San Fransisco is the home for my favorite band Journey and it´s also the home for The Tubes who had their peak between 1977-1983. Starting with the live album "What do you want from live" that was the first album I heard with the band and the following studio albums "Remote control", "The completion backward principle" and "Outside inside" are all artsy AOR classics.
Their last studio album "Genius America" from 96 is a lost and forgotten piece of work that deserve more attention, it is infact a really good album but the 90´s was a tough decade for most 70´s melodic rock bands so the album vanished.
Their 3 first albums are nothing but a solid cornerstone in The Tubes career, some fans consider these albums to be their best. There are some major great songs on them but I prefer the ones above. It´s cool that Nina Hagen did a cover of "White punks on dope" from the first album.
It wasn´t easy to follow up the successful 1983 album "Outside inside", the album "Love bomb" (1985) was a fiasco where the band tried to do something different. I really did try to like it but it just didn´t work.
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