Name: Prelude to Dream Machine
Channel: Hembree, Croswell and Foster
Description: "Prelude to Dream Machine" is a song by Concrete Sky. Prelude is a trip through the history of modern music, composed with flashbacks to the 70's, journeys through the New Age and landing in Alternative.

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Prelude is a trip through the history of modern music, composed with flashbacks to the 70's, journeys through the New Age and landing in Alternative.

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Concrete Sky

Concrete Sky, Rock n' Roll Expansionists from Virginia, USA. All original music in the tradition of Radiohead, Stone Temple Pilots, Pink Floyd, Jeff Beck. Incub

"Concrete Sky is an unquestionably talented group of musicians whose music is loaded with hooks and mass commercial appeal." - - Splash Magazine "The Virginia band that’s oh so heavy." -- MOTF Switchboard , UK Sooper Dooper Wowie!!! -- Shad O'Sheh, President of Fraternity Records

Song Info

Genre

Alternative • Experimental

Charts

#4,797 in subgenre Peak #1

Charts

Peak #2

Author

Hembree, Croswell and Foster

Rights

2003, Concrete Sky

Uploaded

December 10, 2003

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.9 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00

Story behind the song

Prelude to Dream Machine was one of those rare inspired songs. I was listening to a lot of Incubus and Radiohead at the time, and they set the mood. I was thinking about how music has progressed over the years, and wanted to bring a classic rock feel to the song, but still have a modern edge. The song is both about escape and hope and the desire to relive the past and travel to a better future. It's a pleasant way of saying we are dissatisfied with our current world.

Lyrics

Prelude to Dream Machine
-- Lyrics by Hembree and Foster

Fantastic voyage,
Takes me away
Imaginary homelands
Are where I want to stay
Waves of Paradise roll
In from the sea
Fills my space with peace
And serenity

Space
Time
Dream Machine

Space
Time
Dream Machine

Wasting time, 
and the time goes by,
Stuck to the tube 
and no life to lose.
One day, 
Gotta get out  to the scene
Who wants to see my dream machine?

"I'd like to think of a cybernetic forest,
Filled with pines and electronics.
Where deer stroll peacefully past computers,
As if they were flowers, 
With spinning blossoms,
All watched over by machines of loving grace."

(Lines quoted and slightly reassembled from from Richard Brautigan's poem, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace -1967)

Instrumental

Dream Machine
Dream Machine
Dream
Dream Machine

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