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Completion Backward Principle
Release Date: 1981
Running Time: 38:52
Label: BGO

The Completion Backward Principle was the first release on EMI/Capitol by San Francisco-based the Tubes. It found the outrageous septet working with producer David Foster, who gives the record a high-gloss sheen. It's a pairing that, while possibly surprising to fans of the band's earlier releases, actually works quite nicely. The ballads (the Top 40 hit "Don't Want to Wait Anymore" and the Toto-esque "Amnesia") don't suit the band, but most everything else does. There's a pair of catchy new wavish rockers in "Talk to Ya Later" and "Think About Me," the wacky "Sushi Girl," and the R&B-flavored "A Matter of Pride." The Completion Backward Principle rightfully earned the Tubes new fans and set the table for their commercial breakthrough, Outside/Inside, two years later. Tom Demalon, All Music Guide

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	Talk to Ya Later	Tubes, Foster, Lukather	4:43
2	Let's Make Some Noise	Foster, Waybill, Spooner, Cotten, Prince, Steen, Welnick, Anderson	3:26
3	Matter of Pride	Waybill, Spooner, Cotten, Prince, Steen, Welnick, Anderson	3:14
4	Mr. Hate	Waybill, Spooner, Cotten, Prince, Steen, Welnick, Anderson	4:26
5	Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman	Waybill, Spooner, Cotten, Prince, Steen, Welnick, Anderson	3:53
6	Think About Me	Waybill, Spooner, Cotten, Prince, Steen, Welnick, Anderson	4:31
7	Sushi Girl	Waybill, Spooner, Cotten, Prince, Steen, Welnick, Anderson	3:18
8	Don't Want to Wait Anymore	Tubes, Foster	3:31
9	Power Tools	Waybill, Spooner, Cotten, Prince, Steen, Welnick, Anderson	4:18
10	Amnesia	Foster, Waybill, Spooner, Cotten, Prince, Steen, Welnick, Anderson	4:03