"Dreams" is from The Cranberries' 1993 debut album Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?. Dolores O'Riordan's ethereal vocals and the song's jangly guitar made it the band's breakthrough hit. It reached #27 on the UK Singles Chart, #15 in Ireland, and #42 on the US Billboard Hot 100 Airplay.

"Venus" is Bananarama's cover of the 1969 hit by Dutch band Shocking Blue, whose original version reached #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1970. Although Bananarama had been performing the song since the group's early days, they didn't record it until 1986 for their album True Confessions. Recorded in December 1985 at Odyssey Studios in London, the track became the biggest hit of Bananarama's career, reaching #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 (their only US chart-topper), #1 in Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Finland, and South Africa, #8 on the UK Singles Chart (matching the original's UK peak) and #1 on Billboard's Dance Club Songs chart for two weeks.