Dream World - my personal favorite "disc"overy

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kitty-cat - 06.11.2006, 14:24

I like Dream World, and yes i definately can here the 'Does Your Mother Know' part, its definately not one of their best songs, but the haromnies are lovely on it. I dont think it was available as bootleg before it appeared on the box set. I hadnt heard of it thats for sure.


Gill xx

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j-a-n - 06.11.2006, 21:40

hi there,

dreamworld was available as a bootleg before its official release, but with a real beginning, not faded in. itŽs not one of my favourites.

cu

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HGN2001 - 07.11.2006, 02:51

aggie-fan wrote:
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hi, well the first time i have heard dream world was about 2 months ago. i finally bought the cds " thank you for the music" i finally desided to spend the $120.00 for it.. and i love this song. great vocals on it also.
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Wow. That's expensive. I bought THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC here in the US for about $25 US Dollars, but it was a used set.

Harry

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Carribean - 07.11.2006, 04:00

I actually heard Dream World on the radio the day before the boxset was released late 1994. I too could not believe that I was actually hearing an ABBA song I had never heard before.

The song is nice but it is not a favorite although it is funny to hear the part that ended up in Does Your Mother Know.

Dream World was played by Michael Tretow on Swedish radio in 1986 and that is how it ended up on bootlegs.

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Anonymous - 07.11.2006, 09:48

I agree that the price aggie-fan paid for the Thank You For The Music box set is high. When it was released, I think the price was about $50 US.

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andy2k4 - 07.11.2006, 12:36

So how did it originally start, without the fade in? what did that go like?

Dream world was / is my favourite ABBA unreleased track. I think it is great, and could have been included on the V V album had the DYMK part been altered slightly.

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andy2k4 - 07.11.2006, 13:25

Yes, Happy Hawaii does sound like why did it have to be me, but I think that was the idea. Different takes on the same melody. That is why HH was never an actual album track.

But I meant that dream world could have been included as an album track in its own right. No B side, No bonus track. For that to happen, the DYMK part would have to be altered. To me, that is the weakest part of dream world anyway. Perhaps they could have used some of the melody from rubber ball man to complete the track?

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abbascots - 07.11.2006, 13:49

Hi I realy like this song also
Regards johnsteven :D

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Bobbysbrother - 08.11.2006, 09:27

Hi!

A] When did you first hear the "Dream World" track? Was it really "new" on the box set or had it circled fandom for years as a bootleg?

I first listened to this track, all shiny and "new", from the box set... Never saw a bootleg featuring this or other unreleased songs before.

[B] How did you react upon hearing "Dream World" for the first time?

My reaction was pretty good actually! What I liked in this song was basically its energy, that "compact" solid sound...its just very high and powerful: the confident Agnethas singing, the loud Fridas backing "pa pa pa pa"s, strong guitars and that ending jolly merry-go-round of synths.
The lyrics are a quite a "discouraging" actually, bitter and so in contrast with the uplifting music mood by the way... All in all this certainly is one of my favourite unreleased ABBA songs.

[C] How has the track been generally received by the ABBA community of fans?

Apart the personal likes and dislikes about the song, I guess we can say that any unreleased abba song, once officially published in 1994, had received enthusiastic responses from ABBA fans. Discovering these shiny, "new" sparkling recordings was a big surprise anyway!

[D] Does the song make you think of "Does Your Mother Know" since it's claimed that the bridge was lifted for that song?

Of course the reference quickly came in mind! Just like when I first listened to Just Like That I soon noticed those music lines from Under Attack...
But anyway, I think the famous bridge from Does Your Mother Know stays just perfect where it is! That catchy thing is the main strenght of that song...

Cheers,
Andrea

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Hugo - 10.11.2006, 09:42
DREAMWORLD "DISC"OVERY
I was on the bootleg cd "Made in Sweden" in 93 that I hear "Dreamworld" for the first time, but with the sound starting not in fade in....

I think it's a great song with a single potential, maybe between Summer Night city and Chiquitita.....

Dommage that the song was left in the can at that itme....

