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Undertoad · 12-10-2002, 01:27 PM

Since jo3 has changed his signature to Cheap Trick, I feel compelled to point out how I really want to like Cheap Trick but I am routinely offended by their hard-core fans.

It seems to me that anyone with a preference for power pop should worship Cheap Trick, and it seems to me that Cheap Trick took power pop an interesting direction and that more pop should have the cock-sure swagger of Jagger or David Lee Roth. Of course this requires the happy certainty not generally found in power pop's 7th chords, which are more built to go with the pensive attitudes of lost girlfriends or unrequited longing or what have you. But somehow Cheap Trick figured all that stuff out and produced a non-wussy style of pop, and survive for the long haul, good for them.

But it turns out that Cheap Trick fans are more likely to be guys who were all ready to rock out and then realized they couldn't exactly rock out while wearing a collared shirt, and their girlfriends didn't really want them to rock out anyway, and rocking out seems silly from the front seats of a Honda Accord, but Cheap Trick was the nearest thing to rocking out that would be allowed.

12-10-2002, 01:27 PM	#4
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Since jo3 has changed his signature to Cheap Trick, I feel compelled to point out how I really want to like Cheap Trick but I am routinely offended by their hard-core fans. It seems to me that anyone with a preference for power pop should worship Cheap Trick, and it seems to me that Cheap Trick took power pop an interesting direction and that more pop should have the cock-sure swagger of Jagger or David Lee Roth. Of course this requires the happy certainty not generally found in power pop's 7th chords, which are more built to go with the pensive attitudes of lost girlfriends or unrequited longing or what have you. But somehow Cheap Trick figured all that stuff out and produced a non-wussy style of pop, and survive for the long haul, good for them. But it turns out that Cheap Trick fans are more likely to be guys who were all ready to rock out and then realized they couldn't exactly rock out while wearing a collared shirt, and their girlfriends didn't really want them to rock out anyway, and rocking out seems silly from the front seats of a Honda Accord, but Cheap Trick was the nearest thing to rocking out that would be allowed.