Cheap Trick performing “I Want You to Want Me” at the Nippon Budokan in Japan in 1978. The group recorded the live album Cheap Trick at Budokan to capitalised on their Japanese popularity which would in turn become their breakthrough album to American listeners.
Cheap Trick performing "I Want You to Want Me" at the Nippon Budokan in Japan in 1978. The group recorded the live album Cheap Trick at Budokan to capitalised on their Japanese popularity which would in turn become their breakthrough album to American listeners. from OldSchoolCool
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Till the day I shuffle off this mortal coil I will play this song as LOUD AS I CAN when I hear it come on the radio.
Always have.
It just brings me joy.
Great song to walk down the isle to!
Very first album I ever bought. Played the shit out of it for years! Ain’t that a shame, I want you to want me and Surrender, best side two ever!
One of the quintessential bands from the classic rock era. Just perfectly what rock music should be: loud, simple, and fun. Robin Zander, Rick Neilsen, and Tom Petersson are still touring today, 44 years later.
I saw Cheap Trick at the Indy 500 Carb Day in 2006, what a fun show. Rick Neilsen swapped guitars *for every single song,* a roadie would come out with his next guitar and take away the last one. Neilsen also threw enough souvenir guitar picks into the crowd for pretty much everybody to snag one.
Amazing. Thanks for posting.
Rick Nielsen gave me hope that a nerdy kid like me could really be a rock star.
One quirk of 1970s rock was that bands would sometimes become HUGE on the back of a live album. KISS rose to fame off of “Kiss Alive,” then kids went back and bought their previous studio release “Dressed to Kill.” “Frampton Comes Alive” made Peter Frampton a star. And of course Cheap Trick made it big off of “Cheap Trick at Budokan.”
Previously and thereafter, live albums were mostly something bands that were already successful released, and the sales of them didn’t really usually do as well as their studio LPs. In the late 70s, a live album could put a band nobody knew or cared about up on top.
Cheap Trick was probably made for being “huge in Japan” (not sure, but maybe they spawned that phrase?). Two of them were almost cartoonishly anti-rock in their looks. Rick Nielsen had the bald-shaved head with bowties and baseball caps. In the late 70s, rock stars were supposed to have long hair. Having shorter hair was a bit suspect. Having someone who wasn’t in the background done up like a nerd who acted a bit clownish was both stunning and a bit genius. Bun E. Carlos looked like your balding, pudgy dad. Or your high school shop teacher?
One of the worst songs I’ve ever heard in my life. Terrible lyrics and melody.
I love saying that intro every time