Howard Jones – Dream Into Action (Deluxe Remastered & Expanded Edition) (1985/2018/2024) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

Howard Jones – Dream Into Action (Deluxe Remastered & Expanded Edition) (1985/2018/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:19:11 minutes | 1,59 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cherry Red Records

Newly remastered and expanded edition. Released in March 1985, “Dream Into Action” reached No.2 in the UK Album Charts and achieved Gold Album status. Like its predecessor “Human’s Lib”, “Dream Into Action” contained four Top 20 hit singles; ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ reached No.6, ‘Look Mama’ at No. 10, ‘Life In One Day’ at No.14 and ‘No One Is To Blame’ at No.16.

In addition to these four Top 20 Hit singles, the original album version of “Dream Into Action” also contained a bonus track, namely Howard’s hit single from the previous year – ‘Like To Get To Know You Well’ – which reached No.4 in the Singles Chart.“Dream Into Action” also enjoyed massive international acclaim and success; particularly in the USA where it reached No.10 in the Billboard Album charts achieving Platinum status. It spawned three Billboard Top 20 hit singles including ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ at No.5, ‘Life In One Day’ at No.19 and a re-recorded version of ‘No One Is To Blame’ featuring Phil Collins on backing vocals and drums (produced by Hugh Padgham), which gave Howard his biggest ever US hit single reaching No.4.

As well as achieving great success in the UK (# 1) and USA, “Dream Into Action” and the various singles taken from it also enjoyed tremendous success internationally in such countries as Canada, New Zealand, Australia and throughout most of Europe.

“Dream Into Action begins with Howard Jones singing “Things Can Only Get Better,” a sentiment that only hints at the good vibes touted by the synth pop singer on his second album. On his debut, 1984’s Human’s Lib, Jones sang about positivity, but this sequel plays like a self-empowerment manifesto, filled with cautionary tales and anthems of hope. “No One Is to Blame,” a cavernous ballad of encouragement which was given a hit revision with the assistance of Phil Collins, exemplifies the latter but it doesn’t typify the album, which trades in peppy pop tunes of self-actualization, best represented by the chipper hits “Things Can Only Get Better” and “Life in One Day.” Synthesizers retain their place in the spotlight but Dream Into Action doesn’t feel like a synth pop album, not in the way the sleekly electronic Human’s Lib did. Instead, this is a big, bright album that epitomizes the sound of the mainstream in the mid-’80s, a time when computers worked overtime to disguise themselves as human sounds. And that’s why Dream Into Action is, in many ways, the apotheosis of Howard Jones’ career: he’d yet to drift into softened adult contemporary, and he still had enthusiasm for his hooks, his machines, and his positivity, the very things that distinguished him from the legions of synth poppers in the mid-’80s.” (Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AMG)

Tracklist:

1-1. Howard Jones – Things Can Only Get Better (2018 Remaster) (03:55)
1-2. Howard Jones – Life In One Day (2018 Remaster) (03:39)
1-3. Howard Jones – Dream Into Action (2018 Remaster) (03:47)
1-4. Howard Jones – No One Is To Blame (2018 Remaster) (03:28)
1-5. Howard Jones – Look Mama (2018 Remaster) (04:03)
1-6. Howard Jones – Assault And Battery (2018 Remaster) (04:52)
1-7. Howard Jones – Automaton (2018 Remaster) (04:06)
1-8. Howard Jones – Is There A Difference? (2018 Remaster) (03:34)
1-9. Howard Jones – Elegy (2018 Remaster) (04:24)
1-10. Howard Jones – Speciality (2018 Remaster) (04:02)
1-11. Howard Jones – Why Look For The Key (2018 Remaster) (03:22)
1-12. Howard Jones – Hunger For The Flesh (2018 Remaster) (04:01)
1-13. Howard Jones – Bounce Right Back (2018 Remaster) (04:33)
1-14. Howard Jones – Like To Get To Know You Well (2018 Remaster) (04:01)
1-15. Howard Jones – No One Is to Blame (Remake) (04:08)
1-16. Howard Jones – Like to Get to Know You Well (Demo Recorded In Howard’s Front Room) (03:25)
1-17. Howard Jones – No One Is To Blame (The Long Mix) (03:08)
2-1. Howard Jones – No One Is to Blame (Single Mix) (04:15)
2-2. Howard Jones – Like to Get to Know You Well (International Mix) (07:39)
2-3. Howard Jones – Things Can Only Get Better (Extended Mix) (07:27)
2-4. Howard Jones – Look Mama (R.H. Version) (09:05)
2-5. Howard Jones – Life in One Day, Pt. 1 (2018 Remaster) (06:50)
2-6. Howard Jones – Life in One Day, Pt. 2 (07:14)
2-7. Howard Jones – No One Is To Blame (Extended Mix) (05:21)
2-8. Howard Jones – Learning How to Love (2018 Remaster) (04:07)
2-9. Howard Jones – Boom Bap Respite (02:49)
2-10. Howard Jones – The Chase (02:50)
2-11. Howard Jones – No One Is to Blame (Lambs & Planes Mix) (07:38)
2-12. Howard Jones – Bounce Right Back (Cause And Effect Remix) (07:28)

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