The Great Radio Controversy is the second studio album by American hard rock band Tesla, released in 1989.

[3] The hit singles "Love Song", "Heaven's Trail (No Way Out)", "Hang Tough" and "The Way It Is" received considerable airplay on MTV's Headbangers Ball and rocketed the band to stardom.

It is posited that Serbian engineer Nikola Tesla (whom the band is named after) is the true inventor of radio, while the Italian Guglielmo Marconi took the credit and is widely regarded as having the title.

He said that the album musical material will "satisfy even the most fastidious rock fan", and that "there's plenty of light and shade here too, all conveyed with an overwhelming air of confidence from a band set to expand on their promising base".

[11] Spin wrote, "This is hard rock's call to the Party, and it will compel anyone with a butt to wiggle and huff and leap around playing air to all eight solos.