Thank Fachtna it’s Friday.
You know the drill by now. It’s a voucher-free music nerd knees-up. And all in the best possible taste.
This week, I want to know: What’s your favourite song whose title or lyrics mention dreams or dreaming.
Here’s mine.
Lines MUST close on Saturday at Midday.
Please include video link if possible.
Nick says: Good luck!
Meanwhile…
Horslips – The Man Who Built America
Last week, I asked you to name your favourite song whose title or lyrics refer to metals.
Reader Eamonn won my esteem with this Irish prog banger:
“All about America right now. Golden Nails, Silver Bars. Only had to hear it once, never forgot it. Never had the excuse to post about it on the interwebs though.”
Nick says: Well done, Eamonn and thanks all.
Last week: Win Nick’s Esteem
Top pic: Plugd records, Cork
Eamonn wins; could be Eamonn Carr ya know!
Has to be John Lennon – #9 Dream
Beautiful changes in it. Yoko thinks it’s his most accomplished.
https://youtu.be/hIRW6UZIJ2w
Agree with Yoko
American country gets a bad rap, much of it WELL deserved.
But I’ve always had a soft-spot for some of the older crew.
Waylon Jenning’s version of Dreaming my Dreams is up there with Marianne Faithfull’s.
No better man than Hoss to carry the understated ballad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI_OcW9wxGk
Nice one, Paulus. I was just about to post it. Waylon puts the likes of Garth Brooks in the ha’penny place. His is the only version of this for me. Such a beautiful song, such a chocolate voice.
Couldn’t agree more. Waylon dreaming his dreams is epic.
loved it,back on the beam,thanks for that.
Yes it’s absolutely excellent
Just listened to it recently
gabrielle. dreams. mazin.
‘Nice Dream’ from ze Radiohead
https://youtu.be/2vHByVGhmcc
cant go wrong there.
https://youtu.be/RCG7qJAP7Qk
UNKLE feat. Thom Yorke – Rabbit In Your Headlights
The chap on a skateboard gave it a kind of rebirth, but it’s always been a stone cold classic
Fleetwood Mac and Dreams
https://youtu.be/mrZRURcb1cM
It wouldn’t be fair not to give this a run out, just for the sheer pleasure of hearing it again.
Kate Bush and Army Dreamers. https://youtu.be/QOZDKlpybZE
First one that popped into my head when I saw the theme, Gabrielle, Dreams can come true.
https://youtu.be/G5QPirQITZI
Thanks Nick, much appreciated.
How about
The Small Faces itchycoo Park.
https://youtu.be/UjNy2aMUJ5s
dreaming spires and all that..
Excellent choice
Rag n Bone Man
Fireflies
https://youtu.be/VcozztCN7L0
Tears for Dreams
fireflies
I just noticed I am hearing different lyrics than i read on screen just then.
So many Metal songs about Ctulthu “dead but dreaming”
But today I shall go for Metallicas latest album track “Dream no more”
45 mins into this live concert
https://youtu.be/85oEUVqgefU
“Sanity taken
Seething damnation
Cthulhu, awaken
(Wake) Winged salvation
Death by creation
Cthulhu, awaken
(Wake) Dreaming no more”
Lee Scratch Perry – gone but not gone, probably knows where Elvis is too?
https://youtu.be/lHwyxBdmdq4
Kill Them Dreams Money Worshippers
https://youtu.be/h7j8wa9sWOE
Doris Day, Dream a little dream of me, a spell caster of an oldie
cause I’m an auld romantic at heart
Winner. Love Doris Day. What a voice.
Beautiful song
https://youtu.be/KknDZLFL8_o
Feist, Lost dreams,
not my favorite tune by this band but I went through a Feist phase that was the back drop to star filled nights rocking on a little boat at sea, most chilled ever.
Love Leslie Feist so I do…
Daydream in Blue from I Monster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6_hzqae2tw
Or better known in Ireland as MacAteers Dream.
Carlsberg ad directed by Lenny Abrahamson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV-WiHZU54Q
Aaaah Daydream in Blue
Love this tune.
Kicking myself I didn’t think of it
These guys like magpies borrowing from Pharoah Sanders, John Lennon.
