Dream Baby Dream's developed a bit of a life of its own. Bruce Springsteen did a bit of a sepulchral cover (have no truck with Springsteen but it wasn't bad- just him and an organ), though my favourite's the excellent, fun-fun noise rock girls' Black Tambourine's cover; the great post-Galaxie 500 band Luna did it credit; then more recently Savages, Neneh Cherry & The Thing, The Arcade Fire & David Byrne, Massive Attack and who knows how many others have tried to tackle the song. I guess it's one of those divinely simple void-filling trax which was preordained to be written, and if it by some freak of nature hadn't, would have left the world just that teensy bit more bereft.
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