Cheap Trick :"The latest" sort le 23 Juin

01. Sleep Forever (1:37)
02. When The Lights Are Out (3:26) (SLADE cover)
03. Miss Tomorrow (4:11)
04. Sick Man of Europe (2:08)
05. These Days (2:44)
06. Miracle (3:47)
07. Everyday You Make Me Crazy (1:17)
08. California Girl (2:47)
09. Everybody Knows (4:16)
10. Alive (3:36)
11. Times of Our Lives (3:59)
12. Closer, The Ballad of Burt and Linda (3:00)
13. Smile (4:12)

2rocks a écrit:
Bon pour ma part, je suis ravie de cet album, je vais attendre 1 ou 2 jours avant de me replonger dedans !
Et pop ou pas pop, rock hard, on s'en fout des étiquettes , Cheap Trick revient en force et ça c'est génial !

Veteran rockers want fans to want 'The Latest'
By John Benson
Correspondent@News-Herald.com

Formed more than 35 years ago, the Chicago-based band — Robin Zander (vocals, guitar), Rick Nielsen (guitar), Tom Petersson (bass) and Bun E. Carlos (drums) — has sold more than 6 million albums and seemingly defined the hard-edged rocking sound of power pop with hits "Surrender," "I Want You to Want Me" and "Dream Police." So does such recognition mean the band will one day end up in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

"That's really not up to us," said Nielsen, calling from Chicago. "My standard answer for that is if we get in, it's going to be great. If we don't get in, it's going to be great. To me the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is the fact we're still running around the country playing good music, and people don't run out the moment that we walk in."

Nielsen is hoping the good music part of his answer includes the band's new studio effort "The Latest," the follow-up to the act's critically acclaimed 2006 album "Rockford." The guitarist, known for his quirkiness, including multi-neck guitars and outrageous stage costumes, said he thinks "The Latest" finds Cheap Trick once again using a different approach to create something new.

He said the band's albums have been consistently diverse.

"And this one starts out different," he said. "Normally the song hits you over the head, and ('Sleep Forever') hits you over the head emotionally. And from then it goes to one song called 'Sick Man of Europe' that doesn't sound like I just had my (60th birthday).

"The album shows musically we grew up and in some ways we haven't grown up, which is good. So it's sophisticated but it's punk for old people. There's a ballad, and yet it's the furthest thing from a ballad that's possible."

Something else new for Cheap Trick in 2009 is the band's scheduled Las Vegas run in September for its symphonic Beatles tribute set, which includes "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in its entirety. Also, the foursome is hitting the road this summer opening for Def Leppard and Poison. Appearing on such a sing-along bill, which rolls into Northeast Ohio for a show Thursday at Blossom Music Center, has been the modus operandi of the group for decades.

This brings up an interesting point about Cheap Trick. Naturally, the band members have egos, but the rock act hasn't let them get in the way of its career by employing two successful approaches. Not only has it avoided being pigeonholed into a trend, but also the band has never refused a paying gig opening for a so-called larger band.

Whether it was opening up for REO Speedwagon in the '80s, Pearl Jam in the '90s or Aerosmith, Kiss and now Def Leppard and Poison in the new millennium, this Windy City quartet takes what it can get and sets the bar high for whoever follows whenever it plays.

"No matter where you go on, you just try to play well," Nielsen said. "It doesn't matter if you're on at 1 p.m. or midnight, you like to be seen and heard as much as you can. Sometimes with an opening act it's like you're not even going to bother to show up, and then you do see the band and you're surprised it's good.

"So we've been in every situation. To us, that's our Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. So we're going to continue in it."

Cheap Trick finds fountain of youth on 'Latest' CD
By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press Writer


Maybe it's Red Bull, or maybe they just took a dip in that pool from the movie "Cocoon," but Cheap Trick has got its youthful energy and exuberance back again.

That's no small feat for the Rockford rockers, whose biggest success came while Jimmy Carter was in office, and who haven't hit it this hard since 1982's "One On One" album.

The song "Sick Man Of Europe," named after a solo project bassist Tom Petersson launched during a 1980s break from the band, sounds like a bunch of amped-up 20-year olds gleefully bashing away in a garage for nothing more than the sheer joy of plugging in, turning it up all the way and rocking out. Petersson's nasty distorted bass dominates as Rick Nielsen's slashing guitars add to the mayhem.

Other hard rockers include "Every Day You Make Me Crazy," "California Girl" and "Alive."

Longtime faithful disciples of The Beatles, Cheap Trick continues the reverence on the Lennon-like "Miracle," which even lifts the riff from "Mind Games" and blends it with chord progressions from CT's own "World's Greatest Lover," itself a loving Beatles ode.

CHECK THIS TRACK OUT: "When The Lights Are Out" will doubtless sound familiar to Cheap Trick fans: It grafts the drumbeat and guitar riff from "'Elo Kiddies" onto the lyrics of the song originally done by Slade. It's an old track, recorded in 1976 and included here with no changes.

