Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson may refer to:* Marilyn Manson , an American rock musician* Marilyn Manson , the American rock band led by the singer of the same name...

 released a cover version

Cover version

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 of "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" as the first single from the EP, Smells Like Children

Smells Like Children

Smells Like Children is a EP by American rock band Marilyn Manson. It was released on October 24, 1995 in the US through Nothing and Interscope Records. It was produced by the band's frontman and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails...

. This version became an MTV staple and helped to establish the band in the mainstream. It also appears on the band's greatest hits album, Lest We Forget: The Best Of. This version is featured on the soundtracks to the 2005 documentary film

2005 in film

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 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

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and the 2009 film

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 Gamer. It is also featured in the film Trick 'r Treat

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and the 1999 film

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 House on Haunted Hill

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. In Manson's autobiography, The Long Hard Road out of Hell

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The Long Hard Road Out of Hell is the autobiography of Marilyn Manson, leader of the American rock band Marilyn Manson. The book was released on February 14, 1998 and written with the help of Neil Strauss as a ghost writer....

, he states that Nothing Records

Nothing Records

Nothing Records was an American record label, specializing in industrial rock and electronic music, founded by John Malm Jr. and Trent Reznor in 1992...

 did not want to release this as a single. They wanted to release their cover of Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Jalacy Hawkins , best known as Screamin' Jay Hawkins was an American musician, singer, and actor...

' "I Put a Spell on You

I Put a Spell on You

"I Put a Spell on You" is a 1956 song written by Screamin' Jay Hawkins, whose recording was selected as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. It was also ranked #320 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.Although Hawkins'...

", which, according to Manson, "was far too dark, sprawling and esoteric, even for some of our fans." This song was used in The Machinima Series Film Sony World The Prequel by Connor Kirkbride

Marilyn Manson added some extra lines to the lyrics that are not present in the Eurythmics version: "I wanna use you and abuse you/I wanna know what's inside you," along with "I'm gonna use you and abuse you/I'm gonna know what's inside you."

The video for Manson's cover contains several clips of Manson and bandmates in what appears to be an abandoned building. The overall video was shot with unusual filters: this was one of the first videos shot with a director, not based solely on what the band came up with. In between the clips are a number of surreal shots of Manson wearing a wedding gown, Manson wandering around an abandoned street in a tutu, birds fluttering around him and leaving droppings on his body, and of him riding a pig wearing a cowboy hat and covered with mud.

Formats and track listings

Australian CD single

1. "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" - 4:25
2. "Dance of the Dope Hats" (Remix) - 4:46
3. "Down in the Park
   Down in the Park
   "Down in the Park" is a 1979 single written and recorded by Gary Numan with his band Tubeway Army. The first cut from the album Replicas, it was not a hit when released but has long been a critical and fan favourite and for many years was described by Numan as his best composition.-Style:Like the...
   
   " - 4:58
4. "Lunchbox (Next Motherfucker)" - 4:47

U.S. promotional CD single

1. "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" - 4:25

Other cover versions

• Italian-based Croatian singer Sharon C. covered the song for her same-titled debut single released in 1997, and since then it has been featured on many compilations including Dancemania 8
  Dancemania 8
  Dancemania 8 is the eighth set in the Dancemania series of dance music compilation albums, released in 1998 by EMI Music Japan.The album debuted at #9 on Oricon's weekly album chart in January 1998 and remained within the top 20 positions on the chart for 4 consecutive weeks, peaking at #8.The...
  
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• Polish
  Poland
  Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
  
   band Moonlight
  Moonlight (band)
  -Discography:* Moonlight * Kalpa Taru * Meren Re * Wiem * Inermis...
  
   covered the song for their 1999 EP
  Extended play
  An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
  
   Flos.
• French electroclash
  Electroclash
  Electroclash is a style of music that fuses New Wave and electronic dance music. It emerged in New York and Detroit in the later 1990s, pioneered by acts including I-F and those associated with Gerald Donald, and is associated with acts including Peaches, Adult, and Fischerspooner...
  
   duo Miss Kittin
  Miss Kittin
  Miss Kittin is an electronic music DJ, vocalist, and songwriter. Since rising to prominence in 1998 for her singles "1982" and "Frank Sinatra" with The Hacker, she has worked with other musicians such as Chicks on Speed, Felix da Housecat and Golden Boy...
  
