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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Elektra / Wea
Salesrank: 90013
Released: October 25, 1990 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Back for the Attack Track Listing:
1. Kiss Of Death
2. Prisoner
3. Night By Night
4. Standing In The Shadows
5. Heaven Sent
6. Mr. Scary
7. So Many Tears
8. Burning Like A Flame
9. Lost Behind The Wall
10. Stop Fighting Love
11. Cry Of The Gypsy
12. Sleepless Night
13. Dream Warriors
Editorial Review:
2008 reissue of Dokken's 1987 album, Back For The Attack proved to be Dokken's fastest-selling album ever (achieving platinum status shortly after its release), it would prove to be the band's last new studio album until 1995's Dysfunctional. 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.
Back for the Attack Reviews:
Best Dokken disc, Hands down!!!! 
2008-05-25 - I love Dokken,all their stuff,but" Back for the Attack" is their best.
Beginning to end it does truly rock!With "Lost behind the wall, and cry of the gypsy being my favorites!
AWESOME DOKKEN!!!!
2008-03-21 - I have been a Dokken fan for over 20 years and personally this is my favorite album. It totally kicks - top to bottom. Don't get me wrong - I love tooth and nail and under lock and key but this album is great and in my opionion is Dokken at thier best.
Dokken's "Progressive" Album - Sorta 
2008-01-25 - I view this Dokken album as sort of one neverending 'song' - i.e, they are long, riff-heavy, solo-heavy, and not nearly as commercial as the previous two L.P's. The only songs that come close to having any real melody or commericiality are "Heaven Sent" , "Dream Warriors", and "Heaven Sent" - i.e, the three promotional videos made from this album.
That said, this is an enjoyable listen from a technical standpoint, but sure to dissapoint those looking for poppier metal in the vein of the prior two Dokken discs.
One Bad-A## Album (Do we still call it that?)
2007-07-17 - It's somehow weird to call something an 'album'. I think it may have come out as an album(record) originally...although my first copy was a cassette tape(gasp)Good riddance to those things though.
Anyway, what can you say about Dokken except that they kicked serious a## and never headlined that I remember. I truely think they must have had some seriously terrible management back in those days. They were all over MTV, George was all over Guitar Player magazine, they had good radio airplay, they wrote a tune for a major cult horror movie(yes, NM on Elm Street was big, believe it or not). I think they must have been 'cute' enough...christ, Motley Crue could get chicks and look at those ugly MFr's!!!! It just doesn't add up does it?
Enough on that...this album absolutely blew the socks off most people when it came out. I never once heard anybody gripe or complain or even utter a word of disappointment about Back for the Attack...really!!! Under Lock and Key was very,very good...but I think the hard metal heads kind of shied away from that one because of the cover..LOL!!! If your new to Dokken...this is an absolute must have!!! If your not new to Dokken...than this, like me, is probably your fifth or sixth copy!!!!
Dokken's last "classic" release
2007-06-08 - THE BAND: Don Dokken (vocals), George Lynch (guitars), Jeff Pilson (bass), Mick Brown (drums & percussion).
THE DISC: (1987) 13 tracks clocking in at approximately 63 minutes. Included with the disc is a 3-page blue foldout containing song titles/credits, individual band member photos, and thank you's. Recorded at Total Access Studios (Redondo Beach, CA), One On One Studios and Music Grinder Studios (both in Hollywood, CA). Label - Elektra Records.
COMMENTS: My all-time favorite Dokken album is "Under Lock & Key" (1985), but this "Back For The Attack" is a close 2nd. For me, this was the album that never ended (my favorite bands from the 70's and 80's were notorious for putting out 30+ minute albums - Van Halen, Aerosmith and Kiss to name three). This was Dokken's lengthy masterpiece... 13 songs of blissful soul, melody and attitude. Several songs are worthy of mention - "Dream Warriors" (featured in "A Nightmare On Elm Street - 3"), "Burning Like A Flame", the slow and hulking "Heaven Sent", and George Lynch's trademark instrumental - the guitar assault of "Mr. Scary". All four of these songs made it to their "Very Best Of Dokken" (1999) disc. Honorable mentions include "Prisoner", "So Many Tears", and one of my all-time favorite songs in their entire catalog "Standing In The Shadows". Dokken's 2-disc "Definitive Rock Collection" (2006) features all 7 of the songs mentioned here (6 studio and 1 live version). "Back For The Attack" has absolutely no filler, and not one song that truly qualifies as a power ballad. I don't know how else to say it - I love this album. *Footnote - the single "Dream Warriors" was released and the B-side was a left over track from the "Under Lock & Key" studio sessions called "Back For The Attack"... but surprisingly this song is not featured on the album bearing the same name. As good as this album is/was, I still find it bitter sweet. "Back For The Attack" would be the last Dokken album of the 80's, and the start of band members coming and going (specifically Lynch and Pilson). It would also be 8 long years before their next studio release, "Dysfunctional" (1995). "Back For The Attack" is truly one of the better albums of the 80's genre - the combination of Dokken's soothing vocals with Lynch's blistering guitar was for the most part unmatched (5 stars).
