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Cheap Trick: The Latest

by Christel Loar

[30.Jul.09] :. 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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Tinted Windows - “Kind of a Girl” (stream)

by Jer Fairall

[3.Mar.09] :. Tinted Windows is a power-pop supergroup made up of the odd-until-you-really-think-about-it crew of Taylor (the middle one) Hanson, Fountains of Wayne tunesmith Adam Schlesinger, former Smashing...

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Cheap Trick: Budokan!: 30th Anniversary Collector’s Edition

by Lana Cooper

[5.Dec.08] :. Celebrating their career-making romp at Japan's Budokan 30 years ago, Cheap Trick offer a four-disc set that fans will no doubt "Surrender" to.

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Live recordings flourish in spite of technology

by Greg Kot [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[19.Nov.08] :. It has served as a star-making vehicle for everyone from James Brown to Peter Frampton. It went through an unplugged phase that allowed listeners to glimpse their pop heroes in a more informal...

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Cheap Trick: Budokan!: 30th Anniversary Edition

by Michael Keefe

[12.Nov.08] :. One of rock's all-time classic concert LPs is expanded, remastered, redoubled, posterized, essayfied, and videotastically ultra-enhanced. In a word: Budokan!

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Cheap Trick: Rockford

by Lou Friedman

[21.Jul.06] :. Cheap Trick had their best moments early in their 30-year history...until now. Rockford takes us back to a time when the entire album was worth the listen.

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Cheap Trick: Dream Police

by Adam Williams

[14.Apr.06] :. Even 27 years after the fact, Cheap Trick and Dream Police still hold up surprisingly well.

 

Cheap Trick: Dream Police

by Adam Williams

[14.Apr.06] :. Even 27 years after the fact, Cheap Trick and Dream Police still hold up surprisingly well.

 

Cheap Trick

by David Bekerman

[11.Oct.04] :. Cheap TrickPhoto: Carla Dragotti “The dream police, they live inside of my head / The dream police, they come to me in my bed / The dream police, they’re coming to arrest me,...

 

Cheap Trick: The Essential Cheap Trick

by Andrew Gilstrap

[24.Mar.04] :. Conventional wisdom holds that Cheap Trick exploded out of the gates with three strong studio albums, each arguably a touch weaker than the preceeding one. And then after, that… well, best to...

 

Cheap Trick: At Budokan

by Marshall Bowden

[27.Jun.02] :. Cheap Trick at Budokan must surely qualify as one of the music industry’s biggest cash cows. It was originally released in 1978, a couple years after the live album to end all live albums,...

 

Cheap Trick: Silver

by Kevin Mathews

Widely acknowledged (even amongst its fans) as losing the plot somewhat after its fourth LP, Dream Police, Cheap Trick (viz. Robin Zander, Rick Nielsen, Tom Petersson & Bun E. Carlos) has...

 

Cheap Trick: Authorized Greatest Hits

by Scott Hudson

In their 25 year career, Cheap Trick has seen their share of musical fads and trends come and go. From punk to new wave, from the hair rock of the ‘80s to grunge, Cheap Trick has weathered the...

 

Cheap Trick, Music For Hangovers

by PopMatters Staff

These old proto-new wavers have been around forever. But don’t think they’ve gotten long in the tooth or anything like that. Their energetic brand of power pop still has a powerful charge...