A Thread for Simple Minds - Sons & Fascination/Sister Feelings Call

R2RC was a good example of second album syndrome, they went into record with John Leckie with just a few songs, I always used to wonder why it was much cheaper than all the other SM records, then I bought it (around 1985) and shelved it away, love it now, of course.

Love SaF/SFC, but can't help feeling that "Theme for Great Cities" is Jim Kerr's best vocal performance.

He was fine chanting mystical nonsense, until he caught a bad case of Bono-itis in the mid 80s.

Real Life is a pretty decent album, but I can't be doing with anything after that

“film theme” from R2RC is dark, sexy, cool as hell. first heard it on a Daniele Baldelli mix

Capital City is my jam, I love that bassline so much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hth0iPU29tw

<3 the 5x5 box set, that was my full immersion after years of missing out. Because of that I don't think of these albums individually but as part of a whole continuum.