Music CD - Cheap Trick: Dream Police

	Music CD: Dream Police Artist: Cheap Trick List Price: $11.98 Our Price: $7.28 Your Save: $ 4.70 ( 39% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Sony
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Tracks: 1. Dream Police 2. Way Of The World 3. The House Is Rockin' (With Domestic Problems) 4. Gonna Raise Hell 5. I'll Be With You Tonight 6. Voices 7. Writing On The Wall 8. I Know What I Want 9. Need Your Love 10. The House Is Rockin' (With Domestic Problems) (Live) 11. Way Of The World (Live) 12. Dream Police (No Strings Version) 13. I Know What I Want (Live)
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0827969448526 Format: Original recording remastered Label: Sony Manufacturer: Sony Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Sony Release Date: 2006-03-07 Studio: Sony
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Best Cheap Trick album to get Comment: I could pass on all the other Cheap Trick albums. This is the only one I own. Customer Rating: Summary: another brilliant rock album from Cheap Trick Comment: For many Cheap Trick fans this marks the end of the "classic era." While the follow-up to this one, All Shook Up, is arguably their best work, it also marked their decline in the pop music industry and fall from the top of the charts for a few years until they returned with a couple of power ballads. Anyway, Dream Police is a must have for tricksters and contains some of their best songs. Like the album before it, Heaven Tonight, Dream Police kicks off with a pop rock masterpiece as the opener and doesn't really contain a bad song all the way through. Some are better than others but there's nothing to skip on this CD. Standout tracks include: Way of the World, Gonna Raise Hell, I'll Be With You Tonight, Need Your Love. Customer Rating: Summary: "Dream Police" is a dream come true Comment: Before I start my review, let me just give a little background information. Like others, my first exposure to Cheap Trick was through the song, "Surrender". I downloaded it, burned it to a disc with a lot of other, varied songs, and after a long while, I thought, "All right, enough's enough, it's time to get some Cheap Trick!". While in the music store one day, I got my hands on a used copy of "At Budokan: The Complete Concert" (and for only ten bucks!), and had looked at the cover of "Dream Police". Seeing those guys dressed up as if they were on some sort of deranged, mystery-adventure on the front cover. On the back, there was Rick Nielsen in a posh pose, Tom Petersson holding a glass of wine, Bun E. Carlos peeking from behind a pillar, and Robin Zander lying as though some creepy force got him from the inside! Such a concept grasped me, with the wild and imaginative visualizations, and as an aspiring, young musician myself, I thought, "This is it! This is what I want to be!". So with that, I got both, and that night, I gave "Dream Police" a spin. Describing "Dream Police" is an interesting task. However, it's got everything a great Cheap Trick album should: catchy, hard-rocking songs with underlying messages and surprising meanings. And the unfortunate thing is, it seems as though this album tends to be forgotten about considering it was released just a year after "Budokan". "Dream Police" is actually the second album I've ever listened to all the way through (the first was the instrumental masterpiece, Joe Satriani's "Surfing With the Alien", but that was a bit shorter than this one), and it's an album that, after your first listen, brings you into its world. From the paranoid undertones of the title track, complete with background strings and a sing-a-long chorus, to the nine and a half minute, religious-based, "Gonna Raise Hell" to the strange, beautiful ballad of "Voices" and Tom Petersson's lead vocals on "I Know What I Want", a super-catchy rocker that I can see being used in car commercials, and that's NOT an insult, this album is interesting, exciting, hypnotic and, to be simply put, a classic. The only thing I would like to say is that the bonus tracks kind of drag the album on. By then, I was a bit anxious to finish, but overall, "Dream Police" is an eerily magical rock album that's yet another classic from Cheap Trick's early era. I really hope you enjoy this as much as I do, 'cause it's certainly unique and nonetheless inviting. P. S. - Not to long after getting this, I went out and got "Heaven Tonight", their most acclaimed studio album, and the underrated "All Shook Up". Cheap Trick is quickly becoming a personal fave! Anyway, Peace! Customer Rating: Summary: Dream Police Comment: This is my favorite Cheap Trick record! Saw them in concert on the Dream Police tour! Awesome!!! Customer Rating: Summary: THIS RECORD IS A TRUE CLASSIC!!! Comment: I love this album. Probably my favorite in the CT catalog. I was so happy to hear that they were finally remastering this. What took them so Long?!! Anyway I'm glad they did because they do it justice. It sounds way better than the original version released on CD in 1990. No matter how many times I hear the title track I never grow tired of it. It rocks!! But I really enjoy "Gonna Raise Hell" for it's quirky CT approach and Robin really stretches his vocals here. Pure genius!! Not to mention the pop rock perfection of "Voices". This is truly a calssic! I love it!! Oh, yeah! And there's bonus tracks too! The live version of "I know what I want" sounds great! More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Exclusive Japanese limited edition digitally remastered reissue of this 1979 album, packaged in a miniature LP sleeve featuring .four bonus tracks: 'The House Is Rockin'' (Live), 'Way Of The World' (Live), 'Dream Police' (Alternate Mix) and 'I Know What I Want'. CBS 2006.