Cheap Trick at Budokan

For albums or videos by this name from other artists, see At Budokan.

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At Budokan is a live album recorded by Cheap Trick in 1978.

Illinois rock band Cheap Trick was huge in Japan before they were popular anywhere else. They cashed in on this popularity by recording At Budokan in Japan on April 28, 1978 (see 1978 in music) with hordes of screaming young Japanese girls nearly drowning out the band at times. This album (which appeared in Japan many months before being issued in the U. S. where it had sold briskly as a Japanese import, and which was issued with a concert program in both English and Japanese) broke the band into global pop stardom with their first hits. The hit single "I Want You to Want Me" reached number seven on the Billboard charts, and was the group's biggest hit at the time. "Ain't That a Shame" also charted, reaching number 35. Epic Records, 1979 (see 1979 in music). The album also introduced Tom Petersson's composition "Need Your Love" (the band had just finished recording their fourth album Dream Police, thus a studio version of "Need Your Love" would be included on that album).

The album was re-released in 1998 as At Budokan: the Complete Concert, remastered and fully restored to include all the concert tracks left off of the original album. While it's missing "Stiff Competition", "On Top of the World", and "How Are You?", that were recorded at Budokan and released on Budokan II (1993), these songs were recorded in 1979 during their follow-up tour

Track listing

1. "Hello There"
2. "Come On Come On"
3. "Look Out"
4. "Big Eyes"
5. "Need Your Love"
6. "Ain't That a Shame"
7. "I Want You to Want Me"
8. "Surrender"
9. "Goodnight Now"
10. "Clock Strikes Ten"

Re-issue track listing

Disc one

1. "Hello There"
2. "Come On, Come On"
3. "ELO Kiddies"
4. "Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace"
5. "Big Eyes"
6. "Lookout"
7. "Downed"
8. "Can't Hold On"
9. "Oh Caroline"
10. "Surrender"
11. "Auf Wiedersehen"

Disc two

1. "Need Your Love"
2. "High Roller"
3. "Southern Girls"
4. "I Want You To Want Me"
5. "California Man"
6. "Goodnight"
7. "Ain't That a Shame"
8. "Clock Strikes Ten"

Credits

• Rick Nielsen, guitars
• Brad "Bun E." Carlos, drums
• Robin Zander, vocals
• Tom Petersson, bass