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- 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. 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. (en)
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- David Was and Don Was; except where indicated (en)
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- Born to Laugh at Tornadoes.jpg (en)
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- Carol Hall, Madonna, Ozzy Osbourne (en)
- David Was (en)
- Doug Fieger (en)
- Harry Bowens (en)
- Mel Tormé (en)
- Mitch Ryder (en)
- Sweet Pea Atkinson (en)
- Ada Griffin, Carol Hall, Chris Blackwell, Felix & Jarvis, The Was Bros. (en)
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- Side one (en)
- Side two (en)
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- Born to Laugh at Tornadoes (en)
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- Jack Tann, David Was, Don Was (en)
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- November 1982-June 1983 (en)
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- [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r21566|pure_url=yes}} link] (en)
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- Sound Suite Recording Studios, Detroit (en)
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- dbr:Shake_Your_Head
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- Smile (en)
- Betrayal (en)
- Bow Wow Wow Wow (en)
- Knocked Down, Made Small (en)
- Man vs. the Empire Brain Building (en)
- Professor Night (en)
- The Party Broke Up (en)
- Zaz Turned Blue (en)
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- David Was, Don Was, Felix Morris (en)
- David Was, Don Was, Jarvis Stroud (en)
- Thomas Brzezina (en)
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- 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. 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.) (en)
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- Born to Laugh at Tornadoes (en)
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