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Originally Posted by Howard the Duck
well, if you want to get into the nitty-gritty of power-pop at that time, I prefer the Raspberries and the Only Ones over Cheap Trick
but that's just the power-pop hipster in me
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Eric Carmen was a great vocalist but the Raspberries never ever made a string of great albums. The Only Ones I don't know but will check em out, I've listened to a lot of punk and new wave stuff from the late 70s and early 80s recently and seemed have missed them out.
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Originally Posted by wisdom
Honestly, I've never understood why Cheap Trick is hailed as some Hall of Fame kind of band. Solid group, but nothing ground-breaking musically or lyrically, from what I can tell. It follows that I don't love any of the band's songs, though I champion "It's Only Love" as underrated. And its video has some good eye candy  |
There seems to be different criteria for the the Hall of Fame, but in Cheap Trick's case I think its down to originality in both sound and image. I mean nobody ever sounded like that before and the members of the band look like they come from about 3 or 4 different bands it makes for an intriguing mixture. Also they're probably in there on the strength of the opening salvo of albums that have been highly influential on a bunch of artists, but then again maybe I'm just being overly biased here.
Yep that is a great 80s pop video, one of the highlights of
The Doctor album which was poor.