August 15 1983
Cheap Trick
Next Position Please
4.25 out of 5
Cheap Trick
Next Position Please
4.25 out of 5
Highlights:
I Can’t take It
Borderline
Next Position Please
Heaven’s Falling
I Can’t take It
Borderline
Next Position Please
Heaven’s Falling
Hey, you know what? Cheap Trick was my first real concert. For some unknown reason my mother bought tickets to a Cheap Trick concert at radio City and my cousin, my brother and I all went. We sat way in the back and the theater was NOT full. I think she was wanting to bond with us and also be cool or…something. I never found out what possessed her to take us. In retrospect, maybe she was taking Michelle (my cousin) more than me. Michelle had In Budokan and I recall listening to that album a LOT at her house. She probably was doing her sister a favor, taking the kids to a rock show.
Anyway, contrary to what my music peers think and feel, I’ve never really been into Trick. I mean, I like a lot them when I hear them, sure. It’s really solid power pop. Often it sounds like Raspberries with teeth. But Raspberries with teeth is still rock music with the edges sanded off. And that’s how I feel about Cheap Trick. They’re smart, wicked talented and sardonic. But they sand those edges off so I forget about them but when I hear them I really dig em. Cheap Trick, In Color, Dream Police, Heaven Tonight, even All Shook Up, these are solid entries.
Anyway, contrary to what my music peers think and feel, I’ve never really been into Trick. I mean, I like a lot them when I hear them, sure. It’s really solid power pop. Often it sounds like Raspberries with teeth. But Raspberries with teeth is still rock music with the edges sanded off. And that’s how I feel about Cheap Trick. They’re smart, wicked talented and sardonic. But they sand those edges off so I forget about them but when I hear them I really dig em. Cheap Trick, In Color, Dream Police, Heaven Tonight, even All Shook Up, these are solid entries.
That’s a lot of words to say: I’ve never heard this album. And that’s the beauty of this archeological dig. Gems I’ve missed are unearthed.
Gems like this one.
It’s weird to hear a band who is so expressly enamored of The Beatles ape the Rolling Stones so hard on a song like “Younger Girls”. Almost like they are just proving they can do that, too. On Dancing the Night Away they out-Sparks Sparks.
Gems like this one.
It’s weird to hear a band who is so expressly enamored of The Beatles ape the Rolling Stones so hard on a song like “Younger Girls”. Almost like they are just proving they can do that, too. On Dancing the Night Away they out-Sparks Sparks.
Another solid effort by the boys.
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