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''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 based on the book ''Being There'' by Jerzy Kosinski. Although ''Rolling Stone'' panned the album upon its release 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." The track ''Prime Time'' made #34 in the UK singles chart.〔Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 568. ISBN 1-904994-10-5〕 The cover of ''Remote Control'' depicts a baby watching ''The Hollywood Squares'' in a specially made "Vidi-Trainer". The back cover is a close-up photo of the show's game board with eight members of the Tubes each sitting in different squares. The lower right corner square remained unoccupied with the band's name on the front. (Three members of the band- Waybill, Spooner and Steen- later appeared as panelists on the actual game show in the late 70s.) ==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" (instrumental) – 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 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Remote Control (The Tubes album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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