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List Price: $10.98 | | Label: Cmc International
Salesrank: 848920
Released: June 15, 1999 |
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| Media: Audio Cassette |
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Erase the Slate Track Listing:
1. Erase the Slate
2. Change the World
3. Maddest Hatter
4. Drown
5. Shattered
6. One - Dokken, Nilsson, Harry
7. Who Believes
8. Voice of the Soul
9. Crazy Mary Goes Round
10. Haunted Lullabye
11. In Your Honor
Erase the Slate Reviews:
The Real Dokken! 
2006-01-04 - Dokken finally picks up where they left off in 1988 after 2 modern sounding albums with George Lynch. This is an amazing album with plenty of heavier melodic songs. There are a few fillers but many classics. I think George Lynch is far better than Reb Beach however I'm VERY glad George left because otherwise we wouldn't have gotten another Dokken album with that classic Dokken sound. If you liked Dokken in the 1980's than you'll like this. This is 1980's Dokken in 1999 with the execption of a few songs. Reb does a great job on this album and has some great shredding solos.
1.Erase the Slate- 10/10 An excellent fast paced opener. A classic Dokken style song. This is a Tooth And Nail type song. The riff is excellent too. Don's vocals sound great. Reb's wah wah pedal fills are excellent too. The rythym section is tight too. The lyrics are great not your typical hair metal lyrics. The bridge sounds amazing and has a bit of power metal influences in it. Reb's shredding solo is excellent and it reminds me of Lynch's Tooth And Nail solo and it also has some Middle Eastern stuff thrown in. Overall a great song that sounds like 80's Dokken.
2.Change the World- 10/10 A great heavy melodic rocker. The opening riff is excellent and sounds like classic Dokken. The softer part is excellent too and Don's vocals really shine. When it gets heavier it again it reminds me of Into The Fire and those type of Dokken songs. If this song was released in the 80's than it would have been a hit. The melodic chorus is excellent too. The bridge and solo are excellent too. Probably my favorite song on the album. This song should be on any Dokken Best Of. Reb's second solo is better than his first too. Another instant classic with great lyrics.
3.Maddest Hatter- 8.5/10 The intro is kind of weird but the song itself is good. A mix of 80's Dokken and a tiny bit of Dysfunctial thrown in. The chorus is good but nothing special. Reb's solo is great and has a lot of pinch harmonics, dives and shredding lines. Good but not a classic.
4.Drown- 7.5/10 The song is a good heavy rocker with good vocals and a cool riff. The chorus is good too. Reb's solo is good too. A good song overall but nothing great. Not that classic Dokken sound that the first 2 songs had and that Maddest Hatter had hints of.
5.Shattered- 10/10 A great song with that classic Dokken sound! This has a good heavy and catchy riff. The melodic chorus is excellent and sounds like classic Dokken. This song could have been a big hit in the 80's or 90's. Reb's solo is excellent and sounds a bit like Dimebag Darrell at times. Another classic!
6.One- 10/10 An odd choice of a cover but it works great! This is by far the best version of this song! Don's voice fits this song great. The heavier part of this song sounds great. Reb's solo is excellent and has a lot of feeling. This is one of my favorite songs on the album actually.
7.Who Believes- 10/10 A great power ballad. The softest part is excellent but when the electric guitar comes in this turns into a classic. One of the better songs on the album. Very melodic too. This has that 80's Dokken sound to it. Reb's soulful solo is excellent too. Another instant classic.
8.Voice Of The Soul- 9/10 Another good song. The chorus is the best part of this song. Another good solo by Reb. Not really anything memorable but cool to have another good song.
9.Crazy Mary Goes Round- 5/10 A 1950's version of metal? A filler where Mick Brown sings. This shouldn't have made the album. An ok song but skip it! It's pretty stupid.
10.Haunted Lullabye- 5.5/10 Kind of grungy. Not one of the better songs. I wouldn't hesitate to call this a filler. Reb's solo is cool though. Skip this one too unless you are into grunge.
11.In Your Honor- 10/10 Another excellent ballad! Don's vocals are incredible and most of the song is acoustic. There is some electric guitar in it too. The chorus is great too. A very melodic song with that classic Dokken sound.
