Tesla

The Great Radio Controversy is Tesla's best early-career record, and one of the great documents of pop metal's dynamic range (read: its acoustic guitars). The crowning hits here are "The Way It Is" and the MTV breakthrough "Love Song," though deeper album cuts like "Heaven's Trail (No Way Out)" show the band's ability to bash out the kind of menacing numbers that dominate Mechanical Resonance. As with the rest of Tesla's catalogue, the talents of dual lead guitarists Frank Hannon and Tommy Skeoch are used without reserve.

Don't let the name fool you. Tesla is a dangerous moniker for an up-and-coming band; it's
the sort of name that makes you put an album back in the rack because you already have
albums by Witness, Teazer, Winger, Sacrifice, Anvil, Machine, Whiplash, Ritual, Disciple
and Toximia. But the fact is, Tesla has about as much in common with the ever-growing
parade of one-word wonders as Tiffany does with Motörhead, and the band's se... More >