Debbie Gibson - Only In My Dreams

[Pet Shop Boy]

This is her best single by far IMO. It's just a perfect pop song. The 12" mix is great too, i'll upload it if anyone wants it.

#11 in the UK, I think the same in the US.

[mst3k]

I still love it. I don't like the album version as much as the original 7" single mix though.

Peaked at #4 on the Hot 100, #3 R&R CHR.

[benmcd2000]

yes I agree......always refreshing to listen to now and then. I loved Debbie's first two albums. Pure gold :)

[BillboardBoy]

I like it. I like most of Debbie's stuff. Even "Losin' Myself." :)

[reception]

[/size][/center]BillboardBoy wrote
I like it. I like most of Debbie's stuff. Even "Losin' Myself."  :)[/quote]

[JanetFan]

Great song. She was awesome. A friend and I were driving to an amusement park the day after seeing Janet in concert in 2001 and this song came on Backtracks USA and we rolled down the windows and blasted it. SO much fun!

[Ragin]

This was a great song. I don't really listen to Debbie Gibson much anymore, but she occupies a special place in my heart, she was a major crush for me when I was 14. Her music was pretty good though, I always thought.

[620 Soul Train]

mst3k said:

I still love it. I don't like the album version as much as the original 7" single mix though.

Peaked at #4 on the Hot 100, #3 R&R CHR.

Good lord, you can tell the difference as well?! :o I feel the same way excatly what you said. I think I can hear more of the rhythmic drum beat on the single version than the album version. Even the 12 inch version sounds like the an extended version of the album version IMO. You have no idea how disappointed I was when I bought the cassette hearing the LP version versus the radio version, really. Anyhow this is in my top 10 all time greatest pop song.

[mst3k]

joshjoel said:

Good lord, you can tell the difference as well?! :o I feel the same way excatly what you said. I think I can hear more of the rhythmic drum beat on the single version than the album version. Even the 12 inch version sounds like the an extended version of the album version IMO. You have no idea how disappointed I was when I bought the cassette hearing the LP version versus the radio version, really.

Yeah... the percussion is slightly different. Plus the LP version has this weird echoey effect on Debbie's vocals in the bridge (during the sax solo). I hate when I buy an album and the song I like is remixed differently (and this was the first single, for crying out loud).

[reception]

I'm assuming the link I posted was the LP version ???

[mst3k]

Yeah (although it's really hard to tell with that clip).

Here's a full version of the single.

[Deleted]

This is one of my favorites by her.

[areyoureadytojump]

The video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=S13fuTcLasU

[joker]

Probably my favorite Debbie song.

[areyoureadytojump]

It's Debbie Gibson day here on the Nostalgia board.

[WhySoSerious?]

I think this has held up the best of any of her songs. Still sounds great.

[Deleted]

My favorite from her after Foolish Beat and Anything Is Possible.

[C.Ro]

One of her best song... I love this... But Foolish Beat is my favorite from hers

[beach1]

This used to be my favorite song when I was like 6 or 7!

[SPRΞΞ]

LOVE this song! Takes me back to grade school <3

[esoteric76]

Was the 7" version ever available commercially?

If radio ever plays her, this is the "go to" song. Pretty much perfection!

[Chelsea Press 2]

I really love the song! I love both the original 7" mix and the newer Junior Vasquez mixes from 1997.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwCUVKlKzM4

Junior's mixes had some elements from the original plus a nice Eurodance production a la Xenomania and Motiv8.

Dec 8, 2011 15:59:05 GMT -5 esoteric76 said:

Was the 7" version ever available commercially?

Per Wikipedia (and a friend who is very knowledgeable about all things 80s), her Lost In Your Eyes and Other Hits compilation has that version.

www.amazon.com/Lost-Your-Eyes-Other-Hits/dp/B00002EPLE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323407967&sr=8-1

It's on a few other promotional and expensive commercially released ones.

[Ling-Ling]

This is still a JAM. Just a perfect little pop song. That chorus...

[Unhinged]

Love this! Debbie was the shit!

[♛ The Manticore ☯]

Great adorable song.

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

Love it. One of my faves from her.

[disman00911]

I was a toddler/preschooler/kindergartener during the late 80s/early 90s, meaning that I don't have as much of a memory of NKOTB, Debbie Gibson, or Tiffany as I do of the Backstreet Boys, N'Sync, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and the rest of the teen pop acts of the late 90s/early 2000s.  As for Debbie's music, this song is my favorite of hers.  Nice late 80s dance-pop track.

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

#479 on Billboard's 500 Greatest Pop Songs

You Know What It Is: The big bang of the late-’80s mall-pop explosion, and the introduction of one of the most gifted young stars in teen-pop history.

Living on Video: The clip, set in New Jersey’s Asbury Park, properly captured not only the indefatigable energy of then-16-year-old Debbie Gibson, but the wistful-beyond-her-years longing of “Dreams” — and its cuts between vibrant color and hazy black-and-white would become a visual cliché of the era.

Sign ‘o’ the Times: Did this song really need a sax solo to raise the dramatic stakes after the second chorus? (Yes, because it was released in the mid-’80s.)