At Budokan

I Want Me To Want Cheap Trick This had the potential to make this band click for me, but only inched me closer. If this recording of them at their peak, giving it their all in front of screaming fans didn’t do it for me, I guess I’ll never love Cheap Trick. Definitely some highlights here, I liked the jam on Need Your Love and of course the opening chords and finale of Surrender slaps (thanks Guitar Hero 1 for introducing me)

Live album sheesh

I was aware of Cheap Trick but I don't think I had ever heard anything by them. At first I was puzzled by the 'pop rock' label because the first side just sounded like humdrum rock, about on a par with Status Quo. The second side had a couple of better songs but overall it wasn't great.

I’ve always felt a vague antipathy for this band. Listening to the whole record it’s not all that bad and the guitar sound is cool but the songs still don’t click with me. I wonder why the Japanese loved them so much.

Exactly what I expected and nothing more. And if I had a penny for every album live in Japan by an overrated American metal band on this list...

pas trop mon style et j'arrive pas à accrocher parce que l'album est live

This made it? Okay, launching surrender is kind of fun, but this isn't exactly a memorable listen, quality-wise or performance-wise. I liked aint that a shame, but that's not enough to garner a spot on this list. Also, makes me laugh that their only listing on this list is a live album? 2.5

Give me the hits, please. I liked little else.

Quite few people I knew had this album back in the day but I never got round to listening to it. Now I’ve heard it I’m glad I didn’t waste my time! No atmosphere, forgettable songs and disjointed production, rubbish!

Need Your Love is fantastic, otherwise not a fan. The last song sounds like the next. And it just sounds like a big jangle shmangel.

If happy 1970s soft rock is your thing, this album could be for you. I can’t get very excited about it.

Didn’t really capture me. I like I want you to want me though.

While I generally don't like live albums, the energy of the crowd helped to make the bad songs more palatable. A lot of the tracks sound like they're Disney channel songs with worse singing.

Coldplay left me well, cold

Mediocre, what a limp performance of even the songs I knew. Definitely doesn't belong on this list.

This is a decent live album by a reasonable rock band, but i truly fail to believe that there aren't well over 1000 albums more worthy of my attention than this. It's not poor - Come On, Come On is a strong opening and Surrender builds up to an anthemic crescendo, but too much of this is just... ordinary. There's a karaoke version of Ain't That A Shame, and Need Your Love starts well before descending into mediocrity when you're expecting a big finish. And letting the crowd know when to rock out and then to go home is just so Spinal Tap! A low 2 for being bang average.

Still not that great

3/10 I was hoping for something good here. There are a couple of tracks on here that I know as really solid songs; I Want You To Want Me and Surrender, so I was hoping for more of that, despite the fact that I will typically approach any live album with caution. For me, it's incredibly rare for that live experience to be captured effectively in a recording and some of the quirks of live music, like over long build ups to build anticipation in a crowd, or sing along sections that just grate with me in a recorded context. Unfortunately, this record not only fell flat for me in that regard, but also in a musical one. For a band labelled as Power Pop, there was a shocking paucity of hooks and big choruses and way too much time spent on building tension that was rarely released in a satisfying way. Of the ten tracks here, you could play them all back to me next week and I'd probably only recognise the two aformentioned classics, despite having listened to this record three times through today. And as for the album construction. We get unnecessary intro and outro tracks and an encore, a pointless addition on a 40 minute record. We get a 9 minute track that goes nowhere. We get a lot of high pitched screaming in between songs too. The band seem competent enough, if not particularly adventurous with their songwriting or performance, despite the guitarist and drummer trying to give it some now and again. And the recording isn't great either. It's muddy, has little clarity and definition, the bass is weak and the balance isn't very good. Rolling Stone have this as their 13th greatest live album of all time. So maybe live albums are just not very good? This one certainly wasn't. Hello There - It's very much an intro and it's not that exciting. The recording isn't that good either. It feels like they're trying to get the crowd up and going, especially with the drumming and perhaps for someone present at the gig it would work. But I'm not there. Come On Come On - and then they drop the tempo to this is quite pedestrian number. It feels like it never settles and just keeps roaming around hunting for a hook that it never finds. This has not been an auspicious start. Look Out - This has got a bit more drive to it. The drumming is pretty good here at least and I can hear why this might work in a live environment, but it still feels like they're struggling to find the big chorus that they need. For a supposed Power Pop band, I'm not hearing much of a pop sensibility just yet. Big Eyes - Again, this is getting a bit better. It's a bit too rhythmically staid for me and feels pretty unadventurous because of that, but there are moments creeping in here and there. The chorus feels like a really good pre-chorus, but again the big, hooky chorus never arrives. Need Your Love - It feels like we're going to get a nice slow build here. But we don't. God, this is plodding and pedestrian and the attempts to add some flair with the guitar are both too repetitive and also at odds with the dull thud of the backbeat. There's the odd decent riff in here, and again, it feels like it's building to something, but just drops away. This song is just 9 minutes of unfulfilled promises. Ain't That A Shame - And as if 9 minutes of build up wasn't enough, here's some more. It takes them a couple of minutes, but at least they actually arrive somewhere this time. It's not bad, but it's still a fairly by the numbers bluesy inspired rock number. It definitely gets better when they start having a bit of fun with solos. But that relentless bass line is a really uninspiring backbone. I Want You To Want Me - Finally! Something worthy of the Power Pop label. This is a great song. There's quality guitar playing, a solid, hooky vocal melody and lyrics. There's more hooks in here than the rest of the album up to this point, and it bounces along really well. It feels a bit like it suffers a tiny bit in terms of production and depth of instrument for being a live recording, but it's a really high quality composition. Surrender - Another great song, although it feels a little on the slow side. With a bit more tempo,this could be great. It builds nicely during the verses and then actually delivers into the chorus. There are some solid riffs and some quality vocal harmonies. Why did they wait so long to drop some satisfying tracks? Goodnight Now - We get the counterpart to the intro track now. It feels like it's got more drive, pace and groove to it now that they've got into the swing of the show, but it's still a bit of a pointless thing to have on a live record in my opinion. Clock Strikes Ten - And an encore. This has got a nice bit of grit and drive to it. It's more of that bluesy style rock, but again the chorus never really delivers on the promise and feels more like a pre-chorus. Solid verse, solid pre-chorus and then no actual chorus. It's a bit weird. Tempo and groove wise, this is pretty good but it feels a bit of a let down from a compositional completeness point of view.

