This is Simple Minds Best album! So many great songs on here. Their first commercial breakthrough album. Promised you A Miracle, New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84), Someone Somewhere In summertime, Big sleep. This album is Perfect! Although I’d say Hunter and the Hunted is my personal Favourite.
The whole album is like an early 80s psychedelic fantasy. Forget the singles - it's the other tracks that make this album what it is. Their masterpiece.
Thank you, Justin, for reacting to this song. I am a big fan of Derek Forbes' bass playing. I love whole subtle, atmospheric feel of this album. An absolute classic!
Just the bass alone probably makes this one my favorite Simple Minds tracks. Thanks for reacting to it, JP! I always enjoy your measured take on stuff like this.
Oh wow JP, you are going to LOVE this album... a band at the absolute top of their game, brilliant songs, brilliant production, and a great SOUND to the whole LP... standouts are the singles (Promised You A Miracle, Glittering Prize, Someone Somewhere In Summertime, the title track) but there are no duff tracks, a stupendous record...
Good shout, what about the 20 minutes broadcast on "The Tube" from Newcastle in 82 a must watch for all SM fans or those who wonder what they were like.
Love this song from this outstanding album. There is a warmth to their sound here that isnt always present on their other albums. Every single track is marvelous.
That was a beautiful review. You’ll also love Big Sleep. However, Somebody Up There Likes You perfectly captures how it felt to be a teenager in the 80s. Walking at night through London. The album is a masterpiece.
I love this album. When I took a deep dive into their catalog i kept finding more and more that I liked. Another one of my favorite albums is Live In The City Of Light.
This was my first Simple Minds album. I purchased when it came out. It was also my first color vinyl. It was gold with flecks of the other cover colors. I saw them play at a mid size venue in Dallas called the Bronco bowl. I’m not sure how they ended up there because it had to be around the time they were hitting big with the single from the Breakfast Club soundtrack. They were on the heals of becoming the next thing.
A good album, especially the title track, but personally I prefer the earlier albums like Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call. Derek Forbes is such a good bass player.
I am a fan of Simple Minds since 1982, this album is a unique piece of art in all sens, like no other. SM do not know probably how big their influence is on people who listen to there songs, romantic, elegant, rhythmic, melodious and the list goes on. Amazing.
For me one of SM’s crowning moments. You are so right in your assessment. This track washes over you in waves, it’s a sonic massage for your ears and soul. Perfection.
New Gold Dream as an album is a masterpiece. Its complete in every sense . The atmosphere, the colours ,the groove ,the melodies, the mystery & the ambience are all present in Hunter & the Hunted . NGD still has echoes of the original band that featured Brian McGee . Every track is killer & its an album that still pleases my soul 40 + years on . Simple Minds had a well earned rest in between the next album Sparkle in the Rain . By comparison IMO I,always felt that SITR came up short ... The 3 singles Waterfront, Speed your love to me & Catwalk are brilliant tracks . The other tracks sound like demos compared to the big hitter singles ....Thats why NGD will always outshine SITR for me
One of my favorite SM songs. This album is great, very good rhythm section. I'd suggest either the opener "Someone Somewhere in Summertime" or "Glittering Prize" next.
Great reaction! My favorite song from a masterpiece of an album. Simple Minds was firing on all cylinders and at the peak of their collective powers here. Simply outstanding.
I have suggestions from the same band for you Street fighting years Let there be love Belfast child Come a long way Dolphins Banging on the door Seeing out the angel Waterfront Shake off the ghosts
Yes, but so many more... let it all come down, hipnotized, blood o type, great leap foward, this is your land, warbabies, the signal and the noise, let the day begin, wondertimes, broken glass park, etc...
The album that should have made them millionaires, but it didn't, I wonder why, possibly coz they were Scottish and not hip enough, although the breakfast club was just around the corner and the money would soon roll in, such an underrated band
I have been a fan since 79 and this is one of my favourites, current keyboard player Berenice Scott does a great keytar solo on this track the during their current live shows.
"Hunter and the Hunted" is a good, relaxed, atmospheric piece which swings nicely with, icing on the cake, a beautiful solo from Herbie Hancock not relying on the ego but in the service of the song. This is one of my favorite pieces from the album New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84), which for me is their last great album, before sinking into more standardized music. Justin, I would like you to look at their earlier albums which are more interesting from my point of view. The double album Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call (released in 1981) produced by Steve Hillage is their must in my opinion but Empires and Dance (1980) and Real to Real Cacophony (1979) are not far behind and their debut album Life in a Day (1978-1979) is worth a listen just to hear the primary influences of Simple Minds in their early days (Magazine, Roxy Music...).
Your review is spot on. This song is a sonic massage. Relax, just let it wash over you and drown in its beauty. Every musician in sync and not overplaying their part, including HH. The pinnacle Simple minds track for me
This album ranked 175 on my favorite albums. I really, really, really liked it. It was my first SM, and I played the hell out of it. the next album Sparkle in the Rain ranks 21st on my list.
You seem to enjoy 80’s pop. You may want to revisit Aha. I got you off on the wrong foot and I’m sure there’s another request that will set you straight. Lead singer, Morten Harket, is one of my faves. His two and half octave range on Take On Me (which I know you’ve heard) is the widest I can recall on a recording. He also sings the longest sustained pitch on a recording that I know of.
