One On One Music Cd

Cheap Trick - One On One

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One on One      Artist : Cheap Trick      List Price : $9.98 USD        ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1990-10-25      Studio : Sony      Label : Sony      Avg. Customer Rating : (28 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for One On One      Fine LP, but it really, REALLY needs a new remastering job..      Rating:      I hope Epic will someday re-issue this CD like they have done with other CT CD's. Its far from being CT's best album. But it rocks like crazy, has several fantastic songs that have become classics and is still a lot of fun to listen to, especially when driving. I think it would have been a much better album had the 2 tracks from the "Heavy Metal" soundtrack replaced a couple of the weaker tracks. There are a lot complaints about the tinny and compressed sound of the CD, and after comparing my original 1981 LP to the CD I think its the remastering to blame. The vinyl still sounds very compressed, but has a warmer sound with more bass and "air" in Roy Thomas Baker's production work. When CD's became big business in the 1980's most record companies grabbed the eaisest master tape they could find (many times a second or third generation master tape EQ'ed for vinyl) and used it for the CD. Cheap Trick were one of the biggest bands to suffer from CBS's assembly-line remastering jobs and these old CD's shouldn't be sold anymore. If you have any later greatest hits CD or the box set compare the tracks from this CD with them, you can really hear the difference. I think CT fans would appreciate the bands mid 80's albums better if they were remastered better just like their classic 70's albums. I would love to see "One on One" remastered with "Reach Out" and "I Must Be Dreamin'" along with the flipside "All I Really Want" (a great overlooked song) and the dance remix of "Saturday At Midnight" (just for fun) added as bonus tracks.     Customer Reviews for One On One Cd      Hit and Miss      Rating:      One On One is somewhat of a hit and miss album for me. There are some great songs on it and some lesser tracks also. Produced by legendary Producer, Roy Thomas Baker (Queen, David Bowie, The Darkness), it was a change in style to a more 80's sound (given the decade). 1. I Want You is a great opener. Catchy, rocky and to the point. 2. One On One is a lesser track. Nothing much to offer from this song. 3. If You Want My Love is cheesy but a great track. One of their better known songs. Perhaps doesn't really fit in with the heavier feel to this album. 4. Oh La La La is a terrible song. One of CT's worst. 5. Looking Out For Number One is a nice rock track. 6. She's Tight is one of CT's best. Background vocals sound like Queen (the Roy Thomas Baker influence perhaps). 7. Time is Runnin' is a good track but hardly memorable. Likewise, 8. Saturday At Midnight. These two tracks compliment each other and hold their place on the album as good quality fillers. 9. Love's Got A Hold On Me is a good track. Perhaps could have been more rock, less pop. 10. I Want Be Man is one of CT's best. A real standout and a different sound to anything they'd previously done. 11. Four Letter Word is anthem rocker that doesn't rise to anthem heights. This along with Oh La La La are the weakest tracks here. All in all, a good album with many highlights. Just a couple of lowlights to bring it down. Album ranking wise it sits bottom middle. Below Busted, above Lap Of Luxury.