#270/904
July 19 1985
Cheap Trick
Standing on the Edge
Genre: Rock/Power Pop
3.75 out of 5
Highlights:
Little Sister
Tonight It’s You
How About You
Reading up on this it turns out that the producer, Jack Douglas, who produced their debut, had to bow out of mixing and mastering and that was all she wrote. This turned into a flat, echoey, nearly anonymous product of the 80s.
Damn fucking shame.
“Tonight It’s You” is one of my favorite singles of theirs, ever.
Song machine (and Sesame Street songwriter/keyboardist Mark Radice is listed as a co-writer on everything and therefore I blame him for stripping them of anything that sound like Cheap Trick.
I’ll tell you what’s weird to me: how much Robin sounds like Freddie Mercury in the title track. Like mid 80s Fred. That song could’ve been a b side on The Works.
While it sounds like “generic rock band” the songs are better than many. It’s just a really ugly record. Oh well.
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