It's OK, but nothing to write home about.

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Pretty cool but idk if it really had to be a live album

Not my favorite but decent.

I usually like live albums. This one didn't click

Seems like not the right introduction to cheap trick And the mixing is bad

This album reminded me why I usually dislike live concert recordings. The audience screaming made it unenjoyable for me.

Inte min grej, och kändes som ett onödigt livealbum att inkludera

Plus: Surrender är en banger, och bra band överlag. Minus: Live.

Good music but not my favorite.

A few bangers, but not really my thing. Not a fan of the background screaming.

Some huge hits.

Wow, I'm kind of impressed at how little this speaks to me.

Cheap Trick is one of life's great mysteries to me. Artists can work like slaves all their lives that are immensely more talented and never get out of the bar scene, while a mediocre act like this one can get promoted to international fame. Not that this is a bad album, I didn't mind listening to it again, but there's just not much there. I think it was marketed to teenagers. Some teenagers. As for me I didn't like it much when I was a teenager either.

I don’t love the mix and live albums can be a hard sell for me. Want You to Want Me live is the superior version though, but I could live without most of this record.

Cheap Trick has a sound all their own.

Smorrr

stupid. please stop with the terrible live albums

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Today I learned that Cheap Trick played a show in Japan. I also learned that this is their best selling album. If you're a fan of them you'll like it.

Cheap Trick should not be anywhere near this list despite the fact, and I hate myself for admitting it, "I Want You to Want Me" is absolutely incredible track.

Meh

Stop with the live albums. I already have heard most of these songs off their actual album. 3/10

It was ok, I guess.

They're just that,; a cheap trick. This felt more like a studio album with audience sounds added in than a live album. Favorite Track: "Clock Strikes Ten".

# 596 : At Budokan At Budokan – Cheap Trick, Budget Sound Live albums are supposed to capture the magic of a band in their element—raw energy, crowd interaction, and a fresh spin on studio favorites. At Budokan does none of that. Instead, it’s a sloppy, uninspired mess that sounds like it was recorded from the back row with a potato. The hits are still decent, but everything feels loose and under-rehearsed. The lyrics are uninspiring, the energy is flat, and the crowd might as well be napping. There’s no spark, no moment that makes you stop and go, “Wow.” Just a lot of “Why is this considered essential?” I wouldn’t say it’s bad, but every song here is done better on the studio albums. This feels like a bootleg that accidentally made it onto Rolling Stone’s “Greatest Albums” list. Best Track (if you must): Ain’t That a Shame – ironically, the best thing here is a cover. Verdict: ★★ for nostalgia. File under “live albums that forgot to bring the live energy.”

It's energetic and the guitar work is skilled but as someone only passingly familiar with Cheap Trick who was born after this concert took place, there isn't much to recommend this album. The music is classic power pop, some of it bordering on self parody, and the crowd is appropriately worked up but, I don't know, I wasn't there so it just sort of feels like I'm trying to listen to a baseball game on the radio without the announcers. The album has a really cool story, but just listening to it, eh. The cover is a candid shot that you would tell your friend to delete, it's a 1/5.

Idk why this is on here. I like CT but not very good live album.

We don't do live albums. Sorry Cheap Trick.

Live albums are not albums. It's memorabilia for die hard fans. Nothing about this justifies the inclusion on a list of essential releases. The tracks are okay at best, and nothing is gained by having this recorded with a crowd.

This one is for the cheap trick fan. Wherever you are

Live albums are awful. Extra star for Want You To Want Me.

It's a live album. One of which, the top songs are songs I don't necessarily like.

2 Just don't really have anything to say about it - didn't care for it, but it wasn't painful I suppose

Boring songs, awful sound. Beats me how this could ever be a hit or considered an essential classic.

From the reputation of this Live album I was expecting it not to sound like a tinny, cheap bootleg, and yet that is the impression that I get. Some good tunes, but it's hard to get past the sound quality.

Sounds cheap, feels cheap is cheap

Never got into them when I was younger. Like a repeating record of previous comments, was expecting more.

Eh…

Their two okay songs don't really make a live album necessary

242/1089 - Very rudimentary and formulaic. A good showcase that there's a difference between simple and basic. This is either the worst 3 or the best 2.

Ugh. Another live? No thanks, not even for cheap trick.

It took them a few songs to get going and even then the performance still felt average. Also the crowd interaction was pretty minimal for a live album.

My parents’ music

lapsiyleisö kuulee äänestä. vähän mietityttää että minkälaistam umusiikkia tulee kun lapset kaikki tykkää jeejee.. ehkä en kuitenkaan rupee näitä kuuntelee enempää taravi. kuitenki ollaan jo kasvattu. saa olla lapsellinen saa olla lapsellinen. mutta en mä frööbelin palikoita enään kuuntele kuitenkaan ja aika sama meininki menossa.. meidän laivassa meidän laivassa siinä on iso reikä pohjassa ja se uppoaa se uppoaa jos et ryhdy toimimaan ahh bändi.. ylös alas näin ja näin ykköspumbbu nyt jo käy ahh motherfuckers. lapset vaan huutaa rallallaa ei mielessä ole mitään muuta paitsi rallatus ja hallatus eo helevteei soikoon. ned your live

Meh

Fav: Surrender Least Fav: Hello There Not much to say, wasn’t a big fan outside a couple songs and it was pretty generic. Boring

I was pretty disappointed with this when I got the CD in a 12 for the price of 1 deal from BMG music club in the 00s. Surrender is an amazing song and I Want you to Want me is an overplayed but endearingly earnest timeless power pop gem, but the rest is pretty boring stuff, sitting somewhere between 70s classic rock and 80s new wave - chugging along at mid tempo with a bluesy beat, tons of guitar noodling, insistent drumming, and kind of thin but very charismatic vocals. The rhythm guitar tone is great though, bright and scuzzy chords ringing out loudly. They're the of arena rock version of a John Hughes movie - saccharine teenage bubblegum.

