All Shook Up by Cheap Trick

All Shook Up, Cheap Trick's fifth studio album, came out on Epic in 1980 with a startling name in the producer's chair: George Martin, the man who had produced the Beatles. Every studio record they'd made after the debut had been in Tom Werman's hands, so this was a real change of guard, and it arrived with the band riding high off the triple-platinum At Budokan and Dream Police, their biggest studio seller.

Martin's presence says plenty about where they were aiming. The Rockford, Illinois outfit had always welded vintage guitar pop to hard rock muscle and a snotty punk streak, and here the hard rock and power pop get a bigger, stranger stage to play on. "High Priest of Rhythmic Noise" and "Just Got Back" were the tracks that made the countdowns that year. What came next was a dip: the band's popularity slid through much of the decade before a late-'80s rebound.

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