2010 2-fer of two overlooked and really wonderful Cheap Trick releases from the early 80s albums. Frankly, two of my favorites in a large list of favorites. Todd Rundgren does an amazing job with oodles and oodles of good to truly great songs with "Next Position Please". There`s a handful of `classic CT" songs on this one, less so with "One On One" but it is an overlooked album, for sure. The awesome AMG site gives "Next" 3 ½ stars, for me, it`s a 4 ½ star album with "One" being a solid 3 star one, on a good day, add a half star to it. "Rundgren helped the band return to the appealing pop/rock of their In Color days, albeit stamping it with his heavy-handed production. However, Cheap Trick do benefit from Rundgren`s control, since it gives them a sense of focus lacking on All Shook Up and One on One. Though the record was hampered somewhat by Epic`s insistence of adding a bad cover of the Motors` terrific "Dancin` the Night Away" and the lightweight "You Say Jump," Next Position Please is effectively a return to form for Cheap Trick, boasting their most consistent set of songs since Heaven Tonight. "I Can`t Take It," "Borderline," "Younger Girls," "Heaven`s Falling," and "Invaders of the Heart" may not quite reach the heights of the first three albums, but they come within shooting distance, making Next Position Please Cheap Trick`s last satisfying record."
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