Dreaming of Me

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"Dreaming of Me"
"Dreaming of Me" cover
Single by Depeche Mode
from the album Speak and Spell
B-side(s) "Ice Machine"
Released February 20, 1981
Format Vinyl record (7"), CD (1991 box set)
Recorded December 1980
Genre Synthpop
Length 3:46
Label Mute Records
Writer(s) Vince Clarke
Producer(s) Depeche Mode and Daniel Miller
Chart positions
Depeche Mode singles chronology
"Dreaming of Me"
(1981)		 "New Life"
(1981)

"Dreaming of Me" is the debut single by Depeche Mode, originally released on February 20, 1981 in the UK. The single was not commercially released in the United States.

There are technically two versions of the song: one which fades out, and an alternate version which does not. The alternate version is on the CD re-release of Speak and Spell in Europe, while the American Speak and Spell (and all singles compilations containing the song) has the regular version.

The B-Side, "Ice Machine," is similarly available in a fading version, and an alternate non-fading version (the alternate version is available on some 7" discs in some countries). The song is also a bonus track on the CD rerelease of Speak and Spell in the UK. A live version of "Ice Machine" (recorded during the Some Great Reward tour) is available on the 12" version of the 1984 single, "Blasphemous Rumours."

Due to a poor chart placement (#57 on the UK singles chart), "Dreaming of Me" did not originally appear on Speak and Spell, but did show up in the CD re-release in the UK as a bonus track. In the United States, "Dreaming of Me" was on the original pressing of the album, replacing "I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead."

[edit] Track listing

[edit] 7": Mute / 7Mute13 (UK)

  1. "Dreaming of Me" (3:46)
  2. "Ice Machine" (3:54)
  • In 1991, the single was released on CD as part of the singles box set, in both the UK and US. The tracklist is the same.
  • Both songs written by Vince Clarke

[edit] External links

Depeche Mode
David Gahan | Martin Gore | Andrew Fletcher
Vince Clarke | Alan Wilder
Depeche Mode discography

Studio albums: Speak & Spell | A Broken Frame | Construction Time Again | Some Great Reward | Black Celebration | Music for the Masses | Violator | Songs of Faith and Devotion | Ultra | Exciter | Playing the Angel

Compilations: People Are People | The Singles 81>85 | Catching Up with Depeche Mode | The Singles 86>98 | Remixes 81 - 04 | The Best Of, Volume 1

Live Albums: 101 | Songs of Faith and Devotion Live

Tribute Albums: For the Masses | A Techno Tribute to Depeche Mode

Singles: Dreaming of Me | New Life | Just Can't Get Enough | See You | The Meaning of Love | Leave in Silence | Get the Balance Right | Everything Counts | Love, in Itself | People Are People | Master and Servant | Blasphemous Rumours / Somebody | Shake the Disease | It's Called a Heart | Stripped | A Question of Lust | A Question of Time | Strangelove | Never Let Me Down Again | Behind the Wheel | Little 15 | Everything Counts (Live) | Personal Jesus | Enjoy the Silence | Policy of Truth | World in My Eyes I Feel You | Walking in My Shoes | Condemnation | In Your Room | Barrel of a Gun | It's No Good | Home | Useless | Only When I Lose Myself | Dream On | I Feel Loved | Freelove | Goodnight Lovers | Enjoy the Silence 04 | Precious | A Pain That I'm Used To | Suffer Well | John the Revelator / Lilian | Martyr
Videography

Videos: The World We Live In and Live in Hamburg | Some Great Videos | Strange | 101 | Strange Too | Devotional | The Videos 86>98 | One Night in Paris | Touring the Angel: Live in Milan
Related articles
Synthpop | Depeche Mode Tours | Mute Records | Paper Monsters | Counterfeit e.p. | Counterfeit²
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