Land of Dreams (album)


Land of Dreams is a 1988 album by Randy Newman featuring vignettes of his childhood in New Orleans. It placed 10th in the 1988 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.
"Whether or not are simple autobiography, they’re presented as such," wrote Greil Marcus, "and for a man who’s always sung as a character actor, it’s a shock.".
The album's single "It's Money That Matters" rose to the top of the Mainstream Rock chart for two weeks, to become Newman's only number one hit on any U.S. chart; it features Mark Knopfler on guitar. Prior to the album's release, the song "Something Special" was closing title music for the 1987 MGM production Overboard starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell and was also featured in the trailer of the film Awakenings, which Randy Newman also wrote the music for, and the piano bridge from the song "Dixie Flyer" would subsequently often be utilized as break or filler music, most notably on the Car Talk radio program. The song "Falling in Love" features in the credits to the 1989 Tom Selleck film Her Alibi.

Track listing

All songs written by Randy Newman.
  1. "Dixie Flyer" – 4:10
  2. "New Orleans Wins the War" – 3:27
  3. "Four Eyes" – 3:34
  4. "Falling in Love" – 3:00
  5. "Something Special" – 3:07
  6. "Bad News from Home" – 2:45
  7. "Roll with the Punches" – 3:29
  8. "Masterman and Baby J" – 3:27
  9. "Red Bandana" – 2:35
  10. "Follow the Flag" – 2:15
  11. "It's Money That Matters" – 4:04
  12. "I Want You to Hurt Like I Do" – 4:07

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