Q - Ranked #48 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime" - "...Springsteen never sounded more focussed..." Rolling Stone - Ranked #25 in Rolling Stone's 100 Best LPs Of The 80s Survey. Q - 4 stars out of 5 - "...the first in a series of bravely confessional releases (the closing 'Valentine's Day' is quietly heartbreaking) and his last work for some time with the E Street Band..."

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Bruce Springsteen followed the most popular album of his career, Born in the U.S.A., with the low-key, anguished Tunnel of Love. As its title suggested, it was an album of romantic exploration: Springsteen questions the trust and honesty on both sides in a romantic relationship, specifically a married relationship. Since he 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 provoked concern about the state of his own two-and-a-half-year-old marriage (which collapsed the following year). And although Tunnel of Love was a commercial success, Springsteen was as much at a crossroads with his audience as he seemed to be in his work and in his personal life. ~ William Ruhlmann|

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