Intravenus
de Milo (Megaphone, 1974): First Tap album to go bronze
(two levels below platinum) after 1 million copies were returned
to stores. Rated B- by Entertainment Weekly, which concluded it
was "suffering from a certain sameness that set in during
Taps meteoric rise to the middle of the pack." Included
"Tonight Im Gonna Rock You Tonight" (which would
later appear on the soundtrack album) and "Saliva of the
Fittest." During "This is Spinal Tap," director
DiBergi reads the band one of the reviews that the album received:
"This tasteless cover [of the famous Venus de Milo sculpture
with an IV tube connected to her stump] is a good indication of
the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth rate
of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in
a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry." Nigels
response was succinct: "Now thats nit-picking, isnt
it?"