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Dreamtime | 
| Artist: Tom Verlaine
Label: Collectors Choice
Category: Music
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 21141
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 950
UPC: 617742095029
EAN: 0617742095029
ASIN: B001BWQ0C8
Release Date: September 8, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | There's a Reason | | • | Penetration | | • | Always | | • | Blue Robe | | • | Without a Word | | • | Mr. Blur | | • | Fragile | | • | Future In Noise | | • | Down On the Farm | | • | Mary Marie |
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about time - one of his greatest October 12, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
What a joy to hear this album at last after so long. I'm sure I heard it when it came out but for some idiot reason didn't buy it. Since then I've had to make do with one track and a couple of live versions on The Miller's Tale compilation. It's criminal that it's been out of print for so long - it's unquestionably one of Tom Verlaine's greatest albums, with or without Television.
Anyone who likes Television's Marquee Moon will enjoy Dreamtime; it'll be particularly welcome to fans of Verlaine's guitar playing - many I'm sure, while welcoming his return to songwriting form (and recording for that matter) with the very fine Songs And Other Things, will have been disappointed with the relative lack of guitar fireworks there. Well, if you haven't heard this before, you've got lots of tasty guitar to look forward to - it's his rockiest and most guitar-laden effort outside of Marquee Moon itself. Other than that, there's no surprises - this is an absolutely typical Tom Verlaine record. That said, it's not such an immediate album as MM - it manages to combine an obvious attention to detail and classy production sheen with a strong feel of four people playing together in a room. I'm sure that's an illusion and there are loads of guitar overdubs but for me a production that achieves that is something to admire and in places this sounds liver than some live albums of my acquaintance, albeit not distracted by an audience. In fact all round this is a very well-produced album and will repay attentive listeners with much excellent detail as well as quality songs and playing. The only slight downsides are the relatively buried vocals and, audible on headphones, occasional patches of distortion. The sleevenotes mention that half the album had to be re-recorded due to defective, oxide-shedding tape stock and it sounds like that's the reason for the distortion, but overall the mastering is fine. I also wonder if defects in the master were a reason for the album's long unavailability.
I'm just trying to decide whether it's actually his best solo album - given the quality of 2 or 3 of the others that's high praise, in fact the reviewer who suggested this was in the same league as Marquee Moon may be right on the money. Best rock record I've heard in ages.
The greatest unavailable album August 9, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Like the other reviews said, it's a scandal that this is out of print. Go out of your way to track it down, secondhand or whatever.
Verlaine came at this with the energy of punk (especially the opening track), unshakeable self-belief, real artistic inspiration, and supreme guitar skills.
There are many outstanding tracks, and Verlaine is always a true original, but for an astonishing, disarming example of what can be done with voice, two guitars, bass and drums, I must cite "Penetration".
 Tom Verlaine: Dreamtime October 9, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
All serious rock fans know that Television's "Marquee Moon" is one of the few authentically great rock albums along with "Blonde on Blonde" and "Revolver". Far fewer people appear to know that "Dreamtime" is in the same league. Verlaine was unlikely to ever again equal the sheer impact of "MM", but Dreamtime actually surpasses it for economy, musicianship and, in places, melodic inventiveness. It is also his most spiritually passionate album, particularly the last three songs. Its apparent unavailability is a scandal.
Dreamtime - forgotten classic March 4, 2004
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Why is this album so hard to find? Tom Verlaine hasn't recorded that much stuff, and most of it is excellent, but this album is the cherry on the cake. Most people who have heard Television will know what to expect - jagged but strangely beautiful guitar lines, harmonic structures verging on the dissonant but just this side, dense and mysterious lyrics - but on Dreamtime these are taken to extremes. The guitars on the album are the heaviest (Down On The Farm), hardest-edged (Fragile, Mr Blur), and most spirallingly, achingly gorgeous (Mary Marie) Verlaine has ever recorded.
The arrangements are sometimes so densely forested with tiny guitar parts, you can spend hours trying to discern just what is making which part of the sound you hear. I used to own this on cassette, but wore it out with continuous playing over the years. I never could find it again on LP or CD. A shame, because this is one of those records that should never ever be out of print.
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