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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...
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...
...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...
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...
...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...