The Dreamer (Mister Speed album)
The Dreamer is a hip-hop and indie pop album by Mister Speed. This is his debut solo album.
Track listing
- "Unconventional Paradigm" – 1:07
- "Art Is..." – 3:49
- "Miss Bitty" – 3:27
- "The World Song" – 2:18
- "Ready For Action" – 3:27
- "Everybody Needs Somebody" – 3:46
- "You Should Be Dancing" – 4:09
- "On The End Of A String" – 2:26
- "Nudity" – 4:07
- "Can't Get Home (Silent Dub)" – 2:19
- "Don't Waste My Time" – 3:50
- "The Cities (Featuring Pasobionic)" – 3:49
- "Repressive Society" – 0:51
- "Come On!" – 4:25
The 'secret track' at the end of the album is called Wednesday Never.
Influences
Speed described the ideas behind The Dreamer by saying that it came together in a relatively short time although its concepts have been with him for a very long time. "As I remember from when I was a little kid, I found out that the writer Roald Dahl used to get ideas and write them down on scraps of paper then stow them away in his desk drawer for a rainy day. This music is from my rainy day ideas that were stowed away then brought out and melded together to make this record." [1]
Song Ideas
The songs are described by Speed [1] as:
- Unconventional Paradigm - a proposal on an advancement of humanity.
- Art Is… - his philosophy on the nature of art.
- Miss Bitty - the story of how he met his girlfriend
- The World Song - a 'shout out' to the people of Earth.
- Ready For Action - the nature of self confidence and alter egos.
- Everybody Needs Somebody - a song about 'pure infatuation'.
- You Should Be Dancing - about shyness, skill building and Ballroom Dancing.
- On The End Of A String - his philosophy on living life.
- Nudity - about surreal experimentalism and for people that love craziness.
- Can’t Get Home - a story about 2 space explorers who get shipwrecked and marooned while on a reconnaissance mission.
- Don’t Waste My Time - his response to an unfavourable review of a Curse Ov Dialect album 'Lost In The Real Sky' and also his dislike of procrastination.
- The Cities - a story about a sinister city and a crumbling world.
- Repressive Society - about repressive societies
- Come On! - a song for people that love the future.
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