they dont call them cheap trick for nothing

My only previous engagement with Cheap Trick was buying an album of theirs on cassette cheap at a new year WH Smith sale. Their big hit Surrender was on it so the album must have been Heaven Tonight. It was very much a punt purchase as I’d no idea what I was buying. The cassette like very many suffered the same fate of being chewed up in my cars stereo system. So I remember little about it other than I considered it a good buy for the few pence paid. So until today that was my sum involvement with Cheap Trick. This album opens up the argument again about the inclusion of live albums on this list. I sit on the fence over this. Some of my favourite all time albums are live. The Who Live at Leeds, Purples Made in Japan and Keith Jarrett’s Koln Concert are all landmark albums. But this one ain’t. Sound quality is poor as if recorded on a single mic cassette recorder. The quality of the music is no better. Sounds like a tribute band playing at a boozy Christmas party. I’m sure those who were at the gig have a different view as the audience sound right up for it. And to me that is where the majority of live albums sit. As a memento of the gig to those attending it and for committed fans as a must have album to maintain their collection. 2/5 29/8/25

I don't think this album or artist has quite the same 'value' in the UK as in the US. I'm not very familiar with the for sure. It was an ok album, I made it all the way through, but not one track stood out and I have no desire to listen again. I must admit that, in general, I'm not a fan of the live album sound.

Bleh.

A cheap trick live album? On a list of the 1001 albums to hear before you die? While surrender is an amazing song, im not sure there is single good reason you could give for this album being on this list.

Big in Japan. Huh.

I don’t know. Never really got the appeal of Cheap Trick

Never been a big fan of Cheap Trick, and the fact their live songs were the ones that got radio play were a part of that. The appeal of a live recording is to hear the band play off of the energy of the crowd and really go all out, and it didn't really hit that way with me this time. Surrender is still pretty neat though.

What a boring live performance. Saved from a one star by some good songs at the end, even though the performance was bleh.

Au départ, je croyais tomber sur une belle découverte, mais j’ai pas accroché! Avec le soleil, j’avais le goût d’écouter ça dans une décapotable, mais la version Geo Métro jaune de la décapotable. (Vous irez googler et vous saisirez mon image)!

The "If You're Happy and You Know It" of hard rock.

This album is everything I dislike about stadium rock, without doing quite enough to make me truly hate it.

This is all pretty good, and the hits at the end are great, but I resent live albums being included in here so I'm docking a point to make it a 2

If I was at this concert I would have been booored out of my mind. At least they made the song in 10 Things I Hate About You

It's fine, but I'd literally rather listen to studio versions of the same material

I don’t like “I want you to want me” enough to knock this down to a 3. If it had Dream Police instead, it gets a 4

2.0 Such an extremely odd choice. This list has done well to shy away from live albums, only doing so when it's been slightly necessary (e.g. capturing the Grateful Deads early, non-album live performances). So why on earth a live album for a pretty naff one-hit wonder band, with poor fidelity to boot, is included is beyond me. There are probably 1001 better, more interesting live albums than this.

A couple of catchy and fun tracks. Seems like a nice atmosphere. Probably won't listen again though

It is o.k. but not a live-performance that thrills me. And so I rate it down as always just because it is a live-album. best known: "I Want You To Want Me", "Surrender"

Cheap Trick’s performance here is overall pretty MEH. Did not enjoy it at all. The only redeeming part of this live album is the crowd is HYPE AF.

naja. rock-pop aus den 70ern. und das war es.

p440. 1979. 2 stars. The musical equivalent of winning the lottery. Average US band with average songs somehow sells 3 million copies with a live album. WTF.

5/10

Not a huge fan of Cheap Trick. This recording has never sounded great to me either.

I thought I'd like more of these US AOR acts but this all just sounds dull and uninvolving

why is this on the list?

Pre-listening thoughts: uh oh a live album. But I freak with Surrender so maybe this will be good Post/during listening thoughts: yeah idk why I said that. There are very few bands where a live album should be their ONLY inclusion. Not sure why we didn’t just pick a studio album for these guys (or why they’re on the list at all. Always thought they were a one hit wonder). I mean it was FINE but like definitely not worth my time at all. 4/10 DID I NEED TO HEAR THIS BEFORE I DIE: no Fav tracks: Surrender Least fav tracks: half of the songs they just wailed on guitar for 5 mins I did not gaf

Groupe connu, probablement entendu à la radio à l'époque mais aussi vite oublié. Rock pas très dynamique ni original. Aucun morceau remarquable sauf peut-être 'Need your love' (+1) un peu plus travaillé avec ses 9 mn. =>2/5

Not that well-recorded. Still pretty okay to listen to. Why exactly it's on this list, though, I have zero idea, given its run-of-the-mill 70s rock.

Pretty forgettable, but not too bad

Cheap Trick deserves credit for the influence they had on rock in the 80s and 90s but this live album is unnecessary. 5.5/10

There’s little to enjoy on this rather pedestrian dad rock

As established previously, I do not like a live album. I do like Cheap Trick (or at least, I liked their singles). So, very mixed feelings about this one. As an album I would never listen to it, though, so I'll give it a 2. Does anyone even like live albums? (I guess they must.) Highlights: 'I Want You to Want Me', 'Surrender'

The only songs I liked were the ones I already knew.

I don’t know why but I didn’t like this album at all

nit schlecht aber muss man ah nit ghört haben. 2.5

⭐️⭐️ 1001 ALBUMS- # 30 ‘Bud-o-kan’ this really be one of the best live albums ever recorded… The power pop genre has never really grabbed my interest, most of it feels rather childish and a little too accessible to really hook my analytical brain, preferring much more complex and layered arrangements. Having said that, it is hard to deny the straightforward catchiness of this feel good music, especially when well produced and executed. For a live album this lands rather well, however I do struggle with the notion of it being considered among the very best of its kind. Cheap Trick was really a one trick pony (as is the case with most power pop groups), truly unfathomable to me that this is the recording that brought them into the stratosphere of mainstream success, quite the intriguing story behind it with their Beatle-Mania esque reception in Japan that initiated this rise to fame following three studio records that fell flat commercially in the U.S. This album does capture the roar of that crowd, which the band clearly benefited from with the energy behind their performance delivery of the songs. There are some clear highlights here that would become mainstays in their catalogue, they are just not enough for me personally to want to revisit with any heightened interest. 🎧 Classic Track: I Want You to Want Me 🎧 Deep Cut Gem: Need Your Love 🚫 Skip Track: Clock Strikes Ten The tricks are cheap, but hey if this is your thing you'll likely have great fun with it. Hit the Thumbs Up icon below if you enjoyed my hot take on the album :)

Oh my God, this was hard going. The sheer tedium. Imagine being a young Japanese person in 1978, craving American culture and getting Cheap Trick and Jerry Lewis. Then imagine being a young American and gobbling up the bland pap that has been peddled overseas in your name. Then fast forward nearly 50 years later and imagine sitting in a lounge room in Australia, thinking you'd escaped being offered this mild excrement until one day you discover an app that shares a daily music discovery from years gone by in the name of broadening your mind and musical horizons, and it serves you this. When will it end? How do we break the cycle? Still, better than Morrissey. Two stars.

