 years ago
What's all the talk about this "Starkweather" guy? This song is about Warren Buffett, I thought everyone knew that!
EchoCannon89 3 years ago
Please...i think everyone knows by now that this song is about Starkweather...he was a crazy guy...thats all we need to know..so can someone just leave a comment that this happens to be a great song?
Grant692 3 years ago 2
Love this song.
I'm from Lincoln Nebraska.
Starkweather wasn't insane as some people think.
He wanted attention.!
Killing is a bad way to get it.
RIP Charlie
luvluke51295 3 years ago
Are you fucking dense??? RIP to a mass murderer?? Go fuck yourself. He WAS as insane as people thought, he killed 11 people, you stupid asshole.
mikem0926 3 years ago
go fuck yourself, seriously. RIP to a mass murderer imo...he was my great uncle and a psycho yes. but still a member of my family and I dont appreciate DOUCHEBAGS like you.
uallyn 3 years ago
your so called great uncle killed innocent people and for that he deserved to die!
MVP2928 3 years ago 2
charles starkweather???? wow. that has to be a hard one to explain. people probably look at y'all funny, as if it is catching when they find out. he was your family, and as such, you have every right to love him, but hate what he did. even atillah the hun was someone's baby once.
tranurse 3 years ago
I think it's just that your not as sane as people think.
ElGoodo 3 years ago
..so sad...so strong...I love this song..really
danytube7 3 years ago 2
..I agree with you.. :-)
manfro2 3 years ago
This song has nothing to do with forgiveness or Christianity it is simply a story about Starkweather and his killing spree with his under age girl friend. Not everything has a hidden meaning. Just listen to the lyrics.
kat5377 3 years ago 3
yeah the whole albums pretty blunt about what its about, very bleak, dark, and drowning. definately his best and a true masterpiece..
mothernaturesson88 3 years ago
Except Cadillac Ranch =P..What an out of place jewel, haha
Grant692 3 years ago
This has a very Dylan vibe to it.
davidruffin2 3 years ago 2
You know, Bruce was pitched as the "next Dylan" by his label in the early 70s when the industry was desperate for the next big singer/songwriter...when he arrived on the scene with his big band sound most people thought there was no validity to the comparison. I think Nebraska showed that there were was at least something to those comparisons.
Nebraska - best Boss album ever.
hendrixius 3 years ago
beautiful, soft song
marvindabob 3 years ago 2
there's nothing REMOTELY christian about this song - it's about the kind of compassion and tolerance that american's so-called 'christians' have long forgotten about...anyone who would ever even consider voting for george w bush is not, by definition, a christian.
uclrichard 3 years ago 2
No, the song is not Christian; but other than that rather obvious point, you have not one clue about what you are talking about whatsoever and it seems you, little old you, are the sum of all things and are so superior, you unabashedly cast your ill informed and pretentious aspersions on entire people groups based on...your ignorance .. bravo.
VivianSmythe 3 years ago
you sir, are full of shit
Cabinator 3 years ago
muy buen video lo escucho y lo escucho y no me canzo de hacerlo del rey pele
soske39 3 years ago
muy buen video lo escucho y lo escucho y no me canzo de hacerlo del rey pele
soske39 3 years ago
Yea well Im from rural Nebraska. My grandma actually KNEW Starkweather's girlfriend a couple years before the tragedy. I doubt that makes me special, but just thought I'd let you know.
wlindstrom 3 years ago
What was her opinion of her?
sasquatchofDU 3 years ago
At the time she thought that she was a regular, nice girl. She was pretty shocked by what happened.
wlindstrom 3 years ago
I live in Lincoln! Two blocks from one of the Starkweather murders. Probably makes this song a little more surreal.
buckets38 3 years ago
Is there another song that's been written and sung the way it has that can descibe the compassion the singer feels for two "lost souls". Truely a very Christian example of forgiveness. I believe the man did indeed receive his redemption in the end.
