Music for Hangovers

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Album Description
Japan exclusive compilation featuring 14 of the beloved power pop outfit's best, culled from 1998 concert recordings, including 'Surrender', 'I Want You To Want Me', 'If You Want My Love', 'Dream Police', & 'Gonna Raise Hell'. 1999.

Album Description

Japan exclusive compilation featuring 14 of the beloved power pop outfit's best, culled from 1998 concert recordings, including 'Surrender', 'I Want You To Want Me', 'If You Want My Love', 'Dream Police', & 'Gonna Raise Hell'. 1999.

Customer Reviews:

Tragically Underrated.......2005-12-15

If you only thought Cheap Trick was a 2-hit wonder, with I Want You to Want Me and Surrender, you are in for an education. Of course you get those two songs on "Hangovers", but you also get Cheap Trick at full blast. From start to finish, Cheap Trick grabs you by the throat and leaves a bruise, capturing, probably for the first time since Budokan, the true feel of a live Cheap Trick show. Live, by the way, is the best way to enjoy Cheap Trick. This band is an American rock n roll treasure that has inexplicably passed under the radar for over two decades.

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Cheap Trick - 'Music For Hangovers' (Cheap Trick Unlimited)
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Docked Two Stars for Song Selection
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Music For Hangovers
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Manufacturer: Cheap Trick Unlimite
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Cheap Trick
Special One (Bonus DVD)
Woke Up With a Monster
Silver
Cheap Trick

ASIN: B00000ILG6
Release Date: 1999-04-20

Tracks:

Oh Claire
Surrender
Hot Love
I Can't Take It
I Want You To Want Me
Taxman, Mr. Thief
Mandocello
Oh Caroline
How Are You?
If You Want My Love
Dream Police
So Good To See You
The Ballad of T.V. Violence
Gonna Raise Hell

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At an age when most professionals are entertaining thoughts of early retirement, Cheap Trick continue to burnish their reputation as arguably the best live rock band on the planet. Recorded over a four-night stand at Chicago's Metro in 1998, this live collection can't escape comparison with the band's unlikely breakthrough, 1979's Cheap Trick at Budokan, (reissued in 1998 as the two-CD Cheap Trick at Budokan: The Complete Concert). Save for the historical-snapshot quaintness of the Budokan recording, this is the better record in every way. The material here, culled largely from the band's first three studio albums (Cheap Trick, In Color, and Heaven Tonight, themselves reissued in generous packages in 1998) dates mostly from their mid-'70s, pre-label club days, the exceptions being "Gonna Raise Hell" and the title track from Dream Police, "If You Want My Love" from One on One, and "I Can't Take It" from Next Position Please. Despite their vintage, these are songs that any alt-rock wunderkind half Cheap Trick's age would be proud to call his own; in fact, the Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan joins them onstage here to perform "Mandocello," a "lost" gem of a ballad from Cheap Trick's eponymous debut album. Deliciously loud and musically staggering, the band breathes fire into the ubiquitous ("Surrender," "I Want You to Want Me") and unfamiliar ("Hot Love," "So Good to See You," "Gonna Raise Hell") alike with indiscriminate glee. With Music for Hangovers, Cheap Trick finally have a live recording to equal their remarkable performing legacy. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

Cheap Trick - 'Music For Hangovers' (Cheap Trick Unlimited).......2005-10-06

Should be able to obtain a copy of this gem for really low-priced almost anywhere you look.'Music...' was recorded at one of the four-night special engagement they played at Chicago's Metro in 1998 to mark the 25th anniversary release of their first album.That's what I've heard anyway.Tracks off 'Music For Hangovers' are all if not mostly off of the band's first three lp's.An old school Cheap Trick fan's dream police(er,I mean dream)come true.Sound is great,almost as if you were there yourself.Tracks that were more than a delight to relive again include "Surrender","I Can't Take It","Dream Police","The Ballad Of T.V.Violence"(haven't heard this cut in awhile now),"Gonna Raise Hell" among others.Highly recommended.A must-have.

