Remote Control (album)

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Remote Control
Studio album by The Tubes
Released	1979
Recorded	1978, Music Annex Studios, Menlo Park, California
Genre	Rock
Length	41:44
Label	A&M Records
Producer	Todd Rundgren
Professional reviews
Allmusic (4/5) link
The Tubes chronology
What Do You Want from Live (1978) Remote Control (1979) The Completion Backward Principle (1981)

Remote Control is the fifth album released by The Tubes. This was their first to be produced by the studio "wizard" Todd Rundgren (the other being 1985's Love Bomb). It is a concept album about a television-addicted idiot savant. The cover of Remote Control is also a classic, showing a baby watching The Hollywood Squares in a specially made "Vidi-Trainer". Although it's considered a classic album now, to say it was met with mixed reviews when it was released is putting it lightly. Rolling Stone panned it in 1979, calling it "drearily obvious" and "stale." Two years later, the same magazine loved it, limiting its praise of the subsequent album, "The Completion Backward Principle," by saying, good as it was, "topping Remote Control will be difficult." Allmusic gives it four stars. Crawdaddy called it "a pop/rock masterpiece."

[edit] Track listing

1. "Turn Me On" – 4:10
2. "T.V. Is King" – 3:08 (The Tubes, Todd Rundgren)
3. "Prime Time" – 3:15
4. "I Want It All Now" – 4:27
5. "No Way Out" – 3:22
6. "Getoverture" – 3:23
7. "No Mercy" – 3:27
8. "Only the Strong Survive" – 3:54
9. "Be Mine Tonight" – 3:30
10. "Love's a Mystery (I Don't Understand)" – 3:27 (The Tubes, Todd Rundgren)
11. "Telecide" – 5:41

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