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The following year, Cheap Trick released Next Position Please with Todd Rundgren as producer.

Rundgren downplayed the band's brash side and returned them to a more clean, pop-oriented sound similar to that of In Color.

The album never found much of an audience and Cheap Trick's commercial fortunes were in decline.

The first single was a cover of The Motors ' " Dancing the Night Away ".

Epic Records, desperate for a hit from the band, forced the group to record the track, which had been a hit single in Europe.

Rundgren refused to produce the song, and it was instead produced by One On One engineer Ian Taylor.

It failed to chart, as did the second single and fan favorite " I Can't Take It ".

The Ian-Taylor-produced " Spring Break ," which was a contribution to the soundtrack of the 1983 comedy film of the same name, was also issued as a single, which also failed to chart.

In 1984, the band recorded the title track " Up the Creek " to the Tim Matheson comedy Up The Creek, which Nielsen later called " one of the worst " songs he'd ever written.

The track reached No. 36 on Billboard's Top Tracks but was off the chart after two weeks.