Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anyone doubted that the Bruce icon had become more puffed up than the well-muscled man behind it, they need only have recalled the comic-relief point of the 1984 presidential campaign when Walter Mondale and Ronald Reagan quibbled over which side of the ballot the Boss was on. (Springsteen, to his credit, refused to comment). And when the message of the title song got jumbled from vehement Vietnam-vet outrage to raucous jingoism, it was clear that enough was enough...
Tunnel of Love doesn't deal with the topics the Boss has already tackled repeatedly--hard times, hard work and hard playing. As the title reveals, Tunnel of Love is about love and romance and working it out, a topic which AIDS, herpes and everything else about post-modern existence have brought back into vogue...
...carrying copies of The Pinstripe Gourmet, or Think Smart, Move Fast, or even How to Make It Big as a Consultant. At the airport newsstand a magazine cover line catches the eye: MANAGEMENT SECRETS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT. Now there was a role model for the ages, a boss who could communicate in the "I win, you lose" mode and get away with it. A guy who conquered Iran, no less...
...marching song, but the rhythm thrust home a sawtooth short story filled with despair and defiance. The new LP is a little more straightforward and a lot more spare. Springsteen's E Street Band reveled on Born in the U.S.A. Here they hang back; indeed, on four songs the Boss handles the instrumentation by himself. Born in the U.S.A. was an album full of bright light and bold colors and deliberate, surreptitious contradictions. Tunnel of Love, by contrast, seems washed in autumn moonlight, pale and chill. These are twelve songs for the season of the witch...
...Boss is back. Tunnel of Love, Bruce Springsteen' s first album of new songs since Born in the U. S. A., is spare, strong and scary...