Stop This Game

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"Stop This Game"
Cheap Trick 1980 Single Dutch Release Stop This Game.jpeg
Single by Cheap Trick
from the album All Shook Up
B-side "Who D'King"
ReleasedOctober 1980 [1]
Genre
Length3:45
Label Epic Records
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) George Martin
Cheap Trick singles chronology
"Day Tripper (Live)"
(1980)		"Stop This Game"
(1980)		"World's Greatest Lover"
(1981)

"Stop This Game" is a song by American rock band Cheap Trick, released in 1980 as the lead single from their fifth studio album All Shook Up . It was written by Rick Nielsen and Robin Zander, and produced by George Martin. [2] "Stop This Game" reached No. 48 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and No. 32 on the Canadian RPM Top Singles. [3] [4]

Contents

Critical reception

Upon its release, Billboard described "Stop This Game" as a song that "starts off on a mellow note before some thunderous guitar licks take charge and the tune becomes a forceful rocker". They added that the "lead vocals are full of gut level intensity". [5] Record World said that "Robin Zander provides one of his finest vocal efforts on this insistent rocker". [6] In the UK, Paul Rambali of the NME wrote, "George Martin's grandiose production sinks the normally ebullient Cheap Trick into an unfortunate mire." [7] In a review of All Shook Up, David Fricke of Rolling Stone called it one of the album's "clever pop curves", which recall[s] The Who and has a "dense, pseudo-ELO orchestration". [8]

Track listing

7" single
  1. "Stop This Game" – 3:45
  2. "Who D'King" – 2:16
7" single (US promo)
  1. "Stop This Game" – 3:50
  2. "Stop This Game" – 3:50

Personnel

Additional personnel

Charts

Chart (1980–81)Peak
position
Canadian RPM Top Singles [4] 32
Netherlands (Tipparade) [9] 12
US Billboard Hot 100 [3] 48
US Cash Box [10] 44

References

  1. ↑ "Cheap Trick - Stop This Game / Who D' King - Epic - USA - 19-50942". 45cat. 2015-09-09. Retrieved 2018-04-08.
  2. ↑ "Cheap Trick - Stop This Game at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
  3. 1 2 Billboard. "Cheap Trick Stop This Game Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved 2018-04-08.
  4. 1 2 "Item: 264 - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 2018-04-08.
  5. ↑ Billboard magazine - Billboard's Top Single Picks - November 8, 1980 - page 62
  6. ↑ "Hits of the Week" (PDF). Record World. November 15, 1980. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
  7. ↑ Rambali, Paul (11 October 1980). "Singles". New Musical Express . p. 20. ISSN   0028-6362.
  8. ↑ David Fricke (1981-03-19). "All Shook Up | Album Reviews". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
  9. ↑ "Cheap Trick - Stop This Game" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40 . Retrieved 20 December 2024.
  10. ↑ Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 20, 1980
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