Cheap Trick - All Washed Up (2025)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 299 MB | Cover | 40:02 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 99 MB
Rock, Hard Rock | Label: BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
Cheap Trick's sugar-high power-pop influence cannot be overstated (hi, Weezer and Fountains of Wayne and Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance). But on the band's 21st album, All Washed Up, they seem to be taking cues from '80s hair metal—which itself was often influenced by glam rock and … Cheap Trick. The title track, which features frontman Robin Zander sounding appealingly louche and sleazy as he issues lines like "Light me up and turn me on," is a snarling good time that evokes the heyday of Faster Pussycat. "Dancing With the Band" is cheesy fun that rushes at you like a spray of Aqua Net: Zander opens up by hollering "How you doing tonight?!" like he's right back at Buddokan, and big-top showman Rick Nielsen goes to 11 with his flaming-hot guitar solo. Zander's throat-shredding delivery sounds like he's getting ready for Headbangers Ball on solid "All Wrong Long Gone," and "The Best Thing" is a total power ballad. That one features Zander's daughter, Robin Sailor Zander, on backing vocals; in fact, Cheap Trick is now a family affair. Nielsen's son Daxx has taken over drummer duty after the band parted ways with longtime member Bun E. Carlos over a messy financial dispute.