Completion Backwards Principle [Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered]

The Tubes | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 10, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Bgo - Beat Goes on
• ASIN: B0000074L5
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #128,962 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Talk to Ya Later

2. Let's Make Some Noise

3. Matter of Pride

4. Mr. Hate

5. Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman

6. Think About Me

7. Sushi Girl

8. Don't Want to Wait Anymore

9. Power Tools

10. Amnesia

Editorial Reviews

Their 1981 album became the anarchic San Franciscan pop group's first top-forty charting album. 'Completion' features the hit singles 'Talk to Ya Later', 'Don't Want to Wait Anymore', plus 'Sushi Girl' & much more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Review of REMASTERED version of CBP, March 14, 2002

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John S. Harris "The Voice of Reason" (Memphis, TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Completion Backwards Principle (Audio CD)

This new remastered version has an interesting flaw: At the end of "Talk To Ya Later", the band's signature song from this CD, there is a fade out. What's so odd about that? Well, the song has a "strong ending" - the song is supposed to just END, not fade out. On this remastered version, it does both. There is a slight but detectable fade out during the strong ending. Wierd! Plus, the song order has been shuffled around a bit. The original US pressings of the LP and cassette in 1981 had a different track order, as did the original CD release. This new CD release has the tracks running in the order of this LP's original European release. So, for a collector of all things Tubes this CD is an interesting, though aberrant, addition to your collection. The fade out at the end of TTYL is an insult to those of us who love that song, though.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "We're Here Because You're There", February 21, 2003

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Tim Brough "author and music buff" (Springfield, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Completion Backwards Principle (Audio CD)

That quote was part of the original album's liner notes, and it pretty much sums up The Tubes' general attitude. They were irreverent and shocking, with enough playing chops to keep those in the know interested in the music. Put that with the live show that get them banned from numerous venues (in their early days), and you had a band that seemed to be perennially on the brink of making it big. But The Tubes also spent just a little too much time being weird to climb all the way to chartland. "The Completion Backward Principle" saw them almost making it yet again, as David Foster did his best to smooth out the jarring edges and polish the band even more than Todd Rundgren did on "Remote Control." The Tubes did their part by writing some tunes that sounded absolutely Toto-ish, if Toto ever contemplated amnesia, schizophrenia and late night B-Movies as song fodder.

The buff job paid off, with The Tubes' first across the board Album Radio hit, the tough strutting but uncharacteristic "Talk To You Later." The band then hit late night TV and began showing up in swim flippers performing "Sushi Girl" in a wading pool from the stage of the Tonight Show. Radio took notice and the ballad "Don't Want To Wait Anymore" snuck into the lower reaches of the Top 40. Fortunately, Foster wasn't completely able to tame these yahoos. "Attack Of The Fifty Foot Woman" was sci-fi silly in a manner that only The Tubes could make credible, and the punchy "Mr. Hate" was the confrontation of a shattering personality that the band executed perfectly on stage. "TCBWP" is likely The Tubes' most consistent album musically, but misses five stars because it was too slickly over produced, and the band never regained their experimental edge after this (unless you count the second half of "Love Bomb").

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a new Tubes, away from A&M and with David Foster helping, May 15, 2003

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Elwood Conway "elwoodc" (Frankfort, KY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Completion Backwards Principle (Audio CD)

The Tubes had run their course at A&M records (and still had one LP left to do on their contract, thus the release of TRASH). They signed with Capitol and picked up David Foster as producer. The results are incredible. The Tubes had always been a polished musical group, but this recording exceeded all their previous efforts. Each tune is well crafted & Don't Want to Wait Anymore is "the" signature ballad of 1980. This (and Outside/Inside) represents the Tubes at the top of their craft. ONE NOTE...the British import (BGO CD) has an extra four measures in the middle of MR. HATE, but at least all the original liner notes and photos are restored, unlike the now out of print USA CD version).