The Weakest Link: Cheap Trick ALL SHOOK UP, Round 5

"Can't Stop It but I'm Gonna Try" was stopped. One more must be stopped today. Vote your next weakest link.

Discussion question: Where do you rate/rank All Shook Up within the Cheap Trick catalog (as much as you have of it)?

Can't Stop It but I'm Gonna Try (Round 4)
Love Comes A-Tumblin' Down (Round 3)
I Love You Honey but I Hate Your Friends (Round 2)
Go for the Throat (Use Your Own Imagination) (Round 2)
High Priest of Rhythmic Noise (Round 1)
Who D'King (Round 1)

 

"World's Greatest Lover"

I have them all. With only including studio albums, I would rank it at number 6.

1. Cheap Trick (1977)
2. Heaven Tonight
3. In Color
4. Dream Police
5. Cheap Trick (1997)
6. All Shook Up

 

DQ. Bottom of first batch with Tom. But still way better than what was to come.

 

OK, this is where I shoot World's Greatest Lover.
The last 3 are all equal and can't be separated for me.

 

World’s Greatest Lover

I have most of the 70s & 80s stuff, it’s in my top five

 

“World’s Greatest Lover”

DQ:
If I were to rank Cheap Trick’s records, and bear in mind I don’t know a lot of the later ones as well, so I’d go…

1. S/T 77
2. Heaven Tonight
3. Dream Police
4. In Colour
5. All Shook Up

 

I voted off World’s Greatest

I rate this album lower than every album they released prior and higher than every release that followed.

 

Still voting Just Got Back as it doesn't do much for me.

DQ: It's probably somewhere in the bottom half of their discography for me, but I get the feeling I like their 90s thru now records more than the average person on these boards. Definitely the bottom of the list as far as that first "phase" of their career with Tom though

 

voted off WGL

I rank this at the bottom only above The Doctor. That is not the same as saying I don't like the album.

 

World's Greatest Lover had to go today.

I would rank it roughly 13th out of the 19 studio albums (not counting the Christmas one).

 

One of the best 3 song intros for any artist on any album.

 

Question for the crowd: Does the "s-s-sex" joke make Baby Loves to Rock a better song? (I say yes).

 

It is funnier in the studio version. Robin outright sings it live.

I don’t know if it makes it a better song. I voted for it today.

 

Hello

 

I'd put it right under the classic opening run, rubbing noses with the second self-titled. And there are days when I'd put this above Dream Police.

 

My top 3 are probably the 1st album, Heaven Tonight, and the 1997 Red Ant. Then Dream Police and All Shook Up. I like Rockford a lot too.

 

The Weakest Link: Cheap Trick ALL SHOOK UP, Round 6