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Tunnel of Love is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter 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.
Just as he had followed his 1980 commercial breakthrough The River with the challenging Nebraska, Bruce Springsteen followed the most popular album of his career, Born in the U.S.A., with another low-key, anguished effort, Tunnel of Love.
Especially in their sound, several of the songs, “Cautious Man” and “Two Faces,” for example, could have fit seamlessly onto Nebraska, though the arrangements overall were not as stripped-down and acoustic as on the earlier album.
While Nebraska was filled with songs of economic desperation, however, 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. In song after song, Springsteen questioned the trust and honesty on both sides in a romantic relationship, specifically a married relationship.
Since Springsteen sounded more autobiographical than ever before (“Ain’t Got You” referred to his popular success, while “Walk Like a Man” seemed another explicit message to his father), it was hard not to wonder about the state of his own two-and-a-half-year marriage, and it wasn’t surprising when that marriage collapsed the following year.
Tunnel of Love was not the album that the ten million fans who had bought Born in the U.S.A. as of 1987 were waiting for, and though it topped the charts, sold three million copies, and spawned three Top 40 hits, much of this was on career momentum.
Springsteen was as much at a crossroads with his audience as he seemed to be in his work and in his personal life, though this was not immediately apparent.
- Ain’t Got You - 2:06
- Tougher Than The Rest - 4:35
- All That Heaven Will Allow - 2:38
- Spare Parts - 3:39
- Cautious Man - 3:56
- Walk Like A Man - 3:37
Side two
- Tunnel Of Love - 5:11
- Two Faces - 3:00
- Brilliant Disguise - 4:15
- One Step Up - 4:21
- When You’re Alone - 3:20
- Valentine’s Day - 5:10
Musicians
- Bruce Springsteen – lead vocals, backing vocals, guitars, mandolin, bass guitar, keyboards, harmonica, percussion, drum machine, sound effects on "Tunnel of Love"
- Roy Bittan – acoustic piano on "Brilliant Disguise", synthesizers on "Tunnel of Love"
- Clarence Clemons – backing vocals on "When You're Alone"
- Danny Federici – Hammond organ on "Tougher Than the Rest", "Spare Parts" and "Brilliant Disguise"
- Nils Lofgren – guitar solo on "Tunnel of Love", backing vocals on "When You're Alone"
- Patti Scialfa – backing vocals on "Tunnel of Love", "One Step Up" and "When You're Alone"
- Garry Tallent – bass guitar on "Spare Parts"
- Max Weinberg – drums on "All That Heaven Will Allow", "Two Faces" and "When You're Alone"; percussion on "Tougher Than the Rest", "Spare Parts", "Walk Like a Man", "Tunnel of Love", and "Brilliant Disguise"
- James Wood – harmonica on "Spare Parts"
Technical
- Toby Scott – engineering
- Tim Leitner, Roger Talkov, Squeek Stone, Rob Jacobs – engineering assistants
- Bob Clearmountain – mixing
- Mark McKenna – mixing assistant
- Jay Healy – mixing assistant on "Tunnel of Love"
- Bob Ludwig – mastering
- Heidi Cron – mastering assistant
- Sandra Choron – art direction
- Annie Leibovitz, Bob Adelman, Kryn Taconis, Elliott Erwitt – photography
Notes
Released: 1987
Format: LP
Genre: Heartland Rock
Label: CBS Records
Catalog# CBS 460270 1
Vinyl: Excellent
Cover: Excellent
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