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Length
  
45:45

Artist
  
Cheap Trick

Producer
  
Tom Werman

Dream Police (1979)
  
All Shook Up (1980)

Release date
  
21 September 1979

Label
  
Epic Records

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Released
  
September 21, 1979 (1979-09-21)

Recorded
  
Record Plant, Los Angeles, 1978–1979

Genres
  
Rock music, Hard rock, Power pop

Similar
  
Cheap Trick albums, Rock music albums

Dream Police is the fourth studio album by American rock band Cheap Trick. It was released in 1979, and was their third release in a row produced by Tom Werman. It is the band's most commercially successful studio album, going to No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart and being certified platinum within a few months of its release.

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Overview

Dream Police shows the band expanding into longer, more complex songs and incorporating orchestration on several tracks. Three videos were produced: "Dream Police", "Way of the World" and "Voices".

The album's title track became a Top 30 hit for the band. "Voices" was also a hit for the band, reaching No. 32 on the Billboard chart. "Voices" has been used twice in the soundtrack of the American sitcom How I Met Your Mother.

Near the end of "Gonna Raise Hell" the orchestra is citing a snippet from "Heaven Tonight". That song was described by Allmusic critic Tom Maginnis as having an "extended, disco-inflected, slowburn groove".

Variations

In 2010, Cheap Trick re-recorded the title track as "Green Police" for the controversial Green Police advertisement which aired during Super Bowl XLIV for Audi.

Track listing

All songs written by Rick Nielsen, except where noted.

  1. "Dream Police" – 3:49
  2. "Way of the World" (Robin Zander, Nielsen) – 3:39
  3. "The House Is Rockin' (With Domestic Problems)" (Tom Petersson, Nielsen) – 5:12
  4. "Gonna Raise Hell" – 9:20
  5. "I'll Be with You Tonight" (Nielsen, Zander, Bun E. Carlos, Petersson) – 3:52
  6. "Voices" – 4:22
  7. "Writing on the Wall" – 3:26
  8. "I Know What I Want" – 4:29
  9. "Need Your Love" (Nielsen, Petersson) – 7:39

Bonus tracks (2006 Reissue)

The bonus tracks of the 2006 reissue of Dream Police consisted mainly of rare live versions of songs from the album. "I Know What I Want" is noteworthy for being the b-side to their 1988 single "Don't Be Cruel" and the only non-live track is a demo of the title track without its trademark strings.

  1. "The House Is Rockin' (With Domestic Problems)" (live) - 6:16
  2. "Way of the World" (live) - 3:59
  3. "Dream Police" (No Strings Version) - 3:52
  4. "I Know What I Want" (live) - 4:43

Singles

  • 1979: "Dream Police" b/w "Heaven Tonight" – #26 US, #4 Canada, #79 Japan
  • 1979: "Voices" b/w "Surrender" (Live) – #16 Australia (UK)
  • 1979: "Voices" b/w "The House Is Rockin' (With Domestic Problems)" – #32 US, #12 Canada,(US & Canada)
  • 1980: "Way of the World" b/w "Oh Candy" – #73 UK
  • 1980: "I'll Be with You Tonight" b/w "He's a Whore" & "So Good to See You" (UK)

    • Unreleased outtakes

  • "It Must Be Love" (This song was given to Rick Derringer who covered it on his 1979 album Guitars and Women)
  • "Next Position Please" (Features Robin, Rick, and Tom on vocals, later re-recorded for the 1983 album of the same name)
  • "See Me Now" ("Way of the World" with alternate lyrics)
  • "Way of the World" (with Rick Nielsen on vocals)
  • "I Know What I Want" (with Robin Zander on vocals)

    • Covers

  • Sam Kinison covered "Gonna Raise Hell" on his comedy album Leader of the Banned.
  • Heavy Metal/Prog rocker Rob Gravelle released both regular and extended versions of the title track. The latter included a long outro guitar solo.

    • Band members

  • Robin Zander – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
  • Rick Nielsen – lead guitar, backing vocals
  • Tom Petersson - bass guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on "I Know What I Want"
  • Bun E. Carlos – drums, percussion

    • Additional musicians

  • Jai Winding - organ, piano, keyboards
  • Steve Lukather - guitar on "Voices"

    • Production and staff

  • Tom Werman - producer
  • Gary Ladinsky, Mike Beiriger- engineers
  • Ken Adamany - assistant engineer
  • George Marino - mastering
  • Steve Dessau, Paula Scher - design
  • Reid Miles - photography

    • Songs

    Dream Police
    Voices
    I Know What I Want

    References

    Dream Police Wikipedia
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