Cheap Trick - The Doctor (1986/2015) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

„The career choices of Rockford, IL's most famous quartet are always perversely peculiar: After a strong return to straight power pop for Standing on the Edge, Cheap Trick promoted Standing's engineer Tony Platt (AC/DC, Patto) to producer and inauspiciously squeezed out the Doctor. Overbearing keyboards trample through decent ideas ('Take Me to the Top,' sole single 'It's Only Love') and careen into bizarre throwaways ('Man-U-Lip-U-Lator,' the Kiss-referencing 'Doctor'), resulting in the shrill nadir of bad '80s radio or lost Rundgren records. Hit producer Ritchie Zito harnessed Trick's combusting commercial soundscape for the follow-up smash, Lap of Luxury, but he also forced outside songwriters on the band. Thus, the glib but slight Doctor now stands as guitarist/guiding light Rick Nielsen's last gasp, a chipped nugget of Americana from pop's greatest disposable heroes who romance their brief reign in the review mirror.“ (Doug Stone, AMG)

Tracklist:
1. It's Up to You 03:48
2. Rearview Mirror Romance 04:31
3. The Doctor 04:02
4. Are You Lonely Tonight 03:46
5. Name of the Game 04:16
6. Kiss Me Red 03:36
7. Take Me to the Top 03:59
8. Good Girls Go to Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere) 03:22
9. Man-u-lip-u-lator 03:49
10. It's Only Love 04:44

Personnel:
Robin Zander, vocals, rhythm guitar
Rick Nielsen, lead guitar, backing vocals
Jon Brant, bass, backing vocals
Bun E. Carlos, drums, percussion

Additional musicians:
Dee Lewis, background vocals
Coral Gordon, background vocals
Paul Klingberg, keyboards, sequencers

Engineered and mixed by Tony Platt
Produced by Tony Platt

Digitally remastered