At Budokan (Cheap Trick album)

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At Budokan
At Budokan cover
Live album by Cheap Trick
Released 1979
Recorded April 28, 1978, at the Budokan, Tokyo, Japan
Genre Rock
Length 42:27
Label Epic
Producer Cheap Trick
Professional reviews

At Budokan is a live album recorded by Cheap Trick in 1978.

Illinois rock band Cheap Trick found early success in Japan, and capitalized on this popularity by recording At Budokan in Japan on April 28, 1978 (see 1978 in music) with hordes of screaming young Japanese girls nearly drowning out the band at times. This album (which appeared in Japan many months before being issued in the U. S. where it had sold briskly as a Japanese import, and which was issued with a concert program in both English and Japanese) broke the band into global pop stardom with their first hits. The hit single "I Want You to Want Me" reached number seven on the Billboard charts, and was the group's biggest hit at the time. "Ain't That a Shame" also charted, reaching number 35. The album also introduced Tom Petersson's composition "Need Your Love" (the band had just finished recording their fourth album Dream Police, thus a studio version of "Need Your Love" would be included on that album). The album peaked at #26 in the Swedish Charts [2]

The album was re-released in 1998 as At Budokan: The Complete Concert, remastered and fully restored to include all the concert tracks left off of the original album. While it's missing "Stiff Competition", "On Top of the World", and "How Are You?", that were recorded at Budokan and released on Budokan II (1993), these songs were recorded in 1979 during their follow-up tour.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 430 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Hello There"
  2. "Come On Come On"
  3. "Look Out"
  4. "Big Eyes"
  5. "Need Your Love"
  6. "Ain't That a Shame"
  7. "I Want You to Want Me"
  8. "Surrender"
  9. "Goodnight Now"
  10. "Clock Strikes Ten"

[edit] Re-issue track listing

[edit] Disc one

  1. "Hello There"
  2. "Come On, Come On"
  3. "ELO Kiddies"
  4. "Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace"
  5. "Big Eyes"
  6. "Lookout"
  7. "Downed"
  8. "Can't Hold On"
  9. "Oh Caroline"
  10. "Surrender"
  11. "Auf Wiedersehen"

[edit] Disc two

  1. "Need Your Love"
  2. "High Roller"
  3. "Southern Girls"
  4. "I Want You To Want Me"
  5. "California Man"
  6. "Goodnight"
  7. "Ain't That a Shame"
  8. "Clock Strikes Ten"

[edit] Credits

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