One on One/Next Position Please [Original recording remastered]

Cheap Trick (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 6, 2010)
• Original Release Date: 2010
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Friday Music
• ASIN: B00383XZAI
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #97,167 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Want You

2. One on One

3. If You Want My Love

4. Oo La La La

5. Lookin' Out for Number One

6. She's Tight

7. Time Is Runnin'

8. Saturday at Midnight

9. Love's Got a Hold on Me

10. I Want Be Man

11. Four Letter Word

12. I Can't Take It

13. Borderline

14. I Don't Love Here Anymore

15. Next Position Please

16. Younger Girls

17. Dancing the Night Away

18. 3-D

19. You Say Jump

20. Y.O.Y.O.Y.

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Review

When listening to the playback of this in the studio monitors, I got such a great feeling hearing these fine albums once again, back to back, just like we all used to play them from the vinyl days.

This version includes the original segway's used on the One On One LP version, and it also features the original LP line-up of Next Position Please.

It's and extensive and enjoyable listen, and just like a fine wine, this band and their music just get better all the time.

Rock On! --Joe Reagoso- Reissue Producer

Product Description

Fresh off producing Shake It Up for the Cars, Roy Thomas Baker teamed with Cheap Trick on One on One ('82), helping 'em score a platinum LP and the hits She's Tight and If You Want My Love . Todd Rundgren helmed Next Position Please ('83), an instant fan favorite with energized rockers I Can't Take It and Borderline . Both LPs long out of print!

Customer Reviews

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Glad to have them back, but it's the same mastering!, April 8, 2010

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This review is from: One on One/Next Position Please (Audio CD)

I am very glad these two are available again. They do complement each other nicely as a combo too. Like many of you, I have spent much $ over the years buying Japanese imports of albums like SOTE and The Doctor, which are not nearly the classics these two are. So although I have the US CD releases of both One on One (Epic EK-38021) and Next Position Please (Epic EK-38794), when I saw that they were newly remastered, I had no hesitation buying them again. The quality of the original mastering leaves much to be desired.

After comparing several tracks on each album with the original CD releases using a couple different pair of good headphones, my conclusion is that the new mastering is indistinguishable from that of the original CD releases. It was often a toss up as to which was better, and in some cases I felt that the original CD sounded superior. So I would give five stars for the music, but deduct a star for the lack of new remastering.

If you're thinking of buying this because you don't have these on CD, then by all means get it. It is a steal at the price for such great music. On the other hand, if you already own these on CD and are considering getting it for the new remastering, then forget it. Stick with what you already have. Plus you won't lose the bonus tracks off Next Position Please which had to be cut to fit both albums on one disc.

And in any case, go yourself a favor and go back and listen to these again real soon! What an amazing collection of such great music these guys have given us over so many years!!!

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Shabby Treatment of Two Underrated Albums, April 10, 2010

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Eric P. Sandberg "Guitar Lord" (Diamond Bar, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One on One/Next Position Please (Audio CD)

Although Epic/Sony routinely mistreated Cheap Trick while they were under contract, they have made up for it in recent years by treating the catalog with reverence. "Sex, America, Cheap Trick" is a great box set and the "At Budokan" DVD/CD package was over the top; not to mention the remasters of the first five albums. I was wondering when they would get around to the Jon Brant years and now I find that they have farmed it out to Friday music, who, to my disappointment, have turned out a shabby, disappointing product.

First of all, I hate twofers. Give me the albums individually with extra tracks please. Secondly, let someone who is actually a fan of the band supervise the project. I knew we were in trouble when I read the liner notes under the CD tray and Jon Brant was referred to as "Jon Bryant". Really? They couldn't have had Bun E. do a quick proofread, or just double check on Wiki? This shows me they just don't care.

Next we have the booklet. Two pages of it is advertising for other product, while the art reproduction is barely ahead of bootleg quality. Finally, we have the sound. I can detect no discernible improvement over the original CDs. I am really bummed that Sony doesn't think it worth the effort to upgrade these releases in house. "One on One" is a gold record, and "Next Position Please" is frankly a pop masterpiece.

I will be dumping this edition and sticking with the original CDs and my vinyl copies and I will skip future Friday Cheap Trick Reissues. It is a shame, because only true fans will want these reissues and true fans would pay (...) for quality equal to the first five Sony reissues.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Wish the Vic Anesini remaster was used..., April 26, 2010

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Jamie Tate (Nashville, TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One on One/Next Position Please (Audio CD)

Finally got my CD of the Next Position Please and One On One remasters today and compared it to the old Epic CDs. The differences are subtle but there is a slight improvement. They took out a touch of upper mid and added some low end. It would be difficult to discern the difference if you weren't making direct comparisons though. I appreciate the mastering engineer not running the level up with a limiter though. Kudos for not adding to the loudness war.

I know Vic Anesini (the guy who did all the other CT remasters) did a partial version of Next Position Please for iTunes. The few songs Vic has mastered are still the best. Wish he could've done both of these albums instead of just a couple tunes for various GH comps.

Is the Friday Music remastered CD worth it? Probably not. The songs 'You Talk Too Much' and 'Don't Make Our Love A Crime' have been omitted and the sound really isn't that much of an improvement. Glad these albums are back in print but this one is strictly for techie geeks like me.

3 stars for a missed opportunity.