Thompson Twins - "Dr Dream" (RARE ALTERNATE VERSION!)

[DustyCustard]

I hope the Thompson Twins come to my funeral.

[takingbackromance]

lol. the 80s and their drugs.

[bluejeckett]

This version was clearly made for the American market such as using Americanisms like "hot shot" and "needle tracks" because presumably they think Americans are too dumbarse to know the normal words used in the original and we wouldnt want to lose sales because some moron eating a cheeseburger who weighs 200 tons cant use his brain.

[Arckitekt]

They could probably put out a single and go on tour with Duran Duran

[mccoobs]

reguardless of edits and number there of etc, still an ant-drug drug song, and as such ( GREAT bass beat ) I am in favour of it's message!

[240ups]

It seems that 84' was the threshold for so many great new wave bands. the edge was there, they sound hungry and wild and then they got big notice and the homogenized corporate streamlining sucked the innovation out of it. This video and song is a perfect example of "before". They looked wild and they had a harder tympatic edgy sound, and then came "Hold Me Now". Not bad song but the taming was underway, the "Gentrifying" had been administered and excepted by them. stay true or stray and rue.

[Corei7Maniac]

Actually, you have the timing backwards a bit.

"Hold Me Now" was released in 1984 on Into The Gap.

"Don't Mess With Dr. Dream" was released in 1985 on Here's to Future Days.

The Thompson Twins started off close to the Talking Heads. Then drifted a bit more mainstream and pop-oriented with Quick Step & Side Kick and Into The Gap. Again their direction changed nearer to rock with Here's to Future Days and Close to the Bone. Finally, they crossed over to lite-funk with Big Trash and Queer.

[WaddeDarinDarin]

The video Was used for commercial use for an airlane company-.Commercial pulled many tourist and gained great attenion.

[JeuneFilleaCarnival]

love this song and video. Should have been a massive hit, not just a minor one. Especially as they were coming off of a string of global hit singles. they were right on time too, with the whole theme- this was when pppl like Sting released Russians (yuk) and so on, and it became more necessary to have to present some sort of quasi-political agenda in the popworld. alas...it was not to be... but I still love them, this was their best moment if I had to pick one

[bluejeckett]

@JeuneFilleaCarnival Yuk? Russians is a fucking brilliant song, and as much as I like this song Russian kicks its arse im afriad so enough of that talk

[Squeaky1423]

Ah Tom Bailey, so SEXY!

[geargail]

Would be sweet - if this version is shown at one of those big IMAX theatres, one would see at observatories for those lazer light shows.

[CheekyG2]

Also, Tom told me himself that they edited about 4 versions....

[CheekyG2]

I think this one is the scary one.... shows more of the severed head and body bag.

[CheekyG2]

Yes it was, and there are approx 4 different edits floating around, this version is one of the rarely seen ones.

[Iceblooo]

I knew there were three but didn't know about the fourth one. Wonder if we will ever see them all again ?

I remember the Twins saying that one was too scary for kids so they had to tone it down and do a new version. Wonder what happened to the scary one ?

[Iceblooo]

Still love this video. Wasn't it directed by Godley and Creme ?

[CheekyG2]

Babble are no more, Alannah Currie is no longer in the music scene and Tom Bailey now has an outfit called International Observer, a mix of cool instrumental dubs music.

Tom has worked with New Zealand band stellar* as their producer... stellar* are here on You Tube as is Babble, do a search for them.

Hope this helps?

[CheekyG2]

In 1993, they formed the band Babble, doing ambient/world/dance music.

Two Babble albums are available "The Stone" & "Ether" and 3 singles: "Take Me Away", "Beautiful"/"Tribe" & "Love Has No Name".

[CheekyG2]

Who? The Thompson Twins?

They continued the band with Joe Leeway til 1992. Their last album was in the style of dance and acid house. It was called "Queer".

The last single was "Pay With Me (Jane)".

[anacondajohnson]

@CheekyG2 Actually, Leeway left in '86. Also, the single was called "Play with Me (Jane)".

[CheekyG2]

@anacondajohnson haha, I know, spelling mistake there :-)

[ijp13]

yea

does anyone know what happened to them