TS: Bruce Springsteen, "Tunnel Of Love" vs. Dire Straits, "Tunnel Of Love"

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Two bona fide classics featuring scene-setting "carnival music" intros, but only one is bold enough to bust out the calliope.

Beyond that...

Warm, propulsive synths vs. muscular, contrapuntal guitar fills

"There's a room of shadows that gets so dark brother, it's easy for two people to lose each other" vs. "Coulda caught up with her easy enough, but something musta made me stay."

Five minutes of cold-eyed honesty vs. eight minutes of bittersweet grace.

As Knopfler says later on in Making Movies, “the story was whatever was the song,” and on the back half of “Tunnel Of Love” his guitar says as much as his (underrated) voice. But don't sleep on Nils Lofgren's 45 seconds of fury on "Tunnel Of Love" - dude solos so hard he has to keep going right through the shananana-ohs!

And of course Roy Bittan vs. Roy Bittan (the piano solo on “Tunnel Of Love” is Nicky Hopkins classic).

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 02:14 (twenty years ago)

This one is very close!

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 02:17 (twenty years ago)

Isn't Nils like 5'2 or somethin ? Maybe he has an inferiority complex, and it comes out in his suspended-climax solos.

I'll have to vote straits on this one.

― Andy, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 03:53 (twenty years ago)

gosh, i don't really remember these exactly, but i'll participate anyway --- it'd probably be Mark Kn. over Springsteen just as a matter of general taste and def. liking that voice - (side note: agree its underrated...its got this weird easy expressiveness/agility even though he'll stay within small range of notes and can even sound a bit monotone on the surface. i also like the muffled nasal quality of it too..goes well with the metallic sound of his guitar.)

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 08:23 (twenty years ago)

http://eil.com/newgallery/Fun-Boy-Three-The-Tunnel-Of-Lov-301247.jpg

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 08:41 (twenty years ago)

One of the better Dire Straits songs, but I still prefer Broose's.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 10:34 (twenty years ago)

Bruce is significantly better than Dire Straits, but this is the best DS song, vs. a great, but not-in-his-top-twenty Springsteen song.

Dire Straits.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

Bruce.

― mace, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 02:49 (twenty years ago)

That should be Broooooooose.

― Elwyn Chow (I say we take off and nuke the), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 04:29 (twenty years ago)

I like both - but the Boss's song is one of my favourites of all his work. It has so many different sections, all terrific; though the solo is not altogether my kind of solo, I suppose. Wonderful track, I think.

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

"I got a keepsake and a kiss" no contest Knopfler has twice Bruce's talent and he's not a dick.But Nils can give him a run for tasty licks. Way to fire all your talent,Joad! He has a chance against maybe Mellencougar, be realistic.

― John McElroy, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

Bruce by a million trillion bazillion miles.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

"no contest Knopfler has twice Bruce's talent and he's not a dick"

Except when he's baiting faggots, right?

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

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