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"Dream Baby Dream"
"Dream Baby Dream"
Single by Bruce Springsteen
from the album High Hopes
Released	2008 (live), 2014 (studio)
Genre	Rock; soul;
Length	6:19 (live) 5:03 (studio)
Label	Columbia Records
Songwriter(s)	Martin Reverby; Boruch Bermowitz;

"Dream Baby Dream"
"Dream Baby Dream"
Single by Suicide
B-side	"Radiation"
Released	1979
Recorded	Right Track Recording, NY
Genre	Synth-punk;
Length	6:19
Label	Island
Songwriter(s)	Martin Reverby; Boruch Bermowitz;
Producer(s)	Ric Ocasek
Suicide singles chronology

"Dream Baby Dream" is a song by the electro-punk band Suicide, written by its members Martin Rev and Alan Vega. It was released as a single in 1979 by Island Records. It has been covered by Neneh Cherry and The Thing on the 2011-recorded album The Cherry Thing and by Bruce Springsteen both live and in a studio version released on High Hopes (2014). Springsteen released a live version as an EP which was a part of the Alan Vega 70th Birthday Limited Edition EP Series in 2008. Also part of the EP series was a live version of "Dream Baby Dream" performed by Suicide on NBC's The Midnight Special in 1978.

The song appeared in Adam Curtis' 2016 BBC documentary HyperNormalisation during a montage featuring skyscrapers being blown up.^[1]

The song features on the closing credits of Alex Garland's Civil War (2024).

A live cover version of the song by the band Savages^[2] also appears in the 2014 film Electric Slide.^[3]

Accolades

Year	Publication	Country	Accolade	Rank
1985	Sounds	United Kingdom	The 100 Best Singles of All Time^[3]	76
2001	Uncut		The 100 Greatest Singles from the Post-Punk Era^[2]	42
2003	Q		The 1001 Best Songs Ever^[4]	901
2008	Pitchfork	United States	The Pitchfork 500: 1977–1979^[5]	*
2016	Pitchfork	United States	The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s^[6]	37

(*) designates unordered lists.

All songs written by Martin Rev and Alan Vega

Adapted from the Dream Baby Dream liner notes.^[7]

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
United Kingdom	1979	Island	LP	WIP 6543
France	1981	Celluloid, ZE	LP	CEL 6590

^ Pollard, Alexandra (2016-10-30). "Suicide's Dream Baby Dream – the unlikely anthem of 2016". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-06-25.
^ ^a ^b "Uncut – The 100 Greatest Singles Of The Post-Punk Era". Uncut. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Sounds All Time Top 100 Singles". Sounds. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
^ "Q Special Edition – 1001 Best Songs Ever". Q. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
^ "Guide to the Greatest Songs From Punk to the Present". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 2015-12-07. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
^ "The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s – Page 9". Pitchfork. 22 August 2016.
^ Dream Baby Dream (sleeve). Suicide. London, United Kingdom: Island Records. 1979.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)