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List Price: $5.98 | | Label: Rhino Flashback
Salesrank: 6115
Released: February 3, 2009 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Under Lock and Key Track Listing:
1. Unchain the Night
2. Hunter
3. In My Dreams
4. Slippin' Away
5. Lightnin' Strikes Again
6. It's Not Love
7. Jaded Heart
8. Don't Lie to Me
9. Will the Sun Rise?
10. Till the Livin' End
Editorial Review:
Japanese only SHM pressing. Features 24-bit mastering and packaged in a paper sleeve. The SHM-CD [Super High Material CD] format features enhanced audio quality through the use of a special polycarbonate plastic. Using a process developed by JVC and Universal Music Japan discovered through the joint companies' research into LCD display manufacturing SHM-CDs feature improved transparency on the data side of the disc allowing for more accurate reading of CD data by the CD player laser head. SHM-CD format CDs are fully compatible with standard CD players.
Description of Under Lock and Key:
Sure, they may have been the kings of heavy metal Cheez Whiz, but unlike many image-conscious '80s rockers, Dokken wrote genuinely appealing songs. Frontman Don Dokken's voice carried better than most belters, and George Lynch was a ferociously gifted guitarist who could tug at the heartstrings as easily as he could burn down the bedroom. Under Lock and Key, which wasn't as combustive as Dokken's first two albums Breaking the Chains and Tooth and Nail, seemed like an effort by the band to attract a larger following. It worked. Candy metal softballs like "It's Not Love," "Unchain the Night," and "In My Dreams" were heavy enough to keep the guys rockin', but sensitive enough to attract the chicks. And isn't that what '80s metal was all about? --Jon Wiederhorn
Under Lock and Key Reviews:
Dokken's Best, One of the 80's best hard rock albums 
2009-10-24 - Yeap, this album kicks a** all around, every song delivers, well crafted, well performed. this was Dokken at their prime. Don never sounded better and George's guitar work is perhaps his best, even when Back for the Attack runs very close. This album has power and soul. Absolutely essential for hard rock fans, buy it in this very minute!
Skip it 
2009-07-27 - If you're a hardcore Dokken fan then i'll say pick it up. Other than that, average at best. I always thought these clown's were over rated, even back in the day.
Great songs
2009-04-16 - Dokken grew up with "Under Lock and Key" Their first 2 discs only hinted at what was to come on this album and then "Back for the Attack" Despite the really big hair and dynamite outfits on the cover, this is a great cd. The playing is great, the harmonies better than anything that had been done up until this point, and the songs are killer. To this day, songs like "In my Dreams" "It's not Love" and "Unchain the Night" stand up, not to mention stuff like "Lightning Strikes and "Jaded Heart" If you like melodic hard rock with killer guitar, this is a must have.
Running me in circles... 
2009-01-17 - Dokken's first release after their breakthrough was a decidedly more commercial affair, aimed at the top forty. 'Under Lock and Key' was not a disappointment when I purchased it some twenty odd years ago but I could sense that more people would hear about this band. MTV definitley seized on "In My Dreams" which seemed tailor made for the hair-metal revolution they were heavily promoting, soaring harmonies and power chords. "The Hunter", "It's Not Love" and lead track "Unchain the Night" would further cement Dokken's reputation for radio and chick friendly hard rock with a serious metal virtuoso in George Lynch and volitile personal animosity between Lynch and band leader Don Dokken. "Slippin' Away' is a failed attempt to recreate the magic of "Alone Again" while "Jaded Heart" was the much better example of the power ballad ("Slippin' is just too cheesy). For the real metal monster of the record, "Til the Living End" does the best to remind people that what made 'Tooth and Nail' the better record was that it was much more metal than 'Under'. I really like this record but I don't agree that it is Dokken's best...too many concessions to the pop crowd...not enough for the denim and leather one.
"George Lynch"
2008-08-06 - 'George Lynch'...That sums up Dokken's Success, what little there was....Dokken, back in the 80's was my favorite band, hands down.....only because of George Lynch....yeah, Don had the songwriting skills, but without George, "Dokken" would never have been "Dokken"....take note--back in his day, George didn't know how to read music and never took any guitar lessons, until later in the 80's, when he met Tony Macalpine.......then he took a few 'classical' lessons.... anyway, his sound was his own, with the pinch harmonics and the fast licks....but, what made it his own, was the fact that he didn't know how to read music and he played from heart and soul...not to mention his "nasally" guitar sound, which he later started losing when he left Dokken and started his own line of "Screamin' Demon" pickups with Seymour Duncan..... he's still, and always will be one of my favorite guitarists of all time......i just wish he would go back to what he does best...... shred it up, loud and nasally.....
I like all of their albums, but this one and "Back for the Attack" were my favorites.....i would put "tooth and Nail" right up there, but not above "ULAK" nor "BFTA"......
