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''The Doctor'' is the ninth studio album by Cheap Trick, released in 1986. ==Background== Since Cheap Trick's original bassist Tom Petersson left the group in 1980, the band were pressured by their label Epic Records to produce material that was more commercial, and a string of albums headed in this direction during the decade. This included ''The Doctor'', which was recorded after the band had a comeback with the Top 40 album ''Standing on the Edge'' in 1985. With ''Standing on the Edge'', the band had planned on returning to the rough sound of their first album, but producer Jack Douglas backed out of mixing process due to legal issues he was having with Yoko Ono. Mixer Tony Platt was called in, and as a result, the album's production featured keyboards and electronic drums more prominently than the band and Douglas had intended. Despite this the album still featured the expected sound of the band. For the next album, the band settled on using Platt as their producer, and Platt opted for the dominant use of commercial sounding synthesizers. Earlier in the year the band released the song "Mighty Wings" which featured a dominant use of synthesizers, for the ''Top Gun'' film soundtrack. ''The Doctor'' album followed in November 1986, and initially sold 88,000 copies, peaking at #115 on the U.S. Billboard 200. It lasted a total of nine weeks within the Top 200.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cheap Trick - Chart history )〕 A commercial failure, the album also received negative critical reception, and is widely considered the band's worst album. Following this the band would make a commercial comeback with their next studio album ''Lap of Luxury'' in 1988, which also featured the return of Petersson on bass, making ''The Doctor'' the last Cheap Trick album to feature bassist Jon Brant.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cheap Trick - Lap Of Luxury (Vinyl, LP, Album) at Discogs )〕 The album's leading American single "It's Only Love" (b/w "Name of the Game"), was released in December 1986 and failed to enter the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cheap Trick - It's Only Love at Discogs )〕 In the Netherlands, "Kiss Me Red" was released as a single (b/w "Name of the Game"), although it also failed to find any success. A promotional only 12" vinyl version of "Kiss Me Red" was also issued in America.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cheap Trick - Kiss Me Red (Vinyl) at Discogs )〕 "Kiss Me Red" was originally supposed to be the lead single from the album in America, but it was replaced by "It's Only Love". Although "It's Only Love" was a commercial failure, the song's promotional video made history as the first music video to prominently use American Sign Language. The album's material was mainly written by guitarist Rick Nielsen and vocalist Robin Zander. Although Nielsen was usually the sole songwriter during the band's early years, Zander began contributing to the songwriting on ''Standing on the Edge'', although that album featured help on eight of ten tracks by outside songwriter Mark Radice. ''The Doctor'' used no outside songwriters except for one track; "Kiss Me Red" which was written by songwriting duo Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, and was first performed in 1984, as the theme song to the short-lived TV series ''Dreams'', where it was recorded by the actors/band featured on the show.〔http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086701/〕 ELO Part II would later record an orchestrated version of the song as well in 1990 for their album ''Electric Light Orchestra Part Two''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Electric Light Orchestra Part Two * - Electric Light Orchestra Part Two at Discogs )〕 The song "Man-U-Lip-U-Lator" featured an additional writing credit to Platt, whilst the title track was written solely by Nielsen, and became the last song to have sole credit to him on a Cheap Trick album. On the band's 1996 box set ''Sex, America, Cheap Trick'', the demo version of the title track was released, titled "Funk #9", where it featured Zander humming along to the tune before the lyrics were written. With much criticism on Platt's production of the album, in the 1998 Cheap Trick biography ''Reputation is a Fragile Thing'', the album's production is mentioned, calling it a "busy, claustrophobic" production, although the single "It's Only Love" is noted as a more straightforward production.〔 In a review with Zander for the Ocala Star-Banner, dated September 30, 1988, he mentioned the album, in relation to the departure of Petersson in 1980. He revealed ''"We carried on because we enjoy what we do. But there was some element missing. Some of our records were so obscure that some people might have had a hard time understanding them. We do records for ourselves, and sometimes they're a little too self-indulgent. "The Doctor" was definitely too self-indulgent. We recorded that in three weeks. You can run into trouble doing that."''〔https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19880930&id=J8JPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1AYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6726,9644777〕 A March 1989 interview with the band for the Phoenix New Times saw Nielsen commenting on his dislike of the "Kiss Me Red" song from the album: ''""I think we made some dogs. I hated one song we did called 'Kiss Me Red.' We were almost forced to do it by the record company. We thought it was gonna be a big flop. It bombed."''〔http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1989-03-01/music/now-reappearing-cheap-trick/2/〕 In the Erie Times-News issue of April 18, 1997, it was revealed that drummer Bun E. Carlos doesn't care for low points like ''The Doctor'' and ''Standing on the Edge''. In an interview with Carlos in 2012 for Punkglobe, he spoke of the album and stated ''"The production in the 80's the drums got really gimmicky, and we weren't getting along great with the record company. Jon was playing bass, so that made Cheap Trick not sound like they used to, as much. And, they aren't great records. "The Doctor" is just pretty much a bad 80's album. The record company would call us up and say "we gotta have keyboards on it!"''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bun E Carlos )〕 The song "Take Me to the Top" is the only track that has been performed live since promotion for the album ended. It was performed at Davis Park in Rockford during August 1999, and in Zepp Sapporo in Japan during August 2003. It was most notably performed acoustically for Cheap Trick's 25th Anniversary concert, and this live performance can be found on the ''Silver'' album. The show featured at least one track from each of the band's albums, and after the song finished Nielsen commented to the audience ''"Now who said "The Doctor" was a bad album? Only every critic in the United States but what do they know?"'' On July 29, 2011, the band appeared live at the Dubuque County Fair where during the band's soundcheck they ran through "Take Me to the Top". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Doctor (Cheap Trick album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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