Long Time Coming (Cheap Trick song)

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"Long Time Coming"
Cheap Trick Long Time Coming 2017 Single Cover.jpg
Single by Cheap Trick
from the album We're All Alright!
ReleasedApril 27, 2017 [1]
Genre Rock
Length3:12
Label Big Machine Label Group
Songwriter(s) Robin Zander, Rick Nielsen, Tom Petersson, Julian Raymond
Producer(s) Julian Raymond, Cheap Trick
Cheap Trick singles chronology
"When I Wake Up Tomorrow"
(2016)		"Long Time Coming"
(2017)		"The Summer Looks Good on You"
(2018)

"Long Time Coming" is a song by American rock band Cheap Trick, which was released in 2017 as the only single from their eighteenth studio album We're All Alright! . It was written by Robin Zander, Rick Nielsen, Tom Petersson and Julian Raymond, and produced by Raymond and Cheap Trick. Released as a promotional single in the United States, "Long Time Coming" reached No. 36 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. [2] The song also reached No. 1 on the Mediabase Classic Rock Airplay chart. [3]

Contents

"Long Time Coming" was released in April 2017, prior to the album's June release date. In addition to being issued as a promotional single, it was made available as an instant download with all pre-orders of the digital version of the album. [4] Speaking of the song to Billboard , Nielsen commented: "It's our interpretation of Slade and MC5 and AC/DC and Aerosmith - a lot of riffs that are reminiscent of the Move, but they're not steals. It's just, like, all the bands we like." [1]

Critical reception

Upon release, Billboard described the song as a "crunchy hard rocker driven by a Kinks-flavored riff" and a "one-song tribute to Cheap Trick's influential forebears". [1] Louder Than War described the song as a "crunching Kinks-y hard rocker". [5] Ultimate Classic Rock noted how the song sees Nielsen "weld together riffs borrowed from the Kinks and the Who". [6] Blurt wrote: "Age is clearly not a deterrent, at least as far as energy and exhilaration are concerned. The opening volley of "You Got It Going On," "Long Time Coming" and "Nowhere" ploughs forward with an intensity befitting a band half their age." [7]

AllMusic highlighted the song as one of a number of tracks where the band "sound like they're having a blast, with Nielsen's guitar roaring at every turn, and Zander sounding playfully horny". [8] American Songwriter noted Zander's "powerful" vocals, and noted the song as an example of Nielsen "prov[ing] himself the king of power pop/rock hooks". The review added: "...the simplistic lyrics won't win any Pulitzer Prizes but as pedal to the metal rockers go, it leaves most poseurs half their age in the dust." [9]

Record Collector picked the song as one of the album's "most vibrant cuts", adding that it "rises above generic nostalgia". [10] uDiscoverMusic described the song as "attention-grabbing". [11] Popdose stated: "...other songs seem to channel different rock luminaries, although filtered through Cheap Trick's particular approach: "Long Time Coming" is the AC/DC that AC/DC hasn't made in roughly twenty years." [12] Business Insider commented: "It's a wonderfully dumb, blunt rocker that, like so many songs before, Cheap Trick redeems itself with a whole lot of really catchy music. The entire tune is a summary of the 1969-1989 trajectory of rock, right down to a punky slap of non-sequitur noise from Nielsen as it conks out." [13]

Track listing

CD single (US promo)

  1. "Long Time Coming" - 3:12

Personnel

Cheap Trick

Additional musician

Production

Charts

Chart (2017)Peak
position
US Billboard Mainstream Rock [2] 36

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