Crashing Dream [Import]

Rain Parade (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 22, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: LEMON RECORDS
• ASIN: B002RBNNWC
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #79,077 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cherry Red does it again, February 19, 2010

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Tuzzster "wilfsdad" (el cerrito, ca United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Crashing Dream (Audio CD)

and not in a good way.
This 2nd and final studio lp (if you don't count the mini LP "Explosions in the Glass Palace") released in their lifetime is one of the gems of the mid 80's paisley sound. Whilst Green On Red were reverting to pub rockers, and the Dream Syndicate had gone all aor on us, it was left to the Rain Parade to carry the psych pop banner. And how they delivered.
Filled with pop gems and plenty of hooks it's amazing that it didn't launch them into the stratosphere of super-stardom, then again this was the synth dominated mid 80's and Island had all but given up promoting them.
Here comes the bad part. firstly, the cd is very hissy in quiet parts, surely it wasn't mastered from a cassette? Island must still have the masters right? and cherry red used them right? (see my review of 'beyond the sunset' for a clue)? and their are no bonus tracks :(
Apparently, nobody at Cherry Red, (Lemon is a subsiduary of theirs), contacted the band prior to releasing this, so Malcolm Dome who writes the very poor sleeve notes (was a writer for Sounds and Kerrang back in the day) gets away with blue murder. There are a some bad spelling mistakes including john thoman being listed as John Thomas (ouch), proofreading anybody.
Still the music is great, if not the shoddy packaging.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The clarity.., August 19, 2007

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helterskelter (Norway) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Crashing Dream (Vinyl)

I agree, this is their finest moment, a lovely collection of songs, where they've managed to escape the psychedelic trap about to form with their debut. It's been so long since I've heard it, but still I remember most songs - I often play Mystic green in my mind.
Why it isn't released as a CD is nothing but a shame, making it look like a sidekick to the debut, which is inferior in every way. But for goodness sake, buy the debut on CD, you'll get their superb EP Explosions.. as bonus. Broken horse = yes!

Release this wonderful album on CD!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Improves With Age: And Soon On CD, October 26, 2009

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martinblank (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Crashing Dream (Vinyl)

'Crashing Dream' seemed rather soft, gentle, grown up and middle of the road to my young ears back when I fished the LP out of a discount box in Liverpool back in the mid-eighties. I'd been put off buying the record because the band seemed to think the label had blanded them out...and if they thought that, well, so would I. Within a couple of years 'Crashing' was the Rain Parade album I went back to more and more often. The others are great. But particularly 'Emergency' is in thrall to Love and Syd. And the older I get, the more natural it seems to listen to Love or Syd instead. Whereas this last real outing for the band casts a particular magic - anxious but uplifting and slightly spooked psychedelia with very warm guitars which still leak a lot of acid over the darkly melodic songs. Which is an awful description of what's become a desert island disc. I stagger this far purely to mention also that the album does get a CD reissue this November on UK label Lemon (an offshoot of Cherry Red). So if you happen to be reading this after November 2009, with a little luck, the CD will be in the world for you to find.