Dream Police

Studio album by Cheap Trick

Released

September 21, 1979

Recorded

Record Plant, Los Angeles, 1978–1979

Genre

Rock, hard rock, power pop

Length

45:45

Cheap Trick chronology

Cheap Trick at Budokan
(1978)

Dream Police
(1979)

All Shook Up
(1980)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Robert Christgau	B−
Rolling Stone	(mixed)
The Rolling Stone Album Guide
Smash Hits	(mixed)

Dream Police is the fourth studio album by American rock band Cheap Trick. It was released in 1979, and was their third release in a row produced by Tom Werman. It is the band's most commercially successful studio album, going to No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart and being certified platinum within a few months of its release.

Dream Police shows the band expanding into longer, more complex songs and incorporating orchestration on several tracks. Three videos were produced: "Dream Police", "Way of the World" and "Voices".

The album's title track became a Top 30 hit for the band. "Voices" was also a hit for the band, reaching No. 32 on the Billboard chart. "Voices" has been used twice in the soundtrack of the American sitcom How I Met Your Mother.

Near the end of "Gonna Raise Hell" the orchestra is citing a snippet from "Heaven Tonight". That song was described by Allmusic critic Tom Maginnis as having an "extended, disco-inflected, slowburn groove".

In 2010, Cheap Trick re-recorded the title track as "Green Police" for the controversial Green Police advertisement which aired during Super Bowl XLIV for Audi.

All songs written by Rick Nielsen, except where noted.

The bonus tracks of the 2006 reissue of Dream Police consisted mainly of rare live versions of songs from the album. "I Know What I Want" is noteworthy for being the b-side to their 1988 single "Don't Be Cruel" and the only non-live track is a demo of the title track without its trademark strings.

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