The groove is fantastic, absolutely Mr Derek Forbes one of the greatest bass players Britain has ever produced. This song still excites me, will never tire of it....
Well,this song is from their `81 album Sons And Fascination,which is in fact just one record of a double, but released as two separate albums called as mentioned before and the second record named Sister Feelings Call. At this time - in `81/'82 - people LOVED (!) this albums and the live tour was a chain of celebrations . I mean i was in my early twenties then and many,many ppl of my age just plainly loved their music. They liked Zappa or Einstürzende Neubauten but they loved Simple Minds. Basicly Simple Minds music at that time was in synch with the complex feelings of a huge portion of young adults at that time. What they felt was expressed musicaly by Simple Minds. And they loved them for it. So their concerts turned into celebrations back then. And the concerts were emotional way stronger than the records can ever be. The band had charisma and the music live via a a couple kilowatt strong high quality PA just carried you away because its not music for the mind foremost but for the body and the soul. In retrospect i think from 1980 up to 1982 were Simple Minds golden years. They certainly had more economic success later starting with the Sparkle in the Rain album but the phase between Empires and Dance and New Gold Dream marks their creative high and fast rise to a widely known cult band . And well,their audience changed and broadend pretty much after Sparkle in the Rain. Personaly i think the early eighties marked a quality peak in pop music like the early seventies or late nineties. But that realy wasnt reflected in pop charts of the day but slightly more so in album charts. Back then people realy still sat down in friendgroups and listened to entire albums - with a beer a glass of wine or a joint - without fumbling on a smartphone.....
Their concerts were freaking amazing, my ears rang for days! Brilliant show, second only in my life to seeing Freddie and Queen in Melbourne Australia in 1985. Love Simple Minds to this day, and if I had been healthier and didn’t live in central Victoria now I would not have missed their show at The Palais in Melbourne a couple of weeks ago. They still sound epic!
I love Love Song. A quasi-dance track aimed more at just adding lyrics to a groove than telling a story. Simple Minds often made a listenable result out of just two chords. They’d have a foundation and then each instrument would create their own motif that would sit in there. Jim Kerr was for a while the partner of Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders. My favourite of theirs is Middle Of The Road. Great lyrics, great delivery/attitude, great groove, and one of the tastiest guitar solos around. It’s simple on the surface, but the tempo turns what are some simple licks into a hefty challenge for the fingers.
@@hanierfamily You know great music when you hear it. Here’s a more recent (ish) Aussie track that might impress you. Just A Song About Ping Pong by Operator Please. They were a high school band that shot to fame on the strength of this quirky song. Another track of theirs that’s individual and strong is Logic.
@@SPKdesign1 …🤷♂️… it’s like your looking at a foto of me from 1985, the one with me in the midge Ure pencil tash and the shiny suit from Fosters , the one where you roll the sleeves up to the elbow in a vain attempt to like the Pollokshaws version of Don Johnson from Miami vice ! 👀… You know how one end of a magnet attracts like fk… but the other end repels like nobody’s business ?.. Fanny wise , me , that tash , n that suit repelled the ladies just like that magnet …. Sad face .. 😭 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 👍🏴
Banging tune for all alternative clubs in Glasgow early 80s, along with 'I travel' . TBH Glasgow was really the place to be with bands such as 'orange juice' 'Lloyd Cole and the Commotions' 'Altered Images' Hipsway' and many more
I think early simple minds is the best period 79 81 .Love song with Derek Forbes on bass is fantastic very European sounding new wave post punk with disco beats and Charlie Burchalls guitar sound makes this brilliant
@kevhanson1262 I think 79-82 personally...then "Sparkle in the Rain " came along and it all changed, but not for the better sadly, some say it was just a natural change, but for me it was too big a leap and the band lost a lot of the magic that made them special .
Thank you for reacting to this, it was great to hear it after so long. Other tracks by them which I recommended are: 'I Travel' (please do the 12" version of this as it has a different intro from the album or 7" version), 'Sweat in Bullet', 'Theme for Great Cities', ' Promised You a Miracle', a couple of later tracks which are good are: 'Glittering Prize' and 'Belfast Child'.
@@mightyV444 It's definitely up there for me too, I'm surprised that I forgot to include it. They did so many great tracks, it's hard to think of them all at my age. 😄
Saw them live in Melbourne Australia in April 1984 and was a converted Simple Minds freak from them. One of the best concerts I’ve ever seen, they were brilliant!! I still love them, but would never call the vocals on this monotonous!!!
