Cheap Trick at Budokan

Cheap Trick at Budokan
Live album by Cheap Trick
Released	October 1978 (Japan) February 1979 (U.S.)
Recorded	Nippon Budokan, Tokyo April 28 & 30, 1978
Genre	Rock, hard rock, power pop
Length	42:27
Label	Epic
Producer	Cheap Trick
Cheap Trick chronology
Heaven Tonight (1978) Cheap Trick at Budokan (1979) Dream Police (1979)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	(B-)[2]
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Cheap Trick at Budokan is a live album released by Cheap Trick in 1978 and their best-selling recording. It was ranked number 430 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of "the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" in 2003.^[3]

Overview

Cheap Trick found early success in Japan, and capitalized on this popularity by recording Cheap Trick at Budokan in Tokyo on April 28 and 30, 1978 with an audience of 12,000 screaming Japanese fans nearly drowning out the band at times. The album was intended for release only in Japan but with strong airplay of the promotional album From Tokyo to You, an estimated 30,000 import copies were sold in the United States and the album was released domestically in February 1979.^[4] The album also introduced two previously unreleased original songs, "Lookout" and "Need Your Love".

In the U.S., the album peaked at number four on the Billboard 200^[5] and became the group's best selling album with over three million copies sold. It also ranked number 13 on Billboard's Top Pop Albums of 1979 year-end chart. The single "I Want You to Want Me" reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The second single, a cover of Fats Domino's "Ain't That a Shame" also charted, reaching number 35.^[6] Cheap Trick at Budokan was certified triple Platinum in 1986 by the RIAA.^[7]

In Canada, it went to number one, hitting the top of the RPM 100 Albums chart on August 11 of the same year.^[8] By November 1979, it had achieved quintuple platinum status (500,000 units) in that country.^[9]

An unusual aspect of the album release in the UK was the use of coloured vinyl, then primarily restricted to singles and EP's, and soon replaced as a marketing gimmick by so-called "picture discs". A prominently displayed sticker on the sleeve of "Live at Budokan" announced that it had been released on "kamikaze yellow vinyl", and, unlike most coloured discs, which were usually as opaque as the conventional black vinyl records, the two discs in the album where actually translucent.

When Cheap Trick at Budokan was first released on compact disc in the U.S., first pressing contained a slightly different, possibly an unpolished mix of the concert. Notably the guitar trade offs of "Ain't That A Shame" were obviously different from the vinyl release.^{[citation needed]}

Track listing

All songs by Rick Nielsen, except where noted

Side one

1. "Hello There" – 2:27
2. "Come On, Come On" – 3:03
3. "Lookout" – 3:15
4. "Big Eyes" – 3:47
5. "Need Your Love" (Nielsen, Tom Petersson) – 9:07

Side two

1. "Ain't That a Shame" (Antoine Domino, Dave Bartholomew) – 5:10
2. "I Want You to Want Me" – 3:38
3. "Surrender" – 4:40
4. "Goodnight Now" – 2:42
5. "Clock Strikes Ten" – 4:11

Credits

Band members

• Robin Zander – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
• Rick Nielsen – lead guitar, backing vocals
• Tom Petersson – bass, backing vocals
• Bun E. Carlos – drums

Production

• Tomoo Suzuki - recording engineer
• Jay Messina, Jack Douglas - mixing
• Gary Ladinsky, Mike Beriger - mastering

Sequel and re-issues

Budokan II
Live album by Cheap Trick
Released	1993
Recorded	Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, 1978 and 1979
Genre	Rock, hard rock, power pop
Length	54:14
Label	Epic / Sony Music
Producer	Cheap Trick
Cheap Trick chronology
Voices (Int'l Marketing Grp) (1992) Budokan II (1993) Woke up with a Monster (1994)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[10]
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Budokan II was released in 1993 as a sequel of the first album, consisting of the remaining tracks from the concert not included on the original album and the tracks "Stiff Competition", "On Top of the World", and "How Are You?", recorded in 1979 during their follow-up tour.

An expanded version of the original album was released in 1998 as At Budokan: The Complete Concert, remastered and fully restored to include all the concert tracks left off the original album.

A 30th Anniversary Edition, Budokan! was released on November 11, 2008, as a four-disc set. In addition to the two-disc "Complete Concert", it includes a DVD and CD version of the concert from April 30, 1978. The filmed concert had originally been shown on Japanese TV, and was not previously commercially available. The original vinyl album is also to be reissued in conjunction with the 30th anniversary.^[11]

Budokan II track listing

1. "ELO Kiddies" (Nielsen) - 5:41
2. "High Roller" (Nielsen, Petersson, Robin Zander) - 5:58
3. "Southern Girls" (Nielsen, Petersson) - 5:35
4. "Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace" (Terry Reid) - 4:34
5. "California Man" (Roy Wood) - 5:45
6. "Downed" (Nielsen) - 6:51
7. "Stiff Competition" (Nielsen) - 4:02 (from 1979 tour)
8. "How Are You?" (Nielsen, Petersson) - 4:14 (from 1979 tour)
9. "On Top of the World" (Nielsen) - 4:02 (from 1979 tour)
10. "Can't Hold On" (Nielsen) - 5:55
11. "Oh Caroline" (Nielsen) - 2:59
12. "Auf Wiedersehen" (Nielsen, Petersson) - 3:41

The Complete Concert track listing

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"

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"

30th Anniversary Edition track listing

DVD

1. "Hello There"
2. "ELO Kiddies"
3. "Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace"
4. "Look Out"
5. "Downed"
6. "Can't Hold On"
7. "Oh Caroline"
8. "Surrender"
9. "Auf Wiedersehen"
10. "Southern Girls"
11. "I Want You to Want Me"
12. "California Man"
13. "Goodnight"
14. "Ain't That a Shame"
15. "Clock Strikes Ten"

Bonus tracks

1. "Come On, Come On" (1978 performance)
2. "Voices" (2008 performance)"
3. "If You Want My Love" (2008 performance)
4. "Looking Back" - 2008 interviews

CD

1. "Hello There"
2. "Come On, Come On"
3. "ELO Kiddies"
4. "Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace"
5. "Big Eyes"
6. "Look Out"
7. "Downed"
8. "Can't Hold On"
9. "Oh Caroline"
10. "Surrender"
11. "Auf Wiedersehen"
12. "Need Your Love"
13. "High Roller"
14. "Southern Girls"
15. "I Want You to Want Me"
16. "California Man"
17. "Goodnight"
18. "Ain't That a Shame"
19. "Clock Strikes Ten"

Chart performance

Chart (1979)	Peak position	Total weeks
US Billboard 200[5]	4	53
Canadian Albums Chart[8]	1	44
UK Albums Chart[12]	29	9
New Zealand Albums Chart[13]	10	31
Swedish Albums Chart[14]	26	2
Dutch Albums Chart[15]	2	21

References

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3. ^ Cheap Trick at Budokan. Rolling Stone. Published November 1, 2003. Retrieved June 27, 2009.
4. ^ Kozak, Roman. "Now Cheap Trick Eyes Europe" Billboard August 25, 1979: 68
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8. ^ ^{a b} "Top Albums/CDs - Volume 31, No. 20, August 11 1979". Library and Archives Canada. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.4499a&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=9qgtru1g0aolghbijf72bdhb97. Retrieved 2011-11-06. 
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Preceded by Bad Girls by Donna Summer

Canadian RPM 100 number-one album August 11, 1979 (one week)

Succeeded by Breakfast in America by Supertramp (re-entry at number one)