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Music CD - Cheap Trick: The Essential Cheap Trick
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Music CD: The Essential Cheap Trick
Artist: Cheap Trick
List Price: $24.98
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Manufacturer: Sony
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Tracks:
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1. ELO Kiddies (Single Version)
2. Hot Love
3. He's A Whore
4. Mandocello (Live)
5. Clock Strikes Ten
6. Southern Girls (Single Version)
7. Downed
8. Hello There
9. Surrender
10. California Man
11. High Roller
12. Auf Wiedersehen
13. I Want You To Want Me (Live)
14. Ain't That A Shame (Live)
15. Takin' Me Back
16. Dream Police
17. Voices
18. Gonna Raise Hell (Live)
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0827969063323
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: 2004-03-02
Studio: Sony
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: A good collection but not the real thing
Comment: This is a pretty good collection of Cheap Trick but really this isn't a band that satisfies with a greatest hits collection. I think you'd do better to decide which of their hits you like and buy the albums from that era. It's the hidden gems on the albums that you'll be listening to for 20 years.
But, if you must, this is a good collection.
Customer Rating:
Summary: the essentials, and then some
Comment: The Essential Cheap Trick is a fine compilation with both the classics ("Surrender," "I Want You To Want Me," "The Flame" etc...) and a lot of really great songs that aren't as widely played in the mainstream and have been somewhat forgotten (of these I recommend "Tonight It's You" and "This Time Around," which is a really beautiful song.) This album covers a period of almost thirty years in the history of one of rock's best kept secrets. It is refreshing and a real treat, and I highly recommend it for both the old fans and the newly curious alike.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Exellent!!!
Comment: This album gives you the best of both worlds. It gives you the famous/most played favorites (Surrender and I Want You to Want Me [Live]), but also gives you a wonderful combination of other songs that are less played at concerts and other venues (Auf Wiedersehen and ELO Kiddies [Singles Version]).These tracks are interspersed between the other tracks . But then, there are those "rockin' middle ones" (Hello There and ELO Kiddies [Singles Version]). This clean cut system adds up to one rockin' album!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Almost essential.
Comment: Sony came close to compiling the best of Cheap Trick, but they included some songs I'd have left off and omitted some tracks I'd have included. So, if you're like me, and you have most everything from Cheap Trick, my suggested compilation would be the following.
Disc One:
1. ELO Kiddies
2. Oh, Candy
3. Hot Love
4. He's A Whore
5. Mandocello
6. Hello There
7. Downed
8. Oh Caroline
9. Southern Girls
10. Come On, Come On
11. Surrender
12. On Top Of The World
13. How Are You?
14. Dream Police
15. Voices
16. I Know What I Want
17. I Want You To Want Me (Live)
18. Ain't That A Shame (Live)
19. Stop This Game
Disc Two:
1. If You Want My Love
2. She's Tight
3. Up The Creek
4. Y.O.Y.O.Y.
5. Tonight It's You
6. Mighty Wings
7. The Flame
8. Don't Be Cruel
9. Ghost Town
10. Back 'N' Blue
11. Can't Stop Fallin' Into Love
12. My Gang
13. Ride The Pony
14. Shelter
15. Baby No More
16. Wrong All Along
17. It All Comes Back To You
18. Scent Of A Woman
19. If I Could
I believe this track line-up to be more satisfying, and more varied that what the record company chose. Of course, you'll have to make up your own mind before purchasing this collection.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great set.
Comment: I have two Cheap Trick LPs, but I didn't have any Cheap Trick CDs until today. This is a really good collection, BUT there are a few cuts missing, like "Up The Creek", "Mighty Wings", which is from the "Top Gun" soundtrack, and their cover of "Don't Be Cruel". They also should've added "Lookin' out for Number One", because even though I have only heard that one a few times, I remember liking it. Still, I recommend this collection though. I didn't listen to the last three songs on Disc 1, and also on Disc 1, I didn't listen to the whole thing of Track 15, but I DID listen to every track on Disc 2. I recommend this album, it's a great collection. Next I gotta get their "One On One" album.
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Editorial Reviews:
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From the time of their full-throttled 1977 debut (whose shredded, punky demeanor often foreshadowed grunge rock by nearly a decade-and-a-half), Cheap Trick has arguably been one of most resilient and influential (Billy Corgan and Steve Albini have variously sung their praises one side side of the generation gap, John Lennon and Jeff Beck on the other), if critically underappreciated bands of the last three decades. While the Budokan-mania and "Yardbirds play Abba" (in bassist Tom Petersson's estimation) pop of "I Want You to Want Me" will be instantly familiar thanks to their classic rock warhorse status, those unfamiliar with the band's true range and enduring live power (paid ample tribute by stage versions of "Gonna Raise Hell" and a Billy Corgan-guesting "Mandocello" from '98, and the dramatic "Hard to Tell" from their 25th anniversary live show of '99) will find this collection a revelation. Spanning the decidedly mixed blessing of their sole #1 hit "The Flame" and the latter day indie-label exile that's nonetheless produced two of their strongest collections (Cheap Trick and Special One) and featuring a salting of rarities (including the long version of "If You Want My Love" and an outtake of "Walk Away" featuring more upfront vocals by guest Chrissie Hynde), this is the best single introduction to a rock band that defiantly remains one of America's greatest. --Jerry McCulley
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