Cheap Trick - Surrender (Official Audio)

I love the line about the parents listening to the son's Kiss records. I dig how it shows that they're just like him in ways that are most important. There's a bit of youth lingering around in everyone, even in your old ass parents :P

Thank you mom for your good taste in music RIP Suzanne (mom1976 to 2023)

I can say I'm glad I live in a world where this song exist

Released in 1978, sounds like 1998... must be a trip to be 20 years ahead of your time.

Wow. A rock and roll song about accepting your parents even they don’t see eye to eye with you. Beautiful

My mom used to play this song all the time when I was little... RIP🙏

"Mommy's all right, Daddy's all right. They just seem a little weird". When Surrender first blasted out of our radios in the 1970s, I thought, "Wow. Somebody just wrote the perfect teenage anthem...a My Generation for my generation". I mean, The Who were like gods to us, but most of us did not literally hope to die before we got old. Mostly, we were interested in rolling numbers, rock and roll, and getting our KISS records out. I still love Cheap Trick and this song to this day.

Loved how this band blurred the edges of new wave, punk and straight ahead rock n roll. Few bands did it as effortlessly as they did and do. I still don't know how this many years later to categorize them. All the best things in life can't be I suppose.

Love Cheap Trick ❤

Thank you guys. This song was the song I used to sing to my sons as babies for a lullaby. I don't know lullabies. Lol. So I sang what I knew. And this song a capella, in a slower tempo did the trick.

I'm Here Because I'm Rocking in My Apartment on December 30th 2023. It Feels Good To Be Me and My Vibes Are Doing Well Tonight. 😊 ❤ 🎸 🎸 🥁 🎶

I love love love the part where his parents are listening to his KISS records. My dad swears to everything under the sun that once in the 70's he walked in on my grandmother vacuuming to Alice Cooper and dancing around, which was the coolest thing I'd ever heard of!

Cheap Trick bad ass

One of my favourite songs, the lyrics are so powerful and relatable on a personal level.

Why does this song from the last 70s have such early 2000s punk rock energy

Thank you Cheap Trick for existing. I was 13 in '77 when my best friend Mike and I met up, likely the day after he'd seen KISS at the San Diego Sports Arena (super bummed I couldn't go; parents wouldn't let me). Mike and I were both already huge KISS fans, and at 13, seeing them in concert was a big deal. Fortunately, my parents let me attend the KISS concert the following year. Anyway, Mike and I did as we often did, skateboarded to the local Sav-On to browse the magazine section. Mike mentioned that opening for KISS was a band called Cheap Trick. They weren't getting any airplay yet, at least on KGB 101.5 FM in San Diego, so I hadn't heard of them. Mike said, "They were pretty good". So we checked out the current publication of Circus Magazine (featured info and photos of popular bands) and Cheap Trick was in it. Mike was trying to describe Rick Neilson's attire, and the contrast between his look and Robin Zander's. Circus made it all very clear...Cheap Trick was a very intriguing group of characters. Bun E. Carlos included (the '60s, white collar worker look was awesome). Shortly thereafter, Mike bought their In Color LP and I was even more fascinated by Rick Neilson, with the ultra-goofy garb, perfectly matching his silly face. But it was all that combined with the fact that he was a killer, down an' dirty rockin' guitarist that was so captivating. Needless to say, we all became huge CT fans in no time. I was proud to wear a Cheap Trick T-shirt to school on a regular basis. Between the late '70s and maybe late '80s to early '90s, I saw them in concert 11 times. A few times at the Sports Arena (got way too stoned that night, probably in '79), possibly once at the S.D. stadium, several times at the Del Mar Fair and once at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach. As another youtuber wrote (a year ago), I too am glad to live in a world where (he said this song), but I'll expand it to...a world where this band exists. Cheap Trick played a big part in my experiences growing up and feel fortunate and blessed to have grown up in a great era. I still select and listen to Surrender on my high-end vintage stereo, always especially impacted when the part "When I woke up, mom and dad...", as I just think the vocals from there to "...got my KISS records ouuuuut" are genius. Big ol' phat and massive talent in that band...Hail Rick, Robin, Bun E. and Tommy! Bonus: Eu-uu, I need some brand-new shoes Southern girls, ya got nothing to lose Plus...their She's Tight video...man oh man, those were the days, watching MTV for hours after school. And that vid had fairly good rotation; might be among the greatest classic MTV music videos. And I am sorry, but we just don't hear enough singers yelling with max intensity, "So I got off the phone!" in today's music. I get it...it'd be weird if we did. But the excitement was intense...having just got the # of the girl we'd been yearning for. And that first ring up...stressful. I sure do miss the '70s and '80s. Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end.

This song is far above the time. And they were these unique teenagers who were able to say that "mommy's alright, daddy's alright" and make the others also see it. I can't tell how fuckin' much this song did hit me at the time when I was thinking my parents are fucked up. It took just a few minutes to change my whole point of viev.

Love this song. Used to hear it in my father’s car as a kid. Appreciate it a lot more today.

At the end, if you listen closely, they sing "Bun E.'s alright, Robin's alright, Tommy's alright, Rick's alright. We're all alright"

I am a die hard Kiss fan, and these guys opened for them in 78 into 79 and were absolutely fantastic 👌!!!! This is my favorite song 🎵 of theirs and believe me I love all of them!!!