Next Position Please

Next Position Please is the seventh studio album by American rock band Cheap Trick, produced by Todd Rundgren and released in 1983.

"You Talk Too Much" and "Don't Make Our Love a Crime" appeared as bonus tracks on the cassette version and later on the CD.

The record was originally supposed to include both of these tracks along with two others called "Twisted Heart" and "Don't Hit Me With Love", but Cheap Trick's label at the time, Epic Records, forced the band to include a cover of the Motors' "Dancing the Night Away" and the outtake "You Say Jump" in their place.

Upon release, Billboard wrote: "This quartet sticks with what it does best: hard-edged but melodic guitar rock laced with echoes of the best '60s British and American bands.

"[7] Cash Box commented: "Rundgren offers his nimble fingers to mold Cheap Trick into a viable pop force once again, and just judging from the first number, he's succeeded admirably.

Throughout the album, every shred of melody is given the hard sell, so that when everything clicks, Next Position Please approximates the snap of the band's overlooked classic, Heaven Tonight.