Overplayed Classic Rock Songs I'm Not Sick of (Yet): Surrender (#7)

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Did you know that deep-catalog hillbilly knew so many well-known songs? I listened to the radio like anyone else back in the 70s. Back then, they'd play six songs from one album, not six songs total from one artist. Now these songs are played to death, so I don't bother listening to FM classic rock radio anymore. But there are songs played to death that I'm not sick of. Here's one of them. #7: Surrender - Cheap Trick This is not the song you want stuck in your head with a 300-mile drive ahead of you. That did happen to me: I went to Chicago to see Robbie Fulks, and he did this song. Guess what played for two hours on the way home? Here's a song about the generation gap with a twist at the end. Things are progressing normally in the beginning of the song: a youngster doesn't understand the older generation. The narrator is especially horrified by the notion that "Mother served in the WACs (Women's Army Corps) in the Philippines." As a youngster, he explains, "I had heard the WACs recruited old maids for the War," dismissing the notion that his mother was one because "I've known her all these years." The generation gap is explained with that fabulous chorus of "Mommy's all right, daddy's all right, they just seem a little weird." Then the punch line: the narrator wakes up and finds his parents in a "compromising position" on the couch, smoking joints, and listening to KISS records. So they aren't so weird after all. Well, not to the kid, anyway. Surrender Written by Rick Nielsen Recorded by Cheap Trick From Heaven Tonight, 1978 Also from Cheap Trick At Budokan, 1979 We're all all right: