He complimented it as "intoxicating, beguiling, a gossamer waltz across sacred ground", and concluded, "So enjoy the delicate but profound delights of 'Dreams' now. Upon the 1992 release, Ian Gittins from Melody Maker named "Dreams" Single of the Week. We’re so lucky to have left that behind, to have that legacy. We must have played it a gazillion times in our lives and it just becomes a part of the set, but it’s different now. And when I listen to them now I realise how great they are for someone so young, which I never, ever appreciated until a year ago. They were just songs in the set list for us everybody else was losing their mind about them. It's only really since Dolores passed away that I've grown a proper appreciation for songs like 'Linger' and 'Dreams'. In an interview for New Musical Express, guitarist Noel Hogan said of the song: The song was later released on a demo tape with " Linger" that helped generate excitement for the band. It's about feeling really in love for the first time". Background Īccording to lead singer Dolores O'Riordan, "Dreams" was written for an early love she explained, "I wrote that about my first love when I was living in Ireland. In 2017, the song was released as an acoustic, stripped-down version on the band's Something Else album. At the end of the song, the backing vocals are sung by Mike Mahoney, ex-boyfriend of Cranberries lead singer Dolores O'Riordan. A 1990 demo version was released in Ireland only in the summer of that year under their initial band name, the Cranberry Saw Us. The song reached the top 50 of the US Hot 100 and the top 30 of the UK Singles Chart in early 1994. It was originally released in September 1992 and later appeared on the band's debut album, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (1993). " Dreams" is the debut single of Irish rock band the Cranberries.
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