12.Untitled- 10/10 Great instrumental! Far too short but again it has a classic Dokken sound to it. I wish that riff had been turned into a 4 or 5 minute song with vocals though.
Obviously you can see how much I enjoyed the album. I was so happy to see so many 80's style classics like Erase The Slate, Change the World, Shattered, One, Who Believes and In Your Honor plus 3 other good songs. The bottom line is if you liked the 80's Dokken albums than get this and if you like 80's metal in general than get this. The band is
Don Dokken- Vocals
Reb Beach- Guitar
Mick Brown- Drums, Percussion, Vocals
Jeff Pilson- Bass, Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Mellotron and Keyboards
1.5 stars 
2005-07-27 - When I first listened to this album I was impressed because of "Change the world". I thought this song was enough to realize that Dokken finally has gotten the way back to their better years. But, after listening the whole CD with more dedication, I found that it wasn't the good I thought it would be. I still love "Change the world" and I certainly like a bit of Three Dog Night's cover of "One". And that's it. Now I guess Dokken won't ever make an album such as great as "Under lock and key" or "Back for attack". And I'm not interested in "new sound" for a band like Dokken. I think they've lost their trademark, which was the melodic factor, something that put them apart from other metal bands of the 80's.
How could an 80's band make a record this good in the 90's? 
2004-11-26 - As for us fans of "hair metal", we are use to finding our old favorite bands of the 80's reunited in the 90's and putting out trash as they go on an occassional greatest hits tour. Owing to this fact you may be scared to pick up another one of those awful cd's (Dokken's own "Shadow life" can attest to that fear). But have no fear, this record is such a suprise it is almost as if Nirvana never happened. This record rocks from the beginning to the end. The band is playing in top form and there is so much energy it is unbelievable. Reb Beach fits in on this record as if he has always been a part of the band. Why the hell did he leave? His solos are fluent, interesting, and technically incredible. What's more is that for once we can really hear how good his rythym playing is. It wasn't that you couldn't hear it in Winger, it's just that it was never as forward in the mix. The only bad thing I can say about this record is the ballads. It is not that they are bad it, is just that you would expect more from a band that wrote "Alone Again". If you can overlook the flaw of their not being a great ballad, and just appreciate the record as a whole, you will be satisfied.
OUTSTANDING! A MUST HAVE!
2004-09-29 - SOLID ALBUM FROM A TO Z! AFTER BACK FROM THE ATTACK THIS HAS TO BE THE BEST DOKKEN EVER. I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW THESE GUYS DIDN'T STICK TOGETHER LONGER AND PRODUCED MORE MUSIC AS BRILLIANT AS THE ONE YOU CAN LISTEN TO THIS ALBUM.
Worthwhile, barely...
2004-08-13 - As aforementioned, this is definitely not at the calibre of "Under Lock and Key". But Dokken really, to me, is not in the same league as a Def Leppard or Van Halen used to be for putting out power melodies. So called hits like "Alone Again" or even "It's Not Love" are certainly not even close to Van Halen stuff. Still, there are some great songs here and there, which makes them listenable. Especially when one considers how bad music got after the eighties with the utterly chaotic and non-musical era of grunge. It really makes a person go back to those eighties bands and try to find some stuff that you may not have listened to then. Dokken was one of those bands for me. I have their so-called "Very Best Of", which is not really, once again, what the record company says it is. I noticed that the best Dokken cd is definitely Under Lock and Key. Erase the Slate is missing George Lynch who is really sucking wind on his own these days and has abandoned any attempt at creating power melodies. That leaves this fellow from Winger, Reb Beach. He is fantastic, but lacks that growl tone in his guitar that Lynch has. There are really only two singles on this cd: "Maddest Hatter" and "I Can't Change the World". The latter is an excellent, excellent song and the best of the two. If George Lynch were using his guitar with the "Screamin' Demon" pickup he uses it would sound even better. One can only wonder why "I can't Change the World" wasn't released as a single. Record company ignorance? Consumer apathy? Or, maybe people's sense of good taste has declined dramatically in the last twenty years or so. Could be.
