Cheap Trick Music Cd

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Cheap Trick      Artist : Cheap Trick      List Price : $9.98 USD        ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1998-09-29      Studio : Sony      Label : Sony      Avg. Customer Rating : (46 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Cheap Trick      Cheap Trick - A Strong Debut      Rating:      Cheap Trick are one of those bands that perform basic rock n roll, but have always done it in a way that sounds like no one else. The band consisted of the two poster boys Robin Zander (vocals, guitar) and Tom Peterson (bass), teamed up with two total geeks in Bun. E. Carlos (drums) and the every unique Rick Neilson (guitars). This foursome has been able to carve a nice little niche for themselves in the pop rock world over the years and it all started with this their debut album. This one is far from the band's best, but broke them out of the box as a band to be reckoned with sporting a totally new take on Beatles influenced rock n roll. The first half of this album is great with quirky songs like "Elo Kiddies", "Daddy Should Have Stayed In High School", "TaxMan, Mr. Thief" with it's obvious ode to the Beatles, "Cry Cry" and "Oh Candy" all great tunes. The second half of the album is not nearly as strong to my ears and seems to come off as a bit more conventional. Overall this was a decent debut from the band and a preview of what they would do down the line.     Customer Reviews for Cheap Trick Cd      Yeah I remember this now... I think?      Rating:      Cheap Trick... hmmmmmmm I dunno should I... gee I couldn't, I shouldn't, ohhhh please don't make me... welllll OK I guess! CT was one of the bands from the seventies that I couldn't get into but that may have been my fault as admittedly their image (album cover and television spots) bugged me. These guys' image was so darned goofy with a guitarist who looked like something from The Bowery Boys on meth. that I just couldn't take it seriously. And with a name like CHEAP TRICK I assumed they were a bad joke. Besides Rob loved them and musically speaking Rob was an idiot. He had (probably still has) everything Moxy ever put out. So is this album (CD) worth my hard earned cash for an AMAZON purchase and a place in my beloved digital collection? First of all I'll go to UTUBE and have a look/listen to "I WANT YOU TO WANT ME". Well that's not really bad and, despite the silly image, it's not laughable like the DWIGHT YOKUM version is. Let's download the MP3s and see... Oh... now I remember why I don't remember this. They were a cheap trick! It sounds very much like someone was looking for a new formula but didn't have any new ideas. The guitar playing isn't terrible but nothing remarkable by seventies standards or todays. The lyrics are banal, childish and overall uninteresting especially the "Daddy Should Have...." which is really nothing more than a pretty lame take off of Jethro Tull's "Aqualung". Vocally the whole thing sounds like a whiny Alice Cooper although Cooper's melodies were at least melodic whereas these are all half baked and forced. The Mondcello tune is probably the best on the title with some decent moments even if the lyrics are pure nonsense that go nowhere. Lovin' Memory is a Lennon influenced tune that might have been OK if it weren't such an obvious cash in on someone else's style. Yeah, CHEAP TRICK... I always suspected. Editorial Reviews for Cheap Trick Audio Cd      Amazon.com essential recording      Once largely written off by critics as arena-rock dinosaurs, Rockford, Illinois's favorite musical sons have become darlings of an influential cadre of alternative and modern-rock superstars and the subjects of an overdue catalog upgrade--and for a slew of good reasons. The first of those would be Cheap Trick, the blistering 1977 debut that confounded reviewers nearly as well as it captured the band's edgy song sensibility and musical chops honed by their 200-plus-gig-a-year work ethic. Producer Jack Douglas wisely opted for a deceptively raw tack that captured Cheap Trick's manic live essence better than any other album--save, of course, Live at Budokan. The band's later bubble-gum rep is viciously and hilariously undercut here by songs about youth-culture cynicism ("Elo Kiddies"), pedophilia ("Daddy Should Have Stayed in High School"), mass murder ("The Ballad of TV Violence"), and gigolos ("He's a Whore"), not to mention a tasty cover of Terry Reid's "Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace." Guitarist Rick Nielsen's loud, trashy fretwork presaged "grunge" by a good 15 years, and Robin Zander's vocals show why he's since been tagged the Man of a Thousand Voices. And the rhythm section of drummer Bun E. Carlos and Tom Petersson was (and is) one of rock's most underrated. This Sony Legacy "Expanded Edition" restores the album's original running order (the previous version flipped the vinyl's A and B sides) and features new photos, liner notes, and five bonus cuts. One of rock's greatest albums, unsung or otherwise. --Jerry McCulley