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Cheap Trick - Next Position Please Audio CD

A fair review of the Cheap Trick "Next Position Please" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Cheap Trick reviews here, or go back to the Cheap Trick tabs.

Cheap Trick Band: Cheap Trick
Title: Next Position Please
Rating:
Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: I Can't Take It 2: Borderline 3: I Don't Love Here Anymore 4: Next Position Please 5: Younger Girls 6: Dancing the Night Away 7: You Talk Too Much 8: 3-D 9: You Say Jump 10: Y.O.Y.O.Y. 11: Won't Take No for an Answer 12: Heaven's Falling 13: Invaders of the Heart 14: Don't Make Our Love a Crime

A Good Album That Could Have Been Better...


Rundgren has stripped Rick's guitar sound of all it's bite. The choice of Todd Rundgren as producer of CT's Next Position Please seemed like an inspired one, as he has worked magic on many other LP's, from Badfinger's Straight Up to XTC's Skylarking, but somehow things didn't quite work out this time around. Although the playing is as stellar as ever, the production has effectively neutered their sound, robbing it of any balls that it may have had.

Having said that, all is not lost. There are some very strong songs here, and Rundgren's production works well on a few of them, especially the album's opener "I Can't Take It", "Borderline" and the pure pop delicacy, "Heavens Falling. " Many of the other tracks are very good songs that would have benefited from a more aggressive guitar sound that was typical of their earlier albums, but that does not mean that they are a total waste.

So in conclusion, this may not be CT's best album, but it is also not their worst. That distinction goes to The Doctor, which is their only one star effort.
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CT's best of the 80's
Those two songs didn't appear on the original LP and should not appear on the CD. My review of this is of the original - without You Talk Too Much and Don't Make Our Love A Crime. They are terrible, terrible songs.
Having said that, Next Position Please is fantastic. The best of their 80's releases and their second best overall (in my opinion).

1. I Can't Take It was always a bit soft for me. I appreiciate it more now though. Don't know that it should have been the single though, but who can resist that great Jon Brant bass work.
2. Borderline is corny but great. A standout track.
3. I Don't Love Here Anymore is a good track. The weakest track for the first half of the album though (the old side one).
4. Next Position Please is my pick for the album. It's a great song and is one of my favourite CT tracks.
5. Younger girls like most of the tracks is quite poppy but has a supreme chorus.
6. Dancing The Night Away is a cover but I love it. Love the way the verse builds.
7. You Talk Too Much - skip it.
8. 3-D is the weakest track on here (apart from the two extras). Bit too 80's sounding.
9. You Say Jump is also very 80's but I guess that was the decade.
10. Y. O. Y. O. Y is the single ballard and not a bad one at that.
11. Won't Take No For An Answer sounds like it's from One On One. Heavier than the rest of the album.
12. Heaven's Falling is amazing. What an awesome song. The only bad thing is that CT didn't write it.
13. Invaders of the Heart is a good track. Don't know about the counting though. . . . . .
14. Skip it. Can't even be bothered typing the title.

Find it, buy it, love it. The 80's at it's embarrasingly best.
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The Perfect Cheap Trick Album - Something for everyone to love - A tribute to the best fourth member they ever had - Jon Brant!
com one goes to five, sorry boys. Sicne my rating scale only goes to 4 **** stars, and the liberal Amazon. But I loved this album from the moment I heard it. I bought the cassette first in June
1983 since it had two more songs on it. There is something for everyone here; like Rockin' tunes (I do, usually), then try 'Don't Make Our Love a Crime', or 'Invaders of the Heart', with Jon screaming "People try to put us down". . . as an intro.

Like Melodic tunes (I love them - as long as Rob Zander is a-singin''Em!)?, then try I Can't Take It, a great Robin original.
Or Borderline, the best song Cheap Trick ever did, unless you like "If You Want My Love"(, especially with the extra bridge
in it), I Don't Love here anymore is the most underrated here
and the outrageous Next Postions Please ("I want to be the biigest gun in the world, I want to see the t. . . ", you get the idea). There are no bad songs here and Y. O. Y. O. Y is magnificent.
The Todd Rungren overproduced 'Heaven's Falling', which is great Live {The Live in Germany Concert version is solid), with it's
Neo-predictable chorus is a minor drawback and the cover of the
strangely Un-Cheap Trick-ish "Dancing the Night Away" [cover of the 1963 minor hit by The Motors] even somehow works - though Rundgren hated it - it had to be produced by young Ian Taylor,
who assisted Roy Thomas Baker on the vastly (loud)& underrated
1982 gold record One on One (which by the way is the fourth best
song on that record). In 1995, The Cheap Trick Newsletter, printed that Next Position Please and Standing on the Edge both (finally) hit gold. Well deserve, boys. I loved it! The best you ever did. Three of the Tricksters even agree. Guess which three?
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great songs with rawness
POP IS PRESENT BU A LOT OF GOOD MUSIC : HEAVEN'S FALLING" "INVADERS OF THE HEART" PUT THE TRICK SIGNATURE ON THIS RELEASE. THIS CONTAINS SOME OF THE BEST SONGS AFTER A DISAPOINTING "ALL SHOOK UP", NEW PRODUCER, NEW BASSIST , NEW LIFE. ZANDER RULES, AS ALWAYS AND NIELSEN TEARS IT UP. NEED I SAY MORE ?.


The Wizard Strikes Again
That's because it's actually a Todd Rundgren record with Robin Zander singing lead, delivering what is probably his greatest vocal performance ever. Had "Heaven's Falling" been the lead single, this record would have returned Cheap Trick to the pop firmament. Pretty much everything else is prime Rundgren: monstrous yet melodic guitar, background choruses that go on for days, and one irresistable hook after another. Pure pop perfection of a type almost never heard these days.


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