Song · Dokken
“Dream Warriors” by Dokken
From the album Back for the Attack (1987)
“Dream Warriors” by Dokken appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1990. It was first released in 1987 on the album Back for the Attack. Its best result is #186 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,181 hard rock song of all time.
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George Lynch and Jeff Pilson wrote "Dream Warriors" for A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, and Dokken parked it as the closing track on their fourth album, Back for the Attack, in 1987. Don Dokken sings lead, Lynch plays guitar, Pilson plays bass and Mick Brown drums, with Pilson and Brown stacking the backing vocals; Neil Kernon produced and engineered it.
The single reached 22 on the Mainstream Rock chart, and in 2015 a Louder writer counted it among the greatest hair-metal anthems ever. The video is pure drive-in fun: film clips of Patricia Arquette and Robert Englund's Freddy Krueger, plus fresh footage of the band rescuing Arquette's Kristen and running Freddy off with the power of rock 'n' roll, until Freddy wakes up screaming and the whole thing turns out to be his nightmare.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 186 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
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