Never saw the appeal of Cheap Trick, Surrender is a lame song. Crowd is hype but the live album itself isn't a great one either. I suppose now I've at least given their big album a shot and it did nothing for me. Cheap Trick sucks.

Pretty generic 70s rock. 2/5

Nao gostei

I think the cultural significance of this is lost on me, as it sounds no better than a pub rock band running through some average songs.

Ненавижу лайвы в записи. Вот прям физически неприятно слушать. Видосы с лайвов воспринимаю нормально, но вот такой формат вообще бесит. Звук всегда хуже, но при этом неприятно хуже. Что касается самого музла - сложно оценить учитывая вышесказанное, но вообще это такой обычный хардрок. Честно говоря не понимаю что в этом альбоме такого примечательного. Ну норм, так, среднестатистический рок.

Flojo.

I feel like at some point in the past I may have like this more and maybe I will I in the future. But not today unfortunately

It's the most emotionless piece of shit I've ever listened to

This album encapsulates the 70s for me, when there was a thin dividing line between hard rock and power pop music, bands were expected to throw in guitar solos, and lyrics were questionable at best. The songs are pretty bland, with some awful drumming, generic guitar, annoying vocals. There were a couple of songs around the two-thirds mark that I didn't outright hate, so I'm going with 2 stars.

Ugh! Not my thing.

another mid Japan live album

Carino ma non coinvolgente

This feels like what Spinal Tap was making fun of. Need your love is a good live track though and I like surrender/i want you to want me as those are just instant classics.

The sound is really muddy, but to be honest even if it were pristine and sharp this still wouldn't be my bag.

Grundsätzlich ein gute Album, die Tonqualität ist unterirdisch…

Live album, not my favourite. One big hit with a prolonged intro. Overall, meh. 2.5/5

Rocketing straight to mediocrity

It was probably better to be there.

I’m not a fan of live albums at the best of times and this one is just dull and the sound is terrible. Apparently it has cultural and aesthetic significance though so what the hell do I know?

Absolutely nothing going on here, I have bootlegs with better quality

certainly cheap, not many tricks

I like Cheap Trick, but I've never really gotten into live albums. I like live shows, but the sound quality always seems to suffer.

Bij live albums vraag ik me altijd af; had ik er graag bij willen zijn. En heel eerlijk, bij Cheap Trick vraag ik me dat af. Tussen gillende Japanse meisjes luisteren naar lange gitaarsolo's staat niet hoog op mijn bucketlist. Wat mij vooral fascineert aan de band is 1. Dat ze mainstream succes bereiken met een live album. Hoe verklaren we dit? 2. Dat hun muziek leeft op de overgang van 70-s rock, punk en powerpop zonder een rol te hebben gespeeld in het kruidvat. 6/10 Highlights Aint that a shame Surrender

Really only included due to I Want You To Want Me (and it is a great and perhaps the definitive version of the song) and to a lesser extent Surrender. But wow this sounds every bit of standing in the middle of a crowd at a Cheap Trick live performance. And not in a good way. The sound isn't great and it's not particularly enjoyable. 4.25/10 (2.125/5)

The people of Japan enjoyed this way more than I did. I don’t care for the vast majority of the song and even though the band plays well, it’s not enough to keep me engaged.

Not for me.

Boring AF

Not very good quality of sound - a bit cheap really - only really saved by ain’t that enough and I want you

не даром станд был таким уеьанским

mjög lofað eða amk. umtalað bandarískt popprokk. ekki sérlega spenntur fyrir þessu. þarf ekki meira.

I don't see anything outstanding on this album that makes it worthy of being on this list—well, besides the crowd's screaming. Other than that? Nothing noteworthy.

Mercifully short. For starters, the intro is hardly even worthwhile is it? Compare this to the one on Status Quo's live album from three years earlier ffs. And then you get to the music... I can hear T Rex. I can hear Poison. I can hear the fucking Glitter Band. None of this is a good thing. What I don't hear is Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Motorhead or Hawkwind. I don't hear The Ramones. A few months later, Iron Maiden released their first album. Compared to this, that's a masterpiece - and I only gave it four stars. Fuck me, Slade were producing better music than this at the time. I suspect it's that American heavy metal is just a bit shit when it's not really, really good. There were songs on this that I knew vaguely - I think from some edition of Rockband we'd have played with the kids. I really don't care for it at all. I suppose it's not actively making me angry, so it can just about scrape two stars. But it really is just.

The amount of live records on this list is absurd really. The point of a live album is to somehow elevate the songs through raw energy, but this is just a playthrough.

Was okay, but nothing special that stood out to me.

It's alright but I think everything here is better in studio, especially surrender. The only exception to this would be "I want you to want me", I think that got a boost here. Outside of that meh

It was okay rock. A bit repetitive and cheesy

Live albums are hard enough for me to get in to at the best of times, with maybe a couple of exceptions, but At Budokan did wash over me slightly. I’ve never particularly listened to Cheap Trick except for a couple of obvious singles, and this brand of rock isn’t massively my thing, so it might have been good to know a few of these songs better before diving in to live versions of them.

Super tight live. The crowd appreciation was enjoyable. Just confirmed I’d already heard the only Cheap Trick so songs I need to, though.

I don’t like live albums

joa

I get it, this is the one that really made them popular. It's significant, sure. I won't ever play it through again though; the recording quality and crowd noise make it a real disappointment overall. There are some reality good songs on here, and I'll gladly revisit them on the studio albums. It's a real shame this is the Cheap Trick album that made the list.

well recorded but i don't vibe with cheap trick

I might not have been in the right mood to listen to this record, but it really feels like an anecdotical live album from a dad rock band in the seventies. Nothing is particularly good or outstanding -- it's not really bad either, but I don't see the point of such an album here. Everyone seems pretty happy (band and crowd) in this record, but that was boring to listen to.

