Springsteen Tunnel Of Love (Love or Hate) ?

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  1. BSC

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    I consider it this...his last truly classic album.
     
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  2. John Adam

    John Adam An Introvert In Paradise

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    It's an album that wrote itself, and at the time one that needed to be written. It's dark and broody just the way it should of been.

     
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  3. saturdayboy

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    thanks for sharing that video, brings back some memories.
    the album is a classic, if no other reason because it's Bruce's breakup/heartbreak album.
     
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  4. pmckeeaalaska

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    Agreed. Tunnel of Love and Devils and Dust are the only Springsteen albums I own and I love both of them. However, One Step Up is simply one of the most raw, honest and beautiful songs ever written IMO. I come back to it often and can relate to it a lot.
     
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  5. saturdayboy

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    He’s got a few more worth checking out
     
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  6. GentleSenator

    GentleSenator what if

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    i've owned a club pressing that sounded awful, but yeah i think the original UK and US were the same. this is an easy one to find too since i think the silly cover causes it to get overlooked when stuck between 15 copies of an album with an ass and an american flag on it.
     
  7. Freeman 024

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    Lyrically, Tunnel of Love is the best album Springsteen ever made, and One Step Up and Valentine's Day, in particular, are absolutely gut-wrenching in their honesty. Contrarian that I am, I almost feel like the animus this album causes in many of Springsteen's most avid fans actually compels me to prefer it to some of his more celebrated albums.
     
  8. Audioresearch

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    Last of The classics, And My first album On cd I really love It.
     
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  9. Mbd77

    Mbd77 Collect ‘Em All!

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    I think it's Bruce's conscious effort to make a 'Blood On The Teacks' type album. There's some excellent songs on there. A couple don't work. Some of the production is a bit weak here and there. I'm thinking 'Valentine's Day' maybe...other times it's great: the title track, 'One Step Up', 'Tougher Than The Rest'.

    With regards to Human Touch/Lucky Town - the songs are great but the production lets it down big time - 'Real World' is a prime example - a major song turned into a filler track. Should have been a curated single album, should have had different production and arrangements.

    I actually think Springsteen has production problems one way or another on everything post-BITUSA. I think that album was produced
    a bit 'of it's time' 1980s Digital big drum sound kind of thing. It did work though and has aged well. I think he's struggled since then with finding song arrangements that work and production that fits. 'The Rising' kind of works but even then there's some dodgy production here and there - hard Stereo isolation in one channel and so on.
     
  10. Mbd77

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    I forgot about 'Brilliant Disguise' which somebody mentioned - again a good song with a great chorus melody I feel it's a bit let down by the arrangement and production. It should've sounded a bit more like 'Loose Ends'.
     
  11. GentleSenator

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    seeing all of this praise and appreciation of this album makes me finally feel like i'm not alone
     
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  12. Dr. Zoom

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    Missed opportunity. It's a brilliantly conceived album with beautiful, great songs. But the production just kills it for me. The treacly synths and the drum machines just made it seem slick and processed to me (It was also the start of the affected "twang" in his vocals). Sounds horribly dated now and I rarely listen to it. It's too bad, because he really had something special there with that group of songs. I always wondered what it would sound like if he re-did it with a rootsy Americana-style band. Anyway I know I'm in the minority, most people love it.
     
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  13. Davido

    Davido ...assign someone to butter your muffin?

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    Well, sir, there was was a little bit of twang in Nebraska but maybe you're talking about another aspect of his vocals. Brilliant Disguise is so amazingly incredible you cannot dismiss the album... it seems an homage to Roy Orbison in retrospect. I don't know if it's his last great album but it's certainly close to the last great album.
     
  14. Dr. Zoom

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    Yes I suppose that's true about Nebraska. Agree that TOL is Probably his last great album, in the sense that it was his last great cohesive piece of work. With none of the filler that started showing up in HT and afterwards.
     
  15. Davido

    Davido ...assign someone to butter your muffin?

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    Devils and Dust is pretty good, with the melodies that some missed from Ghost of Tom Joad. I've become somewhat jaded about some of his later work but he did plenty of fine work in the 90s and 00s.
     
  16. ALAN SICHERMAN

    ALAN SICHERMAN Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx, NY

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    I haven't heard it in a while but I always like it. I'll have to give it a listen.
     
  17. Dr. Zoom

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    The songs on TOL remind you of what a truly great songwriter he can be (Production is another story). I had always hoped he would have a great late career renaissance like Bob Dylan had in the late 90s/ early 00's. Alas it never really happened. Which is maybe why he's playing for the champagne and caviar crowd on Broadway every night now.
     
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