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Roy Harper
Released 1998

Drugs for Everybody
05:04
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Dancing All the Night
06:12
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I Want to Be in Love
05:58
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- Songs of Love
- 06:59
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- 2
- Songs of Love, Pt. 2
- 04:50
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- Dancing All the Night
- 06:12
- 4 plays

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- Psychopath
- 02:45
- 1 plays

- 5
- I Want to Be in Love
- 05:58
- 3 plays

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- Drugs for Everybody
- 05:04
- 7 plays

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- Come the Revolution
- 06:09
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- Angel of the Night
- 05:10
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- The Dream Society
- 08:35
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- Broken Wing
- 06:42
- 20 plays

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- These Fifty Years
- 14:27
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album review

The Dream Society continued Roy Harper's winning streak with an impressively produced album of varied material. The opening "Songs of Love" is a striking duet with vocalist Musumi that also features some great acoustic guitar work from son Nick Harper. "Songs of Love, Pt. 2" quickly follows with a hard rock sound as convincing as any Harper has produced since HQ in 1975. While there are many styles on the album -- hard rock, folk-rock, and even country -- perhaps the acoustic ballad "Broken Wing" is the record's best cut. The album-closing epic "These Fifty Years" is one of Harper's most ambitious tracks. With several movements and some very progressive sections, it sounds a bit like Jethro Tull, a notion no doubt aided by a familiar flute sound courtesy of Ian Anderson. Although the song isn't as memorable as "The Same Old Rock" or "Me and My Woman," Harper must be given credit for a mostly successful attempt at a longer piece. As usual, the lyrics throughout are almost purposefully ponderous, a matter not allayed by the rambling liner notes. While Death or Glory? displayed greater highs and Once showed a new musical maturity, The Dream Society is more consistent and completes Harper's utterly successful trilogy of studio albums from the '90s. ~ Brian Downing, All Music Guide