“Dreaming of Me” (translated from English - “Imagine about myself”) is a song of the British band Depeche Mode , their debut single [1] . Recorded at Blackwing Studios , released February 20, 1981 in the UK. There was no original commercial release in the United States [1] .
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| Single Depeche Mode | ||||
| Side “A” | "Dreaming of Me" | |||
| Side B | "Ice Machine" | |||
| Released | February 20, 1981 [1] | |||
| Format | 7 " CD | |||
| Recorded by | December 1980, Blackwing Studios | |||
| Genres | synth pop new wave | |||
| Duration | 4:03 (cold end) 3:46 (fade-out) | |||
| Producers | Depeche mode Daniel Miller | |||
| Songwriter | Vince clarke | |||
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| Mute records | MUTE 013 [1] | |||
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Content
- 1 About the song
- 2 Song Lists
- 3 notes
- 4 References
About the song
Two versions of the song were released - with a gradually fading end ( English fade-out ), and without this effect ( English cold end ). The “cold end” version is on the original 7 ”release and on the 1988 European Speak & Spell CD reissue, while the American version of Speak & Spell (like all singles containing this song) contains the“ fade-out ”version ". The 2006 edition of Speak & Spell (in all regions) also contains a cold end version.
Side “B” is occupied by the song “Ice Machine”, which is also presented in versions with and without attenuation. Reissues on the 1988 and 2006 CDs (in which this song was added as a bonus track) use the non-fading version. A live version of Ice Machine (recorded during the tour in support of Some Great Reward ) is available on version 12 of the 1984 single Blasphemous Rumours .
Due to the low charts (No. 57 in the UK Singles Chart [2] ), “Dreaming of Me” was not included in the track list of Speak & Spell [3] , but later appeared in the British re-release on CD as a bonus track [4] . In the American version of the album, the song “Dreaming of Me” replaced another, “I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead” [5] . In the 2006 edition of Speak & Spell , Dreaming of Me was inserted at the end of the track listing, after all the tracks in the original British version.
30 years after the single was released in the UK, a flash mob was held, the purpose of which was to promote "Dreaming of Me" back to the charts . The meaning of the action was to download the song online. The action was successful only in Germany [6] [7] .
Song Lists
The words and music of all the songs are written by Vince Clark .
| 7 " Mute / 7Mute13 | |||||||||
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| No. | Title | Duration | |||||||
| one. | "Dreaming of Me" | 4:03 | |||||||
| 2. | "Ice Machine" | 4:06 | |||||||
| CD [~ 1] Mute / CDMute13 | |||||||||
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| No. | Title | Duration | |||||||
| one. | "Dreaming of Me" | 3:46 | |||||||
| 2. | "Ice Machine" | 3:54 | |||||||
Notes
- Comments
- ↑ Released in 1991 as part of a boxing set , a collection of singles.
- Sources
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Dreaming Of Me Depeche Mode official website. Date of treatment November 7, 2013.
- ↑ DEPECHE MODE . Singles Official Charts Company . Date of treatment January 7, 2014.
- ↑ Depeche Mode - Speak & Spell (English) . Discogs Date of treatment November 13, 2013. (original release)
- ↑ Depeche Mode - Speak & Spell (English) . Discogs Date of treatment November 13, 2013. (1988 British Reprint)
- ↑ Depeche Mode - Speak & Spell (English) . Discogs Date of treatment November 13, 2013. (1981 American release)
- ↑ Depeche Mode: Fan-Flashmob hat Erfolg (German) (inaccessible link) . media-control.de (1. März 2011). Date of treatment November 13, 2013. Archived November 13, 2013.
- ↑ 11-09: The Lena-Charts . German Chartblog (March 2, 2011). Date of treatment November 13, 2013.
Links
- Information about the single and the lyrics on the official Depeche Mode website (English)