Wildest Dreams (Saga album)

Infobox Album
Name = Wildest Dreams
Type = studio
Longtype =
Artist = Saga


Released = 1987
Recorded =
Genre = Pop
Length = 36:12
Label = Warner Bros.
Producer =
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|1.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:d9fyxqy5ldje link]
Last album = "Behaviour"
1985
This album = "Wildest Dreams"
1987
Next album = "The Beginners Guide to Throwing Shapes"
1989

"Wildest Dreams" is the seventh studio album by the Canadian progressive rock band Saga, originally released in 1987. It was their first album without original drummer Steve Negus and longtime keyboardist and vocalist Jim Gilmour.

Warner Records

The band signed with Warner Bros. Records after the "Behaviour" album and was seen as a promising act for Warner after having three solid and successful albums come out during the early and mid-1980s. The record label spent a great deal of money promoting the band in the United States, a market that Saga had yet to penetrate. Plans included a massive tour, a music video produced for the single "Only Time Will Tell" and on the production of the album itself. Despite all of this, the album went largely unnoticed in the U.S. and was not released in Saga's more successful markets like Germany or their native Canada.

Rarity

Because of the limited scope of the original release and an issue with Warner refusing to surrender the rights of this album to the band, "Wildest Dreams" is considered by many fans to be the rarest album of Saga's repertoire to this day. A re-release of the album was done around 2000 although this was before the band's remastering of all other albums in 2002, 2003 and 2004 and thus, made the album's release largely unnoticed by the fan base. While the band has mentioned many times their desire to see the album released again for the fans, the band members have cited Warner Bros. Record's demand for a prohibitively large rights fee for the album.fact|date=July 2008

Track listing

# "Don't Put Out the Fire"
# "Only Time Will Tell"
# "Wildest Dreams"
# "Chase the Wind"
# "We've Been Here Before"
# "The Way of the World"
# "Angel"
# "Don't Look Down"

Personnel

* Michael Sadler - lead vocals, keyboards
* Jim Crichton - bass guitar, keyboards
* Ian Crichton - guitar
* Curt Cress - drums, percussion