Bust A Nut

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  Tesla albums, ranked

  Chris ODonnell

  Tesla's best record. Not the most successful, for sure. In fact, it only went gold, and it killed their career for a while. But that was because it was released in 1994, into the heart of the grunge fad. Release this album in 1989 and it sells 5 million copies. However, trying to swim against the tide of pop culture is never easy, and a gold album and record company-induced exit from recording was probably the best they could hope for in 1994.

  It's a shame, because Shine Away, Try So Hard and others on this record master the art of mixing acoustic passages into hard rock songs, and while the songs overall keep a toe in hard rock, their classic rock influences really shine through on many of these songs. The album ends with a cover of *Games People Play," which makes that classic early 70s tune sound like something they wrote in the late 80s.