The wait is over.. When's the next one coming outt?

Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 01:02:57 -0400
Newsgroups: alt.music.cheap-trick
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I've listened to this CD 6 or 7 times in a row now waiting for it to
grown on me, and I can't believe how many of you actually think any of
these tunes are ok, let alone good.
This CD is exactly what I expected RZ's solo album to sound like. And
while Special One IS better than his solo album, (and The Doctor..) it's
not better than any other CT album. The best tunes from Lap Of Luxury
and even the Busted CD (Well ok maybe not Busted..) are better than the
best tunes on this one folks.
Scent Of A Woman:
The reveiwer for Entertainment Weekly was wrong. As we all know this
isn't the lamest song CT has ever recorded. It still makes me cringe
though even two years after hearing it for the first time. Perhaps if it
didn't start off like "Every Rose Has It's Thorns" and didn't have
terrible lyrics. Nahhh... The best part of it is the bridge of the song
but we have already heard that before on In Color right? <g> Here she
comes now?
Only if she has nothing better to listen too.. <g>
Too Much:
La.. La.. La.. La La La La la la la Laa... La?
Ba.. Ha.. Ha. Ba ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haa.... Bah!
Special One:
Too Much is better than this one.
Pop Drone:
The "drone" is a backwards 12 string bass.. This song is ok. I like the
guitar solo, and the Beatlely guitar riffs throughoutt it. (In fact
there's a ton of cool guitar things going on on this whole CD.. Good job
Rick..) But Pop Drone needed to be recorded at a faster tempo.
My Obsession:
This has the same feel as "Had To Make You Mine" from Busted. I liked
that song so I like this one too. I like the stuff going on during the
fade outt best..
Words:
Words is a piece of crap.. For most of the song it sounds like Robin is
singing along with a karaoke machine. Can Bun E really like this stuff?
Could this be why he doesn't seem to want to do new songs?
Sorry Boy:
This is the best tune on the CD. It's weird hearing Robin singing like
Alice Cooper. Alice would have sang something more interesting than
"Sorry Boy" though.. This is another song I think would have sounded
better played faster.
Best Friend:
This is the song that people have raved about for the past few months?
<g> Robin sings like David Bowie and then screams bloody murder? I'm not
feeling it.. Filler on a CD FULL of filler. CT should have worked with
Bob Ezrin on the last two tunes.
If I Could:
Love the 70's TV show bass line.. Look! That cop is going to talk to the
pimp (With a heart of gold..) that knows all that's going on, on the
street..
Having said that there's all kinds of cool vocal stuff going on here..
It was recorded really well.
Low Life In High Heels and Hummer:
All the cool stuff they recorded with Steve Albini and this is what they
release? This is a joke. If you say you like this shit you ARE all
"Gurms.." as Bun E likes to call us <g>
You have to wonder what Steve Albini thought of all these new song ideas
they wanted to record. "Don't you have any good songs? No? Let's
rerecord In Color then.."
The DVD:
Is by far the best thing about buying Special One. Just hearing Say
Goodbye and Hard To Tell makes me wonder what the fuck happened the past
6 years for them to release a crap CD like this. I haven't heard either
of these two songs since driving to TF3 and they are both ten times
better than anything on Special One and they're not my favorite songs on
CT2 (as they call it now..). Listen to Special One all the way through
and then play the He's A Whore video and tell me you still like any of
these mostly crap tunes as much as that tune. Not even close..
The fact is.. We'll never get a good Cheap Trick record as long as Robin
and Tom have a hand in writing all the songs. If they had wrote most of
the tunes on the first four albums we wouldn't be here talking about the
band now..
Rick needs to get outt and find some guys that are into good Cheap Trick
to write songs with.. It's silly to release a CD like this when Queens
of the Stone Age has a song on the radio that sounds like it came off of
the first CT album.. Perhaps radio is ready for another song like that,
done by a better (At least live..) band? No? Probably right, but to not
feature any songs that actually sound like "CHEAP TRICK" or to not
really use and feature the 12 string bass on a song is stupid. Cheap
Trick plays great fast tunes. Why are there no fast tunes on this album?
And these guys dare talk shit about Up The Creek? <g> At least Up The
Creek sounds like Cheap Trick..
Outt..
Jeff.