Dream Police

Momentum

This song has not appeared on a Rotation chart, so it has no score and no receipts. The rank history below is the ledger; a score is only published once the momentum run puts it on a chart.

Why it's here

Rick Nielsen wrote the song as an attempt to take a heavy thought — a quick bit of REM snatched right before waking up — and put it into a pop format, with the lyric about Big Brother watching you. [1] Critics singled out the track's instrumental build-up exploding into the final chorus and its power-chord riff paired with Tom Petersson's surging bass lines as a tour de force. [2] The song appeared in The Simpsons episode 'Two Bad Neighbors,' sung by Apu while washing his car. [3]

In culture

Every place this record has lived. A solid chip states a fact and carries the citation that earns it; a dashed one is a connection somebody drew, and carries their name instead.

• Covered Built to Spillsource
• Covered Kelly Hansensource
• Covered Latshawsource
• Covered No Use for a Namesource
• Written by Rick Nielsensource
• Covered The BellRayssource

Across markets · earliest pickup first

Every date here is the date the source chart covers, never the date we fetched it. Sources publish on different lags: the Spotify mirror runs about two days behind, TurnTable publishes weekly.

1. MarketFirst seenLatestDaysPeakRank path
2. New Zealandnz · shazam2026-09-252026-09-30#1306#111
   #130

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