At Budokan
by Cheap Trick

Album
At Budokan by Cheap Trick
(Live album)
Year: 1978
Release date: 1978-10-08
Overall rank: 3,631st   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 205 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1978 (67th)
Award Top albums of of the 1970s (613th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,631st)

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At Budokan is ranked as the best album by Cheap Trick.

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- This album (3,631st)
At Budokan Lower ranked (3,816th) »
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At Budokan track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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1.
Hello There
Average Rating: 80 (35 votes)Comments: View 1
2.
Come On, Come On
Average Rating: 81 (36 votes)Comments: View 1
3.
Lookout
Average Rating: 79 (32 votes)Comments: View 1
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Big Eyes
Average Rating: 80 (33 votes)Comments: View 1
5.
Need Your Love
Average Rating: 81 (34 votes)Comments: View 0
6.
Ain't That A Shame
Average Rating: 82 (46 votes)Comments: View 1
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Track pick (860 - 81 votes)
I Want You To Want Me
Average Rating: 86 (81 votes)Comments: View 1
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Surrender
Average Rating: 86 (63 votes)Comments: View 1
9.
Goodnight Now
Average Rating: 81 (32 votes)Comments: View 0
10.
Clock Strikes Ten
Average Rating: 83 (33 votes)Comments: View 0

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At Budokan rankings

At Budokan rankings summary
Overall rank: 3,631st | 1970s rank: 613th | 1978 rank: 67th  Overall chart history
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At Budokan ratings

Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 205 votes)
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65/100
 !		06/23/2026 05:28 MadhattanJack  Ratings distribution  5,99466/100
 
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 !		04/17/2026 16:43 gmessian  Ratings distribution  38560/100
 
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 !		03/08/2026 07:20 classicjoe  Ratings distribution  50778/100
 
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 !		01/18/2026 13:38 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  15,46870/100
 
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 !		12/05/2025 22:27 mketchum  Ratings distribution  6181/100

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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.7/100, a mean average of 76.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.7.


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95/100
From 05/31/2025 14:18 | #309178
A great live album. All songs are elevated beyond their recorded versions. A real surprise is just how good Cheap Trick's cover of "Ain't That a Shame" emerges; it's better than the original! 9.5/10! (Edited)
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80/100
From 01/11/2022 10:14 | #279134
An unknown band to me, this is a nice change after listening to so many punk albums of the late 70s (while going through the 1001 Albums book listens).
This is a strange mix of pop, power-pop, and hard rock. The guys on the cover look like teenyboppers!
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30/100
From 10/14/2021 18:32 | #275013
live rock + roll
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80/100
From 12/22/2020 05:06 | #263048
"I want you to want...me!?" This album is what "big in Japan" sounds like.

At Budokan is the likely starting point for many Cheap Trick listeners. The live atmosphere is captured well in this. Both sides are solid but the B-side steals the show. Dig it!
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From 11/08/2020 01:02 | #260350 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Super solid live record, obviously the second half is the highlight of it, but don't let that fool you; it's a consistently good album from start to finish and the performances are amazing, Cheap Trick at their very best.
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75/100
From 02/22/2019 20:07 | #232419
Cool good time Rock'n'roll and outrageously catchy melodies. Including their signature tune "I Want You To Want Me", but even better "Ain't That A Shame"... That's what I call "a live killer"!
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From 08/05/2017 01:24 | #195555 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I love the energy here and Zeppelin, AC/DC influenced jams (best track: Need Your Love, which could be mistaken for Def Leppard or the Scorpions). But, this is not a great representation of everything Cheap Trick can do. To put it another way, if this record shows how they influenced hair metal, "In Color" shows how they influenced Nirvana. A fairly lightweight read of Cheap Trick's material.
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From 09/27/2015 02:32 | #150539 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
A classic must own live album
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90/100
From 05/20/2015 01:22 | #141889
This album seems to show up in so many music lovers collections and rightly so. A great live album full of energy. Good fun Rock n roll. A- MEZ
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From 11/24/2014 19:19 | #127879
This is one of a handful of albums that really belongs in any rock/pop record collection, whatever your tastes.
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