Mechanical Resonance

This album has been added to 2 public lists:

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  1986. 40 years later.

  Chris ODonnell

  I actually ranked all of Tesla's albums in another list, so I'm not going to repeat myself here. I did rank this #4 on my Tesla list, but it's #1 in my heart. It's the record that started it all.

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  Tesla albums, ranked

  Chris ODonnell

  The debut album. It contains three tunes that are Tesla essentials in my opinion. Little Suzi, which is a cover, but I was in my 40s before I knew that. The original is so obscure and so bad that the Tesla version is canonical, IMO. The album produced their breakout song, Modern Day Cowboy, and a killer heavy power ballad, Love Me.

  A fascinating thing about this record is that all the best songs were on side 2. Side 1 is fine, but they are all straight-ahead hard rock tunes. Side 2 is much more interesting and, ultimately, foreshadowed the direction the band would go.