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The Tubes are a San Francisco-based rock band. [1] Their self-titled 1975 debut album included the single "White Punks on Dope", while their 1983 single "She's a Beauty" was a top-10 U.S. hit and its music video was frequently played in the early days of MTV.
The Tubes is the first album by the Tubes.Songs which received significant airplay from this album include "What Do You Want from Life?" and "White Punks on Dope", the latter of which peaked at number 28 on the UK singles chart. [3]
"She's a Beauty" is a song by American rock band the Tubes, released in 1983 on their album Outside Inside. Co-written by Fee Waybill, producer David Foster and Toto guitarist Steve Lukather, the song was inspired by Waybill's experience at a red light district in San Francisco.
Dave Connolly of AllMusic favourably claimed "producer David Foster and even more members of Toto help the Tubes punch up their new radio-ready sound with added energy. If their last record showed a newfound dancefloor sensibility, Outside Inside is absolutely funky."
Mötley Crüe covered "White Punks on Dope" on their album New Tattoo, and performs it live in concert on their Lewd, Crüed, & Tattooed DVD. [citation needed]Nina Hagen Band interpreted the song in a German-language version, translated to "TV-Glotzer" (with re-written lyrics about being an East German who lives vicariously by staring at West German television all day) on their self-titled ...
The back cover is 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; the eight members crammed into this same square for a photo that was later used for the compact disc release of this album. (Three members of the band ...
The Completion Backward Principle is the fifth studio album by the American rock group the Tubes.It is the group's first for Capitol Records.It was accompanied by a long form music video release of the same name, although it did not contain all of the songs from the album.
With the Tubes, Waybill would perform as crippled Nazi Dr. Strangekiss, country singer Hugh Heifer, glam rocker Quay Lewd, and punk parody Johnny Bugger. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] During the early 1980s, Waybill appeared as himself on a short-lived television program called Rock 'N' America , usually performing as a street reporter who annoyed pedestrians ...