"Heaven's Trail (No Way Out)" Released: January 1989
"Hang Tough" Released: April 1989
"Love Song" Released: August 11, 1989[1]
"The Way It Is" Released: March 1990
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Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal
7/10[8]
Kerrang!
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Rolling Stone
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Sounds
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The Great Radio Controversy is the second studio album by American hard rock band Tesla, released in 1989. The album's sound has been described as "glam metal to play inside the cab of a tractor-blusey denim and downright wholesome".[2]
The hit singles "Love Song", "Heaven's Trail (No Way Out)", "Hang Tough" and "The Way It Is" received considerable airplay on MTV's Headbangers Ball, and rocketed the band to stardom.
The album is titled after the controversy about the identity of the inventor of radio. It is posited that Serbian engineer Nikola Tesla (whom the band is named after) is the true inventor of radio, while the Italian Guglielmo Marconi took the credit and is widely regarded as having the title. The album's inner sleeve recounts this story.
The album was certified double platinum by the RIAA on July 23, 1998.[1]
^ abc"Gold & Platinum". RIAA. Retrieved April 22, 2021.
^ abKlosterman, Chuck (2007). Fargo Rock City : a Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota. 3M Company. Scribner. pp. 160–161. ISBN 978-1-4165-8952-5. OCLC 869442403.
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^Huey, Steve. "The Great Radio Controversy - Tesla | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved May 27, 2018.
^Popoff, Martin (November 1, 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 353. ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5.
^Neely, Kim (May 4, 1989). "Tesla: The Great Radio Controversy: Music Reviews". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on December 2, 2009. Retrieved March 22, 2013.
^Elliott, Paul (January 28, 1989). "Albums Reviews: Tesla — The Great Radio Controversy (Geffen)" (PDF). Sounds. Peterborough: United Newspapers. p. 40. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 6, 2022. Retrieved September 6, 2022 – via World Radio History.
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