Cheap Trick Music Cd

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Cheap Trick      Artist : Cheap Trick      List Price : $7.98 USD        ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1998-09-29      Studio : Sony      Label : Sony      Avg. Customer Rating : (47 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Cheap Trick      Boarding the Rocket Ship to Glory      Rating:      Although the world would eventually catch up with them for a short while only to lose track after their short tour as chart-conquering behemoths came full stop, Cheap Trick's eponymous debut was too smart for Kiss fans (although "Surrender" may have eventually won them over two albums down the line with its mention of Mom and Dad groping, fumbling, and mouth breathing on the sofa with Bill Aucoin's charges as a backdrop) and too loud for AOR, Rockford, Illinois' apostles of absurdity figuring the best way to keep `em entertained was to keep `em guessing. While the liner notes here trumpet the band as one without a past - "literally" - it's obvious this is where Eric Von Lustbader first realized he had a future as a fantasy writer, all four members of the band paying their dues along various mid-west interstates, NOT in the south of France. Perish the thought. Both Fuse and Sick Man of Europe died so that Cheap Trick might live. If this album had touched down in 1965, "16" magazine would be telling us about the band's favorite foods, colors, and TV shows, everything from their bleeding typeface logo to the juxtaposition of tailor-suited, world-weary men of leisure Robin Zander and Tom Petersson against hopeless mooks Rick Nielsen and Bun E. Carlos all but guaranteeing an army of screaming pre-pube POW's ensnared by a combination of guts, gimmicks, guffaws, teen-pop excitement and middle-age lechery, followed quite quickly by mass-audience megabucks. Speaking of keeping `em guessing, Zander certainly does his part, occupying a different voice in just about every song, which run the gamut from violence to suicide to teenage sex, changing guises from a guy who has to pee really bad after a long car trip ("Hot Love") to confused, misunderstood and mad at the world ("Taxman, Mr. Thief") to the moderator of a combined Thorazine addiction/Tourette's Syndrome symposium ("The Ballad of TV Violence"). Whatever the circumstance, he's dumb enough to describe raging hormones in heroic terms, a choirboy in a strip club who doesn't quite know which way to turn. From behind the glass, producer Jack Douglas cleans and polishes the rubble left by Nielsen, a demented guitar whiz in the throes of a psychotic reaction - archetypal superstar grimaces and all - and Carlos, smashing cymbals in Keith Moon's white-noise tradition, into three and four-minute cuddle toys which may not have caused much of a ripple on FM radio thirty years ago, but swagger with all the brazen arrogance of The Next Big Thing. The money shot of "Cheap Trick's" pie-eyed, metal-studded power pop chaos arrives as the last ringing chord of the Terry Reid cover "Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace" segues into massive chord cruncher "He's a Whore," which cooks with gas, a knot of histrionic urgency and St. Vitus dance downstrokes that has nowhere to go and even less time to get there. Throw in the glitzy, bubble-packed "Oh, Candy" to cleanse the palate and pulverize your brain into Cool Whip and - voila! - you're ready for an after dinner snooze. So this is how legends are born.     Customer Reviews for Cheap Trick Cd      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. 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