That's Cheap Trick at the top of the page, because we're starting today with their 1979 US Top 30 hit Dream Police. Watch out for some pretty ropey acting at the start of the video from the members of the band who don't like doing that sort of thing...
"But this is Namesakes," you cry! "Surely there can't be more than one band named after that old Cheap Trick song?" You must be dreaming!
DREAM POLICE #1
Well, clearly these guys didn't steal their name from Cheap Trick, since they were plying their trade back when Rick Nielsen and co. were still in high school.
These are the Glaswegian Dream Police, formed in 1967, featuring Hamish Stewart who would later join the Average White Band, and Matt Irving who ended up playing bass in Manfred Mann's Earth Band. I'm going to resit a gag about how this song might have been a Scottish World Cup tune...
DREAM POLICE #2
Danish punks from 1978 next, and I'm sure they wouldn't have been seen dead listening to Cheap Trick records.
DREAM POLICE #3
Some Norwegian hair metal next, from 1990. These guys openly admit to being named after the Cheap Trick tune. Guitarist Trond Holter previously played on Ole I Dole's 1985 album 'Blond Og Billig'
and would later change his name to 'Teeny' when he joined glam rock group Wig Wam in 2001.
DREAM POLICE #4
A Swedish Dream Police from the same year... they had to change their name when the Norwegians came knocking, so they became Snakepit Rebels instead.
DREAM POLICE #5
Side project of Brooklyn punk band The Men, starting in 2010 when Mark Perro and Nick Chiericozzi clearly wanted to show their funkier side.
DREAM POLICE #6
Finally, some electro-bobbins from Barbâtre, France in 2020. The best I can say for this is that it's not even two and a half minutes long. But you're entitled to disagree.
Which ones will be policing your dreams tonight - and which ones will be giving you nightmares?
Electro-bobbins is all the rage apparently!
ReplyDelete#2 is bobbins, as are #3 and #4. #5 has a promising start.........and is the one to beat. #6 is of course not very good. So it's #5 for me.
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