| National Emotion | ||||
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| Released | 1983 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
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National Emotion is an album by the American band Tommy Tutone, released in 1983. [1] [2] The band broke up after its release; it reunited in 1996. [3]
The album peaked at No. 179 on the Billboard 200. [4] It was barely promoted by Columbia Records, due in part to staff turnover. [5] [6] "Get Around Girl" was released as a single.
Members of Toto played on National Emotion. [7] It was intended to be a concept album. [8]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [9] |
| The Philadelphia Inquirer | [10] |
The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that "Tommy Heath and Jim Keller rough up their heretofore smooth style, but their music is no less ingratiating ... This has always been a band that is simultaneously charming and derivative." [10] The Philadelphia Daily News called the band "one of the best practitioners of West Coast 'skinny tie' pop rock." [11]
The Sun-Sentinel deemed "Get Around Girl" "a punchy rocker full of angry, slicing guitars." [12] The San Francisco Chronicle noted "a swipe of grit, a certain mannerism that comes off as style, not excuse, on a base of writing that contains a germ of interest beyond the four-chord, get-the-girl mentality." [6]
AllMusic wrote that the album "finds the band going through the motions, half-heartedly repeating the formula of Tommy Tutone-2, rocking harder in places but generally lacking inspiration." [9] In 1991, The Palm Beach Post labeled "Get Around Girl" one of the 1980s' "hits-that-should-have-been." [13]
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