Cheap Trick - Lap of Luxury
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Artist: Cheap TrickEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-04-01
Music Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
Soundtracks:
- Let Go
- No Mercy
- The Flame
- Space
- Never Had a Lot to Lose
- Don't Be Cruel
- Wrong Side of Love
- All We Need Is a Dream
- Ghost Town
- All Wound Up
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Music Review: Hanging on by a thread
Rating: 1 Stars
Not much to add to the reviews posted previously, especially 20 years after the fact. Oh well, here goes. One reason for writing this is that I have been a fan of Cheap Trick since the days of ...oh yeah...original release of "In Color....and Black and White". Here is my assesment from the outside looking in:
One- Epic Records signs a band in 1976 knowing that they are great (actually the corporate brain trust had no idea....you know.....just like the corporate music industry today). Assign them to a producer who was a hit maker for Aerosmith and had worked with Alice Cooper...etc. First album is a disappointment in sales. By the way, critics love it (not that they are any bastion of reliability, but they got it right this time).
Enter Tom Werman: Cheap Trick gets a producer who understands the talent, but not the dynamic precisely on "In Color". It was too pop oriented for a band that wanted to ROCK" Werman was smart enough to lend his studio cred to rock sensibilites.
Look out.....Here comes Heaven.
Yep, the next three Cheap Trick albums are among the triumvirat of pop/rock/blues
How do you follow this up?
Epic Records response was to keep the band a caricature of themselves. "All Mixed Up" with George Martin....pretty good rockin, but uninspired. "Next Position Please" with Todd Rundgren. Are you kidding. This is match made in heaven. Oh yeah, Heaven has already been created. Pretty close to hell, except for the Rundgren penned "Heaven's Calling" ...how fitting.
One foot in the grave.
Cheap Trick has been given second wind. "Standing on the Edge" I don't care what some fans and critics say. This is the the heavyweight entering the ring to reclaim their prize. My opinion; best Cheap Trick album of the decade.
Enter "Lap of Luxury". "Standing on the Edge" had given the band one last bridge to the next generation ( I have not forgotten, but omitted the painful "One on One" with one of my favorite producers Roy Thomas Baker....please email me if you have any questions). "Lap..." might have well been entitled "Lap Dance". This is a dreadful affair which shows what happens to a GREAT band when the corporate entities start calling the shots. This is an album that, given their penchant to their fan base, they only perform "The Flame". Given the fact that I am a fan from way back, This song still makes me wince.
Afer all of this: Two decent songs- Let Go and Don't be Cruel. One Cheap Trick song- All Mixed Up, the last song. Go Figure, definetly saving the best for last.
Hope this review is helpful.
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