The Essential Cheap Trick | ||||
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Released | March 2, 2004 | |||
Recorded | 1976–1999 | |||
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Length | 2:26:50 | |||
Label | Epic | |||
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AllMusic | [1] |
PopMatters | (positive) [2] |
Rolling Stone | [3] |
Uncut | [4] |
The Essential Cheap Trick is the fourth compilation album by Cheap Trick and part of Sony BMG's The Essential series. It contains at least one song from every album up to Special One (including Silver ), except the commercial failure The Doctor . A reissue in 2010, retitled "The Essential Cheap Trick: Limited Edition 3.0", added a third disc with seven additional songs. [5]
All songs written by Rick Nielsen except as noted.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original release | Length |
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1. | "ELO Kiddies" (Single Version) | Cheap Trick (1977) | 3:42 | |
2. | "Hot Love" | Cheap Trick | 2:31 | |
3. | "He's a Whore" | Cheap Trick | 2:44 | |
4. | "Mandocello" (Live, with Billy Corgan) | Previously Unreleased (Cheap Trick) | 5:11 | |
5. | "Clock Strikes Ten" | In Color (1977) | 2:59 | |
6. | "Southern Girls" (Single Version) | Nielsen, Tom Petersson | In Color | 3:35 |
7. | "Downed" | In Color | 4:11 | |
8. | "Hello There" | In Color | 1:42 | |
9. | "Surrender" | Heaven Tonight (1978) | 4:15 | |
10. | "California Man" | Roy Wood | Heaven Tonight | 3:44 |
11. | "High Roller" | Nielsen, Robin Zander, Tom Petersson | Heaven Tonight | 3:58 |
12. | "Auf Wiedersehen" | Nielsen, Tom Petersson | Heaven Tonight | 3:42 |
13. | "I Want You to Want Me" (Live) | Cheap Trick at Budokan (1979) (In Color) | 3:43 | |
14. | "Ain't That a Shame" (Live) | Antoine Domino, Dave Bartholomew | Cheap Trick at Budokan | 5:17 |
15. | "Takin' Me Back" | Heaven Tonight | 4:52 | |
16. | "Dream Police" | Dream Police (1979) | 3:51 | |
17. | "Voices" | Dream Police | 4:22 | |
18. | "Gonna Raise Hell" (Live) | Silver (2001) (Dream Police) | 9:06 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original release | Length |
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1. | "Way of the World" | Nielsen, Robin Zander | Dream Police | 3:37 |
2. | "Stop This Game" | Nielsen, Robin Zander | All Shook Up (1980) | 3:57 |
3. | "World's Greatest Lover" | All Shook Up | 4:51 | |
4. | "Everything Works if You Let It" (Full Version) | Authorized Greatest Hits (2000) ( Roadie —- Original Motion Picture Sound Track) | 3:55 | |
5. | "She's Tight" | One on One (1982) | 2:59 | |
6. | "If You Want My Love" (Alternate, Extra Bridge Version) | Sex, America, Cheap Trick (1996) (One on One) | 4:26 | |
7. | "I Can't Take It" | Robin Zander | Next Position Please (1983) | 3:28 |
8. | "Tonight It's You" | Nielsen, Robin Zander, Jon Brant, Mark Radice | Standing on the Edge (1985) | 4:47 |
9. | "This Time Around" | Nielsen, Robin Zander, Jon Brant, Mark Radice | Standing on the Edge | 4:34 |
10. | "The Flame" | Bob Mitchell, Nick Graham | Lap of Luxury (1988) | 5:38 |
11. | "Had to Make You Mine" | Nielsen, Robin Zander, Tom Petersson | Busted (1990) | 3:16 |
12. | "I Can't Understand It" | Nielsen, Robin Zander | Busted | 3:30 |
13. | "Can't Stop Fallin' into Love" | Nielsen, Robin Zander, Tom Petersson | Busted | 3:49 |
14. | "Walk Away" (with Chrissie Hynde) | Nielsen, Robin Zander, Tom Petersson | Busted | 3:42 |
15. | "Woke Up with a Monster" | Nielsen, Robin Zander, Tom Petersson | Woke Up with a Monster (1994) | 4:54 |
16. | "Hard to Tell" (Live) | Nielsen, Robin Zander, Tom Petersson | Silver ( Cheap Trick ) (1997) | 3:45 |
17. | "Say Goodbye" | Nielsen, Robin Zander, Tom Petersson | Cheap Trick | 3:29 |
18. | "Scent of a Woman" | Nielsen, Robin Zander, Bun E. Carlos | Special One | 4:48 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original release | Length |
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1. | "The Ballad of T.V. Violence (I'm Not the Only Boy)" | Cheap Trick | 5:16 | |
2. | "Big Eyes" (Live) | Cheap Trick at Budokan (In Color) | 3:46 | |
3. | "On Top of the World" | Heaven Tonight | 4:04 | |
4. | "Heaven Tonight" | Heaven Tonight | 5:28 | |
5. | "One on One" | One on One | 3:07 | |
6. | "Cover Girl" | Nielsen, Mark Radice | Standing on the Edge | 3:43 |
7. | "Standing on the Edge" | Nielsen, Robin Zander, Mark Radice | Standing on the Edge | 4:43 |
Next Position Please is the seventh studio album by American rock band Cheap Trick, produced by Todd Rundgren and released in 1983.