Early Simple Minds is great, I travel, The American, Sweat in Bullet, Theme for Great cities ( might be a bit long for you) for me it all went a bit " Stadium Rock" after the album New gold dream which has great stuff on it, Big Sleep, King is White and in the Crowd Hunter and the Hunted' to name but three. Just my opinion though.
Simple minds have a very long career : more thon 40 years. I suggest to you these tracks from them : Street fighting years See the lights Dolphins Belfast child Let there be love Rivera of ice Come a long way Alice and kicking This is your land Waterfront Speed your love to me Shake off the ghosts (instrumental)
There is a great live version of this here on RUclips that is part of a longer concert; if you look up Simple Minds Live at Market Square Festival, you can find it there. I think that performance is from about 10 years ago; the whole band is just grooving hard. Actually, that whole show is amazing; even if you don't do a reaction, I suggest listening to the whole concert. The band begins with a newer song from 2009 and also showcases a lot of their early 80s material. It definitely comes to life in a live setting.
A time less gem from a Brill band ! Great Live ! " Live in the City of Lights " is top double live Album ! SM live in "Verona " is Ace aswell " Belfast Child " " Street Fighting Years " " Ghost Dancing " " New Gold Dream " the list of great tunes by this band is quite long ! cheers !
Good comparison with Bryan Ferry, Chris !👍 If you listen to the Simple Minds song "Seeing out the Angel" which dates from the same era, the link with Ferry is even more obvious ! At that time, Simple Minds made atmospheric music more based on repetition and the trance that it can provide in the long term. As one of their songs said, “In Trance as Mission” (the message was clear!😉).
Never mind the Countdown clip. I think the camera caught the side or back of my head (which looks like the back of everybody else's head). I just remember the boys coming on Counntdown after we pushed the single into the Australian Top 20. Jim carried a bag and looked quite striking. They also toured Australia with Icehouse around this time. INXS didn't influence Simple Minds. Simple Minds were getting into that Euro Electro-Dance sound, while INXS were still doing a New Wave Pub thing. _New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84_ was one of my favourite albums of 1982, and the singles from that album are excellent. The videos for ''Glittering Prize'' and ''Promised You A Miracle'' need to be seen. The first time I became aware of Simple Minds was in 1979 when I saw the '"Chelsea Girl'' video on either Countdown or Sounds. I bought the single after seeing the video and I remember really liking the picture sleeve. Unfortunately, not a lot of other kids in Australia were as impressed with '"Chelsea Girl'' as I was, and there was a two year wait for them to come around to ''Love Song''.
Screaming and clapping at performers was harder than you'd think. The show's director would encourage new and younger kids to scream at performers because older kids (at 13/14 I was an older kid) would usually be all screamed out and/or growing out of the screaming thing. Simple Minds (on Countdown) looked too mesmerising to be screamed at. You just wanted to watch them. Some of the screams sound a bit forced.
@@rhonda_hart4982 Ha, ha - I really don't know. I hadn't paid much attention to the hair colour of other Countdown kids at the time. There were a few blondes and redheads amongst us, but I've noticed that most of the heads in the audience look like little brunettes. I don't know why most of us had dark hair. I would have guess ed that it had something to do with the Greek population, but Greek kids very rarely went on Countdown in the 70's. It was only in the early to mid 80's that the Italians and Greeks started to make their way into the audience. I guess Melbourne isn't a very blonde city. If Countdown was shot in some other part of Australia, it might have had a different looking audience. I don't remember anybody ever thinking of Kylie as the token blonde. She could be prety bossy and domineering, which us experienced Countdown kids didn't quite appreciate. We liked her, but we always felt she should know her place.
Hey Gillian, I used to see INXS play Eno and Bowie covers around 1978/79. Before they got signed, they were known in Sydney for doing covers of Roxy Music and Eno. Flowers (aka Icehouse) were also doing the same thing. Simple Minds were more committed to that European sound.
@@kaitlynbatt_ I think Robbo made mention of INXS doing a broad range of covers. I only got to see INXS in 1983/84, and they were doing mostly originals.
I saw Simple Minds play with Icehouse on their 1981 tour, and I think Simple Minds took Icehouse to Europe. So, I would like to request the following tune.. Flowers - Can't Help Myself nzoz1980 And please, for our sanity, maintain the nzoz1980 channel directory.
Sorry Cyn, I think this came out well before INXS went big internationally. It came out at a time when punk was becoming progressive (punk rock prog?).
I don't know if Simple Minds influenced INXS. BUt neither do you. I saw INXS playing Eno and Roxy Music covers in 1979, so let's just put it down to the fact that a lot of people were influenced by those names.
@@kaitlynbatt_ I didn't say they did I said if anyone influenced anyone it was the other way around. Has Simple minds grew from the Punk Band Johnny and The self Abusers 1977 Sorry if you thought i did.
