Word: albums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clear that Bruce had to tone down the hysteria with his next step. He needed to release an album that was more absurdly anti-commercial than Nebraska to alienate some of the excess audience...
...that's not what happened. What happened was Live 1975-85, last year's most given Christmas album. I don't own a copy of the collection because it makes me sick to think that Columbia has the audacity to release a five-record set of live material that any true fan already owned on bootleg. But clearly, good taste was not the point. The project was so profitable that it merited an article in Time Magazine's Economy and Business section...
WELL, THE toning down at last has arrived in the form of Tunnel of Love, an album too good to be true, too smooth to be Bruce, too rough not to be. It is likely to win back any old diehard devotees whose faith has been shaken in recent years and win over any remaining skeptics. It is very heartful, somewhat soulful and completely there. Which is to say, it's a self-aware album...
...This album is so of the moment, it's almost cocktail-party talk. The first thing I thought of while listening to Tunnel of Love was a conversation I had with a 38-year-old man I know who is at last getting married and settling down. (So what if it's with a 21-year-old recent graduate of this institution). We were talking about other friends of his who were moving in with their girlfriends or taking their vows. "It's in the air," he said. "Everybody who's in their 30's and should have gotten married...
...Springsteen album is about dealing. Of course, this concept is nothing new--many rock stars have done the happily-married theme before. Even Springsteen has hinted at serious commitment in songs such as The River's "I Wanna Marry You" and "Two Hearts (Are Better Than One)." But he was still insisting to biographer Dave Marsh that he was "not ready to write married music yet." Girlfriends like professional groupie Karen Darbin, photographer Lynn Goldsmith and actress Joyce Heiser came and went...