The Tubes - The Completion Backwards Principle

180-gram vinyl reissue on translucent blue vinyl

The Tubes' 1981 album The Completion Backward Principle was the San Francisco band's first album to reach the top 40 of the Billboard 200, and featured the top-40 single "Don't Want to Wait Anymore" and the rock hit "Talk to Ya Later." The Completion Backward Principle's theme is a parody of a spoken-word vinyl LP found by the band at a San Francisco record store, promoting a 1950s motivational sales technique.

"The Completion Backward Principle album was a spoof of corporate rock," explains frontman Fee Waybill . "The sales technique was that 'imagination creates reality,' which it turns out, was a metaphor for someone like me, who grew up singing Beatles songs around the house dying to be in a band."

Fee adds, "The album embodies and pokes fun at the whole idea of the kind of 1984 political double-speak we get from this current president every day."