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"Tunnel Of Love" - Bruce Springsteen
from the album Tunnel Of Love (1987)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #9 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 11

Today's Song of the Day comes from New Jersey's own rock and roll poet laureate, Bruce Springsteen, who followed up his blockbuster album Born In The U.S.A. with the decidedly more somber Tunnel Of Love, whose theme of love going wrong was laid out with the stellar first single, "Brilliant Disguise". The second release from the record was the title track, which takes the kitschy amusement park ride and flips it on its head into a labyrinth of mystery and darkness, to the point of "not seeing the other person" literally signifying the loss of an emotional connection. This lyric is all over a churning midtempo song dominated by the synth chords and bells like a lost Bruce Hornsby record. The video was shot over in Asbury Park..

"Tunnel Of Love" became the second top-10 pop hit from Tunnel Of Love (and Bruce's eleventh overall) in February of 1988. The song went all the way to #1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock radio chart for a month the previous November. It even crossed over to their Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") chart at #13. Internationally, "Tunnel" went to #17 in Canada, top-40 in Ireland and the Netherlands, and just missing the top-40 in Australia (#41), New Zealand (#48), and the UK (#45).

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First up Bruce on the tour behind the album in Spain in 1988...

Here's "the Boss" performing the song live in concert in New Jersey in 2008...

Up tomorrow: a British sophisti-pop trio go to Auto City.