Medicine Show (album)

{{Infobox album

| name = Medicine Show

| type = studio

| artist = The Dream Syndicate

| cover = The Dream Syndicate - Medicine Show.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{start date|1984}}

| recorded = San Francisco

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Alternative rock

| length = 45:08

| label = A&M

| producer = Sandy Pearlman

| prev_title = The Days of Wine and Roses

| prev_year = 1982

| next_title = Out of the Grey

| next_year = 1986

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/medicine-show-mw0000202005 |title=Medicine Show – The Dream Syndicate |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=January 31, 2018 |last=Deming |first=Mark}}

| rev2 = Mojo

| rev2Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite journal |title=The Dream Syndicate: Medicine Show |journal=Mojo |page=118 |quote=Pearlman transformed them into a wired, manic hard-drilled rock machine, turning Wynn's dark outlaw tales into epic journeys of cinematic voiolence... Oddly powerful...}}

| rev3 = Spin Alternative Record Guide

| rev3score = 5/10{{cite book |title=Spin Alternative Record Guide |editor1-last=Weisbard |editor1-first=Eric |editor2-last=Marks |editor2-first=Craig |publisher=Vintage Books |year=1995 |isbn=0-679-75574-8}}

| rev4 = Uncut

| rev4Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite journal |title=The Dream Syndicate: Medicine Show |journal=Uncut |page=91 |quote=Medicine Show -- dense with songs of violence, paranoia, lurking evil, and Karl Precoda's uncanny guitar -- is a punk/noir magnum opus...}}

| rev5 = The Village Voice

| rev5Score = B−{{cite news |url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv7-84.php |title=Christgau's Consumer Guide |work=The Village Voice |date=July 24, 1984 |access-date=January 31, 2018 |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau}}

}}

Medicine Show is the second studio album by The Dream Syndicate. It was released in 1984.

The Dream Syndicate left Slash Records, a small label that released the band's first album The Days of Wine and Roses (1982), and signed with the A&M label. Medicine Show was produced by Sandy Pearlman; Pearlman had previously worked with Blue Öyster Cult and The Clash.