Change the World: An Introduction to Dokken [Import]

Change the World: An Introduction to Dokken [Import]

Track Listings

1. Erase The Slate

2. Little Girl

3. Change The World

4. It's Not Love (Unplugged)

5. Maddest Hatter

6. Goodbye My Friend

7. Breaking The Chains (Live)

8. One

9. Puppet On A String

10. Drown

11. Tooth & Nail (Unplugged)

12. Sunless Days

13. In Your Honour

14. Unchain The Night (Unplugged)

15. Convenience Store Messiah

16. Voice Of The Soul

17. Magic Road

18. Into The Fire (Unplugged)

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Hit-by-hit account of the U.S. hard rockers' platinum-selling career along with live and unplugged tracks. Features the tracks 'Erase The Slate', 'Breaking the Chains', 'Goodbye My Friend', and more. Sanctuary Midline. 2004.

Tracks:

Erase the Slate
Little Girl
Change the World
It's Not Love [Unplugged Version]
Maddest Hatter
Goodbye My Friend
Breaking the Chains
One
Puppet on a String
Drown
Tooth & Nail [Unplugged Version]
Sunless Days
In Your Honour
Unchain the Night [Unplugged Version]
Convenience Store Messiah
Voice of the Soul
Magic Road
Into the Fire [Unplugged Version]

Album Description

Hit-by-hit account of the U.S. hard rockers' platinum-selling career along with live and unplugged tracks. Features the tracks 'Erase The Slate', 'Breaking the Chains', 'Goodbye My Friend', and more. Sanctuary Midline. 2004.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Hit by Hit Account of the Us Hard Rockers Platinum Selling Career. Includes Live and Unplugged Versions of the Band's Biggest Hits to Reacquaint Older Fans with Past Glories and Introduce them to a New Generation.

Customer Reviews:

A very misleading title to a very good disc.......2006-04-26

This import collection of Dokken tunes is actually pretty good, but I can easily see where previous reviewer Darth Kommissar is coming from (he has some great reviews check em out. The title of this compilation is very misleading, and you should be warned of exactly what you are getting should you pick up this album

This is basically an introduction to Dokken's 1990s era music, and for that, it is a pretty great album. I am a big fan of Dokken and although I prefer thier classic 80s music, I also do dig a lot of thier 90s and 2000 stuff (2004's HELL TO PAY is in constant rotation at my house) but on this disc you are getting a pretty damn good overview of thier sometimes scattered 90s output. The disc focus on the best album tracks from 1997's SHADOWLIFE (the worst disc they EVER released) 1999's ERASE THE SLATE and 2002's LONG WAY HOME, with a few of thier 80s hits in live/acoustic form, which I don't really go for. So it breaks down like this:

SHADOWLIFE: Convieniance Store Messiah, Puppet on a String
This album was pure garbage but it did produce a few good songs, these two are ok, but I would have also liked to have seen "I Feel" and "Sweet Life". This compilation glossed quickly over this album, and thats best

ERASE THE SLATE: Maddest Hatter, Change the World, Erase The Slate, One, In Your Honour, Drown, Voice of the Soul
This album gets HEAVY representation which is great cause this was a great return from SHADOWLIFE, and the last of bassist Jeff Pilson, which is a real shame, they have not been the same since. Anyway, this CD collects all the best from that album, so I'm very happy with that. The only glaring omission I can see was "Shattered" but then that may have been too much

LONG WAY HOME: Sunless Days, Magic Road, Little Girl, Goodbye My Friend
2002's album with John Norum and Barry Sparks was a bit of a disappointment to me, and was originally intended as a Don Dokken solo album, but these are the best tracks from the album, including the single "Sunless Days". It gets a good helping of 4 tracks, but where is "You"? That and "Magic Road" are the two best songs on LWH. And "You" could easily have replaced any one of the unplugged/live tracks.

So all in all, these, mixed with some 80s live cuts for good measure, is the complete overview you will need for 90s Dokken, should you not wish to own all 3 of these albums. Pick this up along with HELL TO PAY and that's my recommendation. 14/18

An introduction to Dokken... a VERY POOR one!.......2005-03-18

Change The World: An Introduction To Dokken (2004.) A Dokken compilation.

In the eighties, there were a ton of so-called power rock bands that were desperately trying to make it big. Among these bands, the finest was arguably Dokken. The band's guitarist, George Lynch, was without question the greatest rock guitarist of the eighties (seriously, this guy is SO underrated.) As with any popular band, many a Dokken hits compilation has been released over the years. Read on for my review of this 2004 compilation - Change The World.

I don't own this compilation and I'm not likely to buy it. One look at the tracklist and I knew this compilation was pure garbage. I LOVE Dokken, and I can honestly say that this has to be the WORST hits compilation ever released from the group. Calling this an "introduction" to the band is one of the greatest insults I have ever heard! Surely, you say, a Dokken hits compilation would contain tracks like Breaking The Chains, Paris Is Burning, Tooth And Nail, Bullets To Spare, Alone Again, Just Got Lucky Into The Fire, When Heaven Comes Down, It's Not Love, In My Dreams, Unchain The Night, The Prisoner, Mr. Scary, and Heaven Sent. Not one of these classics appears on this compilation! Admittingly, some are on here, but they appear as vastly inferior live and/or unplugged versions. The vast majority of these songs appear on here in no shape or form! When you're making a compilation, YOU ALWAYS INCLUDE THE ORIGINAL STUDIO VERSIONS OF HITS (unless the live version was the bigger hit.) All the tracks that didn't come from unplugged or live shows are from the band's horrificly-inferior post-eighties material! Give me a damn break here! The fact that something like this could bear a title like "an INTRODUCTION to Dokken" is the greatest insult of all, in that this is NOT what a new fan to the band should get. The Rhino Records compilation The Very Best Of Dokken is so much better of an introduction that it's not even funny. That's what you should buy if you're new to the band. This is a one-star compilation; I only gave it two stars because it's Dokken.

This compilation doesn't seem to be as readily available as other Dokken recordings, and rightfully so - it's a crappy compilation. The Rhino Records compilation is much more readily available in stores, and it's only appropriate that it is, as it's a considerably better introduction to the band.

There is absolutely no reason to buy this compilation whatsoever unless you're a Dokken die-hard who is seeking out every last recording the group ever did (for the sake of the unplugged/live tracks on here you can't get anywhere else.) If you're new to the band, Rhino's The Very Best Of Dokken is the ideal place to start. It really makes me wonder if the band had no control over this inferior compilation being released; as it doesn't seem like something the band would endorse the release of (being such a poor introduction.) I have made my point clear. Rhino Records makes a compilation many times better than this piece of junk - get that instead.

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