Stolen Dreams
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Stolen Dreams
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Band
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Rest in Peace
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Released
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October 1st, 2007
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Recorded
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August 2007 - September 2007, Abbey Road Studios
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Genre(s)
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Post-hardcore
Punk rock Progressive rock Art punk Experimental |
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Lenght
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51:24
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Stolen Dreams is the fifth studio album released by Buenos Aires-based band Rest in Peace. This was the first album of the band without lead guitarist Miguel Alche, who then would reunite with the band for the release of Revolutionary Breakdown. Also, this is the band's best selling, and maybe the most significant album to date.
With this album, Rest in Peace started to gain media attention and soon they turned into a massive band. The album was Top 10 everywhere, peaking at #5 in Asia and Europe. It sold, worldwide, 4,543,189 copies to date, and was the only Rest in Peace album to be at the Top 250 of the Best Selling Albums of All Time, although it then was taken off the Top.
Four singles were released off the album: "Reasons..." , which was the band's second #1 single, "She", "Drugs (Are Not For Me)" and "G and Destroy", released after the release of the band's sixth album, Efímero. "She" had significant radio airplay and its video was featured during several weeks on MTV's Top 10 (the same with "G and Destroy").
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[edit] Style
This album is regarded, by most of reviewers, media, fans, etc., as the best album of the band and the one which started a "revolution" in Rest in Peace's early punk-rock sound. There is also a lot of people that considers Missing Letters, Dying Words as the most contrasting album (the songs "Imperio" and "Superball" are two great examples), compared with the band's earliest material.
Stolen Dreams takes the band's original punk-rock sound and mixes it, somehow, with elements of post-hardcore, grunge, progressive rock and experimental music. Its compositions are very complex, and most of the songs include keyboards (only used before in some tracks of Missing Letters) and, some songs, acoustic guitar, commonly used just for acoustic live versions. It's also important the use of synthesizers, even in the less-experimental songs (like "I'm A Ramone").
Lyrically, it also shows a change, being the lyrics more poetic and abstract. The use of metaphores is notable higher than the past albums, and the change of themes in the lyrics is also important.
[edit] Recording
The album was recorded alongside Revolución - Vol.2: Agony and the first sessions of Efímero. Eduardo Savino explained, after the release of Efímero:
"If you listen the three albums together, I mean, first Agony, then Stolen Dreams and, finally, Efímero, you can easily note the difference between the three albums: how they were recorded, how they are, somehow, a kind of "trilogy", how the ideas came, how we decided to stay three months working on three different albums. We first recorded Agony, then we started the sessions of Efímero, but we decided first to finish Stolen Dreams. Someway, that helped us to make what Stolen Dreams is now, and do something even weirdest in the next album."
[edit] Track listing
All tracks written by Eduardo Savino, except where noted. Music by Rest in Peace.
- "Reasons..." - 4:21
- "She" - 4:42
- "Drugs (Are Not For Me)" (Savino, Vuisso) - 5:16
- "Believe" (Savino, Vuisso) - 6:35
- "Punk-Rock" - 5:13
- "He's Never Coming Back" - 6:46
- "Not Alone" (Vuisso) - 3:34
- "I'm A Ramone" - 3:17
- "G and Destroy" - 5:22
- "What the Hell (Are You Waiting For)?" - 7:38
[edit] Bonus tracks
- "We've Been Here Enough" - 4:33 (Japanese CD release, UK CD release, replacing "Punk-Rock")
- "Bombs" - 6:12 (UK and Australian CD release)
- "Sorrow" - 4:25 (Available on iTunes and vinyl edition)
- "Somewhere" (Moronic Changeling) - 2:53 (Argentinian CD release and vinyl edition)
[edit] Peak positions
| Region | Peak Position | Sales Total |
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| UK | #6 | 655,411 |
| USA | #6 | 647,602 |
| Canada | #6 | 655,374 |
| Aus & NZ | #7 | 647,659 |
| South America | #6 | 648,539 |
| Asia | #5 | 651,724 |
| Europe | #5 | 636,880 |
| World | #6 | 4,543,189 |
[edit] Personnel
- Eduardo Savino - vocals, keyboards, synths, acoustic guitar
- Pedro Vuisso - bass, backing vocals, guitar on "Not Alone" and "Sorrow"
- Federico Rosbaco - lead guitar, backing vocals
- Nicolás Rannoz - rythm guitar
- Guido Monteur - drums, backing vocals
[edit] Additional personnel
- Fred Sherman - mixing, piano on "Not Alone"
- Tony Visconti - producing
- Rubén Ispano - accordion on "G and Destroy" and "Believe"
| Rest in Peace (edit) | ||
| Eduardo Savino · Pedro Vuisso · Federico Rosbaco · Miguel Alche · Guido Monteur | ||
| Albums: Kiss the Devil · Revolución - Vol.1: Odio · PUNK: Around the World - Rest in Peace Live! · Missing Letters, Dying Words · Revolución - Vol.2: Agony · Stolen Dreams · Efímero · Songs for... Well, Just B-sides · Revolutionary Breakdown | ||
| EPs: I Give You My Heart (On Christmas Night) · Live at the Aragon Ballroom | ||
| Singles: Palacio de las Mentiras · Awakening · Your Pain, My Pleasure · Ansiedad · Debes Mantenerte Quieta · Awakening (live) · Useless · Coldhearted · Tears and Screams · Not Alone · Fuck You · Ambitions of a Narrow Minded Hero · Hell Girl · Imperio · Reasons... · She · Drugs (Are Not For Me) · Sin Ideales · Efímero · G and Destroy · Grammar or Death · Smash Your Head · Revolutionary Breakdown · Sunshine · Anarchist Child | ||
| Labels: Death Records · Midnight/Mythic Records | ||
| Notable side projects: Self Esteem · The Helium Balloon | ||
| Related articles: Discography |
