Dokken - Very Best of Dokken
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Artist: DokkenBrand: DOKKEN
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
CD Release Date: 1999-07-06
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Breaking The Chains
- Paris Is Burning
- Into The Fire
- Just Got Lucky
- Alone Again
- Tooth And Nail
- The Hunter
- In My Dreams
- It's Not Love
- Dream Warriors
- Burning Like A Flame
- Heaven Sent
- Mr. Scary
- Walk Away
- Mirror Mirror
- Too High To Fly
Music reviews of Very Best of Dokken
Music Review: The very Beast of Dokken...
Rating: 4 Stars
Nope, it's not a mispelling, i meant to write "beast",not best... anyway, as I mentioned, i bought this compilation recently along with Skid Row's "40 seasons", and i decided to review them together, because they share a few interesting things in common. I must say that, as opposed as with Skid, I like Dokken, I have all of their records, but I am not a HUGE fan. The 2 things about Dokken that i liked the most is that they had nothing to do with the glam metal scene of the 80's (other than their dreadful look), specially in regards of the lyrics, and George Lynch's guitar playing... but Don Dokken vocals were never too impressive, and their 80's records sound horrible now, dated, lost in that horrendous mid 80's, pristine and polished, crystal clear sound...anyway, let's get down to the disc:
- Best of vs Greatest Hits: this is, for the most part, the best of Dokken. Sometimes, the best material of a band actually matches their greatest hits, and in this case, it pretty much makes sense...
-Non-involvement of the band: this is even worse than what happened with "40 seasons". At least that compilation had imput from 1 member of the band, but here, there is no imput whatsoever, and THAT is NEVER a good thing...this compilation is then reduced to an attempt by pinhead record execs to make money out of the band's name...
-Chronological order / running order: as is the case with "40 Seasons", this is a chronological compilation, but this one succeeds were the former fails: "Breaking the Chains" is a natural opener!! After that, the running order gets a little messy, specially by putting "Alone Again" before "Tooth and Nail"... not a good sequence... and I miss the instrumental intro of "Without warning"... but generally speaking, it is okay...
Song selection / Album Representation: it is pretty decent... of course, since my favorite album is actually 95's "Dysfunctional" (represented here only by "Too high to fly"...understandably so, since that record was made with another record company), actually one of my favorite records ever, i should probably complain, but i won't...but just as is the case with "40 seasons", there are at least 2 songs that i'll never understand their inclusion here: "Mr Scary" and "Mirror Mirror". Who the hell includes an instrumental in a compilation? That was a terrible idea! And of course, I am sure that whatever pea-brain chose to include then thought "OK, great, since i have included a song that is basically a George Lynch solo track, let's include a Don Dokken solo track!" Dreadful idea!
Songs like "Mirror Mirror" make you understand why Nirvana took over only a few years later... if by the beginning of the 90's you weren't able to see that that kind of music was dead, you deserved to fall flat on your face and not sell a freakin'record... and not only the song, but the production, OH MY GOD, GIVE ME A BREAK!! You can almost picture Don Dokken dancing and moving his arms a la Debbie Gibson during the song's poppier than pop chorus (I just hope there was no video for this...)the only good thing about it is John Norum's solo, but... that's not enough... but the thing that bothers me the most is that by including these 2 songs (ok, maybe there are 3, I don't care much for "Burning like a Flame", either), other songs like "Unchain the night", "So many tears", "Stop fighting love" were overlooked...
Anyway, there is enough bang for the buck here, so go ahead, if you are a Dokken fan, and get this... it is worth it...
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Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 6-JUL-1999
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