@@grayham37 Not a problem. For some reason a copy of ''Saints And Sinners'' fell into my collection of 45's back in 1979. I don't know where it's gone now. Ta!
Non conoscevo questa canzone dei Simple Minds, sembra New Wave sound synt tastiere style ricordo che quella hit dont you forget about me in intervista lui il cantante disse its funny thing its one of songs e una delle canzoni che non abbiamo scritto noi Simple Minds che ha avuto un grande successo...
Actually, Professor of Rock, on RUclips, had a story on 'Don't You Forget About Me' that I saw just before we made the video, talking about how the band had refused the song 6 times. Jim Kerr's wife at the time, Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders), wanted to do it, but because she was pregnant, asked him if he would. The rest is history. The Professor of Rock has the full story. You should check it out.
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The groove is fantastic, absolutely Mr Derek Forbes one of the greatest bass players Britain has ever produced. This song still excites me, will never tire of it....
Spot on. Early Simple Minds is spellbinding. And Derek Forbes's bass is killer. Also some stellar guitar work and keyboards
Well,this song is from their `81 album Sons And Fascination,which is in fact just one record of a double, but released as two separate albums
called as mentioned before and the second record named Sister Feelings Call. At this time - in `81/'82 - people LOVED (!) this albums and the
live tour was a chain of celebrations .
I mean i was in my early twenties then and many,many ppl of my age just plainly loved their music. They liked Zappa or Einstürzende Neubauten
but they loved Simple Minds. Basicly Simple Minds music at that time was in synch with the complex feelings of a huge portion of young adults
at that time. What they felt was expressed musicaly by Simple Minds. And they loved them for it. So their concerts turned into celebrations back
then. And the concerts were emotional way stronger than the records can ever be. The band had charisma and the music live via a a couple
kilowatt strong high quality PA just carried you away because its not music for the mind foremost but for the body and the soul.
In retrospect i think from 1980 up to 1982 were Simple Minds golden years. They certainly had more economic success later starting with the
Sparkle in the Rain album but the phase between Empires and Dance and New Gold Dream marks their creative high and fast rise to a widely known
cult band . And well,their audience changed and broadend pretty much after Sparkle in the Rain.
Personaly i think the early eighties marked a quality peak in pop music like the early seventies or late nineties. But that realy wasnt reflected in pop
charts of the day but slightly more so in album charts. Back then people realy still sat down in friendgroups and listened to entire albums - with a beer
a glass of wine or a joint - without fumbling on a smartphone.....
I (Chris) have a huge mid to late 80's 45 RPM record collection from my DJ days as a teen. Cheapest way to get all the hits before MP3.
Their concerts were freaking amazing, my ears rang for days! Brilliant show, second only in my life to seeing Freddie and Queen in Melbourne Australia in 1985. Love Simple Minds to this day, and if I had been healthier and didn’t live in central Victoria now I would not have missed their show at The Palais in Melbourne a couple of weeks ago. They still sound epic!
I love Love Song.
A quasi-dance track aimed more at just adding lyrics to a groove than telling a story.
Simple Minds often made a listenable result out of just two chords. They’d have a foundation and then each instrument would create their own motif that would sit in there.
Jim Kerr was for a while the partner of Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders. My favourite of theirs is Middle Of The Road. Great lyrics, great delivery/attitude, great groove, and one of the tastiest guitar solos around. It’s simple on the surface, but the tempo turns what are some simple licks into a hefty challenge for the fingers.
Middle Of The Road is one of our favourites of theirs.
@@hanierfamily
You know great music when you hear it.
Here’s a more recent (ish) Aussie track that might impress you.
Just A Song About Ping Pong by Operator Please.
They were a high school band that shot to fame on the strength of this quirky song. Another track of theirs that’s individual and strong is Logic.
A complete banger from these celebrated sons of Scotland … great call , I thoroughly enjoyed hearing this again 👌
👍🏴
I can just see you jumping aboot the dancefloor at Mad Hatters in white baggy breeks wi a pretentious waistcoat and tie.
@@SPKdesign1 …🤷♂️… it’s like your looking at a foto of me from 1985, the one with me in the midge Ure pencil tash and the shiny suit from Fosters , the one where you roll the sleeves up to the elbow in a vain attempt to like the Pollokshaws version of Don Johnson from Miami vice ! 👀…
You know how one end of a magnet attracts like fk… but the other end repels like nobody’s business ?.. Fanny wise , me , that tash , n that suit repelled the ladies just like that magnet …. Sad face .. 😭
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
👍🏴
@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering Ah, them was the days.
