Comments on: Sevens :: Cheap Trick, Surrender

By: JoeyC

JoeyC — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:56:01 +0000

And of course it’s great album based just on the fact that someone decided to put the two long-haired, attractive guys on the front and stick the wierdos on the back! You think Coldplay ever considered doing this?

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[...] Click here to go to AD to check Cheap Trick “Surrender (Outtake Version)”…fun to see how this song evolved…plus this version has the original verse in it “he heard that WACS were dykes, old maids either that or whores”…sloppy studio take but they were feeling their way through the tune. Nice nugget to have in your vault. [...]

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By: smitty

smitty — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:09:07 +0000

Not sure if this the exact same thing, but I get the same feeling when listening to “Slapped Actress” by The Hold Steady. The song seems to crest repeatedly with a payoff being withheld, but in a good way. It’s really the chords in the “chorus”, since the song doesn’t really have a repeated chorus as such. At any rate it’s a tremendous song.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:20:08 +0000

“Also – is this the same “we’re all alright” that got stuck onto the end of Big Star’s “Down in the Street” for the theme song to _That 70’s Show_?”

Yup, that ‘s Cheap Trick redoing that song into That 70′s Show theme song.

Interesting posts. Liked hearing all the input about why that song is so great. Love Cheap Trick.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:06:38 +0000

Great post…and a great great band. I’ve always felt that Robin Zander is one of the most versatile, yet perhaps the most underrated, vocalist in rock’n'roll. That cat can flat-out bring it.

By: JK

JK — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:38:38 +0000

“That 70′s Show”– You’re absolutely right! Thanks for the “Surrender” post and the write-up. When I read “3:08 mark”, I thought, “Oh, I know exactly where this is going!” It takes a confident songwriter to keep that particular hook hidden ’til the very end. Lord knows I’dve blown it by the first chorus…. The other sneaky thing (to us half-ass musicians anyway) is that there’s not only that half-step up modulation right before the last verse but also (sneaky bastards!) one that comes right out of the gate, between the intro and first verse. Climb… climb… kaboom!

By: j. neas

j. neas — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:52:52 +0000

Cheap Trick is a band that I only starting paying attention to a couple of years ago. A DJ companion of mine always used “Hello There” as his show’s intro theme and I finally picked up a used copy of _In Color_ a couple of years ago and was slowly blown away by it. They really are a super smart band.

@JK – That jump into the major that you’re talking about is the exact moment I just completely flipped the first time I really listen-listened to “Surrender.”

Also – is this the same “we’re all alright” that got stuck onto the end of Big Star’s “Down in the Street” for the theme song to _That 70′s Show_?

By: Kyle

Kyle — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:19:17 +0000

I’m always glad to see Cheap Trick get their due.

By: JK

JK — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:54:09 +0000

Funny, but my old band and I were taking a run through covering “Surrender” a few months back. There are few songs more fun to play, far as I’m concerned. It just keeps building. It was going well enough, and then we realized we forgot that little final jump into a major progression at 3:08. Once we stuck it in, the song went from kinda great to tremendous, like a switch was flipped. “We’re all alright!” indeed!

By: EliCash

EliCash — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:07:18 +0000

I was just listening to this song yesterday, when I thought how strange it is to listen to the same song dozens of times and never really hear it. I felt that about this song yesterday and It is so funny you wrote this today.