Dream Police - Cheap Trick

Dream Police is the title track from an album released in 1979 by Cheap Trick, a highly underrated American rock band. It is a very cleverly organised aural represenation of a nightmare. (That doesn't sound quite right; I know plenty of other songs that are aural nightmares, but they're not clever at all. The key word here is: organised.)

Dream Police is a feast of orchestration, integrating driving string lines with an intense rock sound. The lengthy solo sequence has a definite pattern if you listen closely before the ongoing nightmare resumes when the chorus come crashing in again. I've listened to that bridge over and over and over and was chuffed when I eventually clicked on the 2:1 phrasing. Once again, this is a song best enjoyed repeatedly and loud.