Cheap Trick at Budokan [Live, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered]

Cheap Trick | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 26, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 1979
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000063CNH
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #83,263 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

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]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A classic, but you can now do better, February 2, 2003

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Tim Brough "author and music buff" (Springfield, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cheap Trick at Budokan (Audio CD)

I remember when this came out, I'd already had a radio only promo that I'd found in a store that always managed to get records like that. I was blown away by the ferocity of it, with power beyond anything the studio albums had come up with.

"Cheap Trick At Budokan" was rushed into the stores after the radio only versions had become big items not only on the request lines of stations playing them, but on the bootleg market as well. This is a must have document of the late seventies, but if you aren't so nostalgic that you absolutley must own the CD as you originally heard it in 1979, then skip this and get the "Complete Budokan" reissue, which takes these ten tracks, those from the (gratefully) out of print "Budokan II", puts them back into thier original concert playing sequence and boasts remastered sound.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Complete Concert Is So Worth The Extra Money, April 16, 2002

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Paul W. Drew (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cheap Trick at Budokan (Audio CD)

This album is of course a classic just as it was originally released, but the extra songs on the complete conert cd are almost all great, and 3 of them (southern girls, elo kiddies, and auf wiedersehen) are must-have amazing. shell out the xtra 6 bucks or so and get the 2CD set is my strong recommendation for anyone wanting to hear what's probably the best live rock album ever.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THIS IS IT! THE REAL DEAL YA'LL!, April 5, 2002

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Michael G. King "skyyking" (LOUISVILLE, KY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cheap Trick at Budokan (Audio CD)

This is the album that broke Cheap Trick wide open in the U.S. Sure, there's a Complete Budokan version available, but 1} It's a bit pricey, and 2) unless you were at that concert in Japan, then a couple of omitted songs and a re-arranged track order is inconciquential.

This version, is the version I REMEMBER, and the one most of you'll remember too. All the great songs are here, "I Want You To Want Me", "Surrender", "Clock Strikes Ten (On A Saturday Night), and more. The price is right on this version too! I can only afford so many BOX SETS, ANTHOLOGY's, and LIMITED EDITIONS. Cheap Trick Live At Budokan isn't something I want put up because I'm collecting it, it's something I want to play, and play, and play.

RECOMMENDATION: Buy this version. It has been digitally remastered and has a superior sound quality. You'll remember this version track by track. The price is affordable. And best of all, you'll have FUN!