Dreams That Money Can't Buy is the second solo studio album by the English singer and musician Holly Johnson, released by MCA Records in 1991.

Dreams That Money Can't Buy was given a half-hearted release later in the year and with little promotion it failed to chart.

[5] Having left the label by the time of the album's release, Johnson discovered he was HIV positive in November 1991, which resulted in him largely withdrawing from music.

[2] Ian Gittins of Melody Maker was critical in his review, describing the album as "some kind of dismal nadir", "sheer drivel" and "risible guff" which "plumbs some spectacularly sad depths".

His songwriting is desperate, invariably trite and cliched, and even the tired cabaret material he manages to scrape up is let down by his mewling whine of a vocal.

"[15] Simon Williams of NME was also unimpressed with the album and was particularly critical of the "synthetic orchestrations", writing, "They're all over the place here, beeping and parping like the 50th rate trumpets and string sections they really are, and generally making a thorough nuisance of themselves in between the mildly hectic electro beats and Holly's woefully wasted larynx."

"[11] In a retrospective review, Jon O'Brien of AllMusic stated, "Even taking into account the fact that the dated production would have sounded a little fresher back in the early '90s, it's not difficult to see why the label appeared to have such a lack of confidence.

"[10] Terry Staunton of Record Collector said in a review of the 2011 re-issue, "Dreams That Money Can't Buy lack[s] the joyousness of Blast and proved to be a lacklustre swansong.

There's little variation in the overall sound, the drama of Johnson's voice struggling to find comfort in the soulless, mechanical rhythms, only ever making a strong impression on the tropical pop of 'Boyfriend '65', a fun duet with Kirsty MacColl.