This album was a bit of a drag until I got to 'I want you to want me' which is such a banger! A great cover by Letters to Cleo features as the last scene/closing credits of '10 Things I Hate about you' (I'm embarrassed to say I only realised it was a cover today!) This track saved the album for me and I won't bother repeating how I feel about live albums I want you to want me I need you to need me I'd love you to love me I'm beggin' you to beg me

Most of these songs were jams or just generally uninteresting, other than "Surrender" which was a pretty hype moment on this live album. Didn't outweigh the low-lights, though. 2/5

Meh Need your love was quite heavy, and long. It was still sort of just, on. As is most of this besides the two songs everyone knows. And only Surrender is actually good.

No thanks

+1 star for being in Japan

2.5 not great quality, non hit songs were boring

Cheap arena rock 2

Although the live recordings and audience add to the overall spectacle, most tracks blended into one when looking back.

Too old and the music ain't at a great quality, altho the music is decent.

I get why this is on the list, but it's not really my thing at all. Marginally better than Kiss and Deep Purple, but not as memorable as 3-star AC/DC. The recording isn't particularly good, so I was wondering why they didn't include a studio album instead. But after reading the context around this, I get it. Overall, just straightforward Dad-rock IMO. I want You to Love Me and Surrender are good songs though, very reminiscent of that 70s show.

I can remember this album's spectacular popularity when it was released. I was, and I still am, perplexed by why it was so popular. I'm listening to it many years later, and it still seems to be a mediocre record.

Its okay but I'm not fond of live albums.

I think this one is for fans only, the hits are good but most of it just sounds sloppy and not in a cool Pavement way.

Fun, good time band. I just don't think it holds up over time. Just ok. Great drummer though

Live aber nicht gut.

Bit too messy for me

So much of this album feels designed to make no impression on me. And it's telling that the highlight was recognizing a bit the Beastie Boys sampled. "Surrender" is fine, I guess.

Not only does this come across as utterly typical 1970s rock, it all sounds like it's being played through a tin can.

This is some live dad rock band but I didn't like their music. Maybe I would if it were the studio versions instead.

I’d rather just listen to their recorded music.

This has to be one of the worst live albums of all time. Sound quality is atrocious and the production must have been done by an actual potato. The only redeeming thing is I Want You To Want Me. I love the song Surrender but it sucks hardcore on this shitty album. Glad to be moving on.

2.5/5. Meh, this is fine. It's like 70s pop rock, but leaning more towards the rock side. Not very good IMO.

Good butt rock, but butt rock nonetheless.

Bland old rock

What an absolutely bizarre inclusion for this list. I understand the importance of featuring a diverse range of artists from different cultures or spotlighting lesser-known artists that have been lost to time. But Cheap Trick?? And not just that, LIVE Cheap Trick? It's even more surprising considering the list is periodically revised, making room for new additions and removing previous entries. Yet somehow, this record maintains its place. Are one of the members on the 1001 council?

A good live album.

Definitely some great songs in here and was definitely a fun listen. However, I don't understand why they chose a live album for this list?

Cheap Trick has a place in history, just not mine.

too much crowd noise. Still not bad 2 stars

Why are these ok live albums on this list. This one isn't even particularly good

Algunas canciones cásicas, pero no me encantan.

There are two notable songs, both worse versions of their studio album counterparts.

Not really feeling this one. The recording isn't great and it is a little sloppy. The songs I did know sounded better in the studio (maybe besides I Want You To Want Me). Fun Fact: the line "This next one is the first song on our new album" was sampled in the Beastie Boys song Jimmy James. 2.5

Never been a big fan, though they are a decent example of the genre. "I want" is a good track but the others are mediocre. To be honest can only give it a high 2.

This is similar enough to the sort of music I like for me to have enjoyed this more. Maybe, because it’s a live album and I don’t know any of the songs it loses something on me, but nothing grabbed as different enough about them to make me want to look them up. A mid/high 2 as it’s kind of my thing, it’s done well enough, but not in the same league as the bands I listen to

Ehh...

Fun stuff! Kinda blend together at a certain point. The hits hit hard, especially I want you to want me. Pretty pop-rock standard.

stopped at song 3, not my jam

Power Pop en vivo, el sonido no es de lo mejor (el grupo siempre renegó de la producción de este directo), pero desprende una energía fascinante. Grandes temas como Come on, Come on, Surrender o I want you to want me, sin embargo hay mejores discos en directo (mismamente de ese año es el Babylon by bus) y mejores álbumes de Power Pop (Raspberries, el debut de The Beat...) Incluso el Greatest Hits puede servir como referencia de Cheap Trick, aunque es mejor Heaven Tonight. De hecho sus 3 primeros discos sirven de referencia. Otros discos editados en 1978: debuts de Dire Straits, Police, Devo y Siouxsie and the banshees, así como Paralell Lines, Some Girls, This year´s model, Darkness on the Edge of Town, Incantations o Grease.

I’ll take a fairly hard pass on this. What did these guys do to warrant getting screamed at as if they were the Beatles? And did they actually write a song about it being the end of the show, asking if the audience wants to hear one more? Jeez.

Live albums…I got no love for them. I gave Thin Lizzy a 3 and enjoyed it more. So I’m giving this a 2 and will prob never revisit. Just give me their studio recordings which I enjoy. Bye. 2.25/5

Cant actually remember but remember it being good 😂

There aren't many live albums I like. This one is mediocre for me. The first few tracks aren't done well. "Need Your Love" sounds better than the previous tracks. The songs that follow are what makes this album better.

I wannnnnnted to lovvvve this. I neeeededdddd to lovvvve this. But I just didn't lovvvve this

Оказывается что-то из этого слышал, но особых эмоций это не вызвало, впечатления ровные.

Okay, wow, this was really bland. I don’t feel like this live performance holds up at all. I understand that maybe it was big back in the day, especially with it being filmed in Japan, but I just don’t find anything special about it. It’s extremely boring, and I’d call it microwaved hard rock.

