Cheap Trick - Rockford streaming whole CD

[Sandy-Hazard]

The new Trick CD that got released yesterday is getting quite the accolades. Best since Dream Police many reviewers are claiming.
What I've heard so far sounds great!...much heavier than "Special One"

You can stream the whole CD from here
http://music.aol.com/songs/new_releases_full_cds

Just click on the right hand arrow once where it says "full listening party" and you'll see the Rockford CD to stream.

Review from Bravewords.com

CHEAP TRICK
Rockford
(Big 3)



Reviewed by : Martin Popoff
Rating : 9.0

Been loving the idea of including Cheap Trick in a tight group with Deep Purple and ZZ Top with respect to dinosaur bands with huge classics in their past now making the best music of their careers. The original lineup of Nielsen, Zander, Carlos and Petersson mix my metaphor for me and hit that concept out of the park with Rockford. Special One was good but not special, ?97?s self-titled album was a charmer and a jewel, but this might even be better than that and as good as ANY from the band, save for the glorious ?77 debut. Two world-beating choruses lead the charge, housed within ?Perfect Stranger? and ?Dream The Night Away? ? both should be smashes, and at least someone got it right in making the former the album?s first single. Opener ?Welcome To The World? is heavy, energetic and inspiring, on an album that isn?t very heavy, more like guitar pop perfection, played with a light, tight joie de vivre that recalls Kenny Jones-era The Who, or a post punk-band humming happily toward the top, like, er, the second and third Boomtown Rats. Zander sings like a bloody golden bird on this thing, tender at times, roaring with authority at others, always deep into the character of the song, breaking your heart or barking an order that one dares not question (ha ha, damn that ?Perfect Stranger?). Even Rick chimes in, chirping the Prince parts on hilarious funky experiment ?One More?, which also has a roaring heavy chorus, and again, Zander pushing and shoving his way through the wound tension of the song. Other parts feel like exalted Queen from the fecund ?70s (?O Claire? particularly), or like a perfect chewy rock sculpture from airy and soul-replenishing late career diamond in the rough, Next Position Please, Cheap Trick?s album recorded with Todd Rundgren. Note: I originally gave the ?97 album a 10/10; I?d notch that back to a 9 now. And this gets a 9 too, because if I took a good hard look at it, there?d be two, two and a half songs I don?t dig (?Decaf? ain?t so potent), despite my playing it FAR more than any record in the last month. More of this, and I?ll soon be totally over the hatred I felt for these guys during the vapid, miserable outside songwriter era ?The Flame? stood and bent over for. Hell, Rick should be doing the outside songwriting, as he once did for Rick Derringer, turning in two luminous scorching rockers for Rick Derringer?s otherwise tame Guitars And Women record from 1979. OK, I?ll stop now

[Carl I.]

Damn, I don't want to hear this until I buy it...but it is so tempting and I might not get a chance to get it for a few yet.

[Carl I.]

Good luck finding this one in stores!!! I've hit everyplace in town here and have yet to find it. It looks like a drive to Rockford is up for this week. Bet I'll find it there for some odd reason.

[Sandy-Hazard]

Now that is bizarre. You can't find it in their home state?? I know it is selling quite well though. It was in the top 50 on Amazon.com.

I am a huge Trick fan, and I have to say this is an awesome CD. Best IMO since "One On One" Great hooks, very guitar heavy.....I really like it a lot!

Oh BTW, I couldn't find it at BestBuy, but they had it at Futureshop which BestBuy owns...go figure? There were only a few copies left.

<font color="#FF0099" size="1">[ June 12, 2006 03:16 PM: Message edited by: Hazardous ]</font>

[Carl I.]

Not only their home state, but I am only an hour from their home town of Rockford while at work. I can't find it at the Wal-Mart by my house, and I live only a 1/2 hour from Rockford. Granted it is Wal-Mart, but Trick is considered hometown boys in any city between Rockford and Chicago. It's also on their own label again, so I am sure that has something to do with it, but finding the others was never a problem. No real biggie, I'll just make a trip to Rockford later in the week. I know my wife wants to go out to dinner, so it's more incentive to go.

[Sandy-Hazard]

It's actually put out through http://www.big3entertainment.com/ but Trick may have some kind of deal with them, distro or something.

Strange that I can get it in Vancouver no problem but you can't in their home state eh? They also did an instore at Bestbuy a few days ago....I think in Rockford.