Song · Cheap Trick
“Don't Be Cruel” by Cheap Trick
From the album Lap of Luxury (1988)
“Don't Be Cruel” by Cheap Trick appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2023. It was first released in 1988 on the album Lap of Luxury. Its best result is #1002 on the Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2023). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #3,779 classic rock song of all time.
Cheap Trick dusted off Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel", the song credited to Otis Blackwell and Presley, for Lap of Luxury, their tenth studio album, released April 12, 1988. Richie Zito produced and Phil Kaffel engineered, and the cover became one of the record's hit singles next to "Ghost Town", while "The Flame" handed the band its only US number one.
Lap of Luxury was a comeback. Original bassist Tom Petersson rejoined before the sessions, and Epic, stung by a run of albums that hadn't sold the way it wanted, insisted the band work with outside songwriters. And it sold: the album climbed to 16 on the Billboard 200 and went platinum, and of their studio records only 1979's Dream Police ever did better.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1002 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2023) | 1043 |
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