One of the better American teen rock anthems from the ’70s was Cheap Trick’s Surrender.  Surrender was a song that all could get behind:  jocks, aggies, surfers, cruisers, poets, nerds, etc.   A bigger citizen-slice glommed on because the lyrics gave voice to teens’ then-universal apprehension/distrust of their parents (oddly, this apprehension/distrust evaporated when we became parents and has not been observed since–what’s that you say?).

So imagine our delight when we stumbled upon the latest episode of A.V. Undercover in which Scotland’s fab Frightened Rabbit took on the song.  Check their performance below, which starts out a little awkward, but ends strong (kinda like a teen).  Check out the original after the cover version below.

To bring this home, Cheap Trick headlines the Santa Barbara Bowl on Sunday, June 9th.

Frightened Rabbit covers Cheap Trick