Also 8th grade, but maybe the tail end of 7th? Two years or so before their live record came out and that Cheap Trick EXPLOSION. The first album in '77 had lots of loud guitars and fast songs, and some that were quite nasty (He's a Whore; Daddy Should Have Stayed in High School), and it's definitely worth listening to. But that second album, In Color and in Black and White, which was the first one I heard, was loaded with a bunch of fine pop songs - my two favorites were always Oh, Caroline and Southern Girls. Chose Southern Girls to represent...
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Couldn't do Cheap Trick. Got that it was tongue in cheek but somehow couldn't make the leap.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely some tongue and cheek about them, yes. I mean you look at Nielsen and the comparison in "presentation" to Zander for starters. But I will say the first album was way darker; perhaps they were thinking that was not the route to go for the mass popularity, who knows.
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