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Presumably, today’s aspirational youth don’t want their illusions pricked, let alone demolished with the ruthlessness of a Zappa. Besides that, satire can be a costly business, particularly if staged with the theatrical gusto of The Tubes.
This double-disc retrospective thus suffers from the absence of visuals, though the classic Tubes show-stoppers – the perv-anthem “Mondo Bondage”, materialist sneer “What Do You Want From Life?”, teensex singalong “Don’t Touch Me There” and mighty rock-culture demolition “White Punks On Dope”– still pack a formidable impact three decades on.
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