| National Emotion | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Tommy Tutone |
| Cover: | National Emotion.jpg |
| Released: | 1983 |
| Label: | Columbia |
| Prev Title: | Tommy Tutone 2 |
| Prev Year: | 1981 |
| Next Title: | Nervous Love |
| Next Year: | 1996 |
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] "Get Around Girl" was released as a single.
Members of Toto played on National Emotion.[6] It was intended to be a concept album.[7]
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." The Philadelphia Daily News called the band "one of the best practitioners of West Coast 'skinny tie' pop rock."[8]
The Sun-Sentinel deemed "Get Around Girl" "a punchy rocker full of angry, slicing guitars."[9] 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."[10]
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." In 1991, The Palm Beach Post labeled "Get Around Girl" one of the 1980s' "hits-that-should-have-been."[11]