Cheap Trick : Voices
[Purchase]
In the Fall of 1979 Cheap Trick finally released Dream Police, an album Epic decided to hold back when the group's Live At Budokan and the singles"I Want You To Want Me" and "Surrender" made them superstars. Creem Magazine readers enthusiastically voted Cheap Trick the second best group of the year after Led Zeppelin ( and ahead of The Rolling Stones, The Who and The Clash).
The live album only raised the stakes higher for the hardest rocking band from Rockford, and Dream Police failed to deliver the needed home run. The title cut, "Voices" and the last track "Need Your Love" are all solid. But the nine minute long "Gonna Raise Hell"is just as awful as its title suggests. This is the deep cut Cheap Trick puts high up in their set lists when they know they're performing in front of drunk crowds. I saw them at a casino a year after they were playing their great albums in their entirety. I think they started with "Hello There", then played "Clock Strikes Ten". I was thrilled. Then came "Gonna Raise Hell" and the concert ...kinda went to hell for me.
Dave Marsh, writing for Rolling Stone, actually called "Voices" disastrous and adds:
Robert Christgau gave Dream Police a lukewarm B-, writing
No comments:
Post a Comment