Cheap Trick just need to pick a few Shazam songs to cover on their next
album. And while I'm fantasizing, they could cover "Ahhh", a great Do Ya
inspired indie single from the mid-seventies band Amnesia. 


-----Original Message-----
From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf Of
Billy G. Spradlin
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 5:53 PM
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: Re: Cheap Trick

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