{"id":3557001,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3557001/?format=json","airdate":"2025-09-24T02:56:36-07:00","show":64646,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64646/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Dream Baby Dream","track_id":"caf1d6e0-6da2-4078-b60b-7d6b5b72718f","recording_id":"030bf4ee-481b-4d8d-a37d-dd19a2c02951","artist":"Suicide","artist_ids":["7a0f02e0-0ab8-4a62-9e14-c6925cfaed07"],"album":"Zetrospective: Dancing in the Face of Adversity","release_id":"61a0e25c-7b58-4afd-abf4-98c2f0267473","release_group_id":"c139fe8c-7074-4941-8dce-a69a888192f9","labels":["ZE Records"],"label_ids":["9474b0cc-8065-457c-865d-463f2383ce00"],"release_date":"1989-01-01","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":true,"is_live":false,"comment":"Ric Ocasek of The Cars produced this great song, written by Martin Reverby and Alan Vega (Boruch Bermowitz).\n--\nDream Baby Dream is unquantifiable. There’s a weightlessness to it, a timelessness too, which perhaps explains why it’s circled back around. Anchored by an urgent electric drum beat that lurks like a ticking bomb beneath Vega’s murky vocals, its lyrics are stark, yet impenetrable. “Dream baby dream, forever and ever,” sings Vega in a voice that has been likened to Elvis – though it’s more of a hazy drawl, with Vega swallowing his consonants as if he lacks the enthusiasm to let his lips touch. “Yeah those dreams keep you free.”\nHere's an in-depth article about this song and its reimagining by artists like Bruce Springsteen and Neneh Cherry: https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/oct/30/suicide-dream-baby-dream-bruce-springsteen-adam-curtis-american-honey","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}