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Cheap Trick - Budokan II (1979)

Track listing:
  1. Elo Kiddies 4:17
  2. High Roller 4:23
  3. Southern Girls 3:55
  4. Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace 5:56
  5. California Man 3:56
  6. Downed 4:36
  7. Stiff Competition 4:29
  8. How Are You 3:56
  9. On Top Of The World 5:33
  10. Can't Hold On 5:51
  11. Oh Caroline 3:01
  12. Auf Weidersehen 4:22

Notes

Budokan II is exactly what it says it is — the sequel to Cheap Trick's career-making Live at Budokan. Picking up where its predecessor left off (the tracks even begin at number 11), the record contains all of the band's classics — "ELO Kiddies," "Southern Girls," "California Man," "Downed," "How Are You," "On Top of the World," "Oh Caroline," "Auf Wiedershen," "Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Piece" — that didn't make the first record. While the performances aren't quite as tight as At Budokan — possibly because they weren't doctored as heavily in the studio — the record is nevertheless a muscular, energetic set of definitive power-pop and will please not only diehard fans of Cheap Trick, but casual fans attracted by Live At Budokan.