Video: Sick Man Of Europe - from "The Latest" - Cheap Trick

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I'm originally from the town of Rockford, IL which, if you've never been there, is a miserable town. It just continues to expand its borders while the inner city rots. The only things that town has going for it are the legendary Rockford Peaches ("there's no crying in baseball!") and the band Cheap Trick. Cheap Trick are true Rockford men. When I met them I told them I was from Rockford and gave them my old address, they knew exactly where my house was. How come you never came by to visit Bun E. Carlos?! [...]

The boys from Rockford keep rocking. The veteran rock group will start taking pre-orders for the 13-track set, which it recorded during the past year mostly in Los Angeles with producer Julian Raymond, on Friday via its official web site, www.cheaptrick.com, and at Amazon.com. Those who pre-order will receive "The Latest" on June 23, 2009. power pop reviews, power pop and rock and roll opinions. Power pop and even more power pop and rock and roll.

Cheap Trick's "Sick Man Of Europe" is the first single from their forthcoming album The Latest , and by golly, they certainly sound like they've been revitalized over the past few years. The riffs crackle, Robin Zander's voice sounds nearly curdled, and the whole enterprise brings the words "kick ass" to mind over and over again. (I know, I know, not the most erudite assessment, but when one gets bludgeoned, it's often hard to sound smart in the immediate aftermath.) Another track from the album-the somewhat more traditional powerpop "When The Lights Are Out," which is apparently a track [...]

Cheap Trick uploaded a song called 'Sick Man of Europe' over the weekend as the first song for everyone to hear from their upcoming CD 'The Latest'. It's a rocker-corker, complete with guitars that sound like The Hives, with a shouted out chorus of 'I'm the Sick Man....of Europe' from Robin Zander. Check it here: Longtime Cheap Trick fans will know that 'Sick Man of Europe' was an early incarnation of the group in the early 1970s featuring the band's Rick Nielsen, Bun E. Carlos and Tom Petersson, but with an [...]