Crashing Dream
{{Infobox album
| name = Crashing Dream
| type = studio
| artist = Rain Parade
| cover = Crashing Dream cover.jpeg
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|1985}}
| recorded = September 1985
| studio = Cherokee, Los Angeles, California
| genre =
| length = 31:34
| label = Island
| producer = Steve Gronback
| chronology = Rain Parade studio album
| prev_title = Emergency Third Rail Power Trip
| prev_year = 1983
| next_title = Last Rays of a Dying Sun
| next_year = 2023
}}
Crashing Dream is the second album by the American band Rain Parade, released in 1985 by Island Records.
Critical reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1score = {{rating|2|5}}{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/crashing-dream-mw0000848802 |title=Crashing Dream – Rain Parade
| rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
|rev2score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite book|last1=Larkin|first1=Colin|date= 2011|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Concise|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NNmFiUnSmUC&pg=RA2-PA1901|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=9780857125958 |access-date=May 21, 2024 |edition=5th }}
| rev3 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide
| rev3score = {{rating|3.5|5}}{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |pages=574–575}}
}}
Writing in Trouser Press, reviewers held forth praise for just one song ("Depending on You") and remarked that "the album is attractive but flimsy — competent technique in search of a spine and a direction. In other words, it sounds like the work of a band on the verge of breaking up — which, in fact, Rain Parade did not long after the album's release."{{cite web |url=http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=rain_parade |title=TrouserPress.com :: Rain Parade |last1=Leland |first1=John |last2=Robbins |first2=Ira |last3=Schinder |first3=Scott |website=TrouserPress.com |accessdate=June 2, 2016}} In a separate review published in Creem, Ira Robbins described the band's various musical appropriations and concluded that "Rain Parade is all dressed up – in other people's clothes – with no place to go."{{Cite magazine |last=Robbins |first=Ira |date=July 1986 |title=Green On Red: No Free Lunch; Rain Parade: Crashing Dream |url=https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/green-on-red-no-free-lunch-rain-parade-crashing-dream---- |magazine=Creem |access-date=July 26, 2018 |via=Rock's Backpages |url-access=subscription }} The Los Angeles Times noted that "the lyrics written by Paraders Matt Piucci and Steve Roback tend to drag down the complete aural experience these guys seem to be going for."{{cite news |last1=Greenstein |first1=Jane |title=Cosmic Rain |work=Los Angeles Times |date=23 Mar 1986 |department=Calendar |page=61}}
Track listing
All tracks are written by Matt Piucci and Steven Roback, except where noted.
- "Depending on You" – 3:33
- "My Secret Country" (Piucci, Roback, Will Glenn) – 3:17
- "Don't Feel Bad" – 3:20
- "Mystic Green" – 3:49
- "Sad Eyes Kill" – 3:13
- "Shoot Down the Railroad Man" – 3:23
- "Fertile Crescent" – 3:38
- "Invisible People" (Piucci, Roback, John Thoman) – 3:05
- "Gone West" – 3:44
- "Only Business" – 1:45
Personnel
Adapted from the album liner notes.{{cite AV media notes |title=Crashing Dream|others=Rain Parade |date=1985|publisher=Island Records|id=ILPS 9805}}
Rain Parade
- Matt Piucci – vocals, guitar, sitar
- Steven Roback – vocals, bass, piano
- Will Glenn – keyboards
- Mark Marcum – drums, percussion
- John Thoman – guitar, backing vocals
Technical
- Steve Gronback – producer, engineer
- Scott Church – engineer
- Doug Sax – mastering
- Brian D. Mclaughlin – art direction, design, photography
- Lauren Sperling – design
References
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