@@SPKdesign1 aye your not wrong 👌
👍🏴
Aye I wis, then off to the White Cockade in Rose Street for I Travel!
@@SPKdesign1
Banging tune for all alternative clubs in Glasgow early 80s, along with 'I travel' . TBH Glasgow was really the place to be with bands such as 'orange juice' 'Lloyd Cole and the Commotions' 'Altered Images' Hipsway' and many more
Love this earlier track from them!
I think early simple minds is the best period 79 81 .Love song with Derek Forbes on bass is fantastic very European sounding new wave post punk with disco beats and Charlie Burchalls guitar sound makes this brilliant
From the combined albums "Sons and Fascination and Sister feelings call really worth checking out
@kevhanson1262 I think 79-82 personally...then "Sparkle in the Rain " came along and it all changed, but not for the better sadly, some say it was just a natural change, but for me it was too big a leap and the band lost a lot of the magic that made them special .
Thank you for reacting to this, it was great to hear it after so long.
Other tracks by them which I recommended are:
'I Travel' (please do the 12" version of this as it has a different intro from the album or 7" version),
'Sweat in Bullet',
'Theme for Great Cities', '
Promised You a Miracle',
a couple of later tracks which are good are:
'Glittering Prize' and 'Belfast Child'.
...and 'Waterfront'.
'Up On The Catwalk' was playing at a Vinyl event at the local pub last night 🙂
@@mightyV444
Yes, 'Waterfront' is a great track a very good suggestion.
@@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis. - Thank you! 😊 Yeah I think that's actually my favourite Simple Minds song 😀
@@mightyV444
It's definitely up there for me too, I'm surprised that I forgot to include it. They did so many great tracks, it's hard to think of them all at my age. 😄
@@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis. - Yeah, I can relate! 😅
Simple Minds got their first gold record in Australia with this song. I got to see them in concert with Icehouse in 1981.
Saw them live in Melbourne Australia in April 1984 and was a converted Simple Minds freak from them. One of the best concerts I’ve ever seen, they were brilliant!! I still love them, but would never call the vocals on this monotonous!!!
Great great song
Love it thanks
Great. Another early song I like is Glittering Prize.
Playing here in Perth WA next Feb!!
They are coming to Australia to do some concerts with Icehouse. I can't wait.
Early Simple Minds is great, I travel, The American, Sweat in Bullet, Theme for Great cities ( might be a bit long for you) for me it all went a bit " Stadium Rock" after the album New gold dream which has great stuff on it, Big Sleep, King is White and in the Crowd Hunter and the Hunted' to name but three. Just my opinion though.
And your opinion is correct. All great fucking tracks.
Simple minds have a very long career : more thon 40 years. I suggest to you these tracks from them :
Street fighting years
See the lights
Dolphins
Belfast child
Let there be love
Rivera of ice
Come a long way
Alice and kicking
This is your land
Waterfront
Speed your love to me
Shake off the ghosts (instrumental)
Hi to the Hanier Family, if your up for a bit of a celtic sound from the band, the wonderful Belfast Child is the song for you😊
There is a great live version of this here on RUclips that is part of a longer concert; if you look up Simple Minds Live at Market Square Festival, you can find it there. I think that performance is from about 10 years ago; the whole band is just grooving hard. Actually, that whole show is amazing; even if you don't do a reaction, I suggest listening to the whole concert. The band begins with a newer song from 2009 and also showcases a lot of their early 80s material. It definitely comes to life in a live setting.
A time less gem from a Brill band ! Great Live ! " Live in the City of Lights " is top double live Album !
SM live in "Verona " is Ace aswell " Belfast Child " " Street Fighting Years " " Ghost Dancing " " New Gold Dream " the list of great tunes by this band is quite long ! cheers !
Good comparison with Bryan Ferry, Chris !👍
If you listen to the Simple Minds song "Seeing out the Angel" which dates from the same era, the link with Ferry is even more obvious !
At that time, Simple Minds made atmospheric music more based on repetition and the trance that it can provide in the long term. As one of their songs said, “In Trance as Mission” (the message was clear!😉).
Wonderful band. Their more recent stuff is good too....their minds may be simple but they always bring the goods!
My favourite song, the beats are layered and complex, I miss that
Brilliant live band
Never mind the Countdown clip. I think the camera caught the side or back of my head (which looks like the back of everybody else's head). I just remember the boys coming on Counntdown after we pushed the single into the Australian Top 20. Jim carried a bag and looked quite striking. They also toured Australia with Icehouse around this time. INXS didn't influence Simple Minds. Simple Minds were getting into that Euro Electro-Dance sound, while INXS were still doing a New Wave Pub thing. _New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84_ was one of my favourite albums of 1982, and the singles from that album are excellent. The videos for ''Glittering Prize'' and ''Promised You A Miracle'' need to be seen.
