Cheap Trick-One On One (1982)


 

Artist: Cheap Trick

Title: One On One

Label:  Epic

Format: LP

Cat:  FE 38021

Year of Release: 1982

Country and Year of Edition: US 1982

Sell Price: $4.99 VG+/VG 9/30/22

Discogs Last Sold: 9/18/22 VG+/VG+ $6.79 

Low: $2.00   VG/VG

Median: $6.00

Average: $6.91

High: $15.00 VG+/NM

Current low price: $3.33 VG+/VG

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 51

Have/Want: 3808/71

Where Sold:  Wichita Falls, TX

Time it took to sell:  7 years

Where and When Purchased: used Worcester Albums $3.99

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+

Sad To See It Go: No

One On One was the Cheap Trick "comeback" of sorts with a couple mega-hits.  The first was a loveable ELO-Beatlesque number "If You Want My Love."  The other was a stone-cold classic: "She's Tight."    Coming home from work and going through the 'sold' stack this started going through my head.  I knew of the 5 albums to play before packing this had the top priority.  Now I'm playing it again.

For an early 80's AOR record, it's very listenable.  The crappy loud snare drums Roy Thomas Baker employs, but this is the producer of The Cars, Queen and Nazareth so what do I know?  You hear lots of familiar refrains.  "Oh La La La" has a little "Live and Let Die."  But then you hear cranking guitars and Bun E. going nuts.  "Looking Out for Number One" is the most played live song of the also-rans, and it closes side one.

"Saturday At Midnight" reminds me of Billy Squier with a dance beat.  Probably the best of the lot is "I Want Be Man."  Monosyllabic Cro-Magnon rock. "I wanna live in your body!" Not sex, robots.  If I thought the dance song sounded like Squier, "Four Letter Word" closes out in more traditional Squier sounding rock.  I can't believe Baker didn't produce him.  He did produce Candy-O, Head Games, Infinity and Too Fast For Love.  The soundtrack of my pre-teen years.

Turn off the radio!  Turn on the video!

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