   & The Hacker
  The Hacker
  Michel Amato, better known by the stage name The Hacker, is a French electroclash and techno producer who has worked extensively with Miss Kittin. His work has been influenced by Electro artists like Kraftwerk, New Wave artists such as The Cure and Depeche Mode, as well as the French rave scene of...
  
   covered the song for their 1999 EP
  Extended play
  An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
  
   Intimités
  Intimités
  Intimités is the second EP by Miss Kittin & The Hacker .-Track listing:Source:...
  
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• Actress Maria Bello
  Maria Bello
  Maria Elena Bello is an American actress and singer known for her appearances in the movies Coyote Ugly, The Jane Austen Book Club, Permanent Midnight, Thank You for Smoking, A History of Violence, Payback, and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. For television she is known for her role as Dr...
  
   performed the song in the movie Duets
  Duets
  An original motion picture soundtrack CD was released on September 12, 2000 by Hollywood Records. The CD contained twelve tracks including the original music composed for the film by David Newman....
  
  (2000), which is included on the soundtrack.
• "Sweet Dreams" was partially covered by Geri Halliwell
  Geri Halliwell
  Geraldine Estelle "Geri" Halliwell is an English pop singer-songwriter, author and actress. After coming to international prominence in the late 1990s as Ginger Spice, a member of the girl group the Spice Girls, Halliwell launched her solo career in 1998 and released her album Schizophonic...
  
   as a medley with her song, "Scream If You Wanna Go Faster
  Scream if You Wanna Go Faster
  Scream If You Wanna Go Faster is the second solo album by British pop singer Geri Halliwell. It was released by EMI Records on May 14, 2001 and yielded the UK number-one single "It's Raining Men". Although not as successful as her debut album Schizophonic, it reached a peak position of number five...
  
  " in late 2004.
• Finnish
  Finland
  Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
  
   a cappella group Club for Five
  Club for Five
  Club for Five is a contemporary a cappella group from Finland. They are known for their unique singing style and being able to skillfully use their voices like instruments. Club for Five were founded in Helsinki, 2001...
  
   recorded a cover of the song.
• Brazilian singer Badi Assad
  Badi Assad
  Badi Assad is a Brazilian singer, songwriter and guitarist in the jazz and worldbeat genres.She was born in the state of São Paulo, but grew up in Rio de Janeiro until she was twelve...
  
   covered the song for her 2006 album Wonderland.
• Brazilian singer Danni Carlos
  Danni Carlos
  Daniela Carlos de Araújo is a Brazilian singer, composer, musician and actress.-Discography:*2003 - Rock'n'Road*2004 - Rock'n'Road Again*2005 - Rock'n'Road All Night*2006 - Rock'n'Road Movies...
  
   covered the song for her 2006 album Rock ´n´ Road Movies.
• German singer Thomas Anders
  Thomas Anders
  Thomas Anders is a German singer, composer and record producer. Anders was the lead singer of Germany's popular pop-duo Modern Talking in 1984–1987 and in 1998–2003.-Early years:...
  
   (formerly of Modern Talking
  Modern Talking
  Modern Talking was a German dance pop duo consisting of Thomas Anders and Dieter Bohlen. Their music has often been classified as Europop. They have been referred to as Germany's most successful pop duo, and have had a number of hit singles, reaching the top 5 in many countries...
  
  ) recorded a jazzy, lounge music
  Lounge music
  Lounge music is a retrospective description of music popular in the 1950s and 1960s. It is a type of mood music meant to evoke in the listeners the feeling of being in a place — a jungle, an island paradise, outer space, et cetera — other than where they are listening to it...
  
   cover of the song for his 2006 solo album Songs Forever
  Songs Forever
  Songs Forever is the title of the 2006 studio album by German singer-songwriter & producer Thomas Anders, consisting mainly of popular swing covers...
  
