Dream Academy - Love (12" Single) (1990) and 50 similar items

Catalog Number: 9-21738-0 Condition Details: GOLD PROMO stamp on front. CD cassette sticker on front. Vinyl plays nicely (play-graded). 12" Single. Cover has a few creases near edges; light-scuffing (front/back). Inner-sleeve is plastic. Spine is unbroken, clean and easy-to-read. Minor shelf-wear along side-edges and corners. Top opening is crisp with signs of light use and divots. (Not a cut-out.) Tracks: Love (Dream House) Love (Love Is 12) Love (Love Trance) Love (Hare Krishna Mix) Love (Whales In Love) Love (Dreamstrumental) Mordechai Vanunu About The Record: Love (12" Single), by The Dream Academy is a lesser-known but intriguing UK-only 12-inch release centered around three distinct versions of their song Love, a dreamy, baroque-pop reworking of the 1965 John Lennon composition originally credited to The Beatles. The A-side features the dramatic seven-minute Love (Dream House Mix), with extended orchestral swells and atmospheric production, while the flip offers the shorter Love (Dream Repercussion Mix) and the haunting instrumental Love (Whisper Mix). Notably, singer Kate St Johns ethereal, multi-octcluded lead vocal gives the track a ghostly, almost funereal quality that starkly contrasts with Lennons gentle original, making it one of the bands most experimental recordings. Devoted fans often cite these versions as hidden gems in the Dream Academy catalog, cherished for their lush, cinematic soundscapes that foreshadow the trip-hop and chill-out movements of the following decade. Despite its artistic ambition, the single remained a cult favorite rather than a commercial breakthrough.