Galliano – Prince of Peace
https://youtu.be/9tk9kESnbNk
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QXt723fN1ss
The coral, dreaming of you
the 80’s had rakes of songs about dreams….good, bad, broken, shattered….pick a verb/noun and add…but my favourite one had this chorus:
And I find it kind of funny I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had
I find it hard to tell you I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it’s a very, very mad world
the song isn’t about suicide as was oft interpreted – it was based on some psychologist lad’s theory that the more dramatic the dream the bigger release of tension or somesuch…anyway that’s my pick
Tears for Fears – Mad World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEpfvTdR5-U
(nice acoustic Curt Smith and his daughter during the lockdown)
Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream
https://youtu.be/kbdF4hBfQiE
One of my favourites, from my all time favourite album
Fleetwood Mac’s,Mick Fleetwood on Dreams coming through.
https://youtu.be/wi3GBf3-npc
These lads seem to really like dreams.
Massive attack
Daydreaming
https://youtu.be/JG9CXQxhfL4
Dream on, Risingson
https://youtu.be/85E9Q5Wx210
Teardrop has dreams on fire
https://youtu.be/u7K72X4eo_s
From one of my favourite albums ever recorded, Only In Dreams from Weezer’s Weezer (Blue Album)
https://youtu.be/4spkVX8z-vs
For me it’s got to be Dreams by the Cranberries
https://youtu.be/Yam5uK6e-bQ
I’ve been listening to them a lot lately and it’s given me a whole new appreciation for Dolores. She had such talent. What a voice. Silvery high notes to a depth of feeling in a breath. It had to be this song, for me.
that takes me back, there was a German exchange student I was a little bit in love with as a young thing, we used to listen to the cranberries together when we weren’t taking long walks on the beach ;)
Great post
Yes I also rediscovered her as a great voice and an authentic artist Millie
Blondie – Dreaming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU3-lS_Gryk
…..dreaming is free
Probably doesn’t de link but I’ll nominate Counting Crows’ Angels of the Silences.
It was getting a lot of air-time when it came out and was unfortuantely the punchiest track we’d ever hear from the band that I thought, until comically recently, was fronted by an Afro-American.
https://youtu.be/OO3kWNHyZOE
Bill Callahan:
eid ma clack shaw
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_xOWjELJwv0
thanks for this Liamo
Roy Orbison – In Dreams
Bonus marks for soundtracking the nightmarish ‘Beer at Ben’s’ scene in Blue Velvet in which a ‘fkn suave’ Ben played by Dean Stockwell serenades Frank Booth played by Dennis Hopper.
https://youtu.be/xtjiVTSs8pc
Hahah you beat me to it
…blowing the macintosh amp up at Johnny’s.
a dream.
the south gotta change from last year.
acoustic version.
i had a dream-Adia Victoria – South Gotta Change
https://youtu.be/m0EaXttz_00
official video.
https://youtu.be/XEm0qOxhGxo
hot hazy lazy afternoon music,perfect for day dreams.
Arab Strap – Dream Sequence
https://youtu.be/UR9JfNl-GUg
an all time favorite, so sexy Madame Reve by Alain Bashung, I once had this dedicated to me on the radio…blush, fond memories https://youtu.be/4Fkqf34loWk
“dreaming of Maria Callas, whoever she is…”
REM – E-Bow the Letter
Patti Smith performs backing vocals in a song written for River Phoenix
https://youtu.be/5cnIQHJ169s
“Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true
Or is it something worse…”
Bruce Springsteen – The River
https://youtu.be/DAs_Wr7kJ1Y
Well
Enter Sandman, obviously :)
https://youtu.be/CD-E-LDc384
For fans of Raymond Carver’s sparse tales of life lived in quiet desperation.
Damien Jurado – Bad Dreams
https://youtu.be/G9Mo54C4FgM
…thanks,really enjoyed that,had not heard it,just getting ready go out,alone in the country,very haunting and beautiful…eerie almost,oh my no,no i smoked too much again,great track.
He’s a brilliant narrative song writer and very prolific.
Well this is a timely comp….
My current favourite song about dreams is ‘Silent Lucidity’ by Queensryche… a track that just happens to have been played in the closing scene to Nine Perfect Strangers a few minutes ago (for me). Crackin’ show, and a wholly and utterly brilliant choice of music to close the show with.
Opening verse…
“Hush now, don’t you cry
Wipe away the teardrop from your eye
You’re lying safe in bed
It was all a bad dream spinning in your head
Your mind tricked you to feel the pain
Of someone close to you leaving the game of life
So here it is, another chance
Wide awake you face the day
Your dream is over
Or has it just begun?”
