{"id":1528,"date":"2017-06-30T09:05:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T08:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2017-06-29T11:48:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T10:48:28","slug":"song-of-the-week-surrender-by-cheap-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=1528","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;Surrender&#8221; by Cheap Trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>This is &#8220;Surrender&#8221; by Cheap Trick:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NFjOpqtKRq4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After 843 years, Rockford, Illinois&#8217; greatest export Cheap Trick is still going strong, and I went to see them Tuesday, and it was joyous. It&#8217;s easy to get wrapped up in music and start dissecting this and that and the other thing, but sometimes there is little better than watching four guys who are total pros on their instruments pull out a huge bag of riffs and hooks and go to town.\u00a0 Cheap Trick came on stage at 9 and left at 11, and for two hours they were nothing but big fun.\u00a0 You can see, watching and listening, that they take music seriously, but they don&#8217;t take themselves too seriously, though it&#8217;s not like they&#8217;re clowns.\u00a0 &#8220;Surrender&#8221; has been one of my favorite songs for a very long time. It&#8217;s a feel-good anthem with its tongue in its cheek, but it&#8217;s not unserious, either.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not like the song is trying to make an overly complicated or critique or point, either, but given a number of recent developments in London where I live and in the USA where I&#8217;m from, there&#8217;s something at once affirming, comforting and defiant in bellowing along with two thousand strangers, over and over and over again: &#8220;We&#8217;re all all right!&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22Surrender%22%20by%20Cheap%20Trick\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it. This is &#8220;Surrender&#8221; by Cheap Trick: After 843 years, Rockford, Illinois&#8217; greatest export Cheap Trick is still going strong, and I went to see them Tuesday, and it was joyous. 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