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Cheap Trick - Original Album Classics Audio CD

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Cheap Trick Band: Cheap Trick
Title: Original Album Classics
Rating:
Release Date: 2008-10-28
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: ELO Kiddies 2: Daddy Should Have Stayed in High School 3: Taxman, Mr. Thief 4: Cry, Cry 5: Oh, Candy 6: Hot Love 7: Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace 8: He's a Whore 9: Mandocello 10: Ballad of TV Violence (I'm Not the Only Boy) 11: Lovin' Money [*] 12: I Want You to Want Me [*] 13: Lookout [*] 14: You're All Talk [*] 15: I Dig Go-Go Girls [*] 16: Hello There 17: Big Eyes 18: Downed 19: I Want You to Want Me 20: You're All Talk 21: Oh Caroline 22: Clock Strikes Ten 23: Southern Girls 24: Come on, Come On 25: So Good to See You 26: Oh Boy [*] 27: Southern Girls [*] 28: Come on, Come On [*] 29: You're All Talk [*] 30: Goodnight [*] 31: Surrender 32: On Top of the World 33: California Man 34: High Roller 35: Auf Wiedersehen 36: Takin' Me Back 37: On the Radio 38: Japanese TV Spot of 'Heaven Tonight' 39: Stiff Competition 40: How Are You? 41: Oh Claire 42: Stiff Competition [*] 43: Surrender [*] 44: Stop This Game 45: Just Got Back 46: Baby Loves to Rock 47: Can't Stop It But I'm Gonna Try 48: World's Greatest Lover 49: High Priest of Rhythmic Noise 50: Love Comes A-Tumblin' Down 51: I Love You Honey But I Hate Your Friends 52: Go for the Throat (Use Your Own Imagination) 53: Who d'King 54: Everything Works If You Let It [Single Version][*] 55: Day Tripper [Live][*] 56: Can't Hold On [Live][*] 57: Such a Good Girl [*] 58: Take Me I'm Yours [*] 59: I Can't Take It 60: Borderline 61: I Don't Love Her Anymore 62: Next Position Please 63: Younger Girls 64: Dancing the Night Away 65: You Talk Too Much 66: 3-D 67: You Say Jump 68: Y.O.Y.O.Y. 69: Won't Take No for an Answer 70: Heaven's Falling 71: Invaders of the Heart 72: Don't Make Our Love a Crime

[Three-and-half out of five stars] New 'Trickster box set with five studio LPs released together, some previous unrel.songs thou
5= Three-and-a-half stars, very good
*** = Three stars, good enough
**. Rating per LP:
**** = Four stars, excellent
***. 5 = Two-and-a-half stars, better than average

Next Position Please **** Simply the best LP
Cheap Trick ever did. The bass work is incredible
as are Rob Zander's vocals and song writing on I
Can't Take It, which scumbag ex-bassist Pete Co-
mita now claims he wrote - evern though he was fir-
ed by the bans two years before(!). Rick and Bun E.
are in great form here as well. Hope the 'Tricksters
can put out the next 5 LP set with: The Doctor, One
On One, Standing on the Edge, Dream Police and Lap
of Luxury!

All Shook Up ***. 5 Not as good as some think and not
as bad as the critics thought either. Though TP's fad-
ing bass work tries to drown out Rob's singing and Rick's
fine guitar work, it was originally recorded with Rick
singing World's Greatest Lover as a tribute to his fine
wife, Karen! Underrated work, mostly, on this gem. It in-
cludes Found All The Parts, ep.

Heaven Tonight *** A good but not great one. Too bass
heavy sounding! Songs are the best collection, by a hair
writing wise however. Oh Claire, the short jap. version
here, was a harbinger for the live versions later and
the complete version on '06's 'Rockford' (***). Best
studio LP of the first three. Neither over-nor-under
produced considering the overrated Tom Werman produced
it. Could have used Jack Douglas ('76-'77 C. T. /Budokan I/
Standing on the Edge, producer).

In Colour *. 5 Worst sounding CT LP to date, unless you
like/dislike Busted or Woke Up With A Monster. Totally
watered down except for You're All Talk, which rocks.
There's nothing wrong with the song writing, but after
the exciting debut, live in the studio, '76-'77 Cheap
Trick(which is not quite as good as the '97 Cheap Trick),
a disappointment. Sophomore slump, here?

Cheap Trick ['76-'77] **. 5 Kinda hate to give this one a
somewhat low rating, but there is some filler on here.
I really love: Hot Love, The Ballad of T. V. Violence (ex-
cept for the stupid screaming at the end), Mandocello,
He's A Whore. Those plus 'Oh Candy' were on pre-MTV 1st
LP Promo film, recorded in Milwaukee in Dec. '76. This
LP kicked it into gear for the 'Tricksters, but they
REALLY peaked with Jon B. Brant in the '80's when MTV
FIRST came out. Better than the MTV garbage of today.


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