I Want You To Want Me (Live)
	Produced by Cheap Trick
	Released on April 1979
	US CHART POSITION #7 (charted April 28, 1979 for 19 weeks) . . . GOLD RECORD (8/13/79) . . . UK CHART POSITION #29
	Find it at GEMM
8-50680 w. company sleeve [high resolution scan]

T his gold-selling single, featuring two songs from the triple-platinum Live at Budokan, helped put Cheap Trick on the US map. Personally I prefer the original studio version of “I Want You to Want Me” from In Color, but this live version will do in a pinch (it’s simply too good a song to hold down in any incarnation). And my apologies to Judas Priest - apparently, Japanese fans do sound like seagulls fighting for a clam. (And I apologize to Japanese fans if it seems I’m suggesting there’s such a thing as a good-sounding crowd in any country.) The B side, “Clock Strikes Ten,” remains a concert staple to this day, and also originally appeared on In Color. This song actually benefits from a live reading, since it’s way cooler to hear them say “Imagine what we’re doing tonight, etc.” on stage.

TRACK LISTING

1. I WANT YOU TO WANT ME (LIVE)    (Rick Nielsen)    3:38
2. CLOCK STRIKES TEN (LIVE)    (Rick Nielsen)    4:11
   
   UK 7-inch promo single
   
1. I WANT YOU TO WANT ME (LIVE)
2. I WANT YOU TO WANT ME (STUDIO)
   
   Hall of Fame 7-inch reissue
   
1. I WANT YOU TO WANT ME (LIVE)
2. AIN'T THAT A SHAME (LIVE)

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