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Cheap Trick's The Latest is a glorious, joyous testament to rock and roll, wrapped in the undeniable power of perfect, potent pop.
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AMG Review of The Latest
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
All Music GuideIf calling their fifteenth studio album The Latest doesn't exactly suggest enthusiasm on the part of Cheap Trick, keep in mind that the band has never shown much enthusiasm for album titles anyway, titling two albums after their band and one after their hometown of Rockford, IL. The Latest follows 2006's Rockford by three years and does indeed offer the latest spin on the band's classic power pop, flowing naturally from that quite excellent back-to-basics set, offering another collection of 13 guitar-heavy pop tunes. After the brief, ominous opener "Sleep Forever," a misleading slice of spacy, hazy, mood rock fades away, Cheap Trick tear into the overlooked Slade gem "When the Lights Are Out," suggesting that The Latest will be a high-octane rock-fest, but apart from a handful of other moments -- including the raging "Sick Man of Europe" and the "Slow Down" revamp "California Girl" -- a lot of the record consists of thick Beatlesque psychedelia, an appealing shift in tactics that makes this something a little bit different than yet another Cheap Trick record. That said, reinvention isn't the order of the day, staying true to the spirit of their classic '70s trilogy is, and the band acquits themselves admirably, turning out a tight, tuneful collection of proudly unfashionable power pop. And if the best song here is a cover of Slade's "When the Lights Are Out," well, it could be argued that the Move's "California Man" was the best song on Heaven Tonight, too.
Cheap Trick: The Latest (Review)
The Latest from Cheap Trick
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That's the name for their new 13-song album- their first since Rockford came out on 6/6/06- set for release on 6/23/09 from www.cheaptrick.com and www.amazon.com. Sick Man of Europe is their first single from it and, in contrast to the album title, the song title is pretty old- it was the name of the group before they became Cheap Trick. So it's yet another Rick Nielsen play-on-words prank. To ...
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Cheap Trick: The Latest (Review)
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Cheap Trick's The Latest is a glorious, joyous testament to rock and roll, wrapped in the undeniable power of perfect, potent pop.
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Cheap Trick Going Back to 8-Track
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See that thing up there? That's what we used to call an 8-track tape back in the dark days of the 70's. It was bulky and the format of four equal-length "sides" meant that songs were either put on the tape in a different order from the album or they would fade out in the middle, only to fade back in once the tape moved to the next "track" (it was called 8-track, but it was really four stereo t...
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The Latest from Cheap Trick
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That's the name for their new 13-song album- their first since Rockford came out on 6/6/06- set for release on 6/23/09 from www.cheaptrick.com and www.amazon.com. Sick Man of Europe is their first single from it and, in contrast to the album title, the song title is pretty old- it was the name of the group before they became Cheap Trick. So it's yet another Rick Nielsen play-on-words prank. To ...
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