Album review: Cheap Trick's 'The Latest'
Rating: 3 stars
greg@gregkot.com ("Chicago Tribune")

In September, Cheap Trick will perform the Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album backed by an orchestra during a string of shows in Las Vegas.

If that sounds absurd, guess again – the Rockford quartet at its best is a heavier, harder-hitting Midwestern Fab Four: Robin Zander’s a vocalist as versatile as Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison rolled into one, Bun E. Carlos is a thundering update of Ringo Starr, Tom Petersson is an ultra-melodic guitarist masquerading as a bassist in the McCartney mold, and Rick Nielsen is a strafe-and-stun guitarist who suggests what the Beatles might’ve sounded like with a six-string terrorist like Jeff Beck or Pete Townshend in their lineup.

That’s high praise, but when Cheap Trick is good, they are very, very good, a quartet that has essentially remained intact since their early ‘70s inception. The problem is they’re maddeningly inconsistent on record. It’s possible to write off the middle section of their career as an inept attempt to keep up with the MTV times by welcoming in outside songwriters and heavy handed producers that diluted their mix of wicked wit and metallic pop.

But as independent artists, beginning with an unjustly overlooked 1997 self-titled release, the foursome has reclaimed its sound and legacy with a series of fine releases. “The Latest” (Cheap Trick Unlimited) is the best of that recent bunch, with producer Julian Raymond adding just a spritz of orchestration to a series of songs that balance the ornate and the violent, a pop album equally audacious and inviting. The band shows its range from the outset, with Zander’s glorious vocal intro, a ripping cover of Slade’s glam-rock gem “When the Lights are Out,” an opulent psychedelic pop ballad (“Miss Tomorrow”) and then the fist-in-face “Sick Man of Europe,” with Petersson’s predatory bass leading the way.

The rest isn’t quite as riveting. The closing ballad, “Smile,” smacks of the band’s wayward ‘80s, and some of the rockers are a bit bar-band rote. But it’s great to hear Carlos’ cymbal work drive “Alive” in between bursts of Nielsen guitar, and “Times of our Lives” is one of those kaleidoscope arrangements that --- like Cheap Trick itself – just keeps spinning out new colors.

Veteran bands open their tour with thanks
By Sam Adams (for "The Inquirer")


At the end of Def Leppard's show Tuesday night, lead singer Joe Elliott offered the audience at the Susquehanna Bank Center a deal: "Don't forget about us, and we won't forget about you."

It was a moment of unusual vulnerability for a band whose most fervent pronouncements generally involve the word rock. But gratitude was the order of the night. Def Leppard, Poison, and Cheap Trick, who opened a seven-week tour in Camden, don't have much in common except paunches and power ballads. They were all just happy to be there.

In Def Leppard's case, remembering their fans meant focusing overwhelmingly on old material. "Nine Lives," the single cowritten by Tim McGraw from last year's Songs From the Sparkle Lounge, was the only song released after 1993. Based on the polite stares and closed mouths that greeted the newish number, the lack of fresh material did not matter much.

Although nominally heavy metal, Def Leppard's songs hinge on monster choruses and multipart harmonies; they're a pop band in bondage gear. As "Bringin' on the Heartbreak" gathered speed, Elliott bounced around the stage in a frock coat like an eager English lord, juicing the audience sing-alongs with his outstretched hands.

It wasn't just the headliners who showed their appreciation. Poison's Bret Michaels was positively burbling, thanking the crowd for "allowing me to keep doing what I love for 22 years." Considering how many years have elapsed since the band's last hit, Michaels' effusiveness would seem entirely appropriate. It proved contagious for the rest of the band as well, prompting a performance that was energetic if hardly earth-shattering.

Separated by time and good sense from the eyelinered excesses of their glory years, Poison seemed almost scrappy, notwithstanding the flame-shooting effects whose frequent deployment only underlined the lack of other stage gimmickry. The stripped-down-by-default approach paid surprising dividends, revealing a number of tidy melodies once buried under glam-metal bombast. C.C. DeVille's flamboyantly tuneless guitar solos brought many a song to a screeching halt, but even his furious fretting couldn't strip the candy coating off "Nothing but a Good Time."

Power-pop godfathers Cheap Trick felt no need to hide their hooks under a bushel. Cramming a half-dozen gems into a 40-minute set, they still found room for more new songs than the evening's other acts combined. Singer Robin Zander started off slow, but he kicked into high gear with "Sick Man of Europe," taken from the just-released The Latest. "I'm sure you'll hear a lot of that on the radio," quipped guitarist Rick Nielsen, acknowledging that, like their tourmates, they're more likely to be heard on a PlayStation than a car stereo. But for one night, they had control of the dial and never gave their audience a chance to change the station.

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