{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2024}} {{For|the Lou Christie song|Lightnin' Strikes}} {{More citations needed|date=November 2010}} {{Infobox album | name = Lightning Strikes Again | type = studio | artist = Dokken | cover = Dokken - Lightning Strikes Again.jpg | alt = | released = April 8, 2008 | recorded = 2007 | venue = | studio = Chop Shop, Hollywood and Total Access Recording, Redondo Beach, California | genre = Hard rock, heavy metal | length = 54:44 | label = Rhino <small>(US)</small><br />Frontiers <small>(Europe)</small><br />King <small>(Japan)</small> | producer = Don Dokken, Tim David Kelly<ref>{{cite web|title=Lightning Strikes Again Credits|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/lightning-strikes-again-r1211856/credits| work=AllMusic |publisher=All Media Network |accessdate=June 24, 2011}}</ref> | prev_title = From Conception: Live 1981 | prev_year = 2007 | next_title = Greatest Hits | next_year = 2010 }} {{Album ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/lightning-strikes-again-mw0000785710/releases |title=Dokken – Lightning Strikes Again review |last=Prato |first=Greg |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=October 17, 2015 |archive-date=January 22, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160122071719/http://www.allmusic.com/album/lightning-strikes-again-mw0000785710/releases |url-status=live }}</ref> | rev2 = ''Imperiumi'' | rev2Score = (Unrated)<ref name="Levyarviot: Dokken – Lightning Strikes Again">{{cite web|url=http://www.imperiumi.net/index.php?act=albums&id=7510|publisher=Imperiumi|author=Mika Penttinen|title=Levyarviot: Dokken – Lightning Strikes Again|date=May 4, 2008|accessdate=October 7, 2012|language=Finnish|archive-date=May 14, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514202839/http://www.imperiumi.net/index.php?act=albums&id=7510|url-status=live}}</ref> | noprose=yes }}
'''''Lightning Strikes Again''''' is the tenth studio album by the American heavy metal band Dokken. It was originally scheduled for release on October 24, 2007, in Japan and on October 29 worldwide, but was postponed until 2008. The album was eventually released in the UK on April 8, 2008, and in the US on May 13.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.popmatters.com/dokken-lightning-strikes-again-2496148481.html |title=Dokken: Lightning Strikes Again |work=PopMatters |date=June 10, 2008 |accessdate=July 28, 2019 |author=Begrand, Adrien}}</ref><ref name="Release Date">{{cite web | title = LSA release dates: LSA release dates | url = http://www.cdinzane.com/Catalog.cfm?Action=RunSearch&SearchType=SearchKeyword&SearchText=dokken&StartRow=11 | accessdate = February 4, 2008 | archive-date = December 5, 2024 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20241205104939/http://www.cdinzane.com/Catalog.cfm?Action=RunSearch&SearchType=SearchKeyword&SearchText=dokken&StartRow=11 | url-status = dead }}</ref> The album entered the Billboard Top 200 at No. 133, the band's best chart performance since 2004.<ref name="LSA Billboard position">{{cite web | title = LSA Billboard position: LSA Billboard position | url = {{BillboardURLbyName|artist=dokken|chart=all}} | accessdate = May 28, 2008}}</ref> It received some of the best reviews since the band's classic era in the 1980s. The album title comes from a track from their 1985 album ''Under Lock and Key''. The album is also the last to feature bassist Barry Sparks and drummer Mick Brown.
==Track listing== {{track listing | all_writing = Don Dokken and Jon Levin, except where noted | title1 = Standing on the Outside | length1 = 3:52 | title2 = Give Me a Reason | length2 = 3:50 | title3 = Heart to Stone | length3 = 3:56 | title4 = Disease | writer4 = Mick Brown, Dokken | length4 = 3:30 | title5 = How I Miss Your Smile | writer5 = Dokken | length5 = 4:01 | title6 = Oasis | length6 = 3:40 | title7 = Point of No Return | length7 = 4:23 | title8 = I Remember | writer8 = Dokken | length8 = 4:48 | title9 = Judgement Day | length9 = 4:02 | title10 = It Means | length10 = 4:42 | title11 = Release Me | length11 = 5:45 | title12 = This Fire | length12 = 4:42 }} {{track listing | headline = European edition bonus track | title13 = Sunset Superstar | writer13 = Dokken, Levin, Brown | length13 = 3:38 }} {{track listing | headline = Japanese edition bonus track | title13 = Leave Me Alone | length13 = 4:18 }}
==Personnel== ===Dokken=== *Don Dokken – vocals, producer *Jon Levin – lead and rhythm guitars *Barry Sparks – bass guitar *Mick Brown – drums
===Production=== *Tim David Kelly – co-producer, engineer *Wyn Davis – engineer, mixing, mastering, keyboards on "How I Miss Your Smile" *Chris Baseford, Mike Sutherland, Mike Lesniak, Mike Sheraton – engineers
==Charts== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |- ! Chart (2008) ! Peak<br />position |- !scope="row"| US ''Billboard'' 200<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/dokken/chart-history/billboard-200|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180509053546/https://www.billboard.com/music/dokken/chart-history/billboard-200|title=Dokken – Chart history – Billboard|magazine=Billboard|archive-date=May 9, 2018|access-date=April 15, 2021}}</ref> | {{center|133}} |- !scope="row"| US Hard Rock Albums<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/artist/301073/dokken/chart?f=795|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141011060528/http://www.billboard.com/artist/301073/dokken/chart?f=795|title=Dokken – Chart history – Billboard|magazine=Billboard|archive-date=October 11, 2014|access-date=April 15, 2021}}</ref> | {{center|18}} |- !scope="row"| US Independent Albums<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/artist/301073/dokken/chart?f=326|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028062701/http://www.billboard.com/artist/301073/dokken/chart?f=326|title=Dokken – Chart history – Billboard|magazine=Billboard|archive-date=October 28, 2014|access-date=April 15, 2021}}</ref> | {{center|39}} |}
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