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• Australian girlgroup Girlband
  Girlband (Australian band)
  Girlband was an Australian pop group formed in 2006. There were four members, Renee Armstrong, Renee Bargh, Jess Smith and Patrice Tipoki.-Biography:...
  
   recorded a cover of the song for their unreleased debut album.
• Tanghetto
  Tanghetto
  Tanghetto is a musical group based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and one of the most important on the neo tango scene.The style of Tanghetto is a blend of tango and electronic music. Formed in 2001 by producer and composer/songwriter Max Masri . Then Max Masri asked guitarist and composer Diego S...
  
  , the neo-tango band based in Buenos Aires
  Buenos Aires
  Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
  
   recorded and released the song as part of their El Miedo a la Libertad
  El Miedo a la Libertad
  El Miedo a la Libertad is the second studio by Buenos Aires-based electronic neo-tango band Tanghetto, or the third, considering that their side project Hybrid Tango is in fact part of their official discography, as well as part of their regular live repertoire...
  
  album in 2008. Their cover is an instrumental version, where the bandoneon
  Bandoneón
  The bandoneón is a type of concertina particularly popular in Argentina and Uruguay. It plays an essential role in the orquesta típica, the tango orchestra...
  
   takes the "role" of the lead voice.
• American Christian rock
  Christian rock
  Christian rock is a form of rock music played by individuals and bands whose members are Christians and who often focus the lyrics on matters concerned with the Christian faith. The extent to which their lyrics are explicitly Christian varies between bands...
  
   singer Krystal Meyers
  Krystal Meyers
  Krystal Meyers is an American Christian rock / Contemporary Christian singer-songwriter and musician...
  
   covered the song on the 2008 Japanese release of her third album Make Some Noise.
• Ukrainian pop/rock band Lama
  Lama (band)
  Lama is a pop/rock project based in Ukraine. It became popular after their singles "Meni tak treba" and "Moje sertse" . Their third single was "Litak" . Lama's first album Meni tak treba was released in 2006. The active members of Lama are Natalia Dzenkiv , Andriy , Zurik and Zi-Zi...
  
   covered the song as "Світ мрій" ("World of Dreams") for their 2008 album Світло і Тінь (Light and Shadow).
• The German Underground rapper Frauenarzt
  Frauenarzt
  Vincente de Teba Költerhoff , better known as Frauenarzt , is a German rapper from Berlin-Tempelhof, also known as "DJ Kologe," "MC Digital F," "Arzt," "Gyniko," and "Günther." Frauenarzt was well known for his sexually explicit, Miami bass style music...
  
   covered the sample of this song as "Feuchte Träume" on Feuchte Träume (Gastparts 3) in 2008.
• The melody was featured in the U96
  U96
  U96 is a dance music project formed by the German DJ and producer Alex Christensen and a team of producers called Matiz , known for a number of 1990s Eurodance hits.-Biography:...
  
   featuring Das Bo single "Mr. DJ, Put on the Red Light" and was sung by Tryna Loules, who released it in 2006.
• Sylvie Vartan
  Sylvie Vartan
  Sylvie Vartan is a French singer. She was one of the first rock girls in France. Vartan was the most productive and active of the yé-yé style artists, considered as the toughest-sounding of those. Her performance often featured elaborate show-dance choreography. She made many appearances on French...
  
   covered it in French (1983) under the title "Déprime", famous for its deep rhymes.
• In a 2002 episode of The Simpsons
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  , "Half-Decent Proposal
  Half-Decent Proposal
  "Half-Decent Proposal" is the tenth episode of The Simpsons thirteenth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 10, 2002...
  
  ", at the end of the episode, Artie Ziff (Jon Lovitz
  Jon Lovitz
  Jonathan "Jon" Lovitz is an American comedian, actor, and singer. He is best known as a cast member of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1990.-Early life:...
  
