Cheap Tracks

"It's time for 'Southern Girls!"

This week, we're joined by singer, songwriter, frontman, and former serial lady killer, Rhett Miller as he discusses his new album THE MISFIT and we look back on his love for Cheap Trick, "Southern Girls," and tells a pretty funny story about Waylon Jennings.

This week Mike and Chris look back at the Todd Rundgren penned "Heaven's Falling" from their 1983 release, NEXT POSITION PLEASE...but they are joined by a very special guest.

Ira Robbins,rock journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, and of course Trouser Press which he began publishing in 1974. Most importantly though, he was an early supporter of Cheap Trick and wrote of their debut, "its sarcastic, smart, nasty, powerful, tight, casual, and destined for something great."

His new book MUSIC IN A WORD, VOLUME 2 can be purchased at Trouser Press.

This week, we look back at the third single off of the band's 20th album, IN ANOTHER WORLD, released on April 9, 2021.

It's the pandemic album! It's the political album! But is it the album where Cheap Trick finally finds success playing the corporate rock game?

Who d'King? Elvis Presley, of course, and this week we look back at Cheap Trick's cover of "Don't Be Cruel" that bop-bopped its way onto the charts in July of 1988.

This week, Chris and Mike look back at a Cheap Trick soundtrack recording (a genre unto itself) with "Mighty Wings," recorded explicitly for the blockbuster TOP GUN soundtrack and written by Harold Faltermeyer and Mark Spiro.

This week, Chris and Mike look back at "Didn't Know I Had It," the fifth single off of the band's first (and only release) on Warner Bros., WOKE UP WITH A MONSTER.

This week Mike and Chris are looking back at the second song off of 1983's NEXT POSITION PLEASE, "Borderline." Rick often introduces the tune these days explaining that it "should have been a #1 hit single…but it wasn't," but has become a fan favorite over the years.

Chris and Mike travel back to 2003 to discuss "Pop Drone" off of the band's 14th studio album and their first album in six years following their 1997 self-titled release.

This week, Chris Castaneda and Mike Vanderbilt look back at the opening track on ALL SHOOK UP, "Stop This Game," the song that announced Cheap Trick for the '80s with a new, notable producer at the helm, none other than Sir George Martin.

Cheap Trick superfans Chris Castaneda and Mike Vanderbilt look back at the second track off of the band's 1997 self-titled album, "Hard To Tell" which was released on April 29, 1997.