Wildest Dreams

Wildest Dreams Artist: Saga
Label: Polygram Int'l
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 731452357922
EAN: 0731452357922
ASIN: B0000073IZ


Release Date: 1997-01-17

Wildest Dreams


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Tracks:

  1. Don't Put Out The Fire
  2. Only Time Will Tell
  3. Wildest Dreams
  4. Chase The Wind
  5. We've Been Here Before
  6. Way Of The World
  7. Angel
  8. Don't Look Down

Similar Items:

  1. Behaviour
  2. Heads or Tales
  3. Steel Umbrellas
  4. Silent Knight
  5. Saga

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Stripped down Saga.......2005-01-29

Back in '87, I caught 'Only Time Will Tell' on the radio and went out to pick up Wildest Dreams (on vinyl) and really enjoyed it on the first listen. No mean feat as it usually takes a few listens for me to warm up to new material.
Keith Olson, as the producer, allowed the instruments to breathe to give this cd a very lush and warm sounding recording.
Wildest Dreams finds a change in the Saga lineup as Jim Gilmour and Steve Negus are absent. Curt Cress picks up admirably from Steve and provides a break from Steve's hi-hat intensive drumming style. Jim Crichton's nice bass grooves drive a lot of the songs not to be outdone by his brother's amazing and underrated guitar work. The keyboard and vocal work is up to Saga's normal standards - great.
I find the fourth and eighth tracks are the weakest but that is just in comparison to the other strong tracks on the cd.
If you are thinking of starting to pick up Saga material, start with Worlds Apart, Silent Night or Heads or Tails (with apologies to the Behaviour fans - I have yet to pick this up). Definitely, put this cd on your next to-do list.

5 out of 5 stars Your Wildest Dreams.......2003-09-15

This is a great CD. Not a bad song in the lot. Years later I listen to it regularly. Great songwriting and even better playing and singing. If you're disappointed in this, go back to playing with blocks in the sandbox....

4 out of 5 stars Very Good.......2002-12-07

This is some of guitarest Ian Crichton's finest work. Excellently produced by Keith Olsen. Maybe a little mainsteam, but the Full Digital Recording makes this CD sound perfect. A must have for guitar buffs. Great Riffs!

3 out of 5 stars Three good songs on it..rest medicore.......2002-07-29

This cd has three good songs on it which are the first three tracks..especially don't put out the fire and only time will tell. The rest of the cd is pretty medicore..way too watered down..trying to be comercial in the worst way.

5 out of 5 stars Refreshingly Mature Masterpiece of the 80's.......2002-03-27

Sure it's not one of Saga's progressive masterpieces, but I think people who bash this record fail to see in what circumstances it was recorded and why. Wow, I thought Saga fans were smarter than that. They're basically destroying what they don't understand. Oh well, allow me to enlighten you w/ some objectivity by taking this album aside from the others and having a look at it for what it is- a great record!
This was digitally recorded in the 80's-which was a time that was not very accepting/forgiving of 70's acts. Saga, always being on the edge of technology and slightly tweaking their sound occasionally to fit the times w/out selling out, went a little commercial, but not as badly as other reviews of this record state. Isn't Saga allowed to try something different?
Wildest Dreams is a pleasant, tasteful and at times, poppy record. A great follow-up to the frighteningly excellent 'Behaviour.' To say this is a sell out makes it sound like Bon Jovi or Poison kiddie nonsense. At times this is almost like Roxy Music- mature and sophisticated.
"Only Time Will Tell" is a gem. "Chase the Wind," "We've Been Here Before" and "Angel" are brilliant and deserve to be heard. I won't get into the other songs, I've stated my case for Saga here, it's just sad to see a great band get raked over the coals for trying something contemporary for those times and which sounds refreshing during the death knell of rock music. At least Saga got theirs before MTV killed integrity.

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