The Best of D:Ream

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The Best of D:Ream
The Best of D:Ream cover
Compilation album by D:Ream
Released May 19, 1997
Recorded 1992 - 1997
Genre pop rock, synthpop, dance
Label Magnet Records / Warner Bros. Records
D:Ream chronology
World
(1995)		 The Best of D:Ream
(1997)		 The Platinum Collection
(2006)

The Best of D:Ream was the first official compilation album from British pop rock / synthpop and dance band D:Ream, issued by Magnet Records label, and distributed by major Warner Bros. Records, with the management of FXU. It was released in May 1997, just after their UK and U.S. Dance Number 1 hit, Things Can Only Get Better, was re-released for the second time, re-entering the UK Top 20 Singles Chart at Number 19. The song received much publicity from the fact that it was later adopted by the UK Labour Party as their theme for the 1997 UK General Election. The group's record company, in agreement with leader Peter Cunnah, who decided to call it quits with D:Ream, chose to issue this greatest hits collection, instead of their third studio album, which was to be called "Heap of Faith", and was never so far released. The compilation contains 12 tracks, originally on their only two studio albums, the 1993 "D:Ream On Volume 1", and 1995 "World" (both of which peaked at Number 5 in the UK Albums Chart), also including, besides the Number 1 single Things Can Only Get Better, all the 7 singles taken from their debut work, the 3 singles off their second album, plus 2 more stand-out tracks from the latter, namely Hold Me Now and Heart of Gold, which were never released as singles. This best of album, though the renewed success of their Number 1 smash hit, never made it to the charts. After the release of this collection, singer, songwriter, musician and producer Peter Cunnah decided either to go solo, and to work behind the scenes for other acts, though he has recently joined a new guitar-based band, called Shane, who debuted with the single entitled The Weight of It, released in May 2006.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. Things Can Only Get Better (re-release, 1993) - [UK Top 75: Number 24] (*)
  2. U R The Best Thing (re-release, 1993) - [UK Top 75: Number 19] (*)
  3. Take Me Away (1994) - [UK Top 75: Number 18] (*)
  4. Shoot Me with Your Love (1995) - [UK Top 75: Number 7] (**)
  5. Unforgiven (1993) - [UK Top 75: Number 29] (*)
  6. I Like It (double A-side single with Star, 1993) - [UK Top 75: Number 26] (*)
  7. Party Up the World (1995) - [UK Top 75: Number 20] (**)
  8. The Power (Of All the Love in the World) (1995) - [UK Top 75: Number 40] (**)
  9. Blame It on Me (1994) - [UK Top 75: Number 25] (*)
  10. Heart of Gold (1995) - [never released as a single] (**)
  11. Star (double A-side single with I Like It, 1993) - [UK Top 75: Number 26] (*)
  12. Hold Me Now (1995) - [never released as a single] (**)

N.B.

(*) Singles taken from D:Ream On Volume 1 (1993).

(**) Either singles or songs taken from World (1995).

[edit] Release details

Country Date Label Format Catalog
UK 1993 Magnet Records / Warner Bros. Records CD 41196

[edit] See also

[edit] References and external links

  • Paul Gambaccini, Tim Rice, Jonathan Rice (1995) British Hits Singles, Guinness Publishing
  • EveryHit.com: UK Top 40 Database
  • www.d-ream.net: D:Ream's Official Website
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