At Budokan (live album) by Cheap Trick
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At Budokan is ranked as the best album by Cheap Trick.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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80/100  | 03/27/2025 03:59 | Simon_bramhall | | 77/100 |
85/100 | 10/22/2024 16:42 |  seb7 | | 80/100 |
80/100 | 09/02/2024 02:43 | saltysurprise | | 84/100 |
80/100 | 07/18/2024 20:36 |  VictorVale | | 81/100 |
65/100 | 04/19/2024 03:08 |  ScrumpyArbuckle | | 78/100 |
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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 76.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.8.
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Jboy56 01/11/2022 10:14
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!
live rock + roll
"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!
Crhmgs 11/08/2020 01:02
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.
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"!
poppmusic 08/05/2017 01:24
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.
A classic must own live album
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
swhaze 11/24/2014 19:19
This is one of a handful of albums that really belongs in any rock/pop record collection, whatever your tastes.
Surrender still rocks
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