Cheap Trick's comeback album is by no means a return to the creativity and vitality of their glory days. But even though Lap of Luxury is largely formulaic, the band's strongest collection of material in some time fills that late-'80s pop-metal formula quite well. Combining grandly romantic power allads ("Ghost Town") with catchy hard rockers ("Never Had a Lot to Lose"), Lap of Luxury consistently delivers strong hooks and well-crafted songs, proving that Cheap Trick were still capable of outdoing many of the bands they helped inspire. The album produced two Top Five singles in a cover of Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel" and the band's first number one hit, "The Flame."
Of Story of Fate, Porn Kings, Preacher's Wives, Dive Bars & Dueling SaxophonesI just got back from a sojurn around the Napa Valley wine country where I tend to drink more beer than grape juice, and made a stop for Margaritas in Vallejo at an artist friend's pad whose now exiled from his former life in the Mission.Upon returning, I saw that manic mascara matron Tammy Faye died, a woman you...
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| Title | Lyrics | Buy |
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| 1 Let Go |
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| 2 No Mercy |
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| 3 The Flame |
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| 4 Space |
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| 5 Never Had a Lot to Lose |
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| 6 Don't Be Cruel |
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| 7 Wrong Side of Love |
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| 8 All We Need Is a Dream |
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| 9 Ghost Town |
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| 10 All Wound Up |
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