Dream Police (preview)

UnSparkPlugged – Acoustic Artist

Shadows Beatles-Inspired Experimental Song | Dream Police (preview) by UnSparkPlugged

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'We are your Dream Police - we're gonna find you!' Menacing bass, sneaky electric guitars and scary vocal harmonies.

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UnSparkPlugged

The experimental semi-acoustic wing of guitar-based vocal harmony and instrumental trio, Bright Spark

UnSparkPlugged is the writing, preview and demo wing of the band Bright Spark.

We have lots of new songs at various stages of development, and they appear here designated as follows:

"Skim" means just a flavour of the song, not necessarily complete or coherent or in the right order.

"Outline" is similar but should give the structure too.

"Preview" is a bit more complete, often with a bass, harmonies and extra guitar tracks.

"Demo" is pretty much how the finished version will sound, often recorded by the full band with drums etc., but needs proper mixing and mastering.

"Current" is mixed but needs further mastering, etc.

"Final" well, are they ever final? but usually this is the released CD version and is ready for the Bright Spark page.

Independent artist UnSparkPlugged drops "Dream Police (preview)", an Experimental track on SoundClick. The track carries an emotional weight that lingers well after it ends. With a tone that is shadows, the rolling stones and the doors, UnSparkPlugged's track connects on an emotional level. "Dream Police (preview)" has peaked at #16 in the Experimental category on SoundClick. In the style of Beatles, Radiohead and Coldplay, this type-beat track is available to license royalty-free with a Creative Commons license on UnSparkPlugged's SoundClick page.

Song Info

Genre

Alternative • Experimental

Charts

#12,531 today Peak #123

#2,684 in subgenre today Peak #16

Author

John Bartram

Rights

John Bartram

Uploaded

June 05, 2007

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.5 MB • 128 kbps • 3:49 minutes

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Beatles

Iconic British rock band known for melodic songwriting and major influence on popular music.

Radiohead

An influential English alternative rock band known for experimental, atmospheric, and emotionally intense music.

Coldplay

British band known for anthemic, melodic pop rock with emotional, expansive production.

Paul Simon

American singer-songwriter known for folk rock, pop, and world music influences.

An Irish rock band known for anthemic, stadium-sized alternative rock and post-punk-influenced songs.

Santana

A rock fusion artist/band known for Latin-infused guitar-driven music.

Dylan

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Beach Boys

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Lennon

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Bb King

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Brad Paisley

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Bee Gees

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Kinks

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Neil Diamond

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Story behind the song

John Bartram wrote this song about the encroachment into our lives and the attempts by politicians to shape our views for their own ends.

This preview version has four vocal lines by John and one by Heather. John plays the underlying chiming electric guitar and the instrumental solo. Heather's fretless bassline plays e,f,e,f against the Am7 and Fmaj7 chords, e,g,e,g against the G chord then e,f#,e,f# against the D, then reverts to conventional patterns in the instrumental.

The next version will be recorded in the studio from scratch, this is our normal way of working. Pete will probably replace a couple of the vocal lines and will of course add drums, which will improve this song no end!

Lyrics

Dream Police

When you're young it's all OK and help is all at hand
but don't grow old, you'll feel the cold, they'll bury you in the sand
Stand right up and speak your mind or even only think it
We're tuning into all your kind, your pleasure-boat we'll sink it

We are your Dream Police, we are your Dream Police – 
and we're gonna find you!

Too many others coming here, they force-feed what to believe in
We've done quite well so disbelieve the web of lies they're leaving
Global warming, new age dawning, the planet must be saved
Alarmist talk then takes your mind off politicians who've misbehaved

We are your Dream Police, we are your Dream Police – 
and we're gonna find you!

{Instrumental}

We are your Dream Police, we are your Dream Police – 
and we're gonna find you!

While Bush and Blair are waging war, making friends in the Middle East,
You are forced to believe they are really making peace.
Last week we're at war with them and this week they're our friends,
Next week we can apologize, do our best to make amends

We are your Dream Police, we are your Dream Police – 
We're gonna get you!
We're gonna get you!
We're gonna get you!

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