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My All Time Favourite Song

You better not be mean! Tell me that you love this song more than I do. More than your mom. More than your boyfriend. More than your lesbian partner. More than any moronic airhole in this planet okay. I'll see you in awhile ya'll.

"We are not content with negative obedience, nor even with the most abject submission. When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us; so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him."

"Surrender" is a Cheap Trick song originally released on January 30, 1978 on the album Heaven Tonight. It is also featured on the live album At Budokan. It is a late 1970s teen anthem, describing the relations between the baby boomer narrator and his G.I. generation parents. The narrator describes how his parents are weirder and hipper than many children would believe. For example, the narrator describes how he discovers his parents "rolling on the couch" and listening to his Kiss records late at night. It is ranked #465 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".

Cheap Trick still performs this song to this day, and Rick Nielsen often actually throws vinyl Kiss records to the audience in live performances at the moment Kiss is mentioned in the song.