TESLA
Song Title: “Love Song”
Album: The Great Radio Controversy
Release Date: Feb. 1, 1989

Why You Remember Them: This song was a decent enough hit, but it was the band’s 1990 Five Man Acoustical Jam live disc that cemented their status as a band who could successfully cover “Signs” in a way that involved several pointless f-bombs.

Worldwide U.S. Album Sales To Date: 6 million

Five Man Acoustical Jam = like paying $14 at Musicland to go to the Wild Wing Cafe: Seriously, who else would have the stones (zing) to cover “Mother’s Little Helper,” “Lodi,” “Signs,” “Truckin’” and “We Can Work It Out” all on the same album? Amazing. And they’d go on to do “Honky Tonk Women,” “Street Fighting Man,” “Do You Feel Like We Do” and countless others. Nothing in the rock catalog is safe from Tesla!

Other Key Tracks: “The Way It Is,” “Heaven’s Trail (No Way Out)”

Length of “Love Song” on that acoustic album: 9:54. Suck it, Phish. (more…)