Cheap Trick - In Color - Steve Albini Sessions -1998 Cd Flac- [OFFICIAL]

This isn't the Cheap Trick your dad plays at the BBQ. This is the Cheap Trick that played CBGBs when the Ramones were still afraid of them.

Critics in 1998 hated this. Rolling Stone called it "unlistenable." Why? Because Albini stripped the double-tracked vocals. Zander sounds isolated and angry. The backing harmonies are buried. This isn't the Cheap Trick your dad plays at the BBQ

The drum sound here is the definitive Albini sound. Bun E. Carlos’s kick drum doesn't thump; it punches you in the sternum. The FLAC preserves the transient perfectly. On MP3, that attack blurs. On FLAC, it’s a surgical spike. Rolling Stone called it "unlistenable

Do you own the original 1998 promo CD? Have you compared the vinyl pressing of this session to the FLAC? Drop your thoughts in the comments below. The backing harmonies are buried

But here is the truth: In Color (1977) sounds like a beautiful photograph. In Color (Albini 1998) sounds like the negative. It is visceral. It is the sound of four guys in a room who hate the fact that they have to play their own hits again.