I find it funny that japan hosted an American band like cheap trick so soon after ww2 and all that happened in that. Pretty meh album though.

not my style

I can only imagine the live element of this played extremely well in person. I'm sure a video of the concert works great too, but the crowd noise and sound just kills this album for me.

To be fair, I do really like Surrender, but not enough to save the rest of the album

Live albums are usually only good if you are already a fan. This is the perfect example of that. The two guys are fun, the rest of this is a guitar wankfest.

High expectations for some reason Meh honestly probably deserves a 2 but I want to give it a 3. It’s good but just kinda just exactly 70s classic rock, which I like but this stuff is no revelation. I don’t know how much I’ll come back to other than Surrender surender

Well, I thought I liked them! On this album, the two stand-outs are the ones that get the most air time, I want you to want me and surrender. Other than that, it's just okay. And I looked at some of their other albums ... guess it's just not for me.

There’s a lot to be said about the limitations of studio recordings. My limited knowledge on this band’s reputation indicates that people feel like their studio albums don’t fully showcase their abilities. It’s easy to see how this can fertilize the soil for the idea mythos of a live album to grow. As far as I’m conserned, this sadly isn’t a very good listening experience. 1.8

>The next song is called "Surrender" >Japanese screams get cut off Kinda the only moment worth mentioning. Didn't feel the energy

I mean… it’s a live album. What do you expect? At least I know where that shitty radio version of “I want you to want me” came from

The 3 main hits are fine but I’d rather just listen to the main songs if I cared. Idc.

boring and long as fuck.

It's not bad, and surrender is a great song, but I don't understand what's so great about this live album. I'd much rather just listen to the better recorded studio versions. 2.5

Livelevy, blääh. Rocklevy, blääh. No kuunnellaan miten Japanin keikka on sujunut, mutta ennakkoon en odota tältä levyltä suuruuksia. Livelevyt eivät kuulu henkilökohtaiksi suosikeiksi. Keikat livenä ja levyt loppuunhiottuina studioversioina. Vaikka tuolta pari tuttua biisiä löytyi, niin kokonaisuutena aika blääh. Ei vaan livelevyt uppoa, edes pakottamalla.

Meh, okay

Good band. Good songs. Everything I hate about live recordings.

About want(& desire)/potential unrequited love Hard rock, Power pop Enjoyable but meh

Sometimes I’m doubtful these albums must be listened to before death lol It’s nothing special it’s just like every other fkin live album. Why must I listen WHY

2/5

It is very obvious that recoding technology has come a long way. I love Cheap Trick but this live recording is hard to listen to in my opinion.

Kaikin puolin kuunneltava muttei tarjoa mitään erikoista jonka takia ansaitsee paikkansa tällä listalla minun papereissa.

Ok

My parents went to high school with the guys from cheap trick. While they were married with two kids when this album came out, Cheap Trick was living the rock and roll life style in Japan. This album is a muddy mess. The mix is pretty terrible, the crowd is too loud and the instruments sound like they are being played with cotton balls in the speakers. No more live albums.

Not for me.

Mainstream late 70s glam rock. Nothing special really

Two live albums in a row. Ooof.

that one song.

Live album, old rock. I know one track, rest is decent.

Back goes down easy, as I suppose is traditional. But this is a live recording that packs almost no punch for this one.

Pff weer een rock album. Ik vind de live versie hier heel weinig aan bijdragen als ik eerlijk ben. De Muddy Waters live versie vond ik juist prettig wegluisteren, je hoorde hoe goed en strak alles was, maar dat vind ik hier sterk tegenvallen. Kwaliteit valt me zelfs nogal tegen, en daarnaast is de muziek an sich ook niet goed genoeg om de aandacht af te leiden. Dit word geen hoog cijfer, dat is zeker. Aint that a shame - dit is een verkrachting van het origineel van (volgens mij) Fats Domino en heb ik eerder afgezet. Wat een matige versie zeg... Het nummer dat daarna komt - I want you to want me - is voor mij tot nu toe het enige nummer dat er wel positief uitkomt. Dat is een prettig nummer, maar ook nu lijkt het geluid beetje meh? Helpt ook niet om constant het publiek te horen. Het voegt voor mij niet zoveel toe aan deze live opname Surrender is ook nog wel een prima nummer. Good night daarentegen is gewoon dom. Muzikaal niet heel interessant, tekstueel nog erger. Is dit punk? Clock strikes ten, ook nog wel een prima nummer. Iets interessanter dan Goodnight in elk geval. Denk dat de 2e helft van het album/set het 'red' van een 1 ster review. FAVO: I want you to want me, surrender

Um show de pop empolgado, mas datado.

I've never been a fan of Cheap Trick, and live albums are very hit and miss. This album was better than I was expecting, but then again I was expecting a 1/5. In fairness, I'd say that it's between a 2 and a 3, but there's not enough quality here to push it up to a 3 for me.

This would be a 1 but I Want You To Want Me exists to it's a 2.

Fairly generic 70s rock

Just don't see it- nothing special live album of a reasonably middle of the road rock band.

It might actually be better than my 2, but it’s a live session, and that always muddies my listening experience

This is not good. Although the history of how the record label was forced to release the album in the US, which is how we even know these songs, is interesting.

This album only makes this list because of this recording of I Want You to Want Me and Surrender.

fun . much more enjoyable and familair than I expected. because I thought I woudl compeltely hateit. but it felt like caracature rock for Japan to thrash out and headbang to... who is to say? belong? no idea. Love? not especialy. and I in a bad mood now form all this mediocrity and obscuranus on this list today? yes.

Mid west America in the 70's, spawned a lot of good stuff, Wayne's World, Freaks and Geeks, Kiss and Rick Neilsen and the boys in Cheap Trick. What a strange tale this is, completely stiffing in the US, but their singles getting picked up by Japanese youth, for whom these records had something to say. I don't want to spend too long thinking about that, you've just got to let it happen. I found the album that has the original version of I Want You to Want Me in a cruddy market about ten years ago and the difference between that version and the live version is astounding, which again makes me wonder what those Japanese kiddies...no stop don't think about it. Another double live album from the seventies, I'd be pulling the chain of the terminally ill if I said here put this on before you cark it, it is pretty mediocre across the board, Bun E always had a lung buster in his chops as to be frank he didn't have a lot to do. What leaps out of this are the moments Rick has something to say. All great tunes demand and sustain covers and Dwight Yoakam's cover of I Want You to Want Me stands testament to the brilliance of the song. Surrender speaks to all the disillusioned and scared, great shift to the chorus this is a song with a dynamic that was made to be played in front of an adoring crowd. Rick goes on to pen a couple more classics, in particular his homage to While My Guitar Gently Weeps, the brilliant If You Want My Love You Got It. But this curio? Not worthy of death bed experience.

