Dysfunctional (Dokken album)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Dysfunctional

| type = studio

| artist = Dokken

| cover = DysDokken.jpg

| alt =

| released = May 23, 1995

| recorded = 1994–1995

| venue =

| studio = At 710 Studios and Total Access Recording, Redondo Beach, California

| genre = Hard rock

| length = 54:22

| label = Columbia

| producer = Don Dokken, Michael Wagener

| prev_title = The Best of Dokken

| prev_year = 1994

| next_title = One Live Night

| next_year = 1995

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/dysfunctional-mw0000173093 |title=Dokken – Dysfunctional review |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=August 19, 2015 }}

| rev2 =Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal

| rev2Score = 8/10{{cite book | last1 = Popoff | first1 = Martin | authorlink1 = Martin Popoff | title = The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties | publisher = Collector's Guide Publishing | date = August 1, 2007| page=125|isbn = 978-1-894959-62-9}}

| noprose=yes

}}

Dysfunctional is the fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Dokken, released in 1995. It was the band's first release after reuniting in 1993.

Originally intended to be a Don Dokken solo album, it morphed into a Dokken album when guitarist George Lynch was brought back into the fold, with Jeff Pilson and Mick Brown already on board. The original album was produced for the Japanese market and released there in December 1994 on JVC/Victor, simply titled Dokken.[https://www.discogs.com/Dokken-Dokken/release/7825673 Dokken – Dokken (1994)]. discogs.com. Retrieved August 7, 2020. When Sony Music signed the band to the label internationally, the album was remixed and three additional songs recorded, "Hole In My Head", a cover of Emerson, Lake & Palmer's "From the Beginning", and "If the Good Die Young" (the bonus track on the Japanese version). This last song is a heavily re-worked new version of the song "Snake Eyes",{{cn|date=February 2021|reason=these sound nothing alike other than the tempo}} which Jeff Pilson had recorded with his post-Dokken band, Flesh & Blood (eventually re-named War & Peace). "Snake Eyes" was finally released as part of the War & Peace – The Flesh and Blood Sessions album in 1999.

Although Dysfunctional entered the chart respectably at No. 47 at a time when 1980s hard rock and heavy metal had largely declined, sales quickly dropped off and were not enough to reach gold RIAA certification. In a later interview, Don Dokken claimed that the album had sold 400,000 copies .{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/dysfunctional-mw0000173093/awards |title=Dysfunctional Billboard Albums |work=AllMusic |publisher=All Media Network |accessdate=August 19, 2015 }}[http://www.bravewords.com/news/162270 Don Dokken – "There Was A Lot Of Talk About A DOKKEN Reunion; I Tried My Best To Make It Happen..."]. bravewords.com. Retrieved August 21, 2012.

The song "Too High to Fly" was released as a promo single from the album and was a minor hit.{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/dysfunctional-mw0000173093/awards |title=Dysfunctional Billboard Singles |publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=August 19, 2015 }} It is one of the post 80s Dokken songs that is played live on a consistent basis.