Favorite Cheap Trick song. (1 Viewer)

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Good gravy. Cheap Trick Chicago-Fest 1981 is unreal. Any and all.

 

[Eephus]

There's a lot of stiff competition in this category but my vote goes to "Stiff Competition"

 

[badmojo1006]

I didn't vote for it, but "Voices" was prominent in my favorite "How I met your Mother" episode"

 

[Apple Jack]

It's a crime we all seem to have forgotten

 

[DropKick]

One summer evening in the 1977-78 era, I was hanging around and some friends wanted to see Richie Blackmore's Rainbow. We headed downtown to a old classic theatre - a very small venue really... and got 3rd row seats.

No one knew the backup band, but, it turned out to be Cheap Trick and they blew the doors off that building. Rick Nielsen stunned the audience... He played with a series of guitars around his neck and would fire each into the air as he was done with it and and start playing the "next" one. an absolute lunatic on stage. No one cared about Rainbow that night..

We hung out after the show and talked to the band in the parking lot... Soon after, Cheap Trick became quite popular.

ETA: "Surrender" became our anthem. i don't think any other Cheap Trick song comes close.

 

[BroncoFreak_2K3]

Always loved Rick's 5-neck guitar:

http://metal-blogs.com/blackiss/files/2007/11/cs-cheaptrick8-athens12902.jpg

Partied with Rick and Robin at a bar in Palos Heights, IL in the mid-80's. Fun times

 

[Binky The Doormat]

In '81 if you weren't listening to Rundgren you missed out.

 

[SteevieG]

Gonna Raise Hell

Yeah, that's my very favorite among many Cheap Trick favorites.

I saw them at the Long Beach Arena in December of 1979. My first concert.

ETA: after a little research it may have been 1978, not that it matters.

 

[Vike Me]

Surrender

 

[kupcho1]

Surrender, even though they had to mangle the lyrics. Should have been

2nd verse:

Father says ‘Your mother’s right

She’s really up on things

Before we married mommy served

in tha WACs in the Philippines’

More military references… and the implication that Mommy knows a thing or two about Sexually Transmitted Disease.

Now I had heard the WACs recruited old maids for the war

But mommy isn’t one of those, I’ve known her all these years

This part of verse 2 originally read ‘Now I had heard the WACs were either old maids, dykes, or whores'; the song was even demo’d with this line for ‘Heaven Tonight’. Someone decided that this was maybe a bit too much for rock radio in 1978.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_BBApnECHQ

 

[Annyong]

I'd rather pour salt in my peehole, then listen to Cheap Trick

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I'd rather pour salt in my peehole, then listen to Cheap Trick

You seem like the kind of guy that would rather pour salt in your peehole than not pour salt in your peehole.

 

[Nigel Tufnel]

I'd rather pour salt in my peehole, then listen to Cheap Trick

What did Bun E. Carlos ever do to you?

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I'd rather pour salt in my peehole, then listen to Cheap Trick

You seem like the kind of guy that would rather pour salt in your peehole than not pour salt in your peehole.

Hey don't judge. Everybody needs a hobby.

 

[Annyong]

I'd rather pour salt in my peehole, then listen to Cheap Trick

What did Bun E. Carlos ever do to you?

I dont even want to talk about it

 

[Annyong]

I'd rather pour salt in my peehole, then listen to Cheap Trick

You seem like the kind of guy that would rather pour salt in your peehole than not pour salt in your peehole.

It's how I get my jollies.