Remote Control (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Remote Control
Type = Album
Artist = The Tubes


Released = 1979
Recorded = 1978, Music Annex Studios, Menlo Park, California
Genre = Rock
Length = 41:44
Label = A&M Records
Producer = Todd Rundgren
Reviews =
*Allmusic (4/5) [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:j9ddylkjxpmb link]
Last album = "What Do You Want from Live"
(1978)
This album = "Remote Control"
(1979)
Next album = "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".

Track listing

#"Turn Me On" – 4:10
#"T.V. Is King" – 3:08 (The Tubes, Todd Rundgren)
#"Prime Time" – 3:15
#"I Want It All Now" – 4:27
#"No Way Out" – 3:22
#"Getoverture" – 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 (The Tubes, Todd Rundgren)
#"Telecide" – 5:41