Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love
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Free Music Notes for Tunnel of Love
Free Music Review: A Trip Through The Successes And Failures Of Love
Hit: 5 Stars
After making numerous albums of songs chronicling the struggles of the working class, Bruce Springsteen turned inward on TUNNEL OF LOVE, describing how men and women fall in love and then lose their belief in it after a while. Several songs here could be seen as a discussion of the imminent failure of his first marriage, but this is not just a divorce album, as several songs deal with the happier side of romance, and the hard rocker "Spare Parts", which sounds like the Outlaws in some ways, is also here. Although members of the E Street Band play on this CD, they're rarely in full-band arrangements. However, this is made up for by some of Springsteen's most thoughtful songs ever.Free Music Review: Will move you to tears
Hit: 5 Stars
This is an album, for anyone who saw love as it was dramatized on tv and movies. Like, love at first sight is real, and how you can love someone forever, and then......got stabbed in the back by it....and found yourself less of who you were before. From a failed marriage, came an album more personal, and more connecting than any of his others before.
aint got you, is an uptempo, elvisy type track. Bruce sings about how we long for love, and contact on this song, and how we always have what we dont want.
"I got a house full of Rembrandt and priceless art
And all the little girls they wanna tear me apart
When I walk down the street people stop and stare
Well you'd think I might be thrilled but baby I don't care
'Cause I got more good luck honey than old King Farouk
But the only thing I ain't got baby I ain't got you"
Tougher than the rest, is a song about how we try to be the man, and even though we arn't a "hansome dan", or "good looking Joe", you gotta take what you can get. This song sounds very 80's in the production, but the message is still there.
"The road is dark, and its a faint line
but i want you to know i'll walk it for you anytime"
All that heaven will allow, is a fun, almost boppy song, in which bruce sings about the greatness of a new love, a chance to find happiness.
"C'mon Slim slip me in man
I'll make it up to you somehow
I can't be late I got a date
With all that heaven will allow"
Spare parts, is a country, bluesy-ish tune, where bruce sings about the hardness of living with children without being married.
"Bobby said he'd pull out Bobby stayed in
Janey had a baby it wasn't any sin
They were set to marry on a summer day
Bobby got scared and he ran away"
The dark, Cautious man, is about a working man, who doubts love and everything it stands for. He's caught between the feeling of love, and the fear that goes with it.
"On his right hand Billy tattooed the word love and on his left hand was the word fear
And in which hand he held his fate was never clear"
Walk like a man, is a song about how we try to walk like a man when we are kids (going back to five, apparently), and how sometimes, theres things we need to know, that our parents can't teach us.
"Well tonight you step away from me
And alone at the alter I stand
And as I watch my bride coming down the aisle I pray
For the strength to walk like a man"
Tunnel of love, is the most 80's rock like song on this album. It uses a carnival as a metaphor for love, and how sometimes, you go into it blind almost. He rides into the tunnel of love with his girl, himself, and the things he's scared of.
"Theres a room of shadows that gets so dark brother, its easy for two people to loose each other...
It ought to be easy ought to be simple enough
Man meets woman and they fall in love
But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough
And you've got to learn to live with what you cant rise above"
Two faces, is another track in which springsteen talks about how we try to do things right, but sometimes, what we try to do, isn't what we do.
"One that laughs one that cries
One says hello one says goodbye
One does things I don't understand
Makes me feel like half a man"
Brilliant Disguise, is the best track on the album, both in lyrics, and in song. Bruce begs to know, am i looking at the real you, and...am i showing the real me. He falls in love, and gets married, all without knowing who he really married.
"Im just a lonely pilgrim I walk this world in wealth
I want to know if its you I dont trust...cause I damn sure dont trust
Myself"
One step up is a heartbreaking track about a man, who has a tough time letting go of old habits, and must fight a battle each day in this war of love.
"When I look at myself I don't see
The man I wanted to be
Somewhere along the line I slipped off track
I'm caught movin' one step up and two steps back...
There's a girl across the bar
I get the message she's sendin'
Mmm she ain't lookin' to married
And me well honey I'm pretending
Last night I dreamed I held you in my arms
The music was never-ending
We danced as the evening sky faded to black
One step up and two steps back"
Valentines day, which, so aptly portrays the nightmare of the soul that one feels when one is in love. Written, ironically, as a comfortable melody, his main anguish is "what scares me is losing you".
Bruce wrote these songs after he got married the first time. He had an afair, and got married again, this time, a more confident man then on this album.
But this album will stand as long as love will, because as long as love exists, so will the doubt and fear that goes with it.
A classic that i would recommend to anyone.
Free Music Review: Sophisticated Love Songs- 4.5 stars
Hit: 5 Stars
Technically this is an album consisting entirely of love songs. However, Springsteen has a way of adding texture and thickness to the music. It is more about trust and care that comes from a relationship, rather than the feeling of love itself. Each song is distinct yet they all reflect the same emotion and concept of the album: such as the quiet nature of the songs and how they all correlate that edge of uncertainty that accompanies anybody when entering a relationship.
The songs themselves have good melodies, but it doesn't compare to the earlier numbers Bruce had on the River or Darkness. The major flaw the album suffers from is that its sound is extremely dated. The 80's production is quite predominant throughout with synthesizer/keyboards extablishing the rhythm and as well as the obvious drum machines. Sadly, it is the same sound that is established in Human Touch/Lucky Town. The lyrics meanwhile are more simplified and repetitive compared to his previous albums, but I guess he is trying to reiterate the feeling.
In conclusion, it is strong pop album that holds well by itself, but do not expect it to be another River or Born to Run as there are rare traces of the E Street Band here. Tunnel of Love an interesting departure from his other great albums as it is extremely personal and reflects everyday people.
Free Music Review: Some of the Boss' most introspective work
Hit: 5 Stars
Bruce Springsteen is one of those people who writes wide open. The break up of his first marriage inspired this CD and it's clear it left him broken up:
There's things will knock you down
You don't even see coming
And send you crawling
Like a baby back home
"One Step Up," which talks about how hard it is to change, is probably my favorite of this collection. But there are so many to love.
The closer, "Valentines Day," always leaves me in tears. The song order for this CD was exquisite. You can see the effort in "One Step Up," the bitterness in "When you're alone." The finality and pain in the last song is a brilliant end.
This CD didn't sell as well as its predecessor, "Born in the USA," but it's a a brilliant, enduring collection from a man who's given us his heart in his work through the years.
Rebecca Kyle, May 2008
Free Music Review: NOT BORN IN THE U.S.A.
Hit: 4 Stars
THIS IS ACTUALLY A BREATH OF FRESH AIR AFTER THE SUPER COMMERCIALLY SUCCESSFUL BORN IN THE U.S.A. SOMETIMES SONGS FROM AN ALBUM BECOME TIRING AFTER HEARING THEM SO MANY TIMES ON THE RADIO. THAT IS WHY I LIKE THIS ALBUM. BESIDES BRILLIANT DISGUISE AND TUNNEL OF LOVE, TOUGHER THAN THE REST IS AN EXCELLENT SONG THAT MAKES THIS ONE WORTH ADDING TO YOUR SPRINGSTEEN COLLECTION!!