Audio CD review:
Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight

Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight

Band: Cheap Trick Title: Heaven Tonight Rating: Release Date: 1990-10-25 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Surrender 2: On Top of the World 3: California Man - Cheap Trick, Wood, Roy 4: High Roller - Cheap Trick, Zander, Robin 5: Auf Wiedersehen 6: Takin' Me Back 7: On the Radio 8: Heaven Tonight 9: Stiff Competition 10: How Are You? 11: Oh Claire - Cheap Trick, Carlos, Bun E. 12: Stiff Competition 13: Surrender

Heaven Tonight Is Cheap Trick's Heaviest Studio Album And Would Point The Way To Live At Budokan This album is a cross between oldies' rock n' roll, punk, heavy metal, and the so-called alternative rock of the 1990's. Heaven Tonight is Cheap Trick's hardest-rocking studio release that would build up to the full onslaught of their live album At Budokan. Surrender is the record's centerpiece that sets the tone for the other tracks. If you want to think of Cheap Trick as a heavy metal band, Heaven Tonight is that record just like Pyromania defined Def Leppard. Just listen to Stiff Competition in which Robin Zander screams his way through the track like a demon possessed not unlike the singers of today's death metal bands. Heaven Tonight, the title track, is the weakest track on the album. It sounds like it was recorded by robot drones than by living human beings. California Man and High Roller will get your hands clapping and feet stomping. Auf Wiedersehen is like Jimi Hendrix's All Along The Watchtower sung in German. On The Radio is dedicated to radio DJ's who "got their fingers on the world" when it comes to selecting songs for rock fans to hear which is nothing but boring repetition of the same tired hits. All in all, a must-have Cheap Trick release to own in your personal collection along with their self-titled debut, In Color, and At Budokan. . Immortal? This band really holds up. Just pulled this out of my LP collection in the basement after an inexplicable urge to hear California Man. It rocks, they rock, he, she, they rock. Might just appeal to fans of Green Day or The Offspring, like me. Anyway, gush mode OFF. magnificent this band always seems poised on the verge of a great comback. it is hard for me to put in words how great an album is. i recommend their 1st album and this album to start with. SURRENDER is a classic rock song. if you like rock and roll as it was played in the begginning then this is for you. TAKING ME BACK & ON THE RADIO are timeless. AUF WIEDERSHEIN is a full on balls out rocker and HEAVEN TONITE makes this worth the price of admission. the outtakes are interesting enough as it gives you a glipse into where these songs came from and how gorgeous this band is. ROBIN ZANDER has a voice of incredible power. he can scream and he can sing so beatiful. RICK NIELSON is an amazing guitar player. BUN e. CARLOS is such a drummer of subtle magic. he plays so simple and yet so elegant. TOM PETERSON is the man responsibe for getting me to want to play bass. what more is there to say?. You can see a complete list of all Cheap Trick discography, or go back to the Cheap Trick tabs