NietzscheIX 3 years ago
This song's protagonist nor Starkweather himself ever asked for redemption or forgiveness. Christian or otherwise.
dean1541 3 years ago
Thanx for some history on the song. Did some research using Starkweather's name. Dude whom talked to me about it has lost alot of credibility. Thanx again. What a story that was the two of them going down that dark road.
NietzscheIX 3 years ago
You would probably like Tom Waits if you like this kind of Bruce's stuff. Springsteen even covered one of his songs "Jersey Girl". Rod Stewart covered "Downtown Train" but Waits original is so much better. He sounds like Louis Armstrong who just ate some broken glass with lyrics written by Charles Bukowski.
dean1541 4 years ago
Does anybody knows artists with similar style as bruce springsteen?
kluni84 4 years ago
If you like The Boss, you would like Steve Earle as well.
robreed3 4 years ago 3
there's an LA/Tucson based guy named Zachariah who has some Steve Earle/Springsteen like stuff - haunting-devils and dust/ Guitar Town stuff - good
yacqui5 3 years ago
What's great about this song is that it makes no value judgments. It isn't a pro or con death penalty song. There is no moral to the story. Unlike other movies or songs about capital punishment the main character isn't conveniently innocent. Starkweather was (and his girl friend) a cold blooded killer, a sociopath. "I can't say I am sorry for the things we have done, at least we had some fun". It is just a first person narrative from the killer to the judge. Man he is such an underrated writer.
dean1541 4 years ago 2
I guess this is not any pro or con death penalty... the guy in the song has accepted his sentence to death... "but just make sure that my pretty baby is sitting right there on my lap".. In Norway we do not have death penalty.. don't know why... we have crime here too that in the US would give DP but we have chosen not to have it...
tyren1966 3 years ago
Despite popular press most states don't have it here either. Very few people actually get put to death here, 60 people in 2001 for example. We are a country of nearly 300 million. The average amount of people hit by a bolt of lightning in the US each year is 100.
dean1541 3 years ago
i think the issue with the death penalty vs. lightening, which isn't a bad point, is that it's man killing man willfully and not nature killing man. right or wrong, it is a point of contention whether man has a right to kill another man for his sins.
ozman40 3 years ago
*bow* nothing more
chriskonijn88 4 years ago
This is one of the best songs ever written.
robreed3 4 years ago 3
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EmulsionStrip 4 years ago
Starkweather was one creepy kid. He took his last ride in Nebraska's 'lectric chair. Reckon they'll sell it to a museum or something now that they're done with it?
michaeleffmeredith 4 years ago
I'm from Belgium, could someone please explain me a bit who or what that starkweather guy was? a serial killer or something?
7806343213 4 years ago
7806343213, basically he was a guy who killed his girlfriends parents then went on a murder spree killing innocent people in the 50's. He was known to have virtually no compassion at all. Put his name in Wikipedia, it will do more justice than I can.
dean1541 4 years ago
thank you!
7806343213 4 years ago
he basically told it...'cept he did it just for the hell of it...cause they said something he didn't like...and the daughter didn't mind so she helped him kill people. He left her behind after someting happened and then he got caught...i don't think she did...they went on a killing spree across the country
TheWereWolfkid 4 years ago
She got caught but didn't get the chair like he did. Starkweather said she (Caril Ann Fugate) enjoyed killing more than he did. I got to kind of believe him because she had no problem with him killing both of her parents and clubbing her 2 year old sister to death. She served 18 years and was released in 1976. She worked in a hospital as a janitor, wow I wouldn't sleep well in that hospital knowing she was mopping the floor.
dean1541 3 years ago
charles starkweather inspired terence marlick who made badlands and this movie inspires Quentin Tarantino who wrote the screenplay for natural born killers which was made by oliver stone.
