The Very Best of Dokken

Performer: Dokken
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Dokken: Don Dokken (vocals, guitar); Jeff Pilson (vocals, keyboards, bass); Mick Brown (vocals, drums); Juan Croucher (bass, background vocals); George Lynch (guitar). Additional personnel: Johnk Norum (vocals, guitar); Peter Baltes (vocals, bass); Billy White (guitar); Mikkey Dee (drums, percussion). Producers include: Michael Wagener, Dokken, Tom Werman, Neil Kernon, Angelo Arcuri. Compilation producers: David McLees, Emily Cagan. Engineers include: Neil Kernon, Michael Wagener. Includes liner notes by Katherine Turman. Digitally remastered by Dan Hersch and Bill Inglot (Digiprep). Personnel: Don Dokken (vocals, guitar); Jeff Pilson (vocals, keyboards); Mick Brown (vocals, drums); Juan Croucier, Peter Baltes (vocals); George Lynch, The Billy White (guitar); Mikkey Dee (drums, percussion). Audio Remasterers: Dan Hersch; Bill Inglot. Liner Note Author: Katherine Turman. Photographer: Neil Zlozower. While Dokken is considered a heavy metal band by many, the band was one of the most melodic hard rock bands of the 1980s, which 1999's THE VERY BEST OF proves. The 16-track compilation focuses mainly on the band's '80s peak, although two selections are from the '90s--one from Don Dokken's 1990 solo album UP FROM THE ASHES ("Mirror Mirror") and one from Dokken's 1995 reunion album, DYSFUNCTIONAL ("Too High to Fly"). Nearly all of the selections prove to be the among the best of the whole '80s pop metal genre--rockers such as "Just Got Lucky," "The Hunter," "In My Dreams," "Burning Like a Flame," and "Heaven Sent," as well as their breakthrough power ballad, "Alone Again." THE VERY BEST OF is a fine overview of Dokken's best moments.

Part of the same Los Angeles pop metal scene that hatched Motley Crue and Ratt, Dokken rocked hard, with a focus on frontman Don Dokken's melodic songwriting and expressive multi-octave vocals and George Lynch's masterful guitar wrangling. Together since the late 1970s, the band made their initial public impact when Elektra Records picked up the band's impressive '83 debut. The label would go on to release three more Dokken Albums--each better than the last--over the course of the next few years. By the dawn of the '90s, the band were bonafide MTV rock stars, and soon imploded (as all great rock bands do) over intraband conflicts. They reunited in '95 and have released several more albums, embracing a darker, more complex, but no less melodic sound befitting an ever-growing creative unit.

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