Talk:Cleveland Rocks

Cheap Trick?
Isn't this song by Cheap Trick? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrhighscore (talk • contribs) 02:39, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

No. The original was by Ian Hunter, and the well known 1997 version used for The Drew Carey Show was by the band Presidents of the United States of America, best known for the single "Lump" a year earlier, and it appears on their compilation "Pure Frosting".

There seems to be some confusion about this, in part because the Drew Carey version sounds a bit like Cheap Trick, and in part because Cheap Trick's cover of "In The Street" was used as the theme for "That 70's Show". Because of the confusion, you can find guitar-tabs for "Cleveland Rocks by Cheap Trick", but you won't find any recordings by them -- although you may occasionally find the Presidents of the USA version mis-labeled as Cheap Trick. The song is not listed on Cheap Trick discographies and never appeared on any of their albums or compilations.


 * Interestingly, Hunter/Ronson played this on their 1979 tour supporting Cheap Trick. I happened to catch the Cincinnati gig, at which they performed it as "Cleveland Sucks". (Is it worth adding that snippet to the article?) --Matt Westwood 15:58, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

Regional parodies, promos, other trivia
It's inevitable that since this song is called "____ Rocks", there will be dozens if not thousands of parody versions created for other cities, sports teams, TV and radio stations, and every other type of entity. Nearly all of these will have only minor regional reach and only for a short period of time. Their individual impact on the world and significance in the history of the song is trivial, less than trivial in fact, so it's not really necessary for individual instances to be included in this article. The same goes for other parodies, such as "Cleveland Sucks", which would have only regional reach and trivial significance over a very short span of time.


 * "Cleveland Sucks" was how Hunter performed it in 1979 at Cincinnati. --Matt Westwood 15:59, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

Along the same lines, it is inevitable that the song will be used to promote thousands of events and entities in the Cleveland area and in coverage of any Cleveland sports team competing in a playoff or championship game. Here again, the individual instances of that are not interesting or relevant to the history of the song. The article already mentions prominently that the song is often used in this way.

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