The Days of Wine and Roses

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The Days of Wine & Roses
The Days of Wine & Roses cover
Studio album by The Dream Syndicate
Released 1982
Recorded Sept 1982
Genre College rock
Length 42:33
Label Ruby Records/Slash
Producer Chris D.
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The Dream Syndicate chronology

The Days of Wine & Roses
(1982)		 Medicine Show
(1984)

The Days of Wine and Roses was the debut long-play album of Dream Syndicate. Produced by Chris D. (of The Flesh Eaters/The Divine Horsemen), it was recorded in Los Angeles in September 1982 and released later that year on Chris D.'s Ruby Records, which was a division of Slash Records. It was released on CD in 1993.

[edit] Track listing

This is the track listing of the original release. Later re-releases have included bonus tracks from an earlier EP, rehearsals and alternate takes.

Side One:

  1. "Tell Me When It's Over"
  2. "Definitely Clean"
  3. "That's What You Always Say"
  4. "Then She Remembers"
  5. "Halloween"

Side Two:

  1. "When You Smile"
  2. "Until Lately"
  3. "Too Little, Too Late"
  4. "The Days of Wine and Roses"

[edit] Original lineup

Vocals, Guitar - Steve Wynn

Guitar - Karl Precoda

Bass - Kendra Smith

Drums - Dennis Duck

Engineer - Pat Burnette

Producer - Chris D.

[edit] Additional notes

"Halloween" was written by Karl Precoda; all others were by Steve Wynn. Vocals on "Too Little, Too Late" by Kendra Smith.


The phrase "days of wine and roses" is originally from the poem "Vitae Summa Brevis" by the English writer Ernest Dowson (1867-1900):

They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.
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