Don’t Touch Me There
Working so many late nights lately, I’ve been listening to a lot of music. I’ve got roughly thirty gigs of music on my machine at work–a lot of it completely new to me when it comes up on iTunes. Last night, I was in the mood for some Tubes. When “Don’t Touch Me There” came up, I was reminded how much I love it. It’s a spot-on, campy goof on a Phil Spector-produced paean to teenage leather and lust. Co-written by Jane Dornacker (pictured above), “DTMT” appeared on The Tubes’ 1976 album Young & Rich. Give it a listen.
Download The Tubes - Don’t Touch Me There
Singer Re Styles saying “Uh-huh.” after Fee Waybill asks “When I reach for your waist?”? Hot.
It is never actually explained where “there” is. The listener is left to ponder the question.
Here’s a pretty awful live version:
January 22nd, 2009 at 3:19 pm
I hate to admit that I pretty much think of “She’s a Beauty” when someone mentions the Tubes.
January 24th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
This brought me way back. I was finishing up high school when the Completion Backwards Principal album (Backwards Completion?) came out. Living in the record producer David Foster’s hometown, it got a lot of airplay - Talk to ya later, Sushi Girl…
That album got me looking for more Tubes, which meant all this older culty stuff, way better in the long run. Ahh…What Do You Want From Life….