Caught in a Dream
| "Caught in a Dream" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Alice Cooper | ||||
| from the album Love It to Death | ||||
| B-side | "Hallowed Be My Name" | |||
| Released | November 1971 | |||
| Format | 7" | |||
| Recorded | 1971 | |||
| Genre | Hard rock, heavy metal | |||
| Length | 3:10 | |||
| Writer(s) | Michael Bruce | |||
| Producer(s) | Bob Ezrin | |||
| Alice Cooper singles chronology | ||||
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"Caught in a Dream" is a 1971 song written by Michael Bruce and recorded by his band, Alice Cooper, on their first major label release album Love It to Death. It was released as a single in May 1971 and peaked on the US charts at number 94.
Coming just before the album's signature hit "I'm Eighteen", "Caught in a Dream" opens Love It to Death. It is a straight-ahead rocker that follows simple hard-rock formulas, trading heavy riffing with guitar fills and solos,[1] "Caught in a Dream" was the album's second single and featured irreverent, tongue-in-cheek lyrics such as "I need everything the world owes me / I tell that to myself and I agree".[2] As the album's second single[2] "Caught in a Dream" was released backed with "Hallowed Be My Name" in May 1971;[3] it peaked in the US at number 94.[2]
References
- ↑ Prown & Newquist 1997, p. 99.
- 1 2 3 Swanson.
- ↑ Billboard staff 1971, p. 66.
Works cited
- Billboard staff (8 May 1971). "Billboard Album Reviews". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media: 66. ISSN 0006-2510.
- Prown, Pete; Newquist, Harvey P. (1997). "Alice Cooper". Legends of Rock Guitar: The Essential Reference of Rock's Greatest Guitarists. Hal Leonard. pp. 99–100. ISBN 978-0-7935-4042-6.
- Swanson, Dave. "10 Most Underrated Alice Cooper Songs". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
