Hi everyone.

I just want to take a second to acknowledge one of my favourite unreleased album sequences. Although this particular track list shares a small handful of songs with the finalised Sign ‘O’ The Times, it has enough exclusive material to feel like a very unique album in it’s own right.

Happy 40th Anniversary Dream Factory.

Side 1: Visions; Dream Factory; It's a Wonderful Day; The Ballad of Dorothy Parker; It
Side 2: Strange Relationship; Teacher, Teacher; Starfish & Coffee; Wendy; In a Large Room with No Light; Nevaeh Ni Ecalp A; Sexual Suicide
Side 3: Crystal Ball; Power Fantastic
Side 4: Last Heart; Witness 4 The Prosecution; Movie Star; A Place in Heaven; All My Dreams

Great classic configuration. More of a Revolution album than the configuration that followed on 18 July 1986.

[Edited 6/3/26 21:32pm]

It's so fascinating to look at what was left on the cutting room floor in the transition to SOTT. Some of those omissions were the absolute right call (Teacher Teacher; Movie Star; A Place In Heaven). But then you have incredible songs like Power Fantastic, Crystal Ball, In A Large Room With No Light, and Sexual Suicide, none of which made it to a proper album. Just compilations, and the one-off rerecording of Large Room a few decades later.

As it was, this configuration of Dream Factory would have been very uneven, but it would have arguably had some of the highest highs of anything he recorded.