What Do You Want [Import, Live]

The Tubes | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 5, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Live
• Label: Universal I.S.
• ASIN: B0000074LA
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,462 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #52 in Music > Imports > Rock

Track Listings

1. Overture: Up from the Deep/Young and Rich/Madam I'm Adam/Mondo Bondage

2. Got Yourself a Deal

3. Show Me a Reason

4. What Do You Want from Life?

5. God-Bird-Change

6. Special Ballet

7. Don't Touch Me There

8. Mondo Bondage

9. Smoke (La Vie en Fumer)

10. Crime Medley: Sound Effect-Siren/Theme from "Dragnet"/Theme from ...

11. I Was a Punk Before You Were a Punk

12. I Saw Her Standing There

13. Drum Solo

14. Boy Crazy

15. You're No Fun

16. Stand Up and Shout

17. White Punks on Dope

Editorial Reviews

1994 reissue on A&M of their 1978 double live LP for the label, with all 17 original tracks on one CD! Recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, in November of 1977, it features 'White Punks On Dope', 'Don't Touch Me There' and 'Show Me A Reason'. Double slimline jewel case.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best live rock albums of all time, January 1, 2005

By 

Gary F. Perkinson (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: What Do You Want (Audio CD)

I saw The Tubes for the first time about six months after this album was recorded, and the show was just beyond description (especially for a 17-year-old!). It completely changed the way I thought about rock music, and completely changed my standards for what a good rock performance should look and sound like. I really wish someone had been able to document the late '70s Tubes shows for posterity on video--these guys were just awesome. I've seen the band now a total of eight times, and "What Do You Want From Live?" is a pretty amazing aural representation of the band at that time--I still have the album in my car, 27 years later (now on CD, but I used to have it on 8-track!). With two drummers, two keyboardists, two guitarists, a bass player and a singer, the band's sound at the time was as dense, tight and hard-hitting as anything in rock--then or now. DEFINITELY check this album out--you won't be sorry....

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Double live classic, October 23, 2000

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Gregg W. Silk - See all my reviews

This review is from: What Do You Want (Audio CD)

In the classic double live album genre, this is a classic. It's even better if you had a chance to see the Tubes live to understand that as Fey Waybill belts out these tunes he was wrestling with giant props, doing a series of costume changes that would make Streisand pale, or being tied up by nearly naked dancing girls. One minute dressed as Bogart, the next spoofing the violently drunk English punk icons as alter-ego Quay Lude , Fey delivers the music and and a lot of laughs mocking the tough guy posturing of punk bands.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Killer Live Album!, July 12, 1999

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[e-mail] (Iowa, usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: What Do You Want (Audio CD)

If you are only going to have one tubes album, and can live without "one in a million girls",this is for you!