The 4-CD box SEX, AMERICA, CHEAP TRICK contains rare tracks, previously unreleased tracks and B-sides with a companion 39-page booklet that includes a band biography, recording notes and photos.

Cheap Trick: Rick Nielsen, Bun E. Carlos, Robin Zander, Tom Petersson.

Producers include: Tom Werman, Jack Douglas, Cheap Trick, George Martin, Roy Thomas Baker.

Compilation producers: Bruce Dickinson, Cheap Trick.

Recorded between 1977 & 1995. Includes liner notes by Ira Robbins and Bruce Dickinson.

Digitally remastered by Vic Anesini (Sony Music Studios, New York, New York).

This bonus-laden four-disc boxed set is a dream come true for Cheap Trick fans, and catches latecomers up with the best of the power pop juggernaut's work through 1996. It features not only their pop-canon classics ("Surrender," "I Want You to Want Me") but also alternate takes, b-sides, unreleased tracks, and several live performances. Additionally, former TROUSER PRESS editor-in-chief Ira Robbins and producer Bruce Dickinson provide informative liner notes.

Rolling Stone (10/31/96, p.68) - 4.5 Stars (out of 5) - "...Cheap Trick proved that articulate, uncompromised dementia and zinger-hook appeal were not mutually exclusive, a lesson not lost on Kurt Cobain or Billy Corgan..."

Q (10/96, pp.179-180) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...Cheap Trick's chosen field, flying in the face of 1970's symphonic rock, was skinny-tie power-pop delivered at hysteria pitch....[the box set] provides at least 20 tough-riffing diamonds..."

Q (1/02, pp.115-116) - 4 out of 5 stars - "...'alternate versions', demos and B-sides are the cream of their first four studio albums..."

Alternative Press (2/97, pp.57-58) - 5 (out of 5) - "...Cheap Trick are/were the quintessential American pop band. And this box set proves it..."