  ) begins to sing the song through a speaker, culminating with the lyrics "I am watching you through a camera!"
• Doctor Steel
  Doctor Steel
  Doctor Steel , is a self-published American musician located in Southern California, prominent in the Steampunk, Goth, and Rivethead scenes. He has performed on rare occasions with a "backup band", claiming that a fictitious robot band had malfunctioned...
  
   covered the chorus of "Sweet Dreams" in the end of his song "Lullaby Bye".
• French singer Emily Loizeau
  Emily Loizeau
  Emily Loizeau is a French author, composer, and singer. Her debut album, released in 2006, was titled L'autre bout du monde .- Biography :...
  
   covered jazz version of "Sweet Dreams" on her album Pays Sauvage (Track 15).
• The German/Greek a cappella
  A cappella
  A cappella music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It is the opposite of cantata, which is accompanied singing. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato...
  
   band Five Live covered "Sweet Dreams" on their album Five Live live (track 4).
• Delta Goodrem
  Delta Goodrem
  Delta Lea Goodrem is an Australian singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress. Signed to Sony at the age of 15, Goodrem rose to prominence in 2002, starring in the Australian soap opera Neighbours as Nina Tucker. Goodrem has achieved eight number-one singles and three number-one albums in her home...
  
   covered 'Sweet Dreams' on her 2008 Believe Again Tour
  Believe Again Tour
  The Believe Again Tour is the second Australian concert tour by singer-songwriter Delta Goodrem, in support of her third studio album Delta. The tour commenced in Newcastle on 9 January 2009 and concluded in Sydney on 4 February 2009. Unlike Goodrem's previous tour, The Visualise Tour, which took...
  
   . The cover was later released on the CD/DVD release of the tour.
• Tori Amos
  Tori Amos
  Tori Amos is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument...
  
   covered the song live in Boston, MA while on her Original Sinsuality Tour in 2005.
• The German pop-singer Judith Hildebrandt performed the song live on 23 April 2009 in the Ultimative Chart-Show.
• Allison Crowe
  Allison Crowe
  Allison Louise Crowe is a Canadian singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist from Nanaimo, British Columbia who lives in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, communities spanning the breadth of Canada....
  
   recorded a stripped-down acoustic version of "Sweet Dreams" for a Hollywood movie project in mid-2010
• Actress Emily Browning
  Emily Browning
  Emily Jane Browning is an Australian film actress and fashion model, known for her roles as Violet Baudelaire in Brad Silberling's 2004 film Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, as Anna Ivers in the 2009 film The Uninvited, as Babydoll in Zack Snyder's 2011 action thriller Sucker...
  
   covered a slow version of this song for her movie Sucker Punch
  Sucker Punch (film)
  Sucker Punch is a 2011 action-fantasy thriller film, directed by Zack Snyder and co-written by him and Steve Shibuya. It is Snyder's first film based on an original script. The film stars Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, and Oscar Isaac...
  
  , accompanying a scene of Browning's character being taken to an institution.
• Singer Kitty Brucknell covered the song on the fourth live show in the Eighth series of the UK X Factor
  The X Factor (UK series 8)
  The X Factor is a British television music competition to find new singing talent. The eighth series began airing on ITV on 20 August 2011. Louis Walsh is the only judge from the previous series to return, as the other three, Simon Cowell, Dannii Minogue and Cheryl Cole, all left to join other...
  
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Remixes and sampling

• American pop singer Britney Spears
  Britney Spears
  Britney Jean Spears is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album...
  
   used a sample of the song on the song "Everybody" which appeared as an iTunes and Japan bonus track of her 2007 album Blackout. The song was produced by JR Rotem, and was used later as a B-side of her hit single "Break the Ice". Spears also used Marilyn Manson's version of the song for The Circus Starring Britney Spears world tour.
• The American rapper Swing
  Swingfly
  Ricardo DaSilva II better known by his stage name Swingfly is an American-born naturalised Swedish rapper and singer. He is also known by other aliases like Swing-Fly, Richie Pasta and Swing. He started lending his vocal talents to other artists' records, but has also developed also a solo career...
  
