★★★★★
Power pop-rock heaven tonight, with a few hiccups.... The story of Cheap Trick's early days could feasibly be re-told by replacing the band's name with Peter Frampton's. A handful of albums garner critical acclaim but sell poorly, a jittery label wonders when and from where the breakthrough might come, before a game-changing live release provides the catapult to Top 10 glory...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2013-08-05
★★★★★
Cheap Trick's record label must be willing TV's Glee to pick up on Heaven Tonight or I Want You To Want Me and trigger a Journey-like renaissance. Yet even without that, the band have enjoyed an impressive career that continues today, albeit without moustachio'd drummer Bun E Carlos. The timespan is 1977 to 1990; the Trick bestrode the decades by combining a love of British beat with excessive guitars and a relentless musical momentum...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-06-20
★★★★★
Release Date: September 21st 1979 Serendipity isn't just a really cool word, but it's also a very interesting concept. It refers to coming across something that makes you happy, but you never expected to find it. Well, a few weeks ago, I was watching a new episode of History's "American Pickers" which stars two "pickers" who travel the United States looking for "rusty gold," as they call it, and they buy and sell antiques...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-05-11
★★★★★
Well, you have to marvel at Sony for this. The label is still generating product from an act that hasn't been on its roster for the past 20 years. Hey, what's wrong with making a dollar where there's a dollar to be made? And Cheap Trick are certainly worthy of the repeated exposure. With each compilation or reissue comes the chance that someone might discover or re-discover this hugely influential, not to mention fun, yet often overlooked band...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
One could make a convincing case that Cheap Trick is the greatest classic-rock band in the world today. Sound ridiculous? Consider that Trick still boasts its signature lineup--vocalist Robin Zander, bassist Tom Petersson, drummer Bun E. Carlos and guitarist Rick Nielsen--all of whom still play as well as ever. The band is still together, apparently, because the guys love playing music...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Coming 30 years after Dream Police Cheap Trick's The Latest is quite possibly their best work since that 70's masterpiece. Rick Nielsen has remarked that Cheap Trick has 'grown up without growing old,' and he's right on. The Latest is not a cheap warmed over trick of former glories from this band who knows how to craft grand hook-laden melodic rock...
- www.dangerdog.com
2010-12-06
★★★★★
While there are innumerable indie and alt-rock bands who claim influences like The Clash, Pixies or Velvet Underground, there were also no shortage of bands who turned to Rockford, Illinois, rockers Cheap Trick for tutelage in the cartoon arts of happy, hooky '70s stadium rock, which is exactly what the original lineup is doling out here. Rockford, in a word, rocks...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-23
★★★★★
Don't get me wrong: I'm as much of a Cheap Trick fan as anyone out there, maybe even more so having covered more Cheap Trick songs in various bands than all y'all put together I'd wager. But 36 tunes over two discs far exceeds what any rational devotee might deem "essential...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Cheap Trick is one of those weird rock'n'roll phenomenons. One of those bands you never find in the charts or printed on TopShop's trendy shirts, but many artists you like, old and new, will mention them as a main influence ioncluding The Ramones, AC/DC and Zeppelin, The Wildhearts, Greenday (who use their hit 'Surrender' as a live encore), Pearl Jam, Datsuns, Enuff'Z'Nuff, Extreme, Guns'n'Roses, Motley Crue, Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Temple Pilots, Terrorvision and Weezer...
- hangout.altsounds.com
2010-11-02
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