Caught in a Dream

"Caught in a Dream"
Single by Alice Cooper
from the album Love It to Death
B-side "Hallowed Be My Name"
Released November 1971
Format 7-inch record
Recorded 1971
Genre Hard rock
Length 3:10
Label Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s) Michael Bruce
Producer(s) Bob Ezrin
Alice Cooper singles chronology
"I'm Eighteen"
(1970)		 "Caught in a Dream"
(1971)		 "Under My Wheels"
(1971)

"Caught in a Dream" is a 1971 song written by Michael Bruce and recorded by his band, Alice Cooper, on their first major label release album Love It to Death. As the album's second single[1] "Caught in a Dream" was released backed with "Hallowed Be My Name" in May 1971;[2] it peaked in the US at number 94.[1]

Coming just before the album's signature hit "I'm Eighteen", "Caught in a Dream" opens Love It to Death. It is a straight-ahead rocker that follows simple hard-rock formulas, trading heavy riffing with guitar fills and solos,[3] "Caught in a Dream" was the album's second single and featured irreverent, tongue-in-cheek lyrics such as "I need everything the world owes me / I tell that to myself and I agree".[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Swanson.
  2. ↑ Billboard staff 1971, p. 66.
  3. ↑ Prown & Newquist 1997, p. 99.

Works cited

  • Billboard staff (8 May 1971). "Billboard Album Reviews". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media: 66. ISSN 0006-2510.
  • Prown, Pete; Newquist, Harvey P. (1997). "Alice Cooper". Legends of Rock Guitar: The Essential Reference of Rock's Greatest Guitarists. Hal Leonard. pp. 99–100. ISBN 978-0-7935-4042-6.
  • Swanson, Dave. "10 Most Underrated Alice Cooper Songs". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
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