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“Street of Dreams” by Rainbow
From the album Bent Out of Shape (1983)
“Street of Dreams” by Rainbow appears on 10 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 1990 and 2023. It was first released in 1983 on the album Bent Out of Shape. Its best result is #172 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,864 classic rock song of all time.
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"Street of Dreams" led off Bent Out of Shape, Rainbow's 1983 follow-up to Straight Between the Eyes, and it finds the band trading some of the thunder for mood. Ritchie Blackmore wrote the music and plays guitar, Joe Lynn Turner wrote the words and sings them, and Roger Glover produced as well as playing bass and percussion, with Chuck Burgi on drums and David Rosenthal on keyboards. Flemming Rasmussen engineered, Nick Blagona mixed, and Blackmore has named it among his own favourite Rainbow songs.
Storm Thorgerson directed the video as a dream-logic thriller: a sinister psychiatrist locks a woman in a closet, then takes on a patient whose girlfriend has vanished and hypnotizes him, and the dream the young man describes, a street full of beds, a band in a basement, a kidnapping by a lake, plays out as the song rolls.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 172 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
| 1994 | 722 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) | 1000 |
| 1995 | 949 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) | 1000 |
| 1996 | 976 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) | 1000 |
| 1998 | 938 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) | 1000 |
| 1999 | 922 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) | 998 |
| 2002 | 948 | KISW | KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) | 999 |
| 2016 | 1004 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Countdown for 2016 | 1007 |
| 2021 | 772 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2021) | 1043 |
| 2023 | 818 | 101.5 WPDH | WPDH Top 1015 (2023) | 1015 |
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