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 (nine 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 (nine months ago) link