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| From | "Billy G. Spradlin" <bgspradlin@cablelynx.com> |
| Subject | Re: Cheap Trick |
| Date | Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:53:13 -0600 |
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I did enjoy "Too Much" and "My Obsession" but the rest is flat and uninspired.
If I known about The Darkness until this month I would have reshuffled my
Best-Of 2003 Top 20 to include that CD.
I have always thought that Cheap Trick could best self-produce themselves
after
being screwed around by Epic and so many producers for years. After "Special
One" they seriously need to get a producer that will kick them in the ass
and a
good A&R guy to sort through demos and pick out the best songs for them.
Billy
At 10:14 AM 1/19/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>> MOST DISAPPOINTING ALBUM BY A FAVORITE BAND:
>>
>> CHEAP TRICK - Special One.
>
>Oh, man I SOOOOO agree. With great regret, too. Truly, their worst album,
>EVER......beat THE DOCTOR by a long shot. Uninspired, paint-by-numbers
>songwriting with no hooks at all, flat production and performances and yet
>another reason there is not a band with more terrible taste in managers than
>CT, manangers incapable of doing the obvious w/ their job responsibilities:
>to just GUIDE them to just be themselves.
>
>Not one song on there is a keeper for my Ipod, not happened w/ a Cheap Trick
>album ever.
>
>My heart dropped so deep as each tuned played w/ this one.....wanted to give
>'em some slack, but there was none to found after two listens to this one
>and it saddened me---and many other fans, as well.
>
>
>Peace,
>Bruce @ Not Lame
>
Billy G. Spradlin
http://listen.to/jangleradio
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