“Rearview Mirror Romance” explodes next and almost sounds promising with some great drumming by Bun E.
As a result, you hear this song and it screams 80’s!! Oh, and the drum sound…Holy Crap why do they have the electric drum sound behind Bun E.’s great drum playing. This song actually has promise if you could completely remove those keyboards. Robin sounds great when he starts singing but the keyboards are too in your face…it is way too much. Robin speaks the opening verse and you are wondering what the hell are you listening to as your ears bleed profusely from the torment. The album kicks off with “It’s Up To You” which immediately an assault on the ears with all the keyboards. Ok, I have procrastinated long enough, here is the review of the music. Well, I can honestly say that never happened. I knew if I kept listening there would be something that would eventually stick and I would start enjoying it. I say that because I spent 3 weeks with this album hoping I would grow to like it. I won’t grade those tracks, but we will talk about them later.įor now, let us get to the music…as painful as it will be.
CHEAP TRICK CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE LYRICS PLUS
However, the biggest plus is you get 5 bonus tracks.
You got in record sleeve insert that is a replica of the actual vinyl plus the CD was designed to look like vinyl. The also made the CD packaging like a vinyl album. I don’t know why I find it fascinating, but I do. Plus, look at the stickers on the front…the CD is Blu-Spec which I have no idea what that means but it probably means it is supposed to sound awesome and then look at the bottom sticker, again all in Japanese. I love the OBI strip and the booklet that was all in Japanese. We will see if that happens.Īt least on the bright side, if you pick up the Japanese edition you get a pretty cool set. The band had probably hit rock bottom at this point in their career which would make you think that after this, there was no where to go but up. That says all you need to know right there. It peaked at #115 on the Billboard Charts and only had one U.S. The album finally saw its release on November of 1986 and it didn’t do well at all. However, this would be the last album to feature Brant as the band’s next album would see the return of founding bass player Tom Petersson. The band line-up was unchanged from the prior as we still had Robin Zander, Rick Nielsen, Bun E. Why would they expect anything different with this one. “Standing On the Edge” in to a wimpfest when it was supposed to be a rocker…at least that was Jack’s vision. They probably had an idea as it was Tony Platt that mixed their last album after Jack Douglas had to back out due to legal problems with Yoko Ono (that is whole other story for another time).
I don’t think they even realized at the time how weak and lame this would turn out to be. The band was really fighting with their label as the label kept screaming more keyboards and the band, in the end, just threw up their hands and finished the album in 3 weeks.
Yes, I am ruining this review by telling you the ending right away…that is how bad this album is to me. Yeah, but it didn’t…AT ALL!! Thanks to the production by Tony Platt, Cheap Trick came out with an album that had no balls and sounded so dated with the massive keyboards that you threw your hands up in the air and said “what is this crap”. At the time, not knowing that song wasn’t written by the band, I had high hopes that their album would come out rocking like that song. After recording the fantastic track, “Mighty Wings” for the Top Gun Soundtrack, Cheap Trick headed in to the studio to record their next album.
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