Crashing Dream

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Crashing Dream
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Studio album by
Rain Parade
Released1985 (1985)
RecordedSeptember 1985
Studio Cherokee, Los Angeles, California
Length31:34
Label Island
Producer Steve Gronback
Rain Parade studio album chronology
Emergency Third Rail Power Trip
(1983)		Crashing Dream
(1985)		 Last Rays of a Dying Sun
(2023)

Crashing Dream is the second album by the American band Rain Parade, released in 1985 by Island Records. [1]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [1]

Writing in Trouser Press , reviewers held forth praise for just one song ("Depending on You") and remarked that "the album is attractive but flimsy — competent technique in search of a spine and a direction. In other words, it sounds like the work of a band on the verge of breaking up — which, in fact, Rain Parade did not long after the album's release." [4] In a separate review published in Creem , Ira Robbins described the band's various musical appropriations and concluded that "Rain Parade is all dressed up – in other people's clothes – with no place to go." [5] The Los Angeles Times noted that "the lyrics written by Paraders Matt Piucci and Steve Roback tend to drag down the complete aural experience these guys seem to be going for." [6]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Matt Piucci and Steven Roback, except where noted.

  1. "Depending on You" – 3:33
  2. "My Secret Country" (Piucci, Roback, Will Glenn) – 3:17
  3. "Don't Feel Bad" – 3:20
  4. "Mystic Green" – 3:49
  5. "Sad Eyes Kill" – 3:13
  6. "Shoot Down the Railroad Man" – 3:23
  7. "Fertile Crescent" – 3:38
  8. "Invisible People" (Piucci, Roback, John Thoman) – 3:05
  9. "Gone West" – 3:44
  10. "Only Business" – 1:45

Personnel

Adapted from the album liner notes. [7]

Rain Parade

Technical

References

  1. 1 2 The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. pp. 574–575.
  2. ↑ Pruett, Jon. "Crashing Dream – Rain Parade | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic . Retrieved June 2, 2016.
  3. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Concise (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN   9780857125958 . Retrieved May 21, 2024.
  4. ↑ Leland, John; Robbins, Ira; Schinder, Scott. "TrouserPress.com :: Rain Parade". TrouserPress.com . Retrieved June 2, 2016.
  5. ↑ Robbins, Ira (July 1986). "Green On Red: No Free Lunch; Rain Parade: Crashing Dream" . Creem . Retrieved July 26, 2018– via Rock's Backpages.
  6. ↑ Greenstein, Jane (March 23, 1986). "Cosmic Rain". Calendar. Los Angeles Times. p. 61.
  7. ↑ Crashing Dream (Media notes). Rain Parade. Island Records. 1985. ILPS 9805.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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