Cheap Trick
by Cheap Trick

Cheap Trick by Cheap Trick
Year: 1977
Release date: 1977-02-00
Overall rank: 4,894th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 121 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1977 (69th)
Award Top albums of of the 1970s (790th)
Award Best albums of all time (4,894th)

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Cheap Trick bestography

Cheap Trick is ranked 3rd best out of 29 albums by Cheap Trick on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Cheap Trick is At Budokan which is ranked number 3615 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 414.

Cheap Trick album bestography « Higher ranked (3,833rd)
In Color
This album (4,894th)
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Lower ranked (5,239th) »
Heaven Tonight

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Cheap Trick rankings

Cheap Trick rankings summary
Overall rank: 4,894th | 1970s rank: 790th | 1977 rank: 69th  Overall chart history
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Cheap Trick ratings

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75/100 (from 121 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.1/100, a mean average of 74.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.0.


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Cheap Trick had hunger, power and songs...their first 3 albums are hard to beat. "He's A Whore", "Hot Love", "Daddy Should Have Stayed In High School"...a very good debut album.
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65/100
Well, maybe it was 1977 that hair metal arose. I always attributed the poofy hair, slick look and guitar wankery to 78's van halen debut, but there are many hair metal facets to early cheap trick. On their debut, "elo kiddies" is the main attraction, but it's all rockin' good time. (Edited)
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95/100
This album needs to be in the top 500 for sure, for me top 200. For the power album that it is...top 100 for sure.
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100/100
Exceptionally melodic and subversive songs that are downright catchy with insanely dark lyrics. Every songs is a keeper.
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90/100
Rocking tunes, dark topics, a breath of freshness for rock.
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