| | Cheap Trick: Live at Budokan (remastered) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Live albums were huge in the latter half of the 1970s, which is incomprehensible on some level since the bands almost always concentrated on reproducing, as closely as possible, the studio versions of their songs, the only exception being the insertion of many extra minutes of guitar soloing on a few tracks. |
 | | In 1998, twenty years after the Budokan concert, Sony Music released Cheap Trick at Budokan: The Complete Concert, a remastered two-disc set that included all the songs performed at the source show in their original order. |
 | | The answer is that the original album is brilliantly sequenced and an entire generation or two that grew up listening to it want to be able to shove the disc into our CD players and be transported back to that magical time by hearing the album they remember, word for word and riff for riff. |
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