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Woke up with a Monster is an album by Cheap Trick released on Warner Bros. Records in 1994 and produced by Ted Templeman. It was their first and only album for Warners and peaked at US #123 on the Billboard chart. Shortly after the album's release Cheap Trick was dropped from the Warner Brothers label. The album contains songs co-written with Jim Peterik, Julian Raymond, Todd Cerney, Mark Spiro and Terry Reid. There were two videos shot for this LP; "Woke up with a Monster" and "You're All I Wanna Do." The band later released a CD only 'cutout' that also featured a live performance of the title track.

The album is now only available as a digital download at various online retailers.

Reportedly, Nielsen's favourite song from the album is "Tell Me Everything".

After the disappointing sales of the band's 1990 album Busted, Cheap Trick left Epic Records to sign with Warner Bros. Records, who offered the group a ten album deal. The band soon began work on their twelfth studio album, and appointed veteran hard rock producer Ted Templeman to produce the album. As a result, the album featured a heavier, guitar-based sound, and excluded the dominant keyboards of the band's previous albums. In 1994 Tom Petersson spoke of working with Templeman, revealing: "Ted didn't try to soften the sound up. That happens to us a lot. People think our sound is... well, kind of sick to begin with, but he didn't try to change that. In fact, he enjoyed it." The album took a year-and-a-half to create, though it only took four months of writing, arranging and recording.

In the Deseret News of August 5, 1994, Nielsen described the album as "a breath of fresh air." He commented "The new label kind of put a new life into Cheap Trick. When I listen to the album, I have no regrets about it. This is the first album in the second half of our career." In the Star-News newspaper of August 28, 1994, Nielsen had revealed the album was written with live performance in mind.

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