Dreaming While You Sleep (track)
by Genesis
Year: 1991
From the album We Can't Dance (track #6)
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Dreaming While You Sleep appears on the following album(s) by Genesis:
- We Can't Dance (track #6) (this album) (1991)
- 1983-1998 (track #23) (compilation) (2007)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 11/16/2025 21:59 | Exist-en-ciel | 18,298 | 70/100 |
| ! | 10/02/2025 09:52 | dukeboxkool | 6,555 | 75/100 |
| ! | 08/26/2025 13:34 |  ExTeaSea | 12,134 | 86/100 |
| ! | 08/04/2025 16:37 |  Tamthebam | 43,956 | 79/100 |
| ! | 04/10/2025 02:22 |  AAL2014 | 33,942 | 76/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 10% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 79.0/100, a mean average of 78.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.5/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.4.
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Squonk007 06/04/2023 11:38 | #297384
A good track addressing a disturbing scenario.
A very dark song about a man who accidentally commits a hit-and-run and feels the internal guilt swelling up inside of him. Alongside the dire lyrics of the verses, I think the introduction is the best part about this song. A marimba (or maybe a drum machine made to sound like a marimba) creates this really cool six-note groove, allowing Banks and Rutherford to chime in with their respective instruments at various moments. You can't help but bob your head along with the melody. Unfortunately, the rest of the song never really builds on this into something greater. The bridges try to, and while they are more musically grandiose, I don't think they fit the feel of the song quite right. But Collins' vocals and percussion make them worth listening to anyway. This probably could have benefited from being a couple minutes shorter, but it's still a very nice track.
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