Ezyjimi 4 years ago
is this about charles starkwaether that dude was scary anyone else her live in nebraksa??? cause i do
taylorswift798 4 years ago
Hastings
Haneluca 4 years ago
kearney
berntwt 4 years ago
grand island. my mom told me she remembers hiding under the bed with my aunt and grandma b/c charles starkweather was 2 blocks away.
:-S
ekl06 4 years ago
My mom told me stories of them locking the doors and hiding, He wasnt even within a 100 miles. Can you imagine something like that before media, internet?
berntwt 4 years ago
ALLIANCE
SdIggItY55 4 years ago
ScoBlo!!!(that's Scottsbluff...)
AlemanJuan 4 years ago
Its about charles starkweather-look it up people
berntwt 4 years ago
I've been a fan of bruce, and this album especially for quite some time and I had never heard the name starkweather untill i read the comments here. Almost wish I didnt know, but one has to know what bruce was singing about to fully appreciate the song I think, so thanks
AbandonAllCulture 4 years ago
can we enjoy a fuckin bruce video without the spic subtitles ? jesus christ it ain't a fuckin cucaracha cucaracha song u spics need to learn some manners after u jump the fuck back the other side of the border
noigraud 4 years ago
I am sure Bruce would be 100% agree with you. There are a couple of songs about this in the "The gosth of Tom Joad"
Y, ahora, hablando en serio. Tú lo que eres es un puto mierda racista, hijo de puta racista paleto e ignorante.
¿Cuéntanos cuántos paises han invadido y masacrado mejicanos, guatemaltecos y demás hispanos?
NO BLOOD FOR OIL!!!
doloritax 4 years ago
Great song, it's kind of like johnny cashs song i hung my head (sting original)
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conanfertig 4 years ago
english mother fucker this ain't no taco bell kitchen
noigraud 4 years ago
You retarded. That is italian.
A canadian friend of mine used to tell me this: "Once me and my friends just crossed the border into the States. The most frecuent comment was: Oh! Canadians! Must be cold there!"
¿Cómo se puede ser tan anormal?
doloritax 4 years ago
Es italiano.
Enterao. Que eres un enterao.
doloritax 4 years ago
Es italiano, anormal.
doloritax 4 years ago
I live in Nebraska! I loved this! Thank You for the post!
rljames54 4 years ago
That's a great video, LaDonna and Nebraska is among my favorite Springsteen albums.
Actually I was thinking about covering this song sooner or later ... ;-)
bentonio07 4 years ago
It is rather strange for you to say that Antonio,because I was thinking about asking you to do just that! You should, consider it a request!
rljames54 4 years ago
Hey LaDonna, this is almost "live "chatting" :-)
It half past two at night here and I'M still uploading the videos I recorded this Saturday afternoon, the weather was bad and I had nothing to do ;-)
Well, if it's YOU request, that of course I will post it :o)
bentonio07 4 years ago
This is so cool to chat with you here on you tube! My, you are up kinda late arent you? I cant wait to see the videos you are uploading,and I will be looking forward to your cover of Nebraska! Good Night Antonio!
rljames54 4 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
go fuck yourself spic
noigraud 4 years ago
Perfecto el video, qué maravilla de edición, traducción, música, etc. Enhorabuena y gracias
MartinFarrows 4 years ago
Nowadays it would be just another story but back then the times were different and things as this wasnt heard of since the early thirties.For it to happen in Nebraska was even more unheard off. It caught the terrified public up in a manhunt played out everyday in the media and that is why your hearing it today.
215jami 4 years ago
semplicemente perfetto, per un uomo che voleva scrivere testi come quelli di Bob Dylan e cantare con la voce di Roy Orbison.
docisc 4 years ago
pervert motherfucker! fucking boss!
mackleon 4 years ago
This has to be the best Springsteen album you will ever own. Wow. If you never listen to anything else by Bruce, please listen to this.
smm1279 4 years ago
this song was based on Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, 2 killers back during the great depression
Shelbz085 4 years ago