   (later on known as Swingfly
  Swingfly
  Ricardo DaSilva II better known by his stage name Swingfly is an American-born naturalised Swedish rapper and singer. He is also known by other aliases like Swing-Fly, Richie Pasta and Swing. He started lending his vocal talents to other artists' records, but has also developed also a solo career...
  
  ) released a Euro-pop version of the song featuring Dr Alban. It included additional rap verses but sampling greatly on the original song. The single had chart success in Sweden and in many European clubs.
• Rapper Nas
  Nas
  Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, who performs under the name Nas , formerly Nasty Nas, is an American rapper and actor. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in hip hop and one of the most skilled and influential rappers of all-time...
  
   uses an interpolation of the chorus from "Sweet Dreams" in his 1996 hit "Street Dreams".
• Pink
  Pink (singer)
  Alecia Beth Moore , better known by her stage name Pink , is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actress....
  
   and Redman used "Sweet Dreams" in a remix of Pink's 2001 hit, "Get the Party Started
  Get the Party Started
  "Get the Party Started" is a song performed by Pink, and was the first single from her second album, Missundaztood . It became an international hit and reached the top ten in many countries. The song was Pink's highest selling at that time...
  
  ".
• Tricky
  Tricky
  Tricky is an English musician and actor. As a producer and a musician, he is noted for a dark, rich and layered sound and a whispering sprechgesang lyrical style. Culturally, Tricky encourages an intertwining of societies, particularly in his musical fusion of rock and hip hop, high art and pop...
  
   used a sample in the track "You don't wanna" in the 2001 album Blowback
  Blowback (album)
  Blowback is the sixth album by Tricky, released in 2001. Like Nearly God, Blowback contains several collaborations, but the album's sound is much brighter and more relaxed by comparison. Tricky himself said that he wanted to get airplay with this album, while most of his earlier albums were made to...
  
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• A eurodance
  Eurodance
  Eurodance is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1980s or early 1990s primarily in Europe. It combines many elements from House, Techno, Hi-NRG and especially Italo-Disco...
  
   remix of the song, "Sweet Dreams X-Clusive", was recorded for the 2001 compilation Dancemania Speed 7
  Dancemania Speed
  Dancemania Speed is a sub-series of Toshiba EMI's Dancemania compilation series. This series features faster, further remixed versions of recordings from previously released Dancemania albums or faster remixed covers of various famous songs...
  
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• Faith Evans
  Faith Evans
  Faith Renée Evans is an American singer-songwriter, recording artist, record producer, actress and author. Born in Florida and raised in New Jersey, Evans relocated to Los Angeles during 1993 for a career with the music business. After working as a backing vocalist for Al B...
  
   sampled the song for the remix of her single "You Gets No Love" featuring original collaborator P. Diddy and rapper G. Dep
  G. Dep
  Trevell Gerald Coleman , better known by his stage name G. Dep , is an American rapper from Harlem, New York City. He joined Bad Boy Records in 1998 and released his debut album Child of the Ghetto in 2001.- Early life :Trevell Coleman was born on November 19, 1974...
  
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• Stefy's song "Chelsea," features a sample
  Sampling (music)
  In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song or piece. Sampling was originally developed by experimental musicians working with musique concrète and electroacoustic music, who physically...
  
   of "Sweet Dreams", and was featured in the soundtrack for the 2006 film John Tucker Must Die
  John Tucker Must Die
  John Tucker Must Die is a 2006 American high school comedy romance film, directed by Betty Thomas.The film is about a trio of girls who plot to break the heart of manipulative basketball star John Tucker after they learn he has been secretly dating all three and pledging each is "the one"...
  
