Perhaps one of the most famous examples of this particular phenomenon (if not the most famous) is Cheap Trick's signature song, the classic "I Want You to Want Me." Originally released as the first single from Cheap Trick's second album, In Color (1977), the studio version didn't even make the charts.
As Cheap Trick bassist Tom Petersson told Classic Rock years later, guitarist Rick Nielsen drew from pop and disco hits when he was writing "I Want You to Want Me."
"He thought: ‘I’m just going to do an over-the-top pop song. I just want to do one that’s so silly — total pop — and then we’ll do a heavy version of it,'" he continued. "He didn’t know what was going to happen with it. The idea was to have it like a heavy metal pop song. Cheap Trick doing ABBA — except a very heavy version.”
Cheap Trick wasn't happy with the original production on 'I Want You to Want Me'
While the crowd can clearly be heard going wild in the live version of "I Want You to Want Me," Petersson says the song wasn't more popular than any of the others they played during that legendary concert at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo.
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So it was a "surprise" for Cheap Trick when the song became their biggest hit up to that point, but a welcome one. And decades later, they still aren't tired of playing it live, according to Nielsen.
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