DIDN'T I, DIDN'T I,
SEE YOU CRYIN'
(or simply At Budokan)
is the first
live album
by
American Rock band
and their
best-selling recording.
Recorded at
the Nippon Budokan
in Tokyo,
the album was
first released
in Japan
on
October 8, 1978,
and later released
in the
United States
in
February 1979,
through Epic Records.
After several years
of constant touring
but only
middling exposure
for the band,
At Budokan
steadily grew off
radio play
and
word-of-mouth
to become a
high-selling success,
kickstarting
the band's popularity
and becoming
acclaimed as
one of the
greatest live
rock albums
of all time
and a
classic of
the power pop genre.

It was ranked
number 426
in the 2003 edition
of
Rolling Stone magazine's
list of
"the 500 Greatest
Albums of All Time".
In 2019,
the album was selected
by the Library of Congress
for preservation
in the United States
National Recording Registry
for being
"culturally,
historically,
or aesthetically significant".
An album featuring
leftover tracks
from the band's
1978 Budokan set,
plus additional material
from their
1979 tour
of Japan,
was released in 1994
as Budokan II,
and a
two-disc reconstruction
of the complete
original
Budokan performances,
titled
At Budokan:
The Complete Concert,
was released to
commemorate its
twentieth anniversary
in 1998.

Two CDs feature
At Budokan:
The Complete Concert,
newly remastered,
while an additional disc
includes the
audio counterpart
to the DVD
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