Singles Discography

Dream On

Charts

UK (6) US (85) Germany (1)

Notes

I had this dream…

…That I was eagerly awaiting a new DM album in the coming year. Then I finished this site just in time for New Year's Day 2001. I was even giddier because of the massive traffic and server crashes that ensued. Despite the technical difficulties, I was quite giddy about things. I remember then picking up the new single with the yellow and orange coloured agave plant Anton put on the cover. Then I played the CD, and the nightmare begins.

"Is that it?", I wondered. It sounds like they added some benign drum programming to the acoustic version of Personal Jesus and let it take flight from there. Letdown, I was telling myself, "Self, it's not that bad. That's why they make remixes." Taking comfort in that fact, I listened further to the mixes by a couple of blokes I never heard of called Dave Clarke and Bushwacka. Boring, Lame, Uninspired, and Unlistenable were the four opinions I had. Still in denial, I kept listening and listening, hoping there was something cool I missed, but it was no use. It finally happened, DM released a crappy single after releasing 34 good ones in a row. It didn't stop there. I remember in my dream that the band hired Stephane Sedanoui to direct their video for it and that he was filming it on Route 66. In theory I thought, it can't get much better than that. Stephane had created a string of vivid, memorable videos up to this point, most notably the video for Red Hot Chili Peppers' Give It Away. I was encouraged that the band decided to take their videos to a different direction and given the previous video, they couldn't do worse, right? Wrong again!?!? Despite the ingriedients, Stephane managed to film a multicoloured, disjointed, four minute boredom fest that you see today. Route 66 never looked more miserable.

The nightmare would only subside long after the Exciter campaign after listening to a promo only 12" featuring mixes by Morel aka Pink Noise. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

Despite it being #1 in Germany and being a relatively successful record in Europe, this is one in a string of the five worst DM single releases. Aside from the promo-only Pink Noise mixes, I have nothing nice to say about any of the mixes released for this song, especially the one they made for its B-Side, Easy Tiger. If you want to listen to a DM track that sounds nothing like DM (and not in a good way), look no further than the Bertrand Burgalat & A.S Dragon Version. Nor was it nice of the band to release said Pink Noise mixes as promo-only. They got away with it during the "It's No Good" campaign but not this time. BONG 30 started a terrible trend of saving their best mixes for promotional only releases. Needless to say, the releases during this period paid the price. The dream/nightmare continues…

US Releases

	Reprise 7" Single 7-16732 Dream On I Feel Loved Notes: Jukebox 7" with no picture sleeve.
	Reprise Double 12" Single 44982-0 Dream On (Bushwacka Tough Guy Mix) Dream On (Dave Clarke Acoustic Version) Dream On (Dave Clarke Club Mix) Dream On (Kid 606 Mix) Dream On (Bushwacka Blunt Mix) Dream On (Octagon Man Mix) Dream On (Bushwacka Tough Guy Dub) Easy Tiger (Bertrand Burgalat & A.S Dragon Version)
	Mute/Reprise 5" CD Single 2-44982 Dream On (Single Version) Easy Tiger (Bertrand Burgalat & A.S Dragon Version) Dream On (Bushwacka Tough Guy Mix) Dream On (Bushwacka Blunt Mix) Dream On (Dave Clarke Club Mix)
	Reprise Double Promo 12" Single PRO-A-100562 Dream On (Morel's Pink Noise Club Mix) Dream On (Dave Clarke Club Mix) Dream On (Bushwacka Tough Guy Mix) Dream On (Dave Clarke Acoustic Version) Dream On (Morel's Pink Noise Dub) Dream On (Bushwacka Tough Guy Dub) Dream On (Bushwacka Blunt Mix) Dream On (Kid 606 Mix)
	Reprise Promo 5" CD Single PRO-CD-100562 Dream On (Single Version) Dream On (Album Version)
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UK Releases

	Mute 12" Single 12 BONG 30 Dream On (Bushwacka Tough Guy Mix) Dream On (Dave Clarke Club Mix) Dream On (Bushwacka Blunt Mix)
	Mute 5" CD Single CD BONG 30 Dream On (Single Version) Easy Tiger (Full Version) Easy Tiger (Bertrand Burgalat & A.S Dragon Version)
	Mute Limited Edition 5" CD Single LCD BONG 30 *Dream On (Bushwacka Tough Guy Mix) Dream On (Dave Clarke Acoustic Version) Dream On (Octagon Man Mix) Dream On (Kid 606 Mix) Notes: *This is an edit of the Tough Guy Mix, about 90 seconds shorter than the full version.
	Mute Promo 5" CD Single RCD BONG 30 Dream On (Single Version) Dream On (Bushwacka Tough Guy Edit)
	Mute Promo 12" Single P12 BONG 30 Dream On (Bushwacka Tough Guy Mix) Dream On (Bushwacka Tough Guy Dub)
	Mute Promo 12" Single PL12 BONG 30 Dream On (Dave Clarke Club Mix) Dream On (Bushwacka Blunt Mix)
	Mute Promo 12" Single PXL12 BONG 30 Dream On (Octagon Man Mix) Dream On (Octagon Man Dub) Dream On (Dave Clarke Acoustic Version) Dream On (Kid 606 Mix)
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