''Tuff Darts!'' is a 1978

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Tuff Darts Tuff Darts was an American punk rock band. They were one of the first bands to establish an audience at CBGB. They reached their greatest fame in the mid-late 1970s with such songs as "Slash", "(Your Love Is Like) Nuclear Waste" and their bigge ...

and was released on the Sire Records label.

Mick Rock Michael David Rock (born Michael Edward Chester Smith; 21 November 1948 – 18 November 2021) was a British photographer. He photographed rock music acts such as Queen, David Bowie, Waylon Jennings, T. Rex, Syd Barrett, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop and ...

was responsible for the sleeve design and photography.

Track listing

# "Rats" (Butani, Salen) - 2:59 # "Who's Been Sleeping Here?" (Mikael Kirke, Salen) - 3:00 # "Here Comes Trouble" (Frenzy) - 2:12 # "She's Dead" (Frenzy, Salen) - 2:39 # "Phone Booth Man" (DeSalvo, Salen) - 3:37 # "(Your Love Is Like) Nuclear Waste" (DeSalvo, Salen) - 2:57 # "My Guitar Lies Bleeding in My Arms" (DeSalvo, Morelli) - 3:17 # "Love and Trouble" (Salen) - 3:46 # "Head Over Heels" (Jeff Salen) - 2:44 # "Slash" (DeSalvo) - 3:31 # "Fun City" (DeSalvo) - 2:57 # "All for the Love of Rock N'Roll" (Butani, Salen) - 3:18

Personnel

*Tommy Frenzy - Vocals *Jeff Salen - Lead Guitar *Bobby Butani - Guitars *John DeSalvo - Bass *John Morelli - Drums Source: Tuff Darts "Tuff Darts!" album cover

Reception

Robert Christgau Robert Thomas Christgau ( ; born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist. Among the most well-known and influential music critics, he began his career in the late 1960s as one of the earliest professional rock critics and ...

gave the record a C grade, stating: "Maybe Robert Gordon left this band to escape resident sickie John DeSalvo, one of those guys who sounds like he deserves to get fixed by the knife-wielding lesbians he has nightmares about. The only way to make their record more depressing would be to add a hologram of Gordon's replacement, Tommy Frenzy, whose slick blond hair and metal teeth now set the band's android-delinquent "image." Then again, you could take away Jeff Salen's guitar."

References

{{Authority control 1978 debut albums Albums with cover art by Mick Rock Albums produced by Tony Bongiovi Albums produced by Bob Clearmountain Sire Records albums