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| 3.0 good | Robbit | October 3rd 17 |
I've reserved judgment on Cheap Trick's debut for many years. I really had finding as much joy in this music as Allmusic's reviewer seemed to have found when he gave this 5 stars. I just don't have that much love for this batch of songs, even if the performances are solid enough to pique my interest a little more. "ELO Kiddies" and "Oh Candy" are decent enough, but I'm a bit still underwhelmed by the rest of the album. I was much more excited about the following records (namely IN COLOR and HEAVEN TONIGHT) which contained much matured songwriting in my opinion. I just wasn't as amused by the lyrics of such songs as "Daddy Should Have Stayed In High School" or "He's A Whore" as others seem to be. The band chemistry is definitely happening here, just not the songs.
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| 4.0 excellent | Jeffrulesyou | March 30th 17 |
Cheap Trick's debut not reviewed; hello Sputnik, do you like good music? Hard Rockin' power pop
smorgasbord.. the boys got a little cleaned up afterwards, but if you're lookin' for Cheap Trick
at their most raw and unadulterated.. this is it!
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| 0.0 | RYMsfullofscenesters | November 5th 13 |
People make a lot of noise about this band's crossover appeal: classic rockers liked them, metalheads liked them, punks liked them, and of course Steve Albini covering them got a lot of alt rock/indie kids into them with varying degrees of irony. That's kind of my problem with them, though, that they're so middle-of-the-road; this is their "rawest" album, and it's only two steps away from the sort of VH1 arena buttrock that followed. It hits a few pleasure buttons in more of my brain areas than most things do, but none of the really important ones.
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| 4.0 excellent | Source | June 18th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | CRX | May 18th 22 |
| 4.5 superb | Oobaloo | February 16th 22 |
| 2.5 average | Get Low | February 1st 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Mitch | September 28th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Wj2006 | January 7th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Skiiddz | October 20th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | peahat | June 23rd 20 |
| 3.0 good | igi78 | February 21st 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Denis | October 8th 19 |
| 5.0 classic | kb3984 | August 13th 19 |
| 5.0 classic | Josh | July 30th 19 |
| 5.0 classic | wrax | March 10th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | bobby72 | July 22nd 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Galumpa | June 17th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | gilly | August 2nd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | e210013 | March 21st 17 |
| 4.5 superb | ArtBox | August 10th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | bungy | June 1st 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lodger | June 2nd 15 |
| 4.5 superb | SuzyC | September 15th 14 |
| 3.5 great | porch | October 6th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | bol90 | March 24th 13 |
| 2.5 average | bobbi | February 21st 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | seifer | December 12th 12 |
| 5.0 classic | bonus | December 14th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | BigHans | June 14th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | Jumaos | March 3rd 11 |
| 5.0 classic | AMGuide | November 4th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | KJAnsia | January 20th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Indian | October 3rd 08 |
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