Song · New Order
“Dream Attack” by New Order
From the album Technique (1989)
“Dream Attack” by New Order appears on 2 radio countdowns from 1 station between 1989 and 1990. It was first released in 1989 on the album Technique. Its best result is #15 on the Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1989. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #75 alternative song of 1989 and #5,709 alternative song of all time.
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New Order produced "Dream Attack" themselves and wrote it together, the credit going to Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert, and it came out in 1989 on Technique, the band's fifth album and a Factory Records release. Sumner, who wrote every lyric on the record, supplied its words.
Technique is where Ibiza and the acid house boom got into New Order's bloodstream: they cut part of it on the island and folded Balearic beat into their dance-rock. Sumner saw it as a compromise, keeping the dance-electronic sound they were known for while still writing as a band, while Hook grumbled, half joking, that he was fighting the sequencers the whole way. With "Fine Time" leading the singles, it gave them their first number-one album in the UK.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 15 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1989 | 105 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 181 | Live 105 | Live 105 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1990) | 299 |
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