Tracklist:1. Dream Child
2. Starlight Dancer (live)
A Surprising Dream – 7,4/10
When you hear the entire Close to the Fire album, you start to wonder if some songs would’ve made it as singles... but not this song. It’s a good track, nevertheless, but a single has some things a single needs to be a successful single, but this song lacks those things. It’s not material for airplay, it’s not that catchy at all and it’s just too mellow. Apart from that, the song still is good, just not good as a single.
The A-side features “Dream Child”, a mysteriously arranged ballad about a kid that can’t sleep. That’s about it. It begins with plucking on a synth-drenched guitar and the commanding vocals of Max Werner. In this beginning it even threatens to become a really powerful song, but after a promising break the chorus stays in the gentle vibes and arrangements. The song is not bad at all, but not a chartbreaker and not immensely good as a stand-alone song. It’s an albumtrack, and keeps its power and charms when listened right after “When Hearts Grow Cold” and right before “Frozen Flame”.
The B-side is worth buying this single... the only official true live recording with Max Werner! “Starlight Dancer” is an old favorite and still stands as one of Kayak’s live classics, but no other vocalist can capture the essence of this song as well as Max Werner. There has not been any official Kayak live recording with Max Werner released before or after, so this makes it pretty special.
To conclude this review, if you are a Kayak collector, you should get this for the live b-side. If you are not a collector, then don’t bother searching for this single and you won’t find it either.
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