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If I Had to Pick Just One Dokken Song...
Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 12:01AM If I was told "Allyson, you can have just one Dokken tune on your iPod. Choose wisely," I would quickly pick "Just Got Lucky" (from the album Tooth and Nail).
Seriously. Is that an odd choice?
I love the video. It sums up everything I love about Glam: big hair, great guitarist, cheesy effects. Plus, there are mirrors, a live show, headbands and a volcano. The video is batshit crazy and therefore perfect. That's metal, people. Metal.
What is your one Dokken song and why?
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p.s. "Burnin' Like A Flame" is my runner up, Glenn!
Interesting we keep referencing George in our choices.
To me the song "The Hunter" has everything you want in a classic Dokken song. Of course there is George but the chemistry between Don and Jeff Pilson's harmonies are what made the classic Dokken sound.
Tough choice for me. Bullets To Spare just flat out kicks ass.
And, of course, there's George. A friend of mine is a devout Blues enthusiast. He's a guitarist in a Blues band in Chicago. The most Rockin' he gets is "Mercury Blues" by David Lindley and El Rayo-X (YouTube that, Metaloidz), which is cool.
So, one day we were talkin' Blues and I said, "Yeah, well, I get kinda bored with it. You'll probably laugh, but I'm more into Dokken and that kinda sh*t."
And HE says, "You kiddin'? I could listen to George Lynch all day long!"!!!
I got all their albums but only these songs on my iTunes, which is an indication of what I like from Dokken:
1) Night By Night
2) Heaven Sent
3) Stop Fighting Love
4) Dream Warriors
5) Turn On The Action
6) Unchain The Night
7) The Hunter
8) In My Dreams
9) It's Not Love
10) Jaded Heart
11) Burning Like A Flame
12) Almost Over
I had "Alone Again" on my Dokken iTunes Playlist for a couple of years but eventually chucked it. Too boring, sorry Smknotsmf! But I'll check it out again tonight, along with "Bullets To Spare".
Still, "It's Not Love" is THE Dokken Track, as far as I'm concerned, if I had to get stranded on an island with one.
Hey, there's a subject, Al...
If you could only get 10 songs on an iPod to go on a desert island with, what would those songs be?
Why? Maybe because it doesn't sound like Dokken. I was never a big fan of the band, but when "Erase the Slate" came out and I listened to it, I immediately put this song into rotation at the small radio station where I worked.
Not one, but two heavyweight producers collaborated on this album. Roy Thomas Baker who previously did Queen and The Cars, plus Tom Werman who, at that point, had done Cheap Trick and just done Crue's "Shout At The Devil".
Of course, Werman went on to produce dang near everybody in L.A., even Love/Hate's first one, with the ultra-killer title track, "Black Out In A Red Room". Funny, a lot of the bands from Cheap Trick to Love/Hate complain about this guy's production for being "too clean". I frickin' LOVE it!
Runner up favorite Dokken tracks: Tooth and Nail (in Don's own words, their heaviest song), and the vastly underrated The Hunter. Finally, I have to give props to Walk Away, the 1 studio track off their live CD. Sure it's a ballad, but it has some of Don's most impressive vocal work.