Dream Police

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This article is about the album by Cheap Trick. For the comic book series, see Dream Police (comics).

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Dream Police

Studio album by Cheap Trick
Released	October 1979
Recorded	1978
Genre	Rock
Length	45:45
Label	Epic Records
Producer(s)	Tom Werman
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Cheap Trick chronology
At Budokan (1978)	Dream Police (1979)	All Shook Up (1980)

Dream Police is a 1979 album by Cheap Trick. It was their fourth studio album. Sessions for the album were completed before the recording of their previous release, the live album At Budokan. At Budokan introduced Dream Police's centerpiece track, Tom Petersson's "Need Your Love."

The album's lead-off title track became a Top 20 hit for the band. It is regarded by many current musicians as a neglected masterpiece, a classic 70's epic marrying the superb production that had become available by then with Queen/Meatloafian melodrama, power-pop (then just emerging), Burroughsian lyrics, and the complexity of progressive rock, somehow managing to squeeze it into less than four minutes.

[edit] Track listing

"Dream Police" (Nielsen) – 3:54
"Way of the World" (Nielsen/Zander) – 3:36
"The House Is Rockin' (With Domestic Problems)" (Nielsen/Petersson) – 5:10
"Gonna Raise Hell" (Nielsen) – 9:21
"I'll Be With You Tonight" (Carlos/Nielsen/Petersson/Zander) – 3:52
"Voices" (Nielsen) – 4:21
"Writing on the Wall" (Nielsen) – 3:27
"I Know What I Want" (Nielsen) – 4:29
"Need Your Love" (Nielsen/Petersson) – 7:38

[edit] Personnel

Ken Adamany - Assistant
Mike Beriger - Engineer
Bun E. Carlos - Drums
Gary Ladinsky - Engineer
George Marino - Mastering
Reid Miles - Photography
Rick Nielsen - Guitar, Vocals, Mandocello
Tom Petersson - Bass, Vocals, Guitar (12 String), Guitar (8 String), 12-String Bass Guitar
Paula Scher - Design
Tom Werman - Producer
Jai Winding - Organ, Piano, Keyboards
Robin Zander - Guitar, Guitar (Rhythm), Vocals