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Peter Cunnah and Al Mackenzie, a.k.a. D:Ream are probably best known for their hits Things Can Only Get Better and UR The Best Thing, or that they had a famous scientist play keyboards for them! Peter Cunnah and Al Mackenzie, a.k.a. D:Ream are probably best known for their hits Things Can Only Get Better and UR The Best Thing, or that they had a famous scientist play keyboards for them!
However, there is so much more than that to discover. They have had two UK Top 10 albums: 1993’s D:ream On Vo1 and 1995’s World plus ten Top 40 singles. Things Can Only Get Better was no.1 for four weeks in 1994 then was famously co-opted as the anthem in 1997 by Tony Blair’s Labour Party, writing D:Ream into English history; pop, political and otherwise!
New album The Best Thing is a collection of these hits, remastered from the original 2” tapes. Also included are unreleased live versions of tracks from their 1995 Shepherds Bush Empire gig, three unreleased demos including the original instrumental version of Things Can Only Get Better, two newly commissioned remixes from Mark Knight and Illyus & Barrientos and finally some re-found unreleased remixes from the archive by Sasha, Leftfield, MK, Sure is Pure and Joy.
The CD format will include extensive sleeve notes by Nick Duerden and a collection of unseen pictures from the band. Tracks: CD1
Things Can Only Get Better
U R The Best Thing
Take Me Away
Unforgiven
Star
I Like it
Blame it on Me
Shoot Me With Your Love (Loveland's Pop'd Up Mix)
Party Up The World
Take Me Away (Live from Shepherd Bush 1995)
U R The Best Thing (Live from Shepherd Bush 1995)
CD2
Things Can Only Get Better (Demo Mix)
Dazed & Confused (Demo)
99% (Demo)
Things Can Only Get Better (MK Dub Mix)
U R The Best Thing (Sasha Instrumental)
Things Can Only Get Better (Mark Knight Remix)
U R The Best Thing (Illyus & Barrientos Remix)
I Like It (Sure Is Pure Remix)
U R The Best Thing (Perfecto Remix)
Unforgiven (Leftfield Hands Remix)
Blame It On Me (The Herbal Mix)

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