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Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight Audio CD

A fair review of the Cheap Trick "Heaven Tonight" 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: Heaven Tonight
Rating:
Release Date: 2007-04-24
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Surrender 2: On Top of the World 3: California Man 4: High Roller 5: Auf Wiedersehen 6: Takin' Me Back 7: On the Radio 8: Heaven Tonight 9: Stiff Competition 10: How Are You? 11: Oh Claire 12: Stiff Competition [#][*][Outtake] 13: Surrender [#][*][Outtake]

1978 Cheap Trick record remastered.
The band was on a roll at this point in time. Some great songs on this record, that blend Pop and Hard Rock.


Surrender!... and that's about it.
I dislike the rest of the tracks which sound NOTHING like the first. The first song is a true classic (possibly the best pop song ever written/recorded) and worth every penny charged for the entire album. .


Cheap Trick - Hit Their Stride
It is a great mix of power pop, hard rock, and quirky songwriting that would make Cheap Trick a cut above many of their peers of the same era. For me this is the album where Cheap Trick really put it all together and found the sound that they were looking for on their first two discs. "Heaven Tonight" is one of the band's best with every cut being strong. The album starts out with the classic "Surrender". How can you not love a song that starts out with the line "mother told me, yes she told me, I'd meet girls like you. She also told me stay away, you never know what you'll catch. . . . . . " Classic stuff! The album careens into a little slice of power pop heaven from there with "On Top Of The World", "California Man", "High Roller", "Auf Wiedersehen", "Takin Me Back", "On The Radio", "Heaven Tonight", "Stiff Competition", "How Are You" and "Oh Claire" all great examples of the band's songwriting craft. Cheap Trick would not really hit the big time commercially until their next album "Live At Budakon", but "Heaven Tonight" is where they really came into their own as a recording entity.


The last of their great studio albums (4.5 stars)
The production is slightly rougher this time around as the rockers are harder while the pop songs are more poppy than on In Color. Heaven Tonight is the last of Cheap Trick's classic studio albums. The opening track, "Surrender", is the band's best ever single and has become their signature song. The rockers "On Top Of the World", "Auf Wiedersehen", and "Stiff Competition" are all pretty heavy by Cheap Trick standards but are also very melodic, something that only the best power pop bands could pull off. Their version of the Move's "California Man" is their second great cover tune (their first is "Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace") while "High Roller" is probably their best deep cut, featuring a wicked, strutting guitar riff by Rick Nielsen. Other strong tracks include the poppy "How Are You?" and "Takin' Me Back. " The bubblegum pop of "On the Radio" and the bombastic title track are the first slight chinks in the armor of Cheap Trick as these tracks aren't on the level of the rest of the album. The remastered version contains rawer versions of "Stiff Competition" and "Surrender" that are very good, even if the latter sounds naked without the keyboards. All told, Heaven Tonight completes the trifecta of Cheap Trick's great studio albums and still sounds great 30 years later. .


their best cd
love it. my opinion is this is an excellent cd, the title track is awesome, plus the timeless [surrender] is on here,two versions,both great.


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