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...doubt, all of the five million or so people who wanted to buy Bruce Springsteen's new album, Tunnel of Love, have already done so and formulated their own opinions about it. I don't need to add mine, especially since anything I could say about this lush, polished and beautiful album would only add to the mania. I don't want to encourage a new plucking of parvenus to roll onto the Springsteen juggernaut, a movement that in the last few years has already picked up every eight-year-old and his grandmother...
...that this album is good--real good. Even great. Great in a peaceful, easy way. Not in the blockbuster, gangbuster, rootin'-tootin', anthemic terms of Born In The U.S.A, terms that defy even the terms that I've just used. That album was larger than life, larger than Springsteen, and therefore it made Springsteen larger than himself...
...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...
...large cast of characters -- from the wronged women to the wrung-out Saturday-night cowboys; from the rich men to hardworking Bill Horton of Cautious Man, who has the words LOVE and FEAR tattooed, Night of the Hunter-style, on his hands -- can learn to live with because Springsteen can center the dignity in all their lives. It's his name on the album and on the writing credits, but now he seems to be singing their songs...
...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...