#63 - Miracle

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"Here comes the miracle
It's time to open up the door"

This absolutely sounds like the most Beatlesque song on the entire album. Cheap Trick with brass instruments and female harmonies? No matter what they put into this song, I love it. Miracle has its own feel compared to anything on The Latest and is almost epic in its own right. Definitely worth hearing once… just like most songs on The Latest!

#64 - California Man

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"Goin' to a party, meet me on after school
Well we're goin' to a place where…

#73 - Decaf

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"I've been thinking 'bout the thought on my brain
About to drive me insane
There ain't no safety you feel that thing
I press the buttons again"

It's awesome how 70+ songs are sitting on top of Decaf in terms of greatness, when I always thought this was one of my top favorites from Rockford, and I really love Rockford. I believe "Decaf" as a title was inspired by the guitar chords that made up the song. Not much to say except it ends the album with the great line "well it could happen…

#83 - Saturday At Midnight

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"Saturday at midnight
See you at the red light
Don't wanna be alone"

Technically, I wasn't supposed to love this song. This doesn't feel like any other Cheap Trick song before or after, and the lyrics are average at best. Then I got hooked and was quite drawn to the hook of Saturday At Midnight via it's chorus. I loved quoting the title whenever it's the weekend. Try listening to this song and not have the phrase "Saturday at midnight" stuck in your head. This past week, I played this song much…

#93 - It's Only Love

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"Lonely days and lonely nights
Seeming so much longer with the phone lines
Torn between decisions wrong or right
Ooh I wish I knew the stars tonight
'Cause you could look around and see
The moving pictures of my mind's eye

There we meet at some forgotten point
On the streets of New York, or was it London town?
Maybe we were daydreaming out loud, or maybe we were nowhere
It doesn't matter now, 'cause you mean more to me than any hope or any dream

I know now it's only love
It's…

It's going to be simple. Starting tomorrow, and within the course of many weeks, I'm going to post my favorite Cheap Trick songs, starting at #100. I could post a generic list right now, but that would be a waste, and would indeed be no fun. Same thing about posting 100 videos right now; that's literally too much too soon.
Every week will get its own separate page, so updates will be frequent throughout the current week.

There will be a few guidelines though:

-If Cheap Trick performed it, I'm going to post it. I originally wanted all original CT…

If there's one thing that I can't explain

Is why the world has to have so much pain

With all the ways of communicating

We can't get in touch with who we're hating

I hear it every day on the radio

Somebody shoots a guy he don't even know

Airplanes falling out of the sky

A baby is born and another one dies

Highways fill with refugees

Doctors finding out about disease

With all this uptight pushing and shoving

That keeps us away from who we're loving

So turn on the news

(Hüsker Dü)

1. How long have you been a Cheap Trick fan?
I started liking them about six years ago after I heard Surrender and I Want You To Want Me. For some inane reason my interest didn't spark during this time, but I really really loved those two songs.

2. How did you discover Cheap Trick?
It wasn't until a year or two after that (when I continued to dive deeper into favorite artist's material) when I was done with my wanting-to-purchase-essential-classic-rock-albums phase. I thought: "hey! Why don't I look for more Cheap Trick songs. I like them!" After hearing album…

1. How long have you been a Beatles fan?
As a young child, but wasn't "serious" until I got a copy of 1 for Christmas soon after it was released, then branched out from there. It's kind of hard to ignore Rolling Stone magazine dropping 23 songs and 10 albums into 'greatest ever' lists.

2. How did you discover the Beatles?
Exposure through music class in school and popular culture and stuff like that. Kind of like playing familiar songs to kids now will get the same reaction such as "ooh I love that song!"

3. Which "era" (early, mid…