The Flame

It's got some stiff competition.

Who is going to advance between the number two seed of perhaps the greatest songwriter, musical performer entity of the 80s? The purple one, Prince Purple Rain, taking on number seven of Cheap Tricks, The Flame.

And we are going to start with Matt.

Nothing against cheap trick and the flame, but insert Chris Liguori laugh here.

Move it on.

No question.

Jeff, what do you have to say?

I mean, I'm not getting in the way of that one.

I, I, I hear this song on the radio, like, at our classic station.

The other, uh, Cheap Trick song, I like The Flame, and my, one of my other favorites is their remake of Elvis Presley's Don't Be Cruel.

I thought it was really cool.

Cody the Beekeeper-

I think he doesn't know a whole lot about music really.

I, I mean, just some of the stuff, like the, like the Cheap Trick one for example, you can tell he just, like Chris said, he probably knows The Flame and that's it.

[laughs] Probably true.

Right.

I'm gonna tell you why.

Their most popular song, at least by institutional standards, is The Flame from 1988.

It's a hair honks ballad.

It was written by outside songwriters.

It was the number one song in America during July 1988.

It was hailed as a return to form for a band that had been, I guess, underwhelming for most of the decade.

The Flame sucks, and for me it placed Cheap Trick right at the top of the list of hair hunk video cock blockers during the summer of 1988 on MTV.

Get out of the way, Cheap Trick.