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Cheap Trick - The Latest (2009) {US Press}

Cheap Trick - The Latest (2009) {US Press}

BAND/ARTIST: Cheap Trick

  • Title: The Latest
  • Year Of Release: 2009
  • Label: Cheap Trick Unlimited #CTU 2009
  • Genre: Hard Rock, Power Pop, AOR
  • Quality: EAC Rip -> FLAC (Img+Cue, Log) / MP3 CBR320
  • Total Time: 00:41:04
  • Total Size: 318 / 99 Mb (Full Scans ~ 189 Mb)
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Cheap Trick is an American rock band from Rockford, Illinois, formed in 1973. They have often been referred to in the Japanese press as the "American Beatles". In October 2007, the Illinois Senate passed a resolution designating April 1 as Cheap Trick Day in the state. The band was also ranked No. 25 in VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. The Latest is the sixteenth studio album by the American power pop band Cheap Trick. The album was produced by Cheap Trick, Julian Raymond and Howard Willing and was released on June 23, 2009. "The Latest" debuted at number 78 on Billboard's Top 200 Charts.

If calling their fifteenth studio album The Latest doesn't exactly suggest enthusiasm on the part of Cheap Trick, keep in mind that the band has never shown much enthusiasm for album titles anyway, titling two albums after their band and one after their hometown of Rockford, IL. The Latest follows 2006's Rockford by three years and does indeed offer the latest spin on the band's classic power pop, flowing naturally from that quite excellent back-to-basics set, offering another collection of 13 guitar-heavy pop tunes. After the brief, ominous opener "Sleep Forever," a misleading slice of spacy, hazy, mood rock fades away, Cheap Trick tear into the overlooked Slade gem "When the Lights Are Out," suggesting that The Latest will be a high-octane rock-fest, but apart from a handful of other moments – including the raging "Sick Man of Europe" and the "Slow Down" revamp "California Girl" – a lot of the record consists of thick Beatlesque psychedelia, an appealing shift in tactics that makes this something a little bit different than yet another Cheap Trick record. That said, reinvention isn't the order of the day, staying true to the spirit of their classic '70s trilogy is, and the band acquits themselves admirably, turning out a tight, tuneful collection of proudly unfashionable power pop. And if the best song here is a cover of Slade's "When the Lights Are Out," well, it could be argued that the Move's "California Man" was the best song on Heaven Tonight, too.

~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music

Track List:

01. Sleep Forever [01:37]
02. When The Lights Are Out [03:26]
03. Miss Tomorrow [04:12]
04. Sick Man Of Europe [02:08]
05. These Days [02:45]
06. Miracle [03:48]
07. Everyday You Make Me Crazy [01:18]
08. California Girl [02:48]
09. Everybody Knows [04:17]
10. Alive [03:37]
11. Times Of Our Lives [04:00]
12. Closer, The Ballad Of Burt And Linda [03:00]
13. Smile [04:15]

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  • whiskers
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