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That same year, the box set Sex, America, Cheap Trick appeared to positive reviews, and the band signed with the fledgling indie label Red Ant before setting to work on a new album. Early in , the group released a Steve Albini -produced single on Sub Pop , which was followed by the eponymous Cheap Trick, their acclaimed debut for Red Ant , in the spring.

Unfortunately, Red Ant filed for bankruptcy seven weeks after the album's release, sadly putting a sudden halt on the group's building momentum. On April 30, , the group launched a four-night residency in Chicago, devoting each show to reprising one of their first four albums in its entirety.

A band-authorized hits collection followed in By the dawn of the new millennium, Cheap Trick were still without a label, but had retained their loyal following by continually touring the world. Appropriately, another live set saw the light of day in Entitled Silver, the double-disc album and companion DVD documented the band's star-studded, career-spanning 25th anniversary show on August 28, The band also recorded another studio album, released in as Special One.

It was followed in by Rockford, named in tribute to the band's hometown, and then The Latest in Cheap Trick also maintained a heavy touring ethic, canvassing America that summer alongside Def Leppard and releasing their tribute to the Beatles with Sgt. Pepper Live. Hello, was released in April It was the first Cheap Trick release since the departure of drummer Bun E.

Carlos from the band. Carlos later said that Epic vice president Don Grierson brought the band two different power ballads and told the band that they had to pick one of them. It became screamingly obvious that the song was tailor-made for him.

Her record company went mad because they thought it was an amazing song. But she refused to record it, and we were already halfway through producing it for her. So I put a vocal on it myself, and we mixed it and sent it out to a few people. Even on a big blank of a song, Zander brings some real personality. Probably more good than bad on it. Cheap Trick have continued to play big tours and crank out records ever since.

In , Bun E. Daxx Nielsen soon became a full-time member of the band, and Carlos sued in As an independent website, we rely on our measly advertising income to keep the lights on. Tongue in cheek, flippant, this is a breezy high point of late 70s power pop. They never forget the importance of keeping things simple, but doing it with class.

The first Cheap Trick single to break through in America. The tinny noise of screaming fans losing their minds runs underneath this two-minute show-opening ripper, with its razor-edge riffs, a frenzied drum solo and ragged exhortations of " Would you like to do a number with me? Before "Gonna Raise Hell," see No. Over nine minutes long, the song lurches forward like a proto-goth trudge before hysterical orchestras and ominous drums add even more abject terror.

Besides being ace popsmiths, Cheap Trick also have a way with the blues which actually made the band a natural tourmate with Aerosmith in