Dreamtime is Tom Verlaine

Tom Verlaine

Tom Verlaine is a singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as the frontman for the New York rock band Television.-Biography:...

's second solo album. Originally released in 1981. "Without a Word" is a rewrite of "Hard On Love", an unreleased Television

Television (band)

Television was an American rock band, formed in New York City in 1973. They are best known for the album Marquee Moon and widely regarded as one of the founders of "punk" and New Wave music. Television was part of the early 1970s New York underground rock scene, along with bands like the Patti...

 song performed live c. 1974/5.

The album was reissued in 1994 by Infinite Zero Archive/American Recordings label, with two bonus tracks drawn from the 1981 "Always" 7" & 12" single. It was reissued in 2008 by Collectors' Choice Music

Collectors' Choice Music

Collectors' Choice Music is a company primarily in two businesses. They are best known for re-issuing albums originally recorded in LP record form as compact discs...

 with no bonus tracks.

Side one

1. "There's a Reason" – 3:39
2. "Penetration" – 4:01
3. "Always" – 3:58
4. "The Blue Robe" – 3:54
5. "Without a Word" – 3:17

Side two

1. "Mr Blur" – 3:24
2. "Fragile" – 3:27
3. "A Future in Noise" – 4:13
4. "Down on the Farm" – 4:49
5. "Mary Marie" – 3:25

Bonus tracks (1994 CD reissue)

1. "The Blue Robe" (alternate version) – 4:17
2. "Always" (alternate version) – 4:09

Personnel

• Tom Verlaine
  Tom Verlaine
  Tom Verlaine is a singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as the frontman for the New York rock band Television.-Biography:...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  s, solos, vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
   on all tracks; bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
   on "Penetration"
• Ritchie Fliegler – guitars on all tracks, except "Penetration"
• Fred Smith
  Fred Smith (bassist)
  Fred Smith is an American bass guitarist, best known for his work with Television. He was the original bassist with Blondie until he replaced Richard Hell when Hell left Television in 1975 to form The Heartbreakers. At the time, Television played at CBGB along with Blondie...
  
   – bass on "Mr. Blur", "Down on the Farm", "There's a Reason" & "Without a Word"
• Donald Nossov – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
   on "Always", "Mary Marie", "Fragile", "The Blue Robe", "A Future in Noise", & bonus tracks
• Jay Dee Daugherty
  Jay Dee Daugherty
  Jay Dee Daugherty is an American drummer and songwriter most known for his work with Patti Smith. As a member of the Patti Smith Group, he has been nominated twice to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.- Biography :...
  
   – drums on "Mr. Blur", "Down on the Farm", "There's a Reason", "Without a Word" & "Penetration"
• Rich Teeter
  The Dictators
  The Dictators are an American punk rock band formed in New York City in 1973. Critic John Dougan said that they were "one of the finest and most influential proto-punk bands to walk the earth." The Dictators are represented in the "Punk Wing" of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in Cleveland, Ohio...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
   on "Always", "Mary Marie", "Fragile", "The Blue Robe", "A Future in Noise" & bonus tracks
• Bruce Brody – keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
   on "Always", "Mary Marie", end of "Penetration" & "Always" (alternate version)

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Peak Position
1981	Billboard Pop Albums Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	177