simple minds s & d

europe has a language problem

In central Europe, men are marching!

They seem like people who kind of get the whole new wave thing but the production is so commercial. I wonder if there is good music under all that over-production and over-emoting. Made a lot of true believers want to live in a John Hughes movie, which is unforgivable.

The production on New Gold Dream is what I love most about it. One of the most crystalline, sparkling sounding records ever. Especially good on vinyl.

I dont care for anything of theirs later than NGD tho.

^ Agreed except for a couple of songs off Sparkle In The Rain (Catwalk, C Moon...)

Oh shit, just fired up a youtube of C Moon - had totally forgotten the way that matey boy sings 'cwy, cwy, cwy, cwy like a baby'

Man, it's cwacking me up right now.

Catwalk is a fucking great song. Fuck! I forgot I'd bought a copy of Sparkle on vinyl a couple months back! I have to get my turntable set back up.

<3 for reminding me Nick.

I got some pretty hardcore dental work done once and the dentist put on "Sparkle in the Rain" on repeat for four hours. I heard "Waterfront" a few years later and got freaked out.

Went to HMV today to get the new six-disc box of the early albums, but it was €22. The hell? I'm pretty sure it's only £12.99 in the UK. Went back home and ordered it on Amazon, saved a few quid even with postage. Anyway, anyone else heard it yet? Anything remastered or messed up?

isn't this boxset just a nice repackaging of the recent (i.e. 2002-ish), remasters with extra trax ?

have to say, i saw this in a shop this week for £15, and despite having no interest in the band before, i feel an urge to pick this up.

[and yes, the recent interview on tQ definitely swayed me .. ]

Hella good interview on TheQuietus, as usual! And as someome who doesn't have this stuff on CD, it's priced irresistably.

Some nasty-looking box though innit?

indeed it is. v. cheap and nasty.
even the elo box released end of last year had some design to it.
this is just a very cheap-n-nasty package.
that said, i'm very tempted as i have none of the early stuff.

Then Play Long reaches Live In The City Of Light but wishes for a time machine: http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/simple-minds-live-in-city-of-light.html

Sparkle In The Rain gets boxed

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The spate of hugely expanded box-set reissues continues next year with Simple Minds’ breakthrough sixth album Sparkle in the Rain — featuring the singles “Waterfront” and “Up on the Catwalk” — set for re-release a a five-disc set featuring B-sides, remixes, BBC sessions, a previously unreleased concert and a 5.1 Surround mix of the album.

The Sparkle in the Rain reissue — which also will be released as a 2CD deluxe set, on 180-gram vinyl and as a Blu-ray featuring the Surround mix — arrives March 16, via Universal Music, according to the band, which just released a brand-new studio album last month.

The Super Deluxe Edition box set will include the full album, newly remastered this year at Abbey Road Studios, on one disc plus a second disc of B-sides and extended mixes. The third and fourth discs will include a previously unreleased concert recorded at the Glasgow Barrowlands in 1984, the year of the album’s release, plus a BBC radio session.

And the DVD will include a new 5.1 Surround mix of the album by Stephen Wilson, plus High Res Stereo and Dolby Digital 5.1 mixes as well. Also on the DVD: promo videos for the album’s three singles, plus several television appearances.

Should note that the box doesn't include the demos. It's a shame because once I heard them I haven't really listened to the album since. No Steve Lilywhite. No drums. No Jim Kerr. = 100% improvement

Yeah, the inclusion of the demos was my first thought as well. It'd still be interesting to see whether Steven Wilson was particularly ruthless in his 5.1 remix.