I'm a fan of live albums. The 1st half of this album is ok mid-70's rock. The last 1/4 was really good, especially Surrender.

Eipä tuo maailmaa mullistanut. Ihan hyvää rokkii 2/5

Wow I’m surprised this record gained the popularity it did in the late 70s. It’s just boring and stagnant. I typically look for live shows to have a ton of energy. This is just coked-out nonsense.

Can’t say this one grabbed me. Seemed run of the mill stadium rock.

I quite like Cheap Trick but never been a big fan of live albums.

Meh. I'm not a fan of live albums at the best of times, but give me a live album of a band i know nothing about and my interest wanes fairly quickly.

Cheap Trick es de esas bandas históricas y respetadas que nunca les di bola, quizás porque dentro del Rock Americano, no hay nada que me llame mucho la atención. Lo primero que me vino a la cabeza cuando escuché este vivo es Pearl Jam, especialmente las guitarras y algunas cuestiones vocales. Es muy loco pensar en los 70 y en lo prendida que están los ponja, creo que por eso habrá tenido mucha relevancia este disco. No suena bien, pero se deja escuchar y se nota que tenías temas pegadizos. Les doy un puntito más por la influencia notoria en bandas que me gustan, pero no es para mí y no me llama para seguir sumergiendome en su discografía. Otro disco que no hacía falta escuchar antes de morir.

Maybe I had to be a teenager in the 80s to love this

A sloppy sounding mess. It’s why I usually don’t like live albums.

Ok

Whoops messed up and put this review under Nebraska. Here’s one for Nebraska: I like the folkier side of the boss- pretty cool when an artist can do a whole album with mostly just guitar and voice. Didn’t love all the tunes on here though. Atlantic City is a good song. A lot of these seem like old country songs. Pretty cool that he released an album of acoustic demos during the height of his popularity and that he was writing and recording songs for born in the USA this way at the same time. Would be interesting to hear. 3?

I felt nothing listening to this.

For me to listen to a live album, there has to be something that makes it special ( a la S&M). I’m sure it was fun to be there but I don’t know what’s special about it.

Pues bien rock setentero. Animoso (LNB)

I really wanted to love this album when I was a teenager, on the 80s but I did not. I really wanted to love it 40 yrs later but alas, I still did not. Live albums are just NOT my thing and I don’t understand why live albums are on a list like this. Seeing a band live is amazing. Feeling the energy of the crowd, seeing your favorite musician expertly play their instrument right before your eyes, front man to crowd banter. It’s all so fucking good…it does NOT transfer to a live album, like even a little. Sorry, it just doesn’t.

I haven't heard much of Cheap Trick's non-live stuff, other than their biggest hits, so I went in with a pretty clean slate. I'm not sure why this is supposed to be groundbreaking, as some other live records are stunning in comparison (see: Johnny Cash). It was fine but just that. Vocals were a little messy. Then again, I haven't heard these songs recorded, so uh...it's possible it's supposed to sound messy? Hm. Thought of the day.

Badly recorded and mixed, and the song writing is pretty dull too. Sounds like a lot of the screaming girls has been deliberately added on in post.

Nunca me llamaron la atención, pero tengo que reconocer que tiene un par de hits que no sabía que eran de ellos y al menos uno de ellos es icónico para su época.

Eh.

I like I want you to love my

I'm still not sure live albums should be in the book. If they are, I suppose this is one of the most famous and important but, for me, that's another argument against its inclusion. As an album, it is sloppy and messy, with only a couple of good songs. The band are clearly having a whale of a time, as are the audience, but it just makes me want to go to a show (probably not Cheap Trick tho!)

Some hits here and there, but I just don't get how this could be one of the best albums of all time.

Live album is cheating

The audio quality is horrible and makes the songs very hard to listen to. Other than that it just didn’t interest me and I found myself wanting to skip a lot of the time.

This was their big breakthrough, but times have changed, and this just doesn't hold the same appeal it may have had once upon a time.

Rock de los setentas grabado en vivo en Japón. Si esa premisa te llama, dale una escucha.

I'm not a fan of live albums, and this is no exception. I've heard this recommended plenty of times, but I just couldn't get over the fact that the recording wasn't always great and the crowd just served to distract from the music rather than enhance it. I will admit that by the time I Want You to Want Me came around I was singing along in my car

Zelfs live-registraties van bands die ik super vind kan ik niet luisteren op een album. Helaas dus CT

Ik ben aan het bij-luisteren. Ai, ai, ai.

A little too AOR for me.

Absolutely and amazingly average album. Apparently, I'm not a fan of Chrap Trick, so their live recording from Japan doesn't really impress me that much. The vocalist was honestly unbearable to listen to, almost singlehandedly he made this album unlistenable. Fortunately, even though most of the riffs and motifs were lacking in anything interesting, some of the moment in the concert full of guitar solos, fast bass line and atmospheric drums were really cool. You could feel like you're one of the fans at Budokan for a moment, somewhere around the middle of the set. But anytime else, really underwhelming. Moving on.

Pretty cheesy and dull

Live hard rock album. Sounds muddy. Probably fun if you were there. Some very cheesy programming decisions on the first and last tracks. Mostly made me want to listen to Beastie Boys.

I like the part where they say “didn’t I didn’t I didn’t I see ya cryin” but I could do without the rest

No soy muy fan de los álbumes en vivo ni de la banda así que no me movilizó mucho.

In my opinion - other than I Want you to want me and Surrender…it’s about overrated…

Not into live albums

Not a fan of Cheap Trick, they have one good song, I don't care about a live performance.

extremely forgettable k-mart rock with a lot of cheering girls

This was an interesting album to listen to as a more formal introduction to Cheap Trick. I really didn't know much about them aside from a few hits like 'Surrender' and 'I Want You to Want Me'. This is definitely an energetic live album and it's cool to hear the reaction they're getting from the crowd. That being said, I could personally just listen to the few hits on this one and leave the rest. It's cool to hear 'Surrender' played for an arena of super fans the week it was released. I don't think I'll be coming back to this one again. Not bad by any means, just not as impactful for me. It mostly just made me want to listen to another live album, like 'Stand In The Fire' by Warren Zevon. Standout Tracks: Hello There, Come On Come On, I Want You to Want Me, Surrender

Það eina sem heldur þessari plötu uppi er I want you to want me.

