TUNNEL OF LOVE
| Bruce Springsteen
TUNNEL OF LOVE
Tunnel of Love is the eighth studio album by Bruce Springsteen, released on October 9, 1987. Although members of the E Street Band occasionally performed on the album, Springsteen recorded most of the parts himself, often with drum machines and synthesizers. While the album's liner notes list the E Street Band members under that name, Shore Fire Media, Springsteen's public relations firm, does not count it as an E Street Band album and 2002's The Rising was advertised as his first studio album with the E Street Band since Born in the USA. The album won Best Rock Vocal Performance, Solo at the 1988 Grammy Awards. -wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
Instead, this is a varied, modestly scaled, modern-sounding pop album; it is a less ambitious work than Born in the U.S.A., but its simpler sound is perfectly suited to the more intimate stories Springsteen is telling.
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Stereogum
Tunnel Of Love is something more unique: a man who hit the stratosphere, and found himself falling back down, bringing with him, as always, tales of struggle that were just like yours.
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The Guardian
today it's Tunnel of Love that I consider my favourite Springsteen album, and by natural extension, my all-time favourite album
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AV Music
The greatness: An album about the rise and fall of a marriage, Tunnel Of Love predicted the end of Springsteen's union with Julianne Phillips two years later, and featured prominent backing vocals by the woman he left her for, Patti Scialfa.
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All Music
Tunnel of Love, as its title suggested, was an album of romantic exploration. But the lovers were just as desperate in their way as Nebraska's small-time criminals.
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Pitchfork
his high point as a writer and one of his truly essential releases
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Something Else Reviews
Albums like Tunnel of Love — still, to me, one of Springsteen’s very best — are the respite, a needed exhalation, before the cathartic, full-throated roar that inevitably follows with the E Street band.
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The Young Folks
Tunnel of Love is not just a depressing experience, it’s a lot more complex than that.
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Anti Music
Tunnel of Love may not be Bruce Springsteen's most popular album, but anyone who has ever listened closely to it intimately will never forget it and its dark ride.
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Pop Dose
it’s a well-crafted record, one that spawned several hits
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Sound Stage
it’s great, transcendent
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The Awl
Tunnel of Love remains the most personal album Bruce has ever recorded, and one of his very best
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The Telegraph
it's a welcome, touching flipside to the Boss's stadium bombast
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Robert Christgau
First side's got distance, bravado, optimism, even a joke, but then comes one long deep look inside, so well-observed that he seems neither self-pitying nor self-important, just a decent guy with a realistic understanding of his major but not insoluble emotional problems.
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