Cheap Trick: At Budokan The Complete Concert

Cheap Trick at Budokan became the biggest album of the band’s career-but it only told half the story!

The original release featured 10 tracks, but the band actually performed 19 songs that day.

Here they all are for the very first time, sonically polished and in sequence.

Air guitarists, get ready!

Originally released as a 10-track live album in the late 1970s when live albums were all the rage, At Budokan neatly summed up this oddball power-pop/hard rock band with the added ferocity a live show brings. Tracks such as “Hello There,” “Surrender,” “I Want You to Want Me,” and Fats Domino’s “Ain’t That a Shame” were infused with a power their studio versions only hint at. Twenty years after the original concert in April 1978, the classic live album has been expanded to include nine additional tracks that make this a must-have for fans of the original. –Rob O’Connor

This collection, commemorating the 20th anniversary of the venerable popsmiths’ commercial arrival, sets the record straight … in correct sequence, with digitally remastered … audience shrieks…. [O]ne of rock’s crucial live documents just got a little livelier. — Entertainment Weekly