Dreams Less Sweet

Psychic TV | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 23, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Thirsty Ear
• ASIN: B0000057O1
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #348,045 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hymn 23

2. The Orchids

3. Botanica

4. Iron Glove

5. Always Is Always

6. White Nights

7. Finale

8. Eleusis

9. Medmenham

10. Ancient Lights

11. Proof of Survival

12. Survival

13. Eden 1 Eden 2 Eden 3

14. Clouds Without Water

15. Black Moon

16. Silver and Gold

17. In the Nursery

18. Circle

19. Circle

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Psychic TV, September 20, 2004

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gristler - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dreams Less Sweet (Audio CD)

Unless your a raver, this is the best Psychic TV album to get. As a fan of things stranger and more challenging I would rank this alongside Throbbing Gristle as the best work Genesis-P-Orridge has ever done. The album is a sound scape of ambient noise, rituals, chants and some of the best gentle and mystical pop/folk songs you'll ever hear. Yes, pop/folk from Genesis-P-Orridge, so you know it's going to be weird, haunting and creepy. There are also strange spoken word tracks by Genesis and Monte Cazaza... oh, yeah, and David Tibet of Current 93 plays bones and bells and stuff... There's nothing too esoteric to get about this album, ignore that review. If something puzzles you on here then it's just a mystery to be enjoyed... You don't have to understand everything in life, do you? In fact, wouldn't you say the unknown enriches your life? Sure it does... Now, get this album.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unique & revolutionary, October 9, 2008

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Michael Iannetta "mic" (brussels) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dreams Less Sweet (Reis) (Dig) (Audio CD)

This lp is an unique experience in pop music and sound. However the recording process of the album is holophonic (a technique that allows to reproduce the same hearing feeling you have in the real world); it is also a part of Burroughs heritage (due to extensively creative use of cut-ups this album marks a new start in music and art history, de-categorizing the boundaries that exist between them). Nocturne melodies, not so gothic but close of Joy Division's enegy flirts with beautifully recorded sequences of sound in motion, almost like a movie... the growls of a dog fading away in some misty melody of a far away brass. Remember Nico, coil and current 93 are not far neither. This is not only a great post-punk, pre-goth or post-industrial album. This is poetry, at the core of how poetry should look like in a post-modern, technological and inter-disciplinary world. To conclude this album may looks weird but it shall maybe change your way to perceive music, sound and even art (if your open of course, because if your the kind of person who prefers lineary stuff, not to be troubled or confused then run away!). One of my favorites definitely because it surfs with much more than standards.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars the best early ptv lp, November 12, 2001

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Paul W. Drew (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dreams Less Sweet (Audio CD)

the majority of this album consists of noisy, experimental tracks (braking dogs, slamming doors, gunshots, screaming) some of which is pretty good and much of which is kind of ridiculous, like much psychic t.v. HOWEVER, it also contains two slow and beautiful ballads, 'The Orchids' and 'White Nights' which are among the very best songs i've ever heard by anyone. they're very catchy, but not in the more dance-poppy way that later songs like roman p. and godstar are. more folk-based and hypnotic i guess is an ok way to describe them. anyway, this, their second LP, is well worth purchasing and much better than their first (force the hand of chance).