The Tubes - The Fifth Album

The Fifth Album

Their fifth album, The Completion Backward Principle (1981), another concept album, featuring the classic rock staple "Talk to Ya Later", presented itself as a motivational business document, complete with shocking pictures of the band members cleaned up and wearing suits. The band also had their first Top 40 hit in the United States in 1981, "Don't Want to Wait Anymore" (recorded almost entirely by Spooner, without Waybill's participation). Outside Inside (1983) followed a few years later and yielded a few hits, including the number 10 (USA) hit "She's a Beauty".