this is not pitchfork » Cheap Trick http://thisisnotpitchfork.com reviewing my music collection, one memory at a time Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:22:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 114. Cheap Trick – at Budokan http://thisisnotpitchfork.com/index.php/2008/12/06/114-cheap-trick-at-budokan/ http://thisisnotpitchfork.com/index.php/2008/12/06/114-cheap-trick-at-budokan/#comments Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:23:00 +0000 michele http://thisisnotpitchfork.com/?p=121
It doesn’t matter what else is on this album. All that matters is I Want You to Want Me and Surrender. Despite those two songs being released on other albums, and despite the airplay they received, these live versions will, for me, always be the versions of the songs. The screaming in the background and the “Let me talk so slow so you can understand me” intro: I want YOU to want ME; that’s Cheap Trick.

They never did much for me otherwise (besides my weird, geeky affinity for Rick Nielson) and I love those songs more for the memories they provide than anything else. Surrender is just one of those tunes that I will never turn off when it comes on the radio; I’ll sing it as if it’s still 1979 and the line “got my Kiss records out” is relevant.

Favorite song: Surrender
30th anniversary edition

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