ALAN VEGA - BORN IN THE USA

I'd never made the connection between Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska and Alan Vega and Suicide before recently reading Clinton Heylin's E Street Shuffle book.  Bruce is open about it, and with his version of Dream Baby Dream on the new High Hopes album he might now have sent some royalties their way.  Play Nebraska next to Frankie Teardrop and the debt is obvious, and it's also clear how much further out Suicide are, and how classic their songwriting is.  I dug out the 2  Vega albums that are in The Wall of Sound - sadly I don't think I listened to 'em after buying them.  Anyway, this track from 1982's Collision Drive - no synths, only echo, guitar and slow pounding drums - is a bit of a sequel to Frankie, and would divide the Brooce fans out there.  The story line is pure Nebraska, too.