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{{about|the song by Keane||Bad Dream (disambiguation)}}
'''A Bad Dream''' is a song by ] ] band ] that will appear on the second Keane album, '']''.
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| name = A Bad Dream
| cover = ABadDream.png
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| type = single
| artist = ]
| album = ]
| released = {{start date|2007|1|22|df=y}}<ref>{{cite magazine|title=The Schedule: Singles|magazine=]|page=33|date=20 January 2007}}</ref>
| recorded =
| studio = *Heliocentric, ]
*], New York City
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* {{Duration||5|6}} (album version)
* {{Duration||4|5}} (radio edit)
| label = ]
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* ]
* ]
| producer =
* Andy Green
* Keane
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"'''A Bad Dream'''" is a song by English rock band ] appearing as the fifth track on their second album, '']''. It was released on 22 January 2007 as the fifth and final single from the album. The song peaked at No. 23 in the ], becoming the band's first single to miss the top 20.

==Track listings==
===CD single===
<small>Catalogue number: 1723057</small>
# "A Bad Dream"
# "She Sells Sanctuary"
# "A Bad Dream" (] Hardcore Remix)
# "A Bad Dream" live in ] (video)

===UK 7-inch vinyl===
<small>Catalogue: 1723058</small>
# "A Bad Dream"
# "She Sells Sanctuary"

===256 MB USB memory stick content===
** "A Bad Dream"
** "A Bad Dream" (video)
** "Enjoy the Silence" (] cover)
** "A Bad Dream" (Luna-C Bangin' Remix)
** Competition to see the band at Wembley

==Background==
It was partially based on the "]" poem by ]. Rice-Oxley explained on a podcast:

⚫ {{quote|We wanted to get a balance between a kinda dream sequence. It starts very quietly, and I love the idea of being in a plane, like a Spitfire or something, being so high up in the sky that you can't hear the guns below you and so on. And it's almost got a serene silence which is what this Yeats poem seemed to really express. The song starts very quietly, but it gets huge and angry as it goes on... The big distorted washy piano sound in the middle is a pretty vast sound and it's I guess an attempt to express all that anger bursting out.}}{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}}


==Composition and recording== ==Composition and recording==
It was composed by ] and ] in ]. It was composed by ] and ]. It was recorded at the Heliocentric Studios, ] and at The Magic Shop, New York.

It seems Tom plays the piano in this song. In a live session for the ] radio station P3 Tom said about this song: ..."wonderful backing vocals from Tim and Richard and an awful piano playing from me"...
==Music video==
It was recorded at the Heliosentric Studios, ] and at the Magic Shop, ].
The music video for "A Bad Dream" was shot on 22 November 2006 and premiered a month later. Singer ] appears inside a totally black room. Then a white stripe of light can be seen getting bigger and bigger until the room becomes completely white. Later on, a black stripe can be seen again getting bigger and bigger until the whole room is black again.

An alternate version released on Yahoo Launch UK features short clips of Tim Rice-Oxley and Richard Hughes intercut into the original, looking at Chaplin with melancholic faces.

==Chart performance==
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! Chart !! Peak position
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|{{singlechart|Dutch40|77|artist=Keane|song=A bad dream}}
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{{singlechart|UK|23|artist=Keane|song=A bad dream|date=20070203}}
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{{singlechart|UKdownload|37|artist=Keane|song=A bad dream|date=20070203}}
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*

{{Keane songs}}


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==Meaning of the song==
Pianist ] explained this in ]th ]:


