Cheap Trick - “In Color” (Albini Re-Recording, 1998)
“Come On, Come On” (1998 Version)
So, speaking of Cheap Trick.
The songs on Cheap Trick ‘s second album were mostly pretty great—certainly full of promise and craft. But ever since In Color’s 1977 release, everybody (including, perhaps most vocally, the band themselves) had complained that producer Tom Werman’s impotent, AM-radio-friendly mix didn’t do the material or the band’s paint-peeling live shows the justice they deserved.
It’s certainly no accident that the version of “I Want You to Want Me” that made Cheap Trick international stars was the blistering live version from At Budokan — rather than the anemic pop smear that got wiped onto the original In Color.
So, to some of the facts that are in evidence, via wikip:
We were doing a fair amount of recording/hanging out at Electrical around this time and I got a chance to listen to a DAT of this one afternoon and ask a handful of questions about the equipment used. So freakin’ great. Both versions of this record are classics.
