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Dream Harder by The Waterboys
Dream Harder is an album by The Waterboys, released in 1993. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 4 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Glastonbury song”, on 2 lists with a best position of #1193.
Dream Harder, the sixth studio album from the Waterboys, came out on Geffen in May 1993, and it's the Waterboys in name only. Mike Scott had shed every one of the old UK-based players and cut the record with American session musicians, producing it with Bill Price, and it would be the last album under the band's name before he spent seven years working solo.
After two albums soaked in Celtic folk, Scott plugged back in and went for rock, even hard rock, with the guitars turned up and the mysticism intact. "The Return of Pan" is his second hymn to the Greek god, "Glastonbury Song" rides the same big, swaggering wave, and elsewhere he nods to the neopaganism of Dion Fortune, the Christian mysticism of C. S. Lewis, and Jimi Hendrix, while keeping up the band's habit of setting a Yeats poem, this time "Love and Death", to music. The critics grumbled about the sound, but it charted higher in America than Room to Roam.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Dream Harder on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glastonbury song | 2 | #1193 | – | 2002–2003 | |
| 2 | The Return of Pan | 2 | #1730 | – | 2002–2003 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.