Cheap Trick-All Shook Up (1980)


 

Artist: Cheap Trick

Title: All Shook Up

Label: Epic

Format: LP

Cat #: FE 36498

Year of Release: 1980

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1980

Listed Condition: VG+/VG 

Sell Date: 4/4/25

Sell Price: $4.38

Discogs Last Sold: 3/24/25 VG+/VG $6.00

Low: $1.67

Median: $6.30

Average: $6.26

High: $12.00

Current low price: $2.95

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 54

Have/Want: 4230/170

Where Sold: Springvale, ME

Time it took to sell: 10 years

Where and When Bought:  Worcester, MA used $3.99 at Al Bums

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B-

Sad To See It Go: No

All Shook Up was an album I had high expectations for with production by George Martin and engineered by Geoff Emerick.  Around the time of this release, John Lennon himself had the band back him for Double Fantasy demos.

When I heard the electronic voice sound of the second side opener, "High Priest of Rhythmic Love," I wondered to myself how Lennon might have been impressed by this production.  Then I thought of "Cleanup Time."  I'm sure this was the album among all others that exposed Lennon to Cheap Trick.  The George Martin arranged "World's Greatest Lover" was definitely in the Beatlesque category.  The single "Stop This Game" was a little less successful Martin production/arrangement with a blaring, guitar obliterating keyboard.  It stalled at #48 on the Billboard Hot 100 without much straight AOR radio support.  I don't remember hearing that the way "Voices" dominated AOR as well as peaking at #32 on the Hot 100 earlier in the year while Dream Police was still the new album.

In the early 80's, I was a bit shocked how the songs on this album overall weren't very good compared to their previous records.  Sure, everything got played live over the years.  The band standard, "Baby Loves To Rock" was plopped in the middle of the first side, after "Stop This Game" and "Just Got Back" which are also regulars in the Cheap Trick setlist to this day.  Still, compared to everything before it, this album sounds a bit flat and decidedly less rocking.  Instead of stopping the game, it seemed they were trying even harder to play it, even if their two prior top ten albums, At Budokan and Dream Police bucked the sound and won the system.  This one had a good Billboard chart peak at #24 but no top 40 hits or even AOR ones.   "I Love You Honey But I Ain't Your Friend" seemed a toss-off and yet seemed even more slight when the real title "I Love You Honey But I Hate Your Friends" was realized.

It might be the best song on the record.

FOR FURTHER REVIEW:

Cheap Trick (1977)

In Color (1977)

Heaven Tonight (1978)

Cheap Trick at Budokan (1978)

Dream Police (1979)

Found All The Parts (1980)

One On One (1982)

Soundtrack-Spring Break (1983)




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