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The song "Man-U-Lip-U-Lator" featured an additional writing credit to Platt, while the title track was written solely by Nielsen and became the last song to have sole credit to him on a Cheap Trick album. The demo version of the song later surfaced on the band's 1996 box set Sex, America, Cheap Trick, where it was titled "Funk #9".
Two promotional music videos were made for the song, and both clips received much airplay on MTV. The song "Love Comes" was re-recorded for Zander's solo album Countryside Blvd. This album was due for release in 2010 but has been held back, remaining unreleased to date, although various download sites did legally offer the album for a few hours.
The cumulative effect is like three or four hit songs vacuum-packed into one." [16] In a retrospective review of the album, Mike DeGagne of AllMusic described the song as "silvery-sounding" and the "only highlight" from Standing on the Edge. [5] Billboard, in a review of the 1996 compilation Sex, America, Cheap Trick praised it as a "Beatlesque ...
The song's music video is notable for being the first to prominently use American Sign Language. [12] [13] A small box in the bottom right-hand corner of the video was featured, displaying a female surgeon using sign language to convey the song's lyrics. The video was produced by T'Boo Dalton and directed by Andy Morahan. [14]
"The Flame" was written by British songwriters Bob Mitchell and Nick Graham in November 1987. [4] It was one of two tracks that the pair wrote for English singer Elkie Brooks and her 1988 studio album Bookbinder's Kid, but Brooks disliked "The Flame" and chose only to record the other song, "Only Love Will Set You Free". [5]
[7] David Bauder, writing for the Associated Press, considered the song "one of Zander's best moments in years" and "easily this album's finest song". [8] In a retrospective review of the song, Doug Stone of AllMusic picked "You're All I Wanna Do" as the best song from Woke Up with a Monster and also "one of the best songs of the quartet's ...
In the 1998 Cheap Trick biography Reputation Is a Fragile Thing, Nielsen said: "I thought that calling the song "Marshall Mintz" sounded pretty stupid, so I put a little twist on it and called the song "Oh, Candy". Here was a guy who committed suicide, and I was asking him why. Obviously, the song makes the story sound like it's about a young ...
The song has been credited as an influence on Ken's theme music from the Street Fighter II video game. Composer Yoko Shimomura stated: "I watched the movie before I composed the song, so I can't deny I may have been inspired subconsciously. But I didn't go into it thinking, 'OK I'm gonna make this song sound like 'Mighty Wings'." [9]