I suddenly understand that this album is indeed godhead. I am speechless, in shock, and I blame Ian Reise-Moraine. :)
― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Monday, 4 July 2005 04:16 (eighteen years ago) link
"Never going BACKWARDS!"
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 4 July 2005 04:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― mzui (mzui), Monday, 4 July 2005 05:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Monday, 4 July 2005 08:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 4 July 2005 09:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Monday, 4 July 2005 13:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Monday, 4 July 2005 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link
Simple Minds Go 'Black And White' On New CD http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000972737
"We can honestly say that we are delighted with the results and look forward with a totally revitalized outlook to this next phase of our ongoing creativity," explains Kerr. "We feel with some certainty that people who grew up with Simple Minds will share our enthusiasm for this new work."
We wanted to make an album once again that was full of dramatic and atmospheric pop music," he says. "We felt that we needed an album that proved as much to ourselves as anyone else, that the big beating heart of Simple Minds was very much alive and driving us on once again."
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 4 July 2005 13:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 4 July 2005 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Dream Giverhttp://www.simpleminds.org/sm/discog/baw/bawlp1.htm
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 4 July 2005 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link
Though the music is fine, Jim Kerr still sounds like a buffoon to me. I think he sounds like Jim Morrison a lot actually, which might be why I feel that way.
― NickB (NickB), Monday, 4 July 2005 13:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Monday, 4 July 2005 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link
Thanks for the info DJ Martian! I admit, I'm rather intrigued. But then the last thing I heard from them was the fairly dismal Street Fighting Years, which was what...'89? So I have no idea what to expect from them now. Have they actually had any U.K. chart success since then or what?
― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Monday, 4 July 2005 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Monday, 4 July 2005 19:56 (eighteen years ago) link
Erm, that just sounds like they're going to make Dont you Forget About me PTII - for the love of god dont! Please buy our albums! We used to be cool!
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 01:04 (eighteen years ago) link
# "We have one new tune that is very much in the style of something from our earlier album Empires and Dance. The working title of this dark and dramatic piece is God Save Us From Our Governments - it aptly sums up how we feel regarding Tony Blair's stance towards the notion of disarmament in Iraq. Despite the heavy-handed song title, this is not sloganeering for the sake of it. Throughout our career we have within our music tried to encapsulate the feeling and issues of the times that we live in." - Jim
― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 03:43 (eighteen years ago) link
This album is NOT going to be obvious stadium electronic-rock circa 1985
the first track on he album:
Stay Visible trackhttp://www.simpleminds.org/sm/songs/baw/sv1.htm
"A song that could have come out of any of the sessions for Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call, and yet here and now it cries out to be the opening track of this new album." - Jim
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 08:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 12:50 (eighteen years ago) link
This Official Press Release: provides an overview of the album:
http://www.noblepr.co.uk/Press_Releases/sanctuary_records/simple_minds.htm
i was wrong...they are citing the mid 80s sound as well in the press release. Plus reference to one track that is similar to New Gold Dream album.
UK release date - Monday September 12, 2005US release date - Tuesday September 13, 2005
LINE UP: vocals: Jim Kerr guitar: Charlie Burchill drums: Mel Gaynor bass: Eddy Duffy
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 12:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 13:07 (eighteen years ago) link
Now after a three year hiatus Simple Minds are back with their best CD since 'New Gold Dream,' called 'Black and White 050505.'
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 13:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Monday, 15 August 2005 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Monday, 15 August 2005 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link
Surprised how out of print this cd is.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 5 January 2020 16:42 (four years ago) link
It's $12 on Amazon. I have the expanded CD as found in the X5 box, which finally opened my eyes to just how brilliant all their early work was.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 5 January 2020 20:30 (four years ago) link
There is a few left but I thought the remaster would stay in print. I might spring for the set. Dunno yet.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 5 January 2020 20:55 (four years ago) link
Surprised in 2020 that any CDs get repressed at all, really.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Sunday, 5 January 2020 20:57 (four years ago) link
Oh, it isn't included in the set.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 5 January 2020 20:58 (four years ago) link
Does the early stuff sell? Did it used to be well stocked?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 5 January 2020 20:59 (four years ago) link
As well-stocked as any remastered reissue CD from the early 2000s. When CD reissues I want come out now, I buy them immediately so I don't have to pay $40 for them on Discogs a year later.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Sunday, 5 January 2020 21:03 (four years ago) link
Oh, it isn't included in the set.― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 5 January 2020 20:58
this is the X5 set in which Empires is included :
https://www.amazon.co.uk/X5-Simple-Minds/dp/B006GX3ONK/ref=sr_1_37?keywords=simple+minds&qid=1578311499&s=music&sr=1-37
but its out of print of course.
― mark e, Monday, 6 January 2020 11:55 (four years ago) link
Thankyou very much. I bought it for £60.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 10 January 2020 18:03 (four years ago) link
enjoy !its a great boxset - lots of extra 12" versions etc.
― mark e, Friday, 10 January 2020 18:28 (four years ago) link
O this album is really quite good. Dunno if I'd go quite as far as the honourable member for Nuvvieworld yet but I'm very much in favour
― imago, Tuesday, 9 November 2021 21:59 (two years ago) link
It is an excellent record, Capital City is especially fine. Charlie Burchill must be the most brilliantly diffuse, egoless lead guitarist of all time, even when they were stadium-sized he refused to completely commit to the idea of it.
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 9 November 2021 22:12 (two years ago) link
Yeah Capital City was a serious banger. I really do love how they insist on being to some extent circuitous on these early records
― imago, Tuesday, 9 November 2021 22:13 (two years ago) link
Providing you can make your peace with Kerr's 'European guy' voice, the first few records are gold.
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 9 November 2021 22:16 (two years ago) link
Oh I know! SFC especially. Was wondering what the catch was with this album, turns out it's side B after Capital City lol
― imago, Tuesday, 9 November 2021 22:18 (two years ago) link
Side B is def. weaker but it does have "Thirty Frames A Second" which is a fantastic Gang of Four rip.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 9 November 2021 23:17 (two years ago) link
There are some good songs on this but it's essentially a set-up for what they do on Sons & Fascination/Sister Feelings Call.I'll stand up for "Constantinople Line" as a highlight on side 2, as well.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 9 November 2021 23:29 (two years ago) link
i only knew "don't you" really until i started playing this silly facebook game called songpop in which you guess songs as fast as you can. turns out that game introduced me to a ton of cool songs & artists. including songs from this album.
― DT, Tuesday, 9 November 2021 23:32 (two years ago) link
‘A nuclear reactor of music’: the story of Simple Minds’ classic album Empires and Dance
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jun/27/a-nuclear-reactor-of-music-the-story-of-simple-minds-classic-album-empires-and-dance
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Tuesday, 27 June 2023 10:23 (ten months ago) link
“I Travel” still sounds at least 15 years ahead of its time. The band was truly a miracle between 1980 and 1984
― beamish13, Tuesday, 27 June 2023 13:39 (ten months ago) link