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• Drum and bass
  Drum and bass
  Drum and bass is a type of electronic music which emerged in the late 1980s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats , with heavy bass and sub-bass lines...
  
   group NOISIA
  Noisia
  Noisia, stylized as NOISIΛ , is a Dutch Electronic music trio consisting of members Nik Roos, Martijn van Sonderen and Thijs de Vlieger from Groningen, The Netherlands. They now produce a wide variety of music including drum and bass, dubstep, breakbeat and house music...
  
   recorded a remix of the song.
• Petey Pablo
  Petey Pablo
  Moses Mortimer Barrett III , known by the stage name Petey Pablo, is an American rapper from Greenville, North Carolina.-Biography:...
  
   samples "Sweet Dreams" in his song "Get Me Out of Jail".
• UK artist M.I.A.
  M.I.A. (artist)
  Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam , better known by her stage name M.I.A. , is an English singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, painter and director of Sri Lankan Tamil descent. Her compositions combine elements of hip hop, electronica, dance, alternative and world music. M.I.A...
  
   mashed
  Mashup (music)
  A mashup or bootleg is a song or composition created by blending two or more pre-recorded songs, usually by overlaying the vocal track of one song seamlessly over the instrumental track of another...
  
   "Sweet Dreams" with Pretty Tony
  Pretty Tony
  Tony "Pretty Tony" Butler was an influential 1980s electro and freestyle artist based out of Miami, Florida.He recorded a string of popular club tracks on Jam Packed in the mid-'80s. Butler's tracks with his primary group Freestyle Express include such club staples as "It's Automatic", "Don't Stop...
  
  's "Fix It in the Mix" and her own "10 Dollar" to produce the seventeenth track off Diplo and her Piracy Funds Terrorism
  Piracy Funds Terrorism
  Piracy Funds Terrorism Volume 1, usually referred to simply as Piracy Funds Terrorism, is a mixtape produced by British recording artist M.I.A. and American DJ Diplo featuring vocal tracks intended for M.I.A.'s debut album Arular mashed up with samples of other recordings. The mixtape was produced...
  
  mixtape.
• Play-N-Skillz
  Play-N-Skillz
  Play-N-Skillz are an American hip-hop electronic music record production duo from Irving, Texas, consisting of brothers Juan "Play" Salinas and Oscar "Skillz" Salinas, who are also rappers...
  
   sampled and sped up the famous riff in their song "Get Freaky", featuring Pitbull
  Pitbull (rapper)
  Armando Christian Pérez , better known by his stage name Pitbull, is an American rapper, singer-songwriter and record producer. His first recorded performance was from the Lil Jon album Kings of Crunk in 2002, after which he released his debut album in 2004 titled M.I.A.M.I. under TVT Records...
  
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• Rapper Busta Rhymes
  Busta Rhymes
  Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr., better known by his stage name Busta Rhymes ,Smith is an American rapper, producer and actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the alias Busta Rhymes after NFL wide receiver George "Buster" Rhymes...
  
   uses as similar riff in his 2009 single "World Go Round
  World Go Round
  "World Go Round" is the fourth single from Busta Rhymes' album Back on My B.S. and is produced by Jelly Roll. The song featuring British singer Estelle, was released in France on April 6, 2009 by Universal Records due to the heavy rotation of a leaked version of the track on the French R&B/hip hop...
  
  " featuring Estelle
  Estelle (musician)
  Estelle Fanta Swaray commonly known as Estelle, and formerly as Est'elle, is an English R&B singer-songwriter, rapper and record producer.-Early Life:Estelle was born 18 January 1980 in Hammersmith, London, England...
  
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• Freestyle singer Rockell
  Rockell
  Rachel Alexandra Mercaldo , better known as Rockell, is an American Freestyle music, Club/Dance, Hi-NRG and Pop singer-songwriter.-Music career:...
  
   sampled the bassline and intro in her 1997 single "I Fell in Love".
• British electropop group Sohodolls sampled the songs on their song "Trash the Rental" taken from their album Ribbed Music for the Numb Generation
  Ribbed Music for the Numb Generation
  Ribbed Music For The Numb Generation is the debut album from British electro group Sohodolls.The album was released in the United Kingdom on September 24, 2007 by A&G Records and is scheduled for release in the United States of America on October 18, 2007...
  
