Cheap TrickBest Cheap Trick Albums Ranked

In Another World

pastemagazine

8.0

“With shocking verve, the veteran band breathes life into every note on In Another World”

The Essential Cheap Trick

rollingstone

8.0

“Cheap Trick had no command of the "deep and meaningless," as Robert Plant once put it, and thus could not generate the mystery of Led Zeppelin. And they had a fitful command of the deep and meaningful, making only occasional attempts at sociological commentary that had a satiric edge closer to the Coasters than to […]”

Sex, America, Cheap Trick

rollingstone

8.0

“One band made the leap from midwestern bars and the hors d’oeuvres slot on Rush and Kiss tours to Top 40 glory via three-minute grenades of razor-guitar pop and bubblicious song hooks. The other toiled in a remote quadrant of the underground, peddling a career-suicide line in literate, post-adolescent complaint and sing-along, garage-rock surrealism. But […]”

All Shook Up

rollingstone

8.0

“Not everything ex-Beatles producer George Martin touches turns to Fab Four. Cheap Trick’s All Shook Up, produced by Martin, is actually closer in sound and fury to the ham-fisted heavy-metal grind of the band’s 1977 debut album than to the bubbly, Beatles-style revisionism of such later successes as "I Want You to Want Me" and […]”

All Washed Up

thelineofbestfit

7.0

“Cheap Trick deliver their brash and noisy brilliance on All Washed-Up”

Budokan! (30th Anniversary) [Live]

pitchfork

6.5

“Any band that's ever tried to weld a Beatlesque melody to a power chord owes a debt to Cheap Trick's classic live album, which now is blown up into a 3xCD/DVD, 30th-anniversary box set.”