Cheap Trick

Cheap Trick had no command of the "deep and meaningless," as Robert Plant once put it,
and thus could not generate the mystery of Led Zeppelin. And they had a fitful command of
the deep and meaningful, making only occasional attempts at sociological commentary that
had a satiric edge closer to the Coasters than to the Who or Pink Floyd. What they did have
was command of the shallow and meaningless: cliched love songs, the grand ges... More >