The track… https://youtu.be/jhat-xUQ6dw
“Last night as I lay dreaming of pleasant days gone by
Me mind being bent on rambling, to Ireland I did fly
I stepped on board a vision, and I followed with a will
‘Til next I came to anchor at the cross at Spancil Hill”
Shane MacGowan & Christy Moore – Spancil Hill
https://youtu.be/aqlLJXYtRWg
Otis Redding, ‘dreams to remember’
https://youtu.be/i2RGu1v5388
Cos when Otis sings, there’s not a dry knicker in the house.
The Dream Syndicate – Kendra’s Dream
https://youtu.be/KvVLSNnEVm4
Have been hearing this around the house recently.
Juice WRLD – Lucid Dreams
https://youtu.be/mzB1VGEGcSU
mmmmf… Bedrock’s ‘For what you dream of’ brought to life in Trainspotting but listen to it in it’s full glory, all 10 mins 44 of it via the Full on Renaissance mix https://youtu.be/RazvzLL5ZH0
Eraserhead – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
https://youtu.be/W_ENyUs_RjY
Possibly, possibly one of the best titles for a book, ever, put to a tune by Belgian thumpers Eraserhead. These boys hoovered up their American cult classics.
From the last of Pixies “original” albums, Trompe Le Monde – hard to believe it’s nearly 30 years old.
Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons
https://youtu.be/2nM-Xx4faZI
Memories of Slane 95…
REM – I Don’t Sleep I Dream
https://youtu.be/JBoEodVRDlE
Seemone – Dans mes rêves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XweIHHHiua0
Buffy Sainte-Marie – Goodnight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNGIiGplXdw
One of my all-time favourite bands, Crowded House, Don’t dream it’s over
https://youtu.be/J9gKyRmic20
And no dreams playlist would be complete without Eurythmics, Sweet Dreams:
https://youtu.be/qeMFqkcPYcg
Especially for Janet
I have a dream – ABBA
https://youtu.be/_HMjOiHqE18
Even I can’t bear that one.
writes note in little black book….dumdum dun
Hahahaha well done both
You can face the future
Even if you fail
“I beliieeeve in angels.
Something good in everything I see.”
Eh Janet?
evil evil earworms
Needs more plaintive screeching
Dokken. Dream Warriors. 80’s Hair Metal.
https://youtu.be/noLPhZvcBpw
Anyone up for some classic ‘60’s West Coast psychedelia?
The Electric Prunes – I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night
https://youtu.be/IeVnbAfcwv8
Cool Track. I have a version of Lemmy singing that somewhere. With Sam Gopal maybe?
“All in a Dream…”
Radiohead tackle Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush
https://youtu.be/8xAIAubOPtg
This was the first thing that came to mind for me
https://youtu.be/xZKuzwPOefs
Party on Wayne! Party on Garth!
Max Romeo – wet dream.
https://youtu.be/AlEVmegsuR0
a story about a man with a leaky roof,despite what you may first think
skanking on a saturday
Also, I’m surprised nobody thought of this one…
Bobby Darin – Dream Lover
https://youtu.be/QzkECdHu1dQ
kicks oneself
Here’s another fairly excellent obvious one
The King himself, If I can dream
https://youtu.be/OhUDyBwJhto
kicks dream lover
Ooh. Ooh, here’s another missed one.
John Cougar Mellencamp. American dream
https://youtu.be/8UFtwjjz3zs
no one left to kick
Another classic that somehow got missed
The Everly Brothers – All I have to do is dream
https://youtu.be/JqRwJTOgmoU
I was humming that trying to remember it! Good call.
Since no one has mentioned it – Mamas & Papas, California Dreamin’
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N-aK6JnyFmk&vl=en
Can I say, Nick and the lads, this was a good one. Well done.
Next week, colours.
amp fiddler – dreamin
https://youtu.be/qaEfEbKECRo
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers – Runnin’ Down A Dream
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1D3a5eDJIs
…I’m still dreaming off a new…
Kate Nash And Billy Bragg – A New England/Foundations – NME.
https://youtu.be/a2-5gv81cC0
Kirsty did version of new england, here she is with tread lightly
https://youtu.be/cCHvPVni4B8
Sweet dreams.