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"Dreams"
Song
B-side"What You Were", "Liar"

"Dreams" is the first single released by rock band The Cranberries in 1992. The song later appeared on their 1993 debut album Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?. An early 1990 version was released in Ireland only in the summer of that year.

The promotional single reached the Top 15 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Airplay and the top 30 on the U.K. charts in early 1994.

The backing vocals on the song are sung by Mike Mahoney, ex-boyfriend of Cranberries lead singer Dolores O'Riordan. This hit was also a main feature of the Cranberries in the 1994 Woodstock Revival Festival.

Music video

There are three versions of the video. The first version of the music video features Dolores O'Riordan donning her original hairstyle that is seen on the Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? album cover. The video revolves around O'Riordan with the other band members flashing up throughout the video while she's sitting on in a chair with a cross as a back or a close up of her face and eyes. The video shows a mirrored image of O'Riordan to show she does the background vocals and towards the end the band members fade in and out constantly in front of O'Riordan.

The second version shows the Cranberries performing the song in a dimly lit aquatic-themed room interspersed with shots of geometric flowers hitting water.

The third version, which was most commonly shown in America, shows the Cranberries performing the song in a nightclub. After which, Dolores O'Riordan heads out to a house where graverobbers dressed in black have placed in a very large tree pile. Dolores bathes the tree pile in water and a man is buried under the pile. The water frees him and in the final seconds of the video, the man wakes up.

Track listings

UK and European 12" Single/CD Single (1992)[1]
  1. "Dreams" (Radio Edit) - 4:15
  2. "What You Were" (Previously Unreleased) - 3:41
  3. "Liar" (Previously Unreleased) - 2:22
"What You Were" is written by Dolores O'Riordan. "Liar" is written by Dolores O'Riordan and Noel Hogan. "Liar" was later featured in the 1995 film Empire Records.
UK and European 7" Single[2]
  1. "Dreams" (Album Version) - 4:32
  2. "What You Were" (Previously Unreleased) - 3:41
UK and European Special Edition 2-Disk CD Single (1994)
CD 1[3]
  1. "Dreams" (Radio Edit) - 4:15
  2. "What You Were" (Previously Unreleased) - 3:41
  3. "Liar" (Previously Unreleased) - 2:22
CD 2[4]
  1. "Not Sorry" (Live at The Record Plant, Hollywood) - 4:37
  2. "Wanted" (Live at The Record Plant, Hollywood) - 2:00
  3. "Dreams" (Live at The Record Plant, Hollywood) - 4:10
  4. "Liar" (Live at The Record Plant, Hollywood) - 3:17
US CD Single[5]
  1. "Dreams" (Album Version) - 4:32
  2. "What You Were" (Previously Unreleased) - 3:41
  3. "Waltzing Back" (Live at The Record Plant, Hollywood) - 4:02
  4. "Pretty" (Live at The Record Plant, Hollywood) - 2:09
2-Track CD Single[6]
  1. "Dreams" (Album Version) - 4:32
  2. "Linger" (Album Version) - 4:34

Covers

A Cantonese cover of the song, "Dream Lover", with backing vocals by herself, was a hit single for Chinese singer Faye Wong, included in her 1994 album Random Thoughts. It was later recorded in Mandarin on Sky. The Cantonese version was featured prominently in director Wong Kar-wai's critically acclaimed film Chungking Express, in which Faye Wong co-starred. Her cover versions are still played frequently in Chinese media.[7]

"Dreams" was also covered by Dario G in their song Dream to Me.

Passion Pit played a cover of this song at the 2010 Big Day Out festival across Australia, and is featured as a bonus-track on the re-released version of their first studio album, Manners.

It was covered by Japanese pop singer Mami Kawada for her 2010 album LINKAGE.

Bella Ferraro performed the song on X Factor Australia in 2012, that week the song re-entered the ARIA Charts just missing the top 50 at No.51

Appearances in other media

In the 1998 Blockbuster You've Got Mail and in the 2011 independent film Sound of My Voice, the character of cult leader Maggie, played by Brit Marling, a self-professed time traveller from the future, sings this song to her prospective cult members when asked about music from her time, claiming the song was sung by an artist named "Bennetteau." The recognizability of this song among various prospective cult members as being a popular track by the Cranberries from 1993 sows doubt among many of them, and the film's audience, as to the veracity of her claim.

The song was often referenced on the Opie and Anthony show, particularly during Patrice Oneal's appearances.

Poppy (played by Holli Dempsey and Jodhi May) is heard listening to it in both 1996 and 2013 in ITV drama The Ice Cream Girls.

Soundtracks

Movies

Television series

Charts

Chart (1993-94) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[12] 30
Canada Top Singles (RPM) 27
Ireland (IRMA)[13] 9
UK Singles (The Official Charts Company) 27
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 42
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Airplay 14
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles Recurrents 14
U.S. Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks 15
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream 33

References

  1. ^ Discogs, Dreams UK & Europe 12"/CD (1992). CID 548/864 437-2, 12IS 548/864 437-1.
  2. ^ Discogs, Dreams UK & Europe 7" (1992). IS 548/864 436-7.
  3. ^ Discogs, Dreams UK & Europe CD1 (1994). IS 594/864 436-7.
  4. ^ Discogs, Dreams UK & Europe CD2 (1994). CIDX 594/854 009-2.
  5. ^ Discogs, Dreams US CD (1994). 422-858 487-2.
  6. ^ Amazon, Dreams/Linger (Single, Import), October 1994. Universal/Polygram.
  7. ^ An encore for Faye Wong, China Daily, December 11, 2009
  8. ^ MSCL.com.
  9. ^ Musiques Being Erica
  10. ^ [1]
  11. ^ [2]
  12. ^ "The Cranberries – Dreams". ARIA Top 50 Singles.
  13. ^ "Irish Singles Chart – Search for song". Irish Recorded Music Association. Retrieved July 6, 2011.
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