Probably a great show but there is really no point to this live album. I like Cheap Trick (or at least the hits) but the sound quality on here was pretty bad and all the crowd participation was just annoying for me as someone who is not in the crowd.

I didn't like it

Meh?

Not a big fan of live albums. This is no different, nothing out of the ordinary or special on here. I’ll give it a 2 with no playlist adds. I’d rather add the non live versions if they pop up later.

Live albums suck, why do they even exist? I may like it if it appears to expand the tracks and give the audience/listeners a new experience with it, but they did not. These tracks are just the louder version of their studio counterparts, and apparently, critics liked it because their "energy" is apparent here. In other words, their studio songs probably suck. Also, while it has some decent, headbanging moments, the sound as a whole is still that annoying, generic, glam rock nonsense. Can't believe it's preserved at the Library of Congress. Some say that they pioneered hard rock and maybe power pop. Which is wrong, Led Zeppelin introduced hard rock to the world around a decade ago, power pop is associated with '60s acts such as The Who, while glam rock is seen as a fruit of some early '70s art rock acts such as David Bowie. Apparently, what they did pioneer are live albums, and like I said, live albums suck.

The American Status Quo

I only know like 3 Cheap Trick songs and I'm not a big fan. My perception of Cheap Trick was bs 70s pop rock. I listen to a ton of 70s rock and this band never came up on my to do list, so I didn't think it would enlighten me too get to know them. To make the best of this, I grabbed a can of beer and a joint and set out to my yard to listen to this album under the stars. I was surprised by the exuberance of this band and for the first couple of songs I had some hope. But that feeling waned as it just went downhill from there. They had me in the groove for Need Your Love until I noticed that it wasn't ending. I'm tired of I Want You To Want Me. That song has always annoyed me. I didn't skip it, but I did go inside to get another beer. I came back to Surrender, which is a song I do like, and Goodnight was interesting. So... this album really wasn't horrible, but then the Clock Strikes Ten and wtf is this? It should have ended at Goodnight, this was burning my ears. Really closed this on a bad note for me and overall I'm not impressed.

A live album by what appears to be a radio-friendly rock band. To break that down a little: the songs sound like absolutely uninspired, dime-a-dozen AOR. No particularly memorable hooks and not that much technical prowess either. I never really got the appeal of live albums either. Maybe it got cut out of the mix, but there doesn't seem to be much crowd interaction going on. That means the only thing the live-ness adds to the album is worse sound quality and some cheering to break up the track flow. It wasn't horrible, but I could have done without this one.

I get why they included this album, even though it's a live album. It's their breakthrough album and was a massive hit. There are a couple of good songs on here, but as with many other live albums a lot of the songs are expanded upon and drawn out. Which isn't necessarily a good thing if this is your introduction to the band. The Fats Domino cover is really not for me. Cheap Trick are competent, but often uninspired hard rock. They aren't exceptional but they are better than many others in the rock genre that were big at the time and that was also included in this book. If that says anything at all.

Really hits the middle of that road...

Great chemistry and performances. Songs are just okay though. Would see live, they put on a good show

Good vibe. Would see live. However didn't tick a the boxes personally

Period piece - weird acoustic quality - a couple of interesting songs but mostly completely forgettable

2.5 This was pretty good. There were definitely high points on this but I feel like it’s too early in their career to have the real heavy hitters on here. There were times especially near the end that I was getting major Queen vibes but it just never quite got there for me. I’ll probably come back to a few of these songs but a lot of the middle stuff isn’t doing it for me. Favorites: Big Eyes, Need Your Love, I Want You to Want Me, Surrender

I believe that for a live album to be good it has to be iconic or a performance to remember (or both) but this is not that, I mean, it’s not bad and the audience clearly likes it but I don’t know, it’s quite a generic rendition. I went in to investigate further about why would this be included on the list and found that it actually should be called live at Osaka… and that it sold a ton shit of copies… well I really like “quiero qué me quieras” and this list is big into including records solely for one song so I guess that’s it. “Yo te vi yo te vi yo te vi yo te viiii lloraaaaandooo!”

Not a cheap trick fan I guess..

I'm beginning to think that there isn't a place for live albums on this list (bar a couple of exceptional exceptions to the rule).

I liked the lesser known songs better, maybe some inspiration for Motley Crue and the like. Not that excited about dank lame-rock ‘I want you to want me’, but Surrender is ok.

I don't mind Cheap Trick; they have some good tunes, and a couple of them are on here. But what's this live album doing on the list? The sound quality isn't great, it's not wall-to-wall bangers and the concert itself doesn't seem particularly legendary. The audience seem to enjoy it, though.

I’m sure this was fun to see live but unfortunately it just doesn’t translate. Boring and repetitive.

I quite like some of these songs but: 1. Fuck live albums. If you weren’t there, tough. Get over it. 2. It sounds like shit

I have heard of Cheap Trick - probably from Guitar Hero 2? but I'm pretty sure that's it. Never heard anything else they have done. This is a live album so a bit of a different vibe, but yeah, not sure what else to add. The music itself feels a bit dated. Not the worst, but I'm pretty sure if I was alive at the time, Cheap Trick wouldn't have been my first pick. Stand out tracks: Surrender, I Want You to Want Me.

Meh. Led Zeppeline lite

I've always heard that this is a definitive live album so my expectations were high. After listening to I wonder wtf the hype was about. This was bland and I've heard so many better live albums. 2.5/5

Really seemed quite generic and indistinct. Felt like I had heard some of it before, but maybe I was confusing each track with ones earlier in the set.

FAV TRACKS: SURRENDER (the only track i remotely enjoyed in a sea of filler tracks) This album is literally just rock but stripped down to it's most basic components. It becomes boring after some time and you are practically waiting for it to end. I see the appeal in such albums, but personally don't really enjoy it. The basic talent is there, the energy is there, the enthusiasm is there but yet there isn't much diversity between songs. 4/10 😴😴