I think everyone has a favourite Cheap Trick album, don’t they? Everyone in my circle of friends does anyway. I think the point I’m trying to make is the huge crossover appeal of the band. Mainly due to the fact that they know how to write a good and catchy pop song.
My favourite track on this album wasn’t a single, just an amazing album track: I Don’t Love Her Anymore. It has a superb and infectious guitar hook, a groove and beat with a great swing, and the chorus is earworm central. Simple! Younger Girls has that Stones riff that sits underneath the vocals, it’s just genius songwriting. It’s hard to believe that Invaders Of The Heart wasn’t even considered for a single. In ’83 this type of song was all over MTV.
A great and very underrated band.
8.5/10 from The Grooveman.
