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Baronessa April 30th 57 Comments. AugustWest May 1st 9 Comments. Tunnel of Love is the eighth studio album by Bruce Springsteen , released on October 9, 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.

In , the album was ranked 25 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the " Best Albums of the Eighties" [4] while in , Rolling Stone ranked it at on their list of the greatest albums of all time.

His first marriage, to the actress Julianne Phillips , fell apart; he also decided to part ways with the E Street Band. On the B-sides of vinyl and cassette singles, outtakes like "Lucky Man", "Two for the Road" and a track, "Roulette" were included. Commercially the album went triple Platinum in the US, with "Brilliant Disguise" being one of his biggest hit singles , peaking at 5 on the Billboard Hot , "Tunnel of Love" also making the top 10, reaching 9, and "One Step Up" reaching the top 20 at Amusement park tunnel of love memorabilia was provided by the National Amusement Park Historical Association to be used on the record sleeve of the Tunnel of Love single.

The videos were shot on location in New Jersey, including Asbury Park. The intensely personal "Brilliant Disguise" video broke new ground on MTV , being a single shot without edits. On Tunnel of Love , Springsteen is writing about the promises people make to each other and the way they renege on those promises, about the romantic dreams we're brought up with and the internal demons that stifle those dreams.

The battleground has moved from the streets to the sheets, but the battle hasn't changed significantly. Writing for America Magazine , Catholic priest and sociologist Andrew Greeley argued that this album exemplifies the American Catholic imagination. If Ingmar Bergman had been born in Freehold and cut his artistic teeth at the Stone Pony , he would've made this record in place of Scenes From a Marriage.

Totally '80s production aside The songs are about men and women who flirt, have sex, fall in love, get married, get bored, have sex with other people, and wind up stuck in the middle of that dark night from the second disc of The River. All tracks are written by Bruce Springsteen.

While more than 80 songs were said to have been recorded for Springsteen's previous album, only 19 are known to have been recorded for Tunnel of Love , with 12 making the album's final cut. Although that version remains unreleased, it would be re-recorded during future album sessions and eventually released.

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