Heaven Tonight is Cheap Trick's third studio album, produced by Tom Werman and released in 1978. The album was remastered and released with bonus tracks on Sony's Epic/Legacy imprint in 1998. The album cover features lead singer Robin Zander and bassist Tom Petersson on the front, with guitarist Rick Nielsen and drummer Bun E. Carlos on the back.
Dream Police is the fourth studio album by American rock band Cheap Trick. It was released in 1979, and was their third release in a row produced by Tom Werman. It is the band's most commercially successful studio album, going to No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart and being certified platinum within a few months of its release.
One on One is Cheap Trick's sixth studio album, and seventh release in general. Produced by Roy Thomas Baker, it was released in 1982 via Epic Records and was the first Cheap Trick album to feature their new bassist Jon Brant.
Standing on the Edge is the eighth studio album by the American rock group Cheap Trick, released by Epic in 1985. The album was produced by Jack Douglas, the producer of Cheap Trick's 1977 debut album, Cheap Trick. Standing on the Edge reached No. 35 on the Billboard 200 and remained on the charts for 18 weeks.
Special One is the fourteenth studio album by the band Cheap Trick. It was released in 2003 to mixed reviews and features the single "Scent of a Woman." It charted for one week, reaching 128 on the album charts.
All Shook Up is the fifth studio album by American rock band Cheap Trick. Released in 1980, it was produced by former Beatles producer George Martin. It was the first studio album since their debut to be produced by someone other than Tom Werman.
Rockford is the fifteenth studio album by Cheap Trick, released on June 6, 2006 by Big3. The album's title refers to Rockford, Illinois, the band's hometown.
Cheap Trick, commonly referred to as Cheap Trick '97, is the second eponymous album, and thirteenth studio album, by the American rock band Cheap Trick, produced by the band and Ian Taylor and released on Red Ant Records and Alliance Entertainment. The album is referred to as "Cheap Trick II" when it is referenced on the promotional DVD that was released with the band's Special One album in 2003. Ian Taylor had previously engineered the One On One LP in 1982 and produced a handful of other tracks from 1983's Next Position Please LP, as well as the title track for the 1983 Sean S. Cunningham comedy film Spring Break.
Sahara is the second studio album by the American rock band House of Lords, released on August 21, 1990.
Sgt. Pepper Live is a performance by the American rock band Cheap Trick with a full orchestra, released on August 25, 2009, in commemoration of the 42nd anniversary of the release of the historic album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles. Both a live album and a companion DVD of the performance were released. The album was engineered by Geoff Emerick. Cheap Trick performed the "Sgt. Pepper Live" show at the Las Vegas Hilton for two weeks in September 2009.
"Voices" is a song written by Rick Nielsen and recorded by American rock band Cheap Trick which appeared on the album Dream Police. The single was released in 1979 and peaked at number 32 in the US. The single has become one of the band's more widely known tracks.
"If You Want My Love" is a song by American rock band Cheap Trick, released in 1982 as the lead single from their sixth studio album One on One. It was written by guitarist Rick Nielsen and produced by Roy Thomas Baker. It reached number 45 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 2 on the Australian Kent Music Report chart.
"She's Tight" is a song by the American rock band Cheap Trick, which was released in 1982 as the third single from their studio album One on One. It was written by guitarist Rick Nielsen and produced by Roy Thomas Baker. It reached No. 65 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart.
"Tonight It's You" is a song by American rock band Cheap Trick, which was released in 1985 as the lead single from their eighth studio album Standing on the Edge. It was written by Rick Nielsen, Robin Zander, Jon Brant and Mark Radice, and produced by Jack Douglas. "Tonight It's You" reached No. 44 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and No. 8 on the Billboard Top Rock Tracks Chart.
"Kiss Me Red" is a song written by the songwriting duo of Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, and first released in 1984 for the soundtrack of the short-lived TV series Dreams, where it was performed on the show by the fictional title band. The song was notably covered by Cheap Trick in 1986 on their ninth album The Doctor, and by ELO Part II in 1990 for their album Electric Light Orchestra Part Two.
"Way of the World" is a song by American rock band Cheap Trick, which was released in 1980 as a single from their fourth studio album Dream Police (1979). The song was written by Rick Nielsen and Robin Zander and produced by Tom Werman. In February 1980 it was released as a 7" vinyl single in the UK only, backed by "Oh, Candy," from the first Cheap Trick album, and peaked at #73. It attempted to capitalize on the success of the mid-1979 single "I Want You to Want Me" and the live album Cheap Trick at Budokan which both entered the top 30.
"Perfect Stranger" is a song by the American rock band Cheap Trick, which was released in 2006 as the lead single from their fifteenth studio album Rockford. It was written by Linda Perry, Robin Zander, Rick Nielsen, Tom Petersson and Bun E. Carlos, and produced by Perry.
"My Obsession" is a song by American rock band Cheap Trick, released in 2003 as the second single from their fourteenth studio album Special One. It was written by Tom Petersson, Rick Nielsen, Robin Zander and Julian Raymond, and produced by Chris Shaw and Cheap Trick.
"Reach Out" is a song by American rock band Cheap Trick, released in 1981 as a single from the soundtrack of the 1981 film Heavy Metal. It was written by Bob James and Pete Comita, and produced by Roy Thomas Baker. Although the film's soundtrack album reached No. 12 on the Billboard 200, "Reach Out" was not a commercial success and failed to make a chart appearance.