“Things That Dreams Are Made of” by The Human League

"Things That Dreams Are Made Of" throws open Dare, the Human League's third album, cut at Genetic Studios during the summer of 1981 with Martin Rushent producing. It's a celebration of small pleasures set against something bigger: Philip Oakey rattles off favourite things of his and Philip Adrian Wright's, from ice cream to Norman Wisdom to the members of the Ramones, and Wright said the song stood for the band's own ambition. Oakey and Wright share the music credit; the words are Wright's.

Susan Ann Sulley and Joanne Catherall, 18 and just out of school, sing backup. For all that, it only ever came out as a single in South Africa, until a batch of remixes appeared as a dance EP in February 2008 and reached number two on the UK Dance Chart.

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