Just to remind you, Our Throwback Thursday features a favorite song, something about the song and a cover version of the song. One of the songs that defined MTV in the 80s, Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) by the Eurythmics in 1983, gave them their only US chart topper.
In a 2007 New York Times interview, Annie Lennox recalled that this was written by the duo just after they'd had a bitter fight. "I thought it was the end of the road and that was that," she said. "We were trying to write, and I was miserable. And he just went, well, 'I'll do this anyway.' " Dave Stewart came up with a beat, Annie Lennox improvised the synthesizer riff, and suddenly they realized they had a potential hit.
In 1978, Squeeze had a UK hit with Take Me I'm Yours, which features the line "Dreams are made of this" in the chorus.
I could have gone with a number of covers but I had to go with the Marilyn Manson version and it's demented video.
Marilyn Manson recorded the song in 1995, giving a much darker tone to the song. Manson has claimed that the inspiration to cover this song came from his first acid trip. In Manson's auto-biography, he related to this song by mentioning that he met people who wanted to be abused by him; and who wanted to use him as well.
Demand Euphoria!
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