Comparisons to MTV Unplugged tend to be thrown around in an attempt to promote any pre-Unplugged acoustic music by linking it with a successful, more contemporary...
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Sacramento's oddly named Tesla took the side door to '80s hard rock success, sneaking up on the charts and general public with their rock-solid debut, Mechanical Resonance....
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Psychotic Supper benefits from a more stripped-down production than The Great Radio Controversy, using fewer overdubs and thereby enhancing Tesla's bluesy, acoustic-tinged...
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One of the band's best albums, The Great Radio Controversy retains the typical big-sounding production and anthemic hooks of '80s pop-metal, but Tesla adds a grittier,...
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When it came to honest-to-goodness hard-hitting rock and roll, Tesla were always miles ahead of their late-'80s and early-'90s brethren because they never relied on image or...
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Tesla's greatest hits and most popular album rock cuts are collected on Time's Makin' Changes: The Best of Tesla. In addition to hits like "Signs," "The Way It Is," and...
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Classic hard rockers Tesla were one of those bands that reluctantly hitched a ride on the hair metal bandwagon of the late '80s, only to get bum-rapped on the early-'90s...
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Like so many of the pop-metal outfits that were huge in the 1980s, Tesla found itself enjoying a lot less MTV exposure when -- thanks to Nirvana and Pearl Jam -- alternative...
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Although Tesla was often lumped in with all those unbearable glam metal bands during their first go round in the late '80s/early '90s, they were always a cut above the...
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Tesla was a great hard rock band living in a time of pop-metal giants. Though they had some big hits, highlighted by an unplugged cover of "Signs" and the terrific epic...
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