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• Escape The Fate
  Escape The Fate
  Escape the Fate is an American post-hardcore band from Las Vegas, Nevada formed in 2005 and originally from Pahrump, Nevada. They have released three EPs and three full-length studio albums. Dying Is Your Latest Fashion was the band's debut album and only album to feature vocalist Ronnie Radke...
  
   sampled the intro effect from the Marilyn Manson
  Marilyn Manson
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   version, for their song "Lost in Darkness".
• The Black Eyed Peas
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   used this song to mix it with their song My Humps
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• Avicii
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   sampled the song in his mix titled "Swede Dreams".
• Beyoncé Knowles
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   used fragments of the song when singing "Sweet Dreams
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  " in Glastonbury
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Appearances in other media

• Eurythmics performed the song at the 1984 Grammy Awards. The live performance of the song was released on the 1994 album Grammy's Greatest Moments Volume I.
• The Eurythmics version was used on Season 3 of So You Think You Can Dance, danced by Neil Haskell
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   and Sabra Johnson
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  , choreographed by Mandy Moore
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  . It was nominated for an Emmy for outstanding choreography. The same routine was later used and made slightly longer for the finale of the UK version
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  , danced by Lizzie Gough and Tommy Franzen.
• The song was used as the theme for NBC's 1996 made-for-TV thriller, Sweet Dreams, starring Tiffani Thiessen
  Tiffani Thiessen
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   and Amy Yasbeck
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  , using both the original Eurythmics version and the Manson cover.
• The Eurythmics version was used in the film Striptease
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• The Manson cover was featured in the 1999 remake
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   of House on Haunted Hill
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• Used in the TV series The Simpsons
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  in the 2002 episode "Half-Decent Proposal
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• It was used as the theme song for the 2005 TV reality series, The Apprentice: Martha Stewart
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• The Manson cover was featured in the 2009 film
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  s Gamer and Trick 'r Treat
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• A rock cover performed by Theo Crous was used in a VW Golf GTI MkV commercial.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUGNM0OcyBI
• The Manson cover was used in a 2006 Fiat Grande Punto
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   commercial.
• The song was used in the first episode of series three of the British drama Ashes to Ashes
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• The original version of the song was used in Everybody Hates Chris
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• Used in American Pie: The Wedding during the dance off scene.
• The track was used in the Flynn's Arcade scene on Tron: Legacy.
• In the Parks and Recreation
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  episode "Telethon," "Pawnee's most bookable talent" Denise Yermley sings the song during a telethon.
• A cover by Emily Browning
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   was used in the 2011 film Sucker Punch
  Sucker Punch (film)
  Sucker Punch is a 2011 action-fantasy thriller film, directed by Zack Snyder and co-written by him and Steve Shibuya. It is Snyder's first film based on an original script. The film stars Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, and Oscar Isaac...
  
  and made available on the soundtrack album
  Sucker Punch (soundtrack)
  Like with the soundtrack for Watchmen, director Zack Snyder decided to go with covers instead of original songs, saying "If you go with the original song, you just get the moment. But if you go with covers you also get all of the baggage you bring to it, [...] I like the baggage...
  
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• Both the original and the Marilyn Manson cover version were used in the pilot of the 2011 TV series Grimm
  Grimm (TV series)
  Grimm is an American fantasy/mystery/crime drama series that made its debut on NBC on October 28, 2011. It airs Fridays at 9:00 pm ET/8:00 pm CT. The show has been described as "a cop drama—with a twist.....
  
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External links

• YouTube - Live rehearsal 2007
• YouTube - Marilyn Manson's music video
• YouTube - Nitty Gritty - Sweet Dreams
• YouTube - Térez Montcalm - Sweet Dreams
• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185371/soundtrack