Comments for Cheap Trick, Dream Police

One of Cheap Trick's finest. BRING BACK TOM WERMAN! The guitar solos near the end of "The House Is Rockin'" are excellent. The way the instruments sound on this album is near perfection for Cheap Trick, as far a s production is concerned. Besides the singles released, "I'll Be With You Tonight" stands out as a personal favorite. Although every song is good. The costumes used for the photos of the band on this album along with the whole concept is great. We could use more of this kind of creativity in music today.

trash, pure trash

This album was Cheap trick's "Who's next". A great album from a great band! This album is another rock classic!

Dream Police? More like a nightmare, really! What a crap album! I used to love these guys and still play CT (''79), In Color and Heaven Tonight frequently, but after the poppy chart-orientated record company influenced Dream Police album I soon forgot about the band. Shame, really! .

An excellent album all the way through, though the production (the last Tom Werman effort) is a bit harsh. Three videos were released from this LP: "Dream Police," "Way of the World," and "Voices," and they are among the album`s highlights. "Writing on the Wall" is a buried classic, pure high-energy rock. "Need Your Love," which first appeared on "Live At Budokan," has some fine doubled guitar work, and "I Know What I Want" features Tom singing. My least favorite is "The House Is Rockin`," which, ironically appeared twice on the 8-track tape version of this album in order to get all the programs to be of the same length! Perhaps because this came out right after the band`s monster success with Budokan it was overlooked, but it is a damn fine album, I think better than "Heaven Tonight."

Classic rock? You betcha. And tones of it. More poppy this time and with a slicker production than previous efforts, but still the album manages to rock, thrust and wiggle...and then it rocks some more. It features one of my favourite 'Trick tradmemarks - the unshameful stealing of a melodic hook or recognisable riff from The Beatles. This time it's 'Please Please Me' that crops up at the end the solo on 'The House is rocking'. Simple perhaps, but then again - if you gotta steal, you gotta steal from the best.

Classic rock? You betcha. And tones of it. More poppy this time and with a slicker production than previous efforts, but still the album manages to rock, thrust and wiggle...and then it rocks some more. It features one of my favourite 'Trick trademarks - the unshameful stealing of a melodic hook or recognisable riff from The Beatles. This time it's 'Please Please Me' that crops up at the end of the solo on 'The House is rocking'. Simple perhaps, but then again - if you gotta steal, you gotta steal from the best.