🎵 AotW AOTW: The Tubes - REMOTE CONTROL (SP-4751)

[LPJim]

The Tubes
REMOTE CONTROL
A&M SP-4751

Fee Waybill - vocals
Bill Spooner & Roger Steen - guitar
Michael Cotton & Vince Welnick - keyboards
Mingo Lewis - percussion
Prarie Prince - drums
Rick Anderson - bass
Todd Rundgren - producer, guitar & keyboards

TRACKS

Turn Me On 4:10
TV is King 3:08
Prime Time 3:15
I Want it All Now 4:27
No Way Out 3:22
Getoverature 3:23

No Mercy 3:27
Only the Strong Survive 3:54
Be Mine Tonight 3:30
Love's a Mystery (I Don't Understand) 3:27
Telecide 5:41

Released in March 1979
Peaked at Number 46 and remained in the Billboard Top 200 for 18 weeks
Reissued on CD and available via amazon.com

For more information, please visit:

http://www.thetubes.com/disco/remote.htm

JB

 

[Rudy]

The Tubes were popular when we were in high school...the one band I ran the sound board for used to do one of their hits. Seems like ages ago...

 

[Mr Bill]

The Tubes were "new wave" before the category was named. I remember "Prime Time" getting some airplay and MTV ran the video in its early days (when MTV actualy played music videos). A few years later after they left A&M (for Columbia?) the song and video "She's A Beauty" was HUGE.

 

[AM Matt]

NOPE, The Tubes went to Capitol Records & hooked up with Canadian producer David Foster for "The Completion Backward Principle" back in the Summer of 1981 which had the songs "Talk To Ya Later" & "Don't Want To Wait Anymore". The song "She's A Beauty" came from "Outside/Inside" from 1983. Matt Clark Sanford, MI

 

[Steven J. Gross]

This album was more like a "Todd Rundgren's Utopia" album than Tubes. I think they lost their identity with this one, although I'm a huge Rundgren fan, he can be heavy handed at times. The album was pretty fair though...