The first time I became aware of Simple Minds was in 1979 when I saw the '"Chelsea Girl'' video on either Countdown or Sounds. I bought the single after seeing the video and I remember really liking the picture sleeve. Unfortunately, not a lot of other kids in Australia were as impressed with '"Chelsea Girl'' as I was, and there was a two year wait for them to come around to ''Love Song''.
Screaming and clapping at performers was harder than you'd think. The show's director would encourage new and younger kids to scream at performers because older kids (at 13/14 I was an older kid) would usually be all screamed out and/or growing out of the screaming thing. Simple Minds (on Countdown) looked too mesmerising to be screamed at. You just wanted to watch them. Some of the screams sound a bit forced.
How come there were very few blonde Countdown kids? Was Kylie Minogue the token blonde amongst you lot? lo
@@rhonda_hart4982 Ha, ha - I really don't know. I hadn't paid much attention to the hair colour of other Countdown kids at the time. There were a few blondes and redheads amongst us, but I've noticed that most of the heads in the audience look like little brunettes. I don't know why most of us had dark hair. I would have guess ed that it had something to do with the Greek population, but Greek kids very rarely went on Countdown in the 70's. It was only in the early to mid 80's that the Italians and Greeks started to make their way into the audience. I guess Melbourne isn't a very blonde city. If Countdown was shot in some other part of Australia, it might have had a different looking audience. I don't remember anybody ever thinking of Kylie as the token blonde. She could be prety bossy and domineering, which us experienced Countdown kids didn't quite appreciate. We liked her, but we always felt she should know her place.
Hey Gillian, I used to see INXS play Eno and Bowie covers around 1978/79. Before they got signed, they were known in Sydney for doing covers of Roxy Music and Eno. Flowers (aka Icehouse) were also doing the same thing. Simple Minds were more committed to that European sound.
@@kaitlynbatt_ I think Robbo made mention of INXS doing a broad range of covers. I only got to see INXS in 1983/84, and they were doing mostly originals.
I saw Simple Minds play with Icehouse on their 1981 tour, and I think Simple Minds took Icehouse to Europe. So, I would like to request the following tune..
Flowers - Can't Help Myself nzoz1980
And please, for our sanity, maintain the nzoz1980 channel directory.
Favourite SM song is probably 'Street Fighting Years'.
Teddy Swims " I Can't Make You Love Me".
INXS is a good shout as I know Andrew Farris was a big fan of early Simple Minds
This and 'The American' should have been bigger hits.
Sorry Cyn, I think this came out well before INXS went big internationally. It came out at a time when punk was becoming progressive (punk rock prog?).
spot on with roxy music, they were the pioneers of new wave, simple minds took it to another level, great band, cheers
I Travel by Simple Minds you will love
It was quite big at the time but no ma thing.
Lou Reed, David Bowie and Brian Eno Of you said Roxy Music was great influences to Jim Kerr and these Predate INXS so maybe These influenced INXS lol.
I don't know if Simple Minds influenced INXS. BUt neither do you.
I saw INXS playing Eno and Roxy Music covers in 1979, so let's just put it down to the fact that a lot of people were influenced by those names.
@@kaitlynbatt_ I didn't say they did I said if anyone influenced anyone it was the other way around. Has Simple minds grew from the Punk Band Johnny and The self Abusers 1977 Sorry if you thought i did.
@@grayham37 Not a problem. For some reason a copy of ''Saints And Sinners'' fell into my collection of 45's back in 1979. I don't know where it's gone now. Ta!
1981 like most simple minds songs ageless
Synth Pop Tastiere Keyboards New Wave
The video was mental.
Roxy Music definitely influenced the.
You just get Simple Minds, totally British…..100% jock legends
Forgot to add, it’s about nuclear war, Britain and America and the political relationship….
Non conoscevo questa canzone dei Simple Minds, sembra New Wave sound synt tastiere style ricordo che quella hit dont you forget about me in intervista lui il cantante disse its funny thing its one of songs e una delle canzoni che non abbiamo scritto noi Simple Minds che ha avuto un grande successo...
Actually, Professor of Rock, on RUclips, had a story on 'Don't You Forget About Me' that I saw just before we made the video, talking about how the band had refused the song 6 times. Jim Kerr's wife at the time, Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders), wanted to do it, but because she was pregnant, asked him if he would. The rest is history. The Professor of Rock has the full story. You should check it out.
🙂🙂 Dont you forget about me you know me?
i dont know who you are