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Sex, America, Cheap Trick

Cheap Trick - Sex, America, Cheap Trick Audio CD

A fair review of the Cheap Trick "Sex, America, Cheap Trick" 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.

Band: Cheap Trick
Title: Sex, America, Cheap Trick
Rating:

Release Date: 1996-08-13
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Hello There 2: ELO Kiddies [Single Version] 3: Hot Love 4: Oh, Candy [Single Version] 5: Mandocello 6: Lovin' Money [#] 7: I Want You to Want Me [#] 8: Southern Girls [Single Version] 9: So Good to See You 10: Down on the Bay [Live][#] 11: Mrs. Henry [Live][#] 12: Violins [Live][#] 13: Ballad of TV Violence (I'm Not the Only Boy) [Alternate Version][Live] 14: You're All Talk [Alternate Version][Live] 15: Fan Club [#][Demo Version] 16: Surrender 17: High Roller [Alternate Version] 18: On Top of the World 19: Auf Wiedersehen 20: I Want You to Want Me [Live] 21: Clock Strikes Ten [Live] 22: Dream Police 23: Way of the World 24: Gonna Raise Hell 25: Voices 26: Stop This Game 27: Just Got Back 28: Baby Loves to Rock 29: Everything Works If You Let It [Alternate Version] 30: World's Greatest Lover [Demo-Rick Vocal] 31: Waitin' for the Man / Heroin [Live-Tom Vocal][#] 32: Day Tripper [Alternate Version][Live] 33: World's Greatest Lover 34: I Need Love [#][Demo Version] 35: I'm the Man [#] 36: Born to Raise Hell [#] 37: Ohm Sweet Ohm [#] 38: She's Tight 39: Love's Got a Hold on Me 40: If You Want My Love [Alternate, Extra Bridge Version] 41: Lookin' Out for Number One 42: Don't Make Our Love a Crime [#][Demo Version] 43: All I Really Want [Non LP B-Side] 44: I Can't Take It 45: Twisted Heart [#] 46: Invaders of the Heart 47: Y.O.Y.O.Y. 48: Tonight It's You 49: Cover Girl 50: This Time Around 51: Place in France [#] 52: Funk # 9 [#] 53: Take Me to the Top 54: Money Is the Route of All Fun [#] 55: Fortune Cookie [#][Demo Version] 56: You Want It 57: Flame 58: Through the Night [Non LP B-Side] 59: Stop That Thief [# in the U. S][#] 60: I Know What I Want [Non LP B-Side][Live] 61: Had to Make You Mine 62: I Can't Understand It 63: Can't Stop Falling into Love 64: Come on Christmas

Cheap Trick Rules!
A band that is insultingly NOT included in the so called "Rock & Roll hall of fame". Gotta love Cheap Trick. This collection is pretty good. I love the inclusion of the unreleased songs from "Rock & Rule". Some of my favorites weren't there but all in all this is a great Box set and is a must for any hard core Cheap Trick fan. .

Great Collection, Especially For The Cheap Trick Fan
After one listen I knew that this was a compilation done for the sake of fans of the group, rather than the ubiquitous "greatest hits" package. Sony records does something smart, putting together a four-disc box set commemorating the Wisconsin band's 20th anniversary but letting the group actually compile the songs. And that's a good thing, seeing as how fully half of the music here is unreleased material, including some covers, demos, and even some live sessions featuring bassist Tom Petersson on lead vocals. The liner notes are fabulous, reading like a Cheap Trick history lesson through their first twenty years. I had the good fortune to have a brief conversation with Robin Zander last summer, and it was evident that the band still tours and records because they love to perform for their fans. This "box set" definitely shows that as well.

Very Good, but for fans only
The 80's songs we're mostly hit or miss(unfortunately they missed more than they hit). Cheap Trick was in their heyday in the 70's any album they made during that time is an essential purchase. The 90's saw them return to the charts, but as a pop-rock act. That basically describes the box set. The first two CD's are very good, taking mostly from their 70's albums and unreleased tracks(some now available on the CD reissues). The third CD taking mostly from their 80's material is hit or miss but does have a few suprises in the unreleased material. The fouth CD is probably the most passible of the four but does have a few good songs on it. My only big complaint is that their cover from the John Lennon tribute album "Cold Turkey"(the best song on that album) is not on it. Like I stated it is only for fans of Cheap Trick, the curious should check out either the 70's albums, preferably the first three, or even the Authorized Greatest Hits album.

Terrific box set
Of course I had heard a couple of songs on the radio, but that was about all my knowledge of them. I was not at all that familiar with Cheap trick before I aquired this box set. And so, listening to this set of 4 discs and reading the very informative 40 page booklet, I now consider myself a fan, and plan on purchasing other albums of theirs in the future. This is what a box set should be like. It is packed with not just their hits and album tracks, but also B-Sides, Outtakes, and alternate versions that cannot be found anywhere else but on this set. So that alone makes this a must for any fan. Spanning the years 1976 to 1995, this a terrific overview of a terrific band. Too bad they're no longer together.

Satisfying SEX, AMERICA

SEX, AMERICA strikes a good balance. The four-disc SEX, AMERICA box set covers Cheap Trick's recording career from 1976 through 1992. It delivers rarities for the long-time fans, practically every well-known Cheap Trick song for the casual listener, and some album tracks. If there were ever a recipe for anthologies, it's rarities, hits and album tracks.

Cheap Trick has contributed to a number of movie soundtracks. Perhaps licensing problems prevented every such tune from inclusion in SEX, AMERICA. One such song I wanted, their title song from the movie UP THE CREEK, did not make it to SEX, AMERICA.

Jon Brandt, who played bass for Cheap Trick during Tom Petersson's 1982-1988 sabbatical, deserves more credit than the SEX, AMERICA package gives him. He certainly deserves more pictures - Brandt is nowhere to be found in the souvenir booklet photographs. The faces of Rick Nielsen, Bun E. Carlos, Robin Zander and Petersson appear one apiece on SEX, AMERICA's four compact discs. But ironically, the disc with Petersson's face represents the six years Brandt was the bass man for Cheap Trick. Certainly one of Cheap Trick's killer LPs, STANDING ON THE EDGE, was recorded with Jon Brandt, not Tom Petersson, on bass guitar. Another of the band's play-louds, ONE ON ONE, had Nielsen, not Petersson, playing bass!

As I write this (Nov. '00), a number of Cheap Trick albums are not available. If someone asked me to recommend three or four of Cheap Trick's best, rather than name albums that may be out of print, I would tell them to start their collection with SEX, AMERICA.

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