MONEY SAVING TIP.......2003-09-24

HEY YOU CAN GET THIS FREE: BUY JUST ABOUT ANYTHING DIRECT FROM CHEAPTRICK.COM AND THEY THROW THIS IN FOR FREE. I WAS AT THE CONCERT AND HAVE AN AUTOGRAPHED COPY OF THIS! SO, OF COURSE I LOVE IT. A NICE SELECTION OF THEIR BIG SONGS.

Exceeds the legendary.......2003-03-26

Cheap Trick may very well be the best pop/rock band America has ever produced, and it's no mistake that the first big splash they made in terms of record sales was the phenomenal "Cheap Trick At Budokan" live album that was initially only available in the US market as a Japanese import. The high regard in which the Budokan recording is held becomes all that more impressive when considering that it was released in THE decade known for great live albums (and it holds its own with Frampton, Kiss, McCartney, et al from the same era).
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Having said that, it's sometimes easy to forget that the "Budokan" album is not necessarily remembered for being a great collection of songs performed live inasmuch as it was a great live performance of a collection of songs. To this end I much prefer "Music For Hangovers" as being a far better representation of the band's songwriting abilities coupled equally with their musical prowess. Twenty years beyond the "Budokan" show it's obvious that Cheap Trick hasn't lost their desire to put on a terrific live show, but the track listing from the "Hangovers" set so thoroughly exceeds the songs from the "Budokan" performance that this CD could more reasonably be considered a "best of" compilation from the first half of the band's career (1983's excellent "I Can't Take It" is the most recent song included in the set, and the live version of "Mandocello" alone makes this CD a necessity for any Cheap Trick fan).
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In terms of the sound of the recording, the main issue I had with the "Budokan" recording was the poor (i.e., BURIED) mix of Tom Petersson's bass. The 12-string bass is one of the most amazing sounding musical instruments there is; it can enable a competent player (like Petersson) to sound like a one-man symphony (listen to the intro to "Gonna Raise Hell" for the full effect). On this recording the bass is mixed absolutely correctly to give it a proper voice in an outstanding electric chorus. In addition to a good sound mix, the band's decision for a more "stripped down" approach (in contrast to the self-indulgent extravangance of the "Silver" concert recorded a year later) to the songs they play means that you hear the band sounding essentially the same as they do on their (doomed) "Cheap Trick" Red Ant release from 1997; there is one semi-acoustic re-interpretation of "Oh Caroline", but the listener is not subjected to an entire "acoustic set" and generally gets to kick back and crank it up with some basic, four-on-the-floor American-played, British-influenced rock and roll. It's a tremendous accomplishment by a great band that I can't recommend enough.

Docked Two Stars for Song Selection.......2003-02-06

This is Cheap Trick live, so it don'git much better. The problem with "Music For Hangovers" is in the song choices. Only four of the CD's 14 selections are from albums other than the first three. By the time this album was released, The Trick had a long established catolog of great material. If the concept of the tour was to play one of the first three albums in its entirely complete of a three night stay. I wish they'd have given us a three CD set instead.

That said, the album plays like a long lost set from the Cheap Trick seventies glory days and THAT says a lot. Seeing that "Silver" was released barely two years later, "Music For Hangovers" can be bypassed by the causal CT fan.

Best Bargain on Amazon.......2001-10-26

What a deal! One of best rock n roll bands in the world recorded live and availble. The material on this disc is recorded from several shows in Chicago back in 1998 when the band was booking various clubs around the nation for four nights and playing complete albums live, included were the albums "In Color","Budokan" "Cheap Trick" and "Heaven Tonight. An added bonus to this recording is the inclusion of Billy Corgin of Smashing Pumkins fame adding his guitar skills on the song "Mandecello." The only let down on this disc is the song "The Ballad of T.V. Violence" which tends to drag on as does the final song "Gonna Raise Hell." Some of the songs could use the keyboards that were present on the recorded versions, but the band's tightness and talent make up for the lack of piano and synthesiser on the live tracks.
This cd is a complete joy. After 25 plus years Cheap Trick is still enthusiastic about their music and its shows on this cd and on their Silver Annivesary disc.
Cheap Trick reminds me of Chuck Berry in that their songs deal with the joys and angst of adolescene. (The comparison to the Beatles is always inevitable)and when I listen to this band I am immediatly taken back to my high school days and the trials and tribulations of being young. Rock on Cheap Trick may you never grow old.

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