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"(...)It was based on a poem by ], called "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death", and I think it also came from visiting lots of battlefields and graveyards and so in ], which sounds very morbid, but that's the kind of thing I like to do on holiday! I've just always been really affected by... I guess still being a relatively young man, I still have a lot of empathy of people of my age and even younger, who are going off to war; and I guess the idea of going off to war has been in the air for the last couple of years, with ] and ] particular. Those seem like very distant things, but I think in Europe in particular the ] is still something that still looms quite largely in a lot of people's minds, and it certainly should do. I'd also been reading a book called "The New Confessions" by ], in where the protagonist of the book goes up in a hot air balloon to film the front line, and he gets shot down and captured. It just made me think a lot of people when they go off as young men, and when they come back - even if it's a couple of years later it's like they've become old, and all the things they left behind have changed. And it's something that you can never ever go back to being young again. And I guess it's just a very sad song.
⚫ We wanted to get a balance between a kinda dream sequence - it starts very quietly, and I love the idea of being in a plane, like a Spitfire or something, being so high up in the sky that you can't hear the guns below you and so on. And it's almost got a serene silence which is what this Yeats poem seemed to really express. The song starts very quietly, but it gets huge and angry as it goes on - the big distorted washy piano sound in the middle is a pretty vast sound and it's I guess an attempt to express all that anger bursting out."


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Latest revision as of 18:55, 24 April 2024

This article is about the song by Keane. For other uses, see Bad Dream (disambiguation).

2007 single by Keane
"A Bad Dream"
Single by Keane
from the album Under the Iron Sea
Released22 January 2007 (2007-01-22)
Studio
Length
  • 5:06 (album version)
  • 4:05 (radio edit)
LabelIsland
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Andy Green
  • Keane
Keane singles chronology
"Nothing in My Way"
(2006) 		"A Bad Dream"
(2007) 		"Try Again"
(2007)

"A Bad Dream" is a song by English rock band Keane appearing as the fifth track on their second album, Under the Iron Sea. It was released on 22 January 2007 as the fifth and final single from the album. The song peaked at No. 23 in the UK Singles Chart, becoming the band's first single to miss the top 20.

Track listings

CD single

Catalogue number: 1723057

  1. "A Bad Dream"
  2. "She Sells Sanctuary"
  3. "A Bad Dream" (Luna-C Hardcore Remix)
  4. "A Bad Dream" live in Berlin (video)

UK 7-inch vinyl

Catalogue: 1723058

  1. "A Bad Dream"
  2. "She Sells Sanctuary"

256 MB USB memory stick content

    • "A Bad Dream"
    • "A Bad Dream" (video)
    • "Enjoy the Silence" (Depeche Mode cover)
    • "A Bad Dream" (Luna-C Bangin' Remix)
    • Competition to see the band at Wembley

Background

It was partially based on the "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" poem by W. B. Yeats. Rice-Oxley explained on a podcast:

We wanted to get a balance between a kinda dream sequence. It starts very quietly, and I love the idea of being in a plane, like a Spitfire or something, being so high up in the sky that you can't hear the guns below you and so on. And it's almost got a serene silence which is what this Yeats poem seemed to really express. The song starts very quietly, but it gets huge and angry as it goes on... The big distorted washy piano sound in the middle is a pretty vast sound and it's I guess an attempt to express all that anger bursting out.

Composition and recording

It was composed by Tim Rice-Oxley and Tom Chaplin. It was recorded at the Heliocentric Studios, Rye, East Sussex and at The Magic Shop, New York.

Music video

The music video for "A Bad Dream" was shot on 22 November 2006 and premiered a month later. Singer Tom Chaplin appears inside a totally black room. Then a white stripe of light can be seen getting bigger and bigger until the room becomes completely white. Later on, a black stripe can be seen again getting bigger and bigger until the whole room is black again.

An alternate version released on Yahoo Launch UK features short clips of Tim Rice-Oxley and Richard Hughes intercut into the original, looking at Chaplin with melancholic faces.

Chart performance

Chart Peak position
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) 77
UK Singles (OCC) 23
UK Singles Downloads (OCC) 37

References

  1. "The Schedule: Singles". Music Week. 20 January 2007. p. 33.
  2. "Nederlandse Top 40 – Keane" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40.
  3. "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  4. "Official Singles Downloads Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.

External links

Keane songs
Hopes and Fears
Under the Iron Sea
Perfect Symmetry
Night Train
Strangeland
The Best of Keane
Other singles


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