Dreams (The Cranberries song)

Dreams (The Cranberries song)
"Dreams"
Single by The Cranberries
from the album Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?
Released

September 29, 1992 (original release)[1]

April 1994 (re-release)
Format CD, 7", 12"
Recorded 1992
Genre Alternative rock, dream pop
Length 4:15 (radio edit)
4:32 (album version)
Label Island
Writer(s) Dolores O'Riordan, Noel Hogan
Producer Stephen Street
The Cranberries singles chronology
- "Dreams"
(1992)
"Linger"
(1993)
Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? track listing
I Still Do
(1)
Dreams
(2)
Sunday
(3)
Audio sample
file info · help
Alternate covers
UK CD single (1994)
USA CD single (1994)

"Dreams" is the first single released by rock band The Cranberries. The song is taken from their 1993 debut album Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?

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.

Contents

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 Everyone 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-known, 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 7" single
  1. "Dreams"
  2. "What You Were"
UK 12" single / CD-single (1992)[2]
  1. "Dreams" - 4:15
  2. "What You Were" - 3:41
  3. "Liar" - 2:21
UK special edition 2-disk single (1994)

CD 1

  1. "Dreams" - 4:15
  2. "What You Were" - 3:41
  3. "Liar" - 2:21

CD 2[3]

  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
USA CD-single (1994)[4]
  1. "Dreams" - 4:32
  2. "What You Were" - 3:41
  3. "Waltzing Back" (Live at The Record Plant, Hollywood) - 4:02
  4. "Pretty" (Live at The Record Plant, Hollywood) - 2:09

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. It 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.[5]

"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.

Soundtracks

Movies

Television series

Charts

Chart (1994) Peak
position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart 30
Irish Singles Chart 9
UK Singles Chart 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

References


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