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Lap of Luxury is the tenth studio album by American band Cheap Trick.Released on April 12, 1988, it is the band's second-most commercially successful studio album (trailing only 1979's Dream Police), reaching number 16 on the Billboard 200 [1] and being certified platinum in sales.
Heaven Tonight is considered Cheap Trick's best album by many fans and critics. While their debut album Cheap Trick showed the band's darker, rawer side and In Color explored a lighter, more pop-oriented persona, Heaven Tonight combined both elements to produce a hook-filled pop-rock album with an attitude.
Billboard, in a review of the 1996 compilation Sex, America, Cheap Trick praised it as a "Beatlesque gem". [17] John M. Borack, in his 2007 book Shake Some Action: The Ultimate Power Pop Guide, included "Tonight It's You" as one of Cheap Trick's best twenty songs. He stated, "Sure, it sounds a bit dated now and seems, in retrospect, to have ...
Cheap Trick is an American rock band formed in Rockford, Illinois in 1973 by guitarist Rick Nielsen, bassist Tom Petersson, lead vocalist Robin Zander and drummer Bun E. Carlos. [ a ] [ 3 ] Their work bridged elements of '60s guitar pop , '70s hard rock , and the emerging punk rock sound, and would help set the template for subsequent power pop ...
1998: Hits of Cheap Trick (import) 1998: Don't Be Cruel (Collectables label) 2000: Authorized Greatest Hits; 2004: The Essential Cheap Trick; 2005: Collection (Cheap Trick/In Color/Heaven Tonight) 2005: Cheap Trick Rock on Break Out Years: 1979 (Madacy Records) 2007: Super Hits (Sony Musical Special Products) 2007: Discover Cheap Trick (Epic ...
[5] In a review of Woke Up with a Monster, Tom Sinclair of Rolling Stone described the song as being "as tidy a power-pop number as Cheap Trick have knocked off in a dog's age". [6] Gerry Krochak of the Regina Sun wrote, "Zander is in fine voice, as always, on "You're All I Wanna Do", which has all the ingredients of a radio hit. A big hook ...
Cheap Trick's 1979 album, Cheap Trick at Budokan, catapulted the band to stardom. [9] The band reached the Top 10 in the U.S. charts in 1979 with "I Want You to Want Me" and topped the charts in 1988 with "The Flame". [10] As of 2018, Cheap Trick had been a band for over 40 years. [11]
The Greatest Hits is the first compilation album by Cheap Trick.It contains many of Cheap Trick's popular songs, as well as a previously unreleased cover version of The Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour", which according to the liner notes, was an outtake from the Lap of Luxury album.