Deliver Me from Nowhere’ is profoundly felt, deeply understood, and (as it should be) full of joy and abandon — with a hint of menace.

Zanes interweaves these conversations with inquiries into the myriad cultural touchpoints, including Terrence Malick’s Badlands and the short stories of Flannery O’Conner, that influenced Springsteen as he was writing the album’s haunting songs.Notwithstanding declining crime rates, we cannot seem to satisfy the demand for ever greater punishment.

Deliver Me from Nowhere is profoundly felt, deeply understood, and (as it should be) full of joy and abandon—with a hint of menace. Released in 1982, two years after Springsteen’s first chart-topper The River, Nebraska is the album no-one wanted Bruce to make: stripped-back demos that never made it to the E Street band rehearsal room form the album’s ten tracks.During this same period, the Cure’s leader, Robert Smith, made headlines by having Ticketmaster issue refunds for “service charges. The rock press had covered his legal fight with his first manager, Mike Appel, and the years it stole from his early career just as he should have been cashing in on the critical euphoria over 1975’s Born to Run. He holed up in a rented ranch house in Colts Neck, Central Jersey, and requested a bedroom unit to make song demos. Zane’s work has appeared in Rolling Stone and the Oxford American, and he has served as a vice president at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.