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Pabs - 11.11.2006, 02:37

I liked it when I first heard it. And it didn't take me long to realise that it was the mother of not one, but two songs from the Voulez-Vous album: "Does Your Mother Know" AND "Kisses of Fire".

"Dream World" was written first, and then the boys weren't happy with it, pulled the song apart, and made two new songs out of it ("Does Your Mother Know" AND "Kisses of Fire"). These 2 songs can be said to be the "children" of "Dreamworld".

They would have never released it at the time because it sounded too similar to those 2 other songs on the Voulez-Vous album. It would have been very unprofessional of ABBA - and way below their standards - to release songs which sounded like something else they recorded before.

If "Dream World" had appeared on VOULEZ-VOUS along with those other two songs, I would have noticed the similarities and would have been very disappointed with ABBA's creative standards.

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WATERL00 - 07.04.2007, 22:16

I listened to Dreamworld first when i got the TYFYM-box set. Actually this song was the reason for me to buy it since it was rather expensive compared to my little pocket money at that time.
It a fantastic song and it really had deserved to be on Voulez-Vous, in my opinion the song has single-potential.

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WATERL00 - 21.04.2007, 22:19

Still I wonder why ABBA thought this song was too weak for release. I mean the part that was later used in Does Your Mother Know is one arguemnt but they could have edited it out. I'm not very fond of this part at all and I wouldn't mind if it had been left out.
AfŽterall the song is stronger than the one or the other from Voulez-Vous although this is my favourit ABBA-album.

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platobird - 26.04.2007, 19:33

drimnagh wrote: I can suspend my disbelief and pretend ABBA might even be appearing at a venue near me sometime soon!
This is the route to certain ABBA-insanity. :rotate: When I feel this way, I shout to myself that "It Won't Happen". When I come back to reality, I play a CD or two and enjoy the fantastic legacy of song they left behind. :D

I suffer delusions regularly, because I lived nearby when ABBA appeared in the US, but I didn't go. Rock concerts got a bad name after Woodstock, and I didn't want to be associated with that ilk! :stupid: All I heard of ABBA back then was on the radio and a fraction of a TV show.

Now, I'm happy to be part of the ABBA cult and spend, spend, spend on CDs and DVDs. (I'm waiting for a couple of new ones to arrive from AMAZON - maybe today.) Dream world is on my Opus 10 bootleg and in the Studio Recordings that I got about a year ago. It's been backing for slide shows on YouTube for a while, and I don't recall if I heard it first there or not. I enjoy it along with 100 other ABBA songs. :excited:

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Anonymous - 27.04.2007, 07:07

Matt, I'm surprised that you had a hard time discerning where the DYMK part is, but I agree that the chorus is very catchy.

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Hades - 27.04.2007, 22:36

For me, 'Dream world' is in the same league as 'Lovelight', meaning B-side material. I don't think it was strong enough to be included on the original album. The parts of the song I especially don't like are the circus-like intro/outro and the end of the chorus 'When you reach out...' which sounds rather hysterical and unnatural. That melodyline worked much better in 'Does your mother know'.

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de solere - 01.05.2007, 18:51
dream world
Dream World is a very beautiful song with all abba's qualities, great chorus, beautiful voices and incredible tempo and sound.
Pierre

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Maxi-saxi - 15.05.2007, 06:29

Hades wrote: For me, 'Dream world' is in the same league as 'Lovelight', meaning B-side material. I don't think it was strong enough to be included on the original album. The parts of the song I especially don't like are the circus-like intro/outro and the end of the chorus 'When you reach out...' which sounds rather hysterical and unnatural. That melodyline worked much better in 'Does your mother know'.

Same here.

Still like it of course.

Maxi-saxi

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drimnagh - 15.05.2007, 15:04

:oops: :oops:Please Ron, Johhny or the lovely Gill- delete one of my posts and save my blushes! I'm obviously not right in the head and double clicked by accident..

Joe

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drimnagh - 15.05.2007, 15:19

''Hugs for Gill!'' Lol

('Line from 'Nighty Night', black comedy on BBC3 which was wicked)

Mwah..

Joe :wink: x

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Simsalabim - 16.05.2007, 19:55

I've also only heard it with the 'fade-in' beginning...I thought the song was like that :shock: !

elin :D