Outside Inside is the sixth studio album by the Tubes, released on April 4, 1983, via Capitol Records. The album peaked at No. 18 on the US Billboard 200.
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Release history
The Michele Gray version of "The Monkey Time" was also used on the Capitol CD issue of the album.
The album's liner notes list the track "Outside Lookin' Inside" as being "excerpted from a conversation with Harry James."
In 2012 Iconoclassic reissued the album with the original version of "The Monkey Time" featuring Davis. The reissue also included bonus tracks including B-sides that had never been previously released on CD. The CD was remastered by Vic Anesini and featured extensive liner notes and commentary from band members.
The bonus tracks include:
"When You're Ready to Come" (B-side of a single from the album)
"Keyboard Kids"
"Satellite" (an alternate version previously appeared on Bill Spooner's 1985 solo album "First Chud")
"The Monkey Time" (single version featuring Michele Gray on vocals)
Critical reception
Dave Connolly of AllMusic favourably claimed "producer David Foster and even more members of Toto help the Tubes punch up their new radio-ready sound with added energy. If their last record showed a newfound dancefloor sensibility, Outside Inside is absolutely funky."
Personnel
Adapted from the album liner notes.
The Tubes
Fee Waybill – vocals
Bill Spooner – guitar, vocals
Michael Cotten – synthesizer
Prairie Prince – drums
Roger Steen – guitar, vocals
Vince Welnick – keyboards
Rick Anderson – bass
Additional personnel
Martha Davis – vocals (4)
Maurice White – vocals (7)
Patti Austin – background vocals
Bill Champlin – background vocals
Bobby Kimball – background vocals
Nathan East – bass
David Foster – keyboards
James Newton Howard – keyboards
Mingo Lewis – percussion
Steve Lukather – guitar
David Paich – keyboards
Steve Porcaro – keyboards
Freddy Washington – bass
David Williams – guitar
Chuck Findley – trumpet
Gary Grant – trumpet
Gary Herbig – saxophone
Jerry Hey – trumpet, horn arrangements
Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone
Larry Williams – saxophone
Technical
Produced by David Foster
Co-produced by Prairie Prince, Stacy Baird, Michael Cotten
Mixed by Humberto Gatica (1, 2, 4, 8–10), Greg Ladanyi (3), George Massenburg (5–7), Fee Waybill
Engineered by Humberto Gatica, Dennis Kirk, Greg Ladanyi
Additional engineers – Stacy Baird, Jeff Bergeson, David Cole, Ken Kessie, Jack Leahy
Assistant engineers – Niko Bolas, Bob Bullock, Larry Fergusson, Tom Fouce, Howard Johnston, Jeff Kliment, Marnie Moore, Barbra Rooney, Steve Schmitt, Roberto Spano, Wayne Tanouye, Gene Wooley
Creative direction – Bill Burks
Art direction – Prairie Prince, Roy Kohara
Photography – Jim McCrary