Love Bomb [IMPORT] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

The Tubes

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 2, 1993)
• Original Release Date: 1985
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Bgo - Beat Goes on
• ASIN: B0000074L7
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #31,293 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Product Description
1993 14 tracks Jewelcase

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Capitol Records screws the Tubes, May 15, 2003

By	Elwood Conway "elwoodc" (Frankfort, KY United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Yep...you read it right. Here is the story. There is tension between Spooner & Fee. Spooner is ready to exit the group. Fee records a solo LP and wants to release it the SAME TIME as Love Bomb comes out. The band asks him no to do it, but Capitol Records chooses to back Fee's LP in a MAJOR way and dump LOVE BOMB on the streets with NO promotion. I know all this becuase I worked in an AOR radio station in the Lexington KY market during that time. Capitol Records would not even consent to a lyrics inner sleeve (with artwork by Cotton & Prince)...you had to write the Tubes Fan Club and request a Xerox copy. Thus ended the group known as the Tubes. This is all too bad because this record had the potential to be even bigger than Outside/Inside. Side 2 is one continuous montage of music...a favorite at college parties. Todd Rundgren was brought aboard replacing David Foster as producer. Prairie got his first computerized drum machine (a Fairlight I believe). This LP rocks more than most others released in 1985. Don't pass it up simply becuase you don't remember it...blame it on Capitol Records.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Required Listening for Tubes Fans, November 5, 2001

By	Rodney Meek (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Bands come and bands go, and many have been the CDs that have spun through my disc player, but "Love " still remains in heavy rotation at my house. An epic work, this album was pretty much the last one that the much-missed Tubes produced. (I've heard they may have recently released a CD and I believe that they still gig in the Bay Area in some variant form, but this was basically their last hurrah.)

If you "get" the Tubes, then you simply must have this CD. If you find yourself baffled by their sound, then you should avoid it. Most folks will remember the Tubes from their often maligned Top 40 hit "She's a Beauty"; older listeners might remember the cult fave "White Punks on Dope". They're quirky, irreverent, and playful, but not perhaps to everyone's liking.

Unfortunately, "Love " met with a very harsh critical reaction and mustered only dismal sales. This fate was unmerited, given the adventurous spirit of experimentation the group showed in this album. One whole "side" (this was originally released as a vinyl LP) is essentially one meta-song, several songs that segue into each other seamlessly and that are framed by an intro and reprise. It's really a delight to listen to the group shift gears and tempo from one segment to another. And the production values (always a Tubes strong point) are superb.

If you're more on the hard or metal end of the rock spectrum--say, Rage Against the Machine or Rob Zombie--then this will make you gag. But if you enjoy stuff by groups like Fountains of Wayne or They Might Be Giants, you'll probably eat this up. Give it a try--after all these years, I'm still humming these tunes.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AN R&B MASTERPIECE FROM THE COCAINE 80'S, January 31, 2005

By	Unlucky Frank (Lalaland, CA United States) - See all my reviews

My second favorite TUBES record following YOUNG AND RICH. This is an overlooked Rock and R&B classic from one of the BEST LIVE bands I've ever seen. When TUBES (we never refer to them as "the" TUBES) played LIVE it was always an event in my neighborhood. Fee Waybill as Quay Lude shoveling mountains of fake cocaine into the audience. Prairie Prince and his monster thunder drums. Dancing cigarette boxes. At one show they even had a girl swinging from the rafters on a trapeze. Awesome stuff!!

By the time this OFFICIAL FINAL album came out, TUBES had perfected an amazing R&B sound to go along with their hard rocking numbers. LOVE BOMB was no exception. This album evokes some crazy memories. The cocaine was flowing everywhere (and I mean everywhere) and this was one of our favorite records to play all night long. The 80's were out-of-control.

The hard rocking STELLA. The R&B beauty of COME AS YOU ARE. Side B is a segue party mix that always sends chills down my spine. The harmonies of NIGHT PEOPLE. The romantic FOR A SONG. And my absolute favorite tune on this record, FEEL IT. Whenever Bill Spooner (they didn't call him Spooner for nothing) started singing this gem, the volume would go to full levels and everyone would croon this tune at the top of their lungs. WHAT A PARTY ALBUM!! WHAT MEMORIES!! I can't believe it's available again. I even have the LOVE BOMB t-shirt from this tour. I have to get this. You have to get this. TURN THIS ONE UP!! ENJOY.

( Oh, if you're looking for YOUNG AND RICH; the WHITE PUNKS ON DOPE CD contains both TUBES first album and YOUNG AND RICH in their entirety.)