Sound Suite Recording Studios and Gnome Sound (Detroit, Michigan)
Record Plant, Mediasound Studios, 39th Street Music Studio and Sigma Sound (New York City, New York)
Criteria Studios (Miami, Florida)
Length
35:31
Label
ZE, Geffen
Producer
Jack Tann
David Was
Don Was
Was (Not Was) chronology
Was (Not Was) (1981)
Born to Laugh at Tornadoes (1983)
What Up, Dog? (1988)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source
Rating
Allmusic
link
Robert Christgau
B+[1]
Rolling Stone
link
Born to Laugh at Tornadoes is a 1983 album by the art-funk band Was (Not Was). Rolling Stone declared it "conceptually, the best album of the year" shortly after its release.[2] Despite the glowing reviews, Tornadoes made little commercial impact in a year dominated by Michael Jackson's Thriller and Prince's 1999. (It did manage to become the band's first release to make it onto Billboard's album chart, peaking at #134 in a nine-week stay in the fall of 1983.)
This album boasted an impressive array of guest vocalists, ranging from hard rocker Mitch Ryder (on "Bow Wow Wow Wow"), former Black Sabbath vocalist Ozzy Osbourne ("Shake Your Head"), rock band The Knack's lead vocalist Doug Fieger (on "Betrayal" and "Smile"), Marshall Crenshaw ("The Party Broke Up") and torch song vocalist/songwriter Mel Tormé (lead vocal on the closing song "Zaz Turned Blue").
The album also displayed a wide variety of musical styles, ranging from pop love ballads ("Betrayal") to rock ("Bow Wow Wow Wow"), psychedelic synthesized mod music ("Man Vs. The Empire Brain Building") and even easy listening cocktail jazz ("Zaz Turned Blue", a ballad about a man who nearly chokes to death in a park).
Also noteworthy is a credit to Robert Kinkel as Assistant Engineer; Kinkel went on to be co-creator of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. The front cover illustration, "After Compton's", was credited to Dan Chapman in 1953 and Jeri McManus was the art director.
^Christgau, Robert (January 24, 1984). "Christgau's Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. New York. Retrieved April 29, 2013.
^"Born to Laugh at Tornadoes". Rolling Stone. 1983-10-13. Archived from the original on November 4, 2007. Retrieved 2008-05-29.
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