Dreamtime (Tom Verlaine album)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	A−^[2]
Record Collector	^[3]
Rolling Stone	^[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[5]
Spin Alternative Record Guide	8/10^[6]

Dreamtime is the second solo studio album by American musician Tom Verlaine, originally released in 1981. "Without a Word" is a rewrite of "Hard On Love," an unreleased Television song performed live in 1974 and 1975.

The album was reissued in 1994 by Infinite Zero Archive/American Recordings label, with two bonus tracks drawn from the 1981 "Always" 7" & 12" single. It was reissued in 2008 by Collectors' Choice Music with no bonus tracks.

Track listing

All songs written by Tom Verlaine.

Side one

"There's a Reason" – 3:39
"Penetration" – 4:01
"Always" – 3:58
"The Blue Robe" – 3:54
"Without a Word" – 3:17

Side two

"Mr Blur" – 3:24
"Fragile" – 3:27
"A Future in Noise" – 4:13
"Down on the Farm" – 4:49
"Mary Marie" – 3:25

Bonus tracks (1994 CD reissue)

"The Blue Robe" (alternate version) – 4:17
"Always" (alternate version) – 4:09

Personnel

Tom Verlaine – guitars, solos, vocals on all tracks; bass on "Penetration"
Ritchie Fliegler – guitars on all tracks, except "Penetration"
Fred Smith – bass on "Mr. Blur", "Down on the Farm", "There's a Reason" and "Without a Word"
Donnie Nossov – bass on "Always", "Mary Marie", "Fragile", "The Blue Robe", "A Future in Noise" and bonus tracks
Jay Dee Daugherty – drums on "Mr. Blur", "Down on the Farm", "There's a Reason", "Without a Word" and "Penetration"
Rich Teeter – drums on "Always", "Mary Marie", "Fragile", "The Blue Robe", "A Future in Noise" and bonus tracks
Bruce Brody – keyboards on "Always", "Mary Marie", end of "Penetration" and "Always" (alternate version)

Technical

Robert Clifford – engineer
David Chenkin, John Terelle, Steve Ett – assistant engineers
George Delmerico – design
James Hamilton – photography

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Peak Position
1981	Billboard Pop Albums	177 ^[7]

Notes

↑ Nastos, Michael G. "Dreamtime – Tom Verlaine". AllMusic. Retrieved November 15, 2016.
↑ Christgau, Robert (1990). "Tom Verlaine: Dreamtime". Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s. Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-679-73015-X. Retrieved November 15, 2016.
↑ "Tom Verlaine: Dreamtime". Record Collector: 102. 1981's Dreamtime is a showcase for Verlaine's fretwork, the brittle, tense sound of early Television giving way to a much freer, resonant sound.
↑ Fricke, David (December 10, 1981). "Tom Verlaine: Dreamtime". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 4 June 2008. Retrieved July 21, 2017.
↑ Sheffield, Rob (2004). "Tom Verlaine". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian. The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. pp. 848–49. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
↑ Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig, eds. (1995). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.
↑ "allmusic (((Dreamtime > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums)))". Retrieved 2008-09-14.

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