Track Listing
1. Don't You (Forget About Me)
2. Promised You a Miracle
3. Waterfront
4. Alive & Kicking
5. Glittering Prize
6. All the Things She Said
7. Sanctify Yourself
8. Someone Somewhere (In Summertime)
9. Ghostdancing
10. Up on the Catwalk
11. Speed Your Love to Me
12. Theme For Great Cities
13. Love Song
14. American
15. Sweat in Bullet
16. Life in a Day
17. I Travel
18. Let There Be Love
19. This Is Your Land
20. Kick It In
21. Let It All Come Down
22. See the Lights
23. Stand by Love
24. Real Life
25. She's a River
26. Hypnotised
27. Glitterball
28. War Babies
29. Mandela Day
30. Biko
31. Belfast Child
32. Real Life by Raven Maize
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Raven Maize | | Distributor: | MSI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Simple Minds include: Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill.
Additional personnel: Raven Maize.
Producers include: Keith Forsey, Peter Walsh, Steve Lillywhite, Bob Clearmountain, Jimmy Iovine.
Includes liner notes by Billy Sloan.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
This "Best Of" compilation collects 32 tracks from the 1980s superstars, including "Don't You (Forget About Me)."
This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.
Over the course of two discs, THE BEST OF SIMPLE MINDS chronicles all the phases of the Scottish band's eclectic career. They began as a gritty young post-punk outfit in the late 1970s. But by the turn of the decade, they had incorporated a precocious mix of punk, dance beats, and synthesizers, for a sound that helped create the template for much of what followed in UK pop for the next several years. This golden age of the group is represented by percolating, synth-laced tunes such as "I Travel" and "Sweat in Bullet."
By the mid-'80s, Simple Minds had become worldwide stars by expanding their sound to stadium size, a la U2 or Peter Gabriel. Epitomized by "Alive and Kicking" and "Promised You a Miracle," this period is the one with which casual observers most frequently associate the band. The collection continues further still, following Simple Minds into more organic-sounding territory, during a phase where they'd earned their stripes as elder rock statesmen. From edgy punks to gilded popsters, Simple Minds are comprehensively captured on this collection.
Editorial Reviews
3 1/2 stars out of 5 - ...They made some cracking records...
Uncut (12/01/2001)
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