12" Vinyl, 3x CD, 2x DVD-Video (Super Deluxe)

Dream Into Action

Album by Howard Jones

Released 1985

Tracklist

CD 1: The Album Plus Bonus Tracks
1
Things Can Only Get Better
3:55
5.0 ★
2
Life in One Day
3:39
2.0 ★
3
Dream Into Action
3:47
4.0 ★
4
No One Is to Blame
3:28
5.0 ★
5
Look Mama
4:03
5.0 ★
6
Assault and Battery
4:52
7
Automaton
4:06
8
Is There a Difference?
3:34
9
Elegy
4:24
10
Specialty
4:02
11
Why Look for the Key
3:22
12
Hunger for the Flesh
4:01
13
Bounce Right Back
4:33
14
Like to Get to Know You Well
4:01
5.0 ★
15
No One Is to Blame (remake)
4:08
16
Like to Get to Know You Well (demo Recorded in Howard’s Front Room)
3:25
17
No One Is to Blame (The long mix) (Janice long BBC radio 1 session)
3:09
CD 2: Bonus Tracks
1
No One Is to Blame (single mix)
4:16
2
Like to Get to Know You Well (International remix)
7:39
3
Things Can Only Get Better (extended mix)
7:27
4
Look Mama (UK extended mix)
9:05
5
Life in One Day (Part 1)
6:50
6
Life in One Day (Part 2)
7:14
7
No One Is to Blame (extended mix)
5:21
8
Learning How to Love (edit)
4:07
9
Boom Bap Respite
2:49
10
The Chase
2:50
11
No One Is to Blame (Lambs and Planes mix)
7:38
12
Bounce Right Back (Cause and Effect remix)
7:28
CD 3: The Farmyard Sessions Plus Other Unreleased and Remastered Tracks
1
Things Can Only Get Better (early version) (Farmyard Sessions)
4:04
2
Dream Into Action (early version) (Farmyard Sessions)
4:06
3
No One Is to Blame (early version) (Farmyard Sessions)
3:41
4
Look Mama (early version) (Farmyard Sessions)
3:04
5
Assault and Battery (early version) (Farmyard Sessions)
4:55
6
Automaton (Robot Man) (instrumental) (Farmyard Sessions)
4:41
7
Is There a Difference? (early version) (Farmyard Sessions)
3:30
8
Elegy (early version) (Farmyard Sessions)
4:23
9
Specialty (early version) (Farmyard Sessions)
4:07
10
Why Look for the Key? (early version) (Farmyard Sessions)
3:54
11
Hunger for the Flesh (early version) (Farmyard Sessions)
3:52
12
Like to Get to Know You Well (alternative mix)
3:44
13
Things Can Only Get Better (remixed)
3:51
14
No One Is to Blame (TV mix)
4:15
15
Things Can Only Get Better (radio mix)
4:07
16
You Jazzy Nork!
4:54
DVD-Video 4
1
No One Is to Blame (Old Grey Whistle Test 1985)
3:15
2
Things Can Only Get Better (Old Grey Whistle Test 1985)
5:33
3
Look Mama (Old Grey Whistle Test 1985)
4:43
4
Things Can Only Get Better (Top of the Pops 1985)
3:37
5
Look Mama (Wogan 1985)
3:56
6
No One Is to Blame (live) (Wogan 1986)
3:50
7
Like to Get to Know You Well (US version) (Promo video)
4:03
8
Things Can Only Get Better (Promo video)
4:00
9
Look Mama (Promo video)
4:00
10
Life in One Day (Promo video)
4:39
11
No One Is to Blame (Promo video)
4:13
12
Life in One Day (alternate Broadcast Promo video)
4:22
DVD-Video 5: Last World Dream - Live in Concert 1986
1
Pearl in the Shell
5:04
2
You Know I Love You... Don’t You?
3:05
3
Like to Get to Know You Well
4:34
4
No One Is to Blame
4:24
5
Life in One Day
5:02
6
Look Mama
3:36
7
Will You Still Be There?
4:58
8
Always Asking Questions
6:10
9
Hide and Seek
4:04
10
Dream Into Action
3:36
11
What Is Love?
4:48
12
New Song
3:55
13
Things Can Only Get Better
6:20
12" Vinyl 6: Dream Into Action - Limited Edition 12" Picture Disc
1
Things Can Only Get Better
3:55
5.0 ★
2
Life in One Day
3:39
2.0 ★
3
Dream Into Action
3:47
4.0 ★
4
No One Is to Blame
3:28
5.0 ★
5
Look Mama
4:03
5.0 ★
6
Assault and Battery
4:52
7
Automaton
4:06
8
Is There a Difference?
3:32
9
Elegy
4:23
10
Specialty
3:58
11
Why Look for the Key
3:22
12
Hunger for the Flesh
4:02

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Release credits

Caron Wheeler
background vocals [1.1-2, 6.1-2]
Claudia Fontaine
background vocals [1.1-2, 6.1-2]
Elizabeth Holden
vocal [6.6, 1.6]
Helen Liebmann
cello [1.9, 6.9]
Howard Jones
instrument [1.1-9, 1.12-14, 6.1-9, 6.12], lead vocals [1.1-9, 1.12-14, 6.1-9, 6.12], programming [1.1-9, 1.12-14, 6.1-9, 6.12]
Kirstie Fulthorpe
vocal [6.6, 1.6]
Laura Bishop
vocal [1.6, 6.6]
Naomi Thompson
background vocals [1.1-2, 6.1-2]
Rupert Hine
producer [6.1-9, 6.12, 1.1-9, 1.12-14]
Stephen W. Tayler
mix [1.1-9, 1.12-14, 6.1-9, 6.12], recording [6.1-9, 6.12, 1.1-9, 1.12-14]
Tania Matos
vocal [6.6, 1.6]
The Effervescents
vocal [6.6, 1.6]
The TKO Horns
brass [6.1, 1.1]

Issues

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(Combined release view)
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Dream Into Action
CD
1985
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Dream Into Action
12" Vinyl
1985
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Dream Into Action
12" Vinyl
1985
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Dream Into Action
CD (made in West Germany)
1985
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Dream Into Action
CD (made in Japan)
1985
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Dream Into Action
12" Vinyl
1985
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Dream Into Action
12" Vinyl
1985
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Dream Into Action
CD (remastered, special edition, remastered edition)
6 November 2010
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Dream Into Action (Deluxe Remastered & Expanded Edition)
Digital Media
2 January 2011
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Dream Into Action
12" Vinyl, 3x CD, 2x DVD-Video (Super Deluxe)
30 November 2018
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Dream Into Action (Remastered Edition)
Digital Media
30 November 2018
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Dream Into Action
CD
2018
D
Dream Into Action
Blu-ray, CD (expanded deluxe)
31 May 2024
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Dream Into Action: The Farmyard Sessions +
2x 12" Vinyl
22 August 2025
D
Dream Into Action: The Farmyard Sessions +
2x Digital Media
22 August 2025