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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 

Poster: Lafond

Product Details
Audio CD (April 20, 1999) 
Original Release Date: June 8, 1999 
Number of Discs: 1 
Format: Live 
Label: Sunset Strategic Marketing (SSM) 
ASIN: B00000ILG6 


Tracklisting:
1. Oh Claire  
2. Surrender 
3. Hot Love  
4. I Can't Take It  
5. I Want You To Want Me 
6. Taxman, Mr. Thief  
7. Mandocello  
8. Oh Caroline  
9. How Are You?
10. If You Want My Love  
11. Dream Police
12. So Good To See You 
13. The Ballad of T.V. Violence  
14. Gonna Raise Hell