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The last record in Cheap Trick's pre-Budokan trilogy, Heaven Tonight had some of the band's best and strongest material they've ever recorded. Opening with the teenage battle cry "Surrender," the record built upon guitarist Rick Nielsen's love of the Beatles, but with his own skewed interpretations of his heroes' craft. Although never credited as such, the band had a bit of the pre-punk angst in them, as evidenced by "Surrender," "Stiff Competition," and the furious ending of their suicide theme "Auf Wiedersehen." Vocalist Robin Zander has been hailed as the best voice of '70s rock, and his delivery of the Ron Wood rave-up, "California Man," put him in a league with the likes of Elvis Presley. The title track showed the band's great range as an eerie invitation to the nocturnal pleasures of rock and roll. --Steve Gdula
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Japanese reissue of 1978 album, packaged in a limited edition miniature LP sleeve. Features 13 tracks including the 2 bonus tracks that were originally released on the 1998 reissue, 'Stiff Competition' (Previously Unreleased Outtake) & 'Surrender' (Previously Unreleased Outtake). CBS. 2006.
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Being a "Cheap Trick" fan, I think this was their first CDs I bought! The music is great! Don't miss out on the music on this "Cheap Trick" CD. Cheers!!
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While any of the first three Cheap Trick studio albums are must-haves in any music collection, Heaven Tonight has always been my personal favorite. I was introduced to it driving home from bowling one Saturday in high school. The Bear had a $75 Plymouth that he had outfitted with a stereo that consisted of an 8-track and a set of house speakers that sat on the back seat. ("Don't step on my speaker wires, man!") As we pulled away from Walt's, Bear popped an 8-track into the player and made a comment about my lack of taste in music. For the rest of the ride I sat back and marvelled at the fact that he was right. Whatever we were listening to was way better than what I had at home. It turned out to be Cheap Trick's - Heaven Tonight and as soon as I had saved up enough I went to the Records, Tapes and Posters shop in the Newport Shopping Center and bought myself a copy. Since then I've owned it on everything except cassette, but I made up for that by owing the cd twice. (The original and the remaster.) Like Cheap Trick and In Color, it's a great listen from front to back, but it strikes a happy medium between the straight ahead rock of the debut and the poppier rock of In Color. In my opinion it's a medium that they should never have gotten away from, but the success of Budokan changed people's perceptions of the band forever. Too bad. It's a formula I could listen to even today.
By M. Fonseca
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This is party rock at its wonderful best.
Unfortunately, this album has one of the worst cover art of all times for a rock band. The single image of those two dudes (Zander and Nielsen) in the front must have put away a lot of potential customers away from the records...
As for the songs, they are pop / rock, crystal clear sounding, overproduced, bombastic. It's a really enjoyable album.
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Playing on All Cylinders
Cheap Trick's "Live at Budokan" has been considered by some folks to be one of the best live Pop/Rock albums of all time. Read more
Published on Jun 15 2003 by RobS
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On Top Of The World and You Can't Get Any Higher
Rick Nielsen once said he had a big enough stash of songs written in the early days to have cut a dozen albums. Read more
Published on Feb 2 2003 by Tim Brough
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Cheap Trick's Best Studio Album
HEAVEN TONIGHT is by far Cheap Trick's best studio album ever. Although there is plenty of twisted humor here, these guys are no novelty act. Read more
Published on Sep 30 2002
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Another great album
HEAVEN TONIGHT is the third in a trio of great albums that CHEAP TRICK put out in the late 70's. CT makes great music that has great music and melodies and HEAVEN TONIGHT has all... Read more
Published on Sep 29 2002 by Martin Lemos
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Surprise, surprise
"Heaven Tonight" is well-known as a classic (Rolling Stone magazine picked it as one of the 50 all-time "coolest" albums), but what makes the record such a joy... Read more
Published on Jun 25 2002 by Billucy
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This album is better than any Aerosmith record
Why is Aerosmith the darling of the current classic rock media coverage? It can't be because they are more media friendly, have a better lead vocalist, guitarist, bassist, or... Read more
Published on Jun 11 2002 by Darin Nelson
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