Results for “Cheap Trick”

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Cheap Trick Cheap Trick is an American rock band formed in Rockford, Illinois, in 1973. The band's…

Songs

Mighty Wings

Cheap Trick

A pulsing arena-rock anthem built for a movie about jet pilots, this song trades Cheap Trick's usual wit and irony for…

risk and ambition transcendence through flight smallness of earthly life

A Trick of the Light

The Triffids

A meditation on memory's unreliability, built around a man clutching physical relics of a lost woman while admitting each…

memory and distortion obsession idealization vs reality

Re-Invent Your Second Wheel

Wire

A terse character study of emotional opacity, in which the narrator addresses someone who reveals nothing of themselves, urging…

emotional withholding masks and performance renewal/reinvention

Hurtin' (On the Bottle)

Margo Price

A honky-tonk drinking song that plays the genre's oldest trick—turning heartbreak into a barroom joke—while quietly admitting…

heartbreak self-destruction futility of escape

She Used to Love Me a Lot

Johnny Cash

A man reencounters an old flame in a cafe and convinces himself her old feelings can be reignited on the spot, only to be…

self-deception nostalgia versus reality rejection

Illegal Smile

John Prine

A deadpan comic monologue about waking up defeated by ordinary life and reaching for a cheap, illicit pleasure to get through…

escapism paranoia and surveillance poverty and disillusionment

Strawberry Wine

The Band

A rough-edged talking blues in which the narrator defends a beloved vice—loosely figured as 'strawberry wine'—against the…

addiction as loyalty outlaw bravado romantic substitution

Quick Step

The Adverts

A fast, self-aware punk anthem about the band's own formation and the grind of making it, delivered with equal parts bravado and…

youth and its expiration date the mechanics of punk as a career ambivalence about performance

The Model

Kraftwerk

A deadpan, synth-driven character sketch of a fashion model, delivered with the same flat affect Kraftwerk applies to machines…

commodification of beauty surveillance and consumption media and celebrity

Fingerbib

Aphex Twin

Fingerbib is a mostly wordless ambient-jungle piece built around a fragile, childlike melody line and treated vocal coos, set…

childhood and innocence artificial tenderness tension between fragility and mechanism

Dance Yrself Clean

LCD Soundsystem

An eight-minute slow-burn opener that begins as a bruised account of social exclusion at some gathering and gradually detonates…

social exclusion and cliques the failure of language catharsis through dance

Rock Me Baby

B.B. King

A twelve-bar blues built almost entirely on a single sexual metaphor, this is B.B. King working the oldest trick in the blues…

sexual desire longing and satiation blues tradition and formula

Rhymes Like Dimes

MF DOOM

A dense, boastful showcase track in which DOOM treats rap itself as street-level commerce, comparing his rhymes to cheap…

rap-as-commerce braggadocio and craft irreverent wordplay

Body Movin'

Beastie Boys

A pure party track built on the Beastie Boys' trademark trick of layering absurdist boasting over a fitness-instructor cadence,…

dance and physical release collective euphoria playful self-mythologizing

I'm Always In Love

Wilco

A jaunty, hooky pop song built on Wilco's Summerteeth-era trick of pairing sunny arrangements with anxious, fractured lyrics.…

compulsive romantic attachment anxiety masked by upbeat presentation disorientation and exhaustion

Low Budget

The Kinks

Ray Davies turns late-1970s British economic austerity into a comic self-portrait, complaining in absurdly physical terms about…

economic austerity class anxiety and pride consumerism and thrift