At Budokan
1978
Epic
Arch power poppers from Rockford, Illinois, Cheap Trick articulated the myriad dilemmas of suburban teenage boy life in the mid-20th century. Most of it revolved around girls, obviously. Their studio stuff was a little too weird for Americans to get, but apparently the Japanese loved them, and the thousands of screaming fans at Tokyo’s Budokan arena inject Godzilla-sized energy into their pithy adolescent anthems. The transformation of a simple rockabilly bop into a stadium-wide call-and-response catapulted “I Want You (to Want Me)” into classic rock radio immortality.
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