Dream Baby Dream
| "Dream Baby Dream" | ||||
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| Single by Suicide | ||||
| B-side | "Radiation" | |||
| Released | 1979 | |||
| Recorded | Right Track Recording, NY | |||
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| Length | 3:17 (7") 6:19 (12") | |||
| Label | Island | |||
| Songwriters | ||||
| Producer | Ric Ocasek | |||
| Suicide singles chronology | ||||
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"Dream Baby Dream" is a song by the electro-punk band Suicide, written by its members Martin Rev and Alan Vega. It was released as a single in 1979 by Island Records. It has been covered by Neneh Cherry and The Thing on the 2011-recorded album The Cherry Thing and by Bruce Springsteen both live and in a studio version released on High Hopes (2014). Springsteen released a live version as an EP which was a part of the Alan Vega 70th Birthday Limited Edition EP Series in 2008. Also part of the EP series was a live version of "Dream Baby Dream" performed by Suicide on NBC's The Midnight Special in 1978.
The song appeared in Adam Curtis' 2016 BBC documentary HyperNormalisation during a montage featuring skyscrapers being blown up. It also appeared in the 2016 film American Honey, directed by Andrea Arnold.
The song features on the closing credits of Alex Garland's Civil War (2024).
A live cover version of the song by the band Savages also appears in the 2014 film Electric Slide.
| "Dream Baby Dream" | ||||
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| Single by Bruce Springsteen | ||||
| from the album High Hopes | ||||
| Released | 2008 (live), 2014 (studio) | |||
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| Length | 6:19 (live) 5:03 (studio) | |||
| Label | Columbia Records | |||
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| Dream Baby Dream on Youtube.com | ||||