They are releasing a live album of New Gold Dream in October. Recorded in Paisley Abbey (Church) Scotland. Was also filmed for release as a Sky TV Sky Arts Performance .
This brings us nicely to dubious bands in charity shops. I have many later CDs by SM purchased for 50p (hi PT) and i can honestly state I have no reason why because they're the most frustrating of bands. I may go as far to say that I actually dislike them. In fact Justin , I'm learning from your channel that my musical taste is far more limited than I thought: Bowie Gimme a break No, I won't continue this poetic tirade.... This ? I'm singing Someone In Summertime over it and it's seamless. Ah well. Randy sings all the same songs too and we love him. Plod plod plod. PC Plod. Thanks to yer channel I can make it thru songs like these..and that helps me cough.... consolidate my opinions.Guess what? My bike gears broke. I walked home. `I CALLED IN THE CHARIDEE SHOP. All sweaty n hot. I bought a £4 A1 hardback photo book of The Wonders of the World and a £10 crouching stool (embroided) for 14 pounds sterling. The also gave me 4 cds FOR FREE. I've just given the dvd /cd Dave Gilmour On An Island disks to the shopping delivery guy who said he heard PF DSOTM on headphones as a kid and it made his head spin. I told him DG was watered down PF and apart from his first two solo LPs , I had little patience with his soloing post Final Cut. The Final Cut, JP/. I was obsessed with that. It's still got Presence in 2023. Anyway, Clive said the chicken was close to it's sell by date so we could have it For Free! Vangelis Best of CD Pulstar says hi too- (I first hear that when i was 10 and thought Donna Summer was gonna start singin at any moment!) As does Brandon Flowers and a Various Artists CD covering the songs of the Jam.( Details on request.) You couldn't make it up. I also unload the dishwasher and reload it with supper trails B4 listening to ur daily reactions, so ur a great help to structure my post work tendencies. And for that i say Ffanx.
This is a really good song. I have heard the hit. "Don't You (Forget About Me)" and that's a really good song as well. I like this song better. I'll have to check out more Simple Minds music. Thanks for playing this song. Now back to a Rippingtons album (Sahara) I was listening too....
‘Don’t you (forget about me) was written for them, not by them (they only added the lalala part). It’s a good song and a hit, but they have written masterpieces themselves. For example this one.
Fantastic album, Love Simple Minds saw they live four years ago and they were great. Personally I prefer Sparkle in the Rain and Once Upon a Time ( which was a huge hit in the UK, and around the world when I was still at University in the mid 80’s). Anyway you tend to like all the stuff I Love so I think you will enjoy your Simple Minds journey. They are one of the few 80’s bands that still produce great albums, Big Music (2014) and Walk Between Worlds (2018) have some great tracks on them.
If you dig this song you'll find you like the whole album, as this is a good cut but I don't think the best one. The tone and quality is consistent throught the whole album - reminds me of the laid-back moody vibe of some albums of the time like Roxy Music's Avalon. This was a big one for me in high school, but I was the only one in my school who knew who they were. But soon, the Breakfast Club would come out and Don't You Forget About Me would change that.
Take it for what it is/ what it sets out to achieve, and it's still a great song. They went looking for peace. They found it. It's been a long time since I last listened to this album. Too long. If you want some more of that piece combined with Celtic folk music from Brittany, listen to *Belfast Child* - their live collaboration with Breton musician, Allan Stivell (responsible for a revival in interest in the Celtic Harp, once). It's a great fusion of different Dreamtimes. I think you might like the tone of this particular kind of harp, too. ruclips.net/video/HOximtbiFmw/видео.html
If, after that, you think you might fancy some music just by *Alan Stivell* one of the places to start is with *Tri Martolod* (lyrics in Breton, I think - but it's possible they're in something like Erse, too. He sings in various languages - even French, at times.) ruclips.net/video/wMQbcGNs9kg/видео.html Some of his music is real ethereal, misty, dreamy, Beyond-the-9th-Wave, Tuatha de Danaan stuff (the tall fairy folk who live in the ancient mounds, and pop up to do some magic sometimes). Tri Martolod makes a few more compromises with rock than other songs of his, hence the idea that it might be a good meeting place between worlds, at which to enter the one he either found or made up, depending on who you ask.
@@HippoYnYGlaw Long Road to Freedom looks more and more like a Road to Hell, Paved With Good Intentions, every day. But :D (Could be worse.) (It was worse. People get forgetful.) (Don't think I could sing in that church again, though. For starters I know for sure now that God is Dead.) :D
Their last album to receive more than a 6/10 from me though, as others point out, this was the start of their most commercial period (are the two things connected, I wonder. Hmmm....) This track is actually pretty dull. Better check out their previous Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call (a double album packaged as two separate single albums though cellophaned together, weirdly) which was produced by Steve Hillage. That's at least an 8/10.
I really like Simple Minds but this song doesn’t do much for me. I prefer a bit more dynamics from them as with Waterfront and All the Things She Said.
This album is perfection. One favourite song is title track "New Gold Dream". Another is all the rest of the songs on the album!
Arguably their greatest tune.
I feel like such a normie to think I used to just bop out to "Don't you forget about me" and not look into their back catalogue 😆
This is Simple Minds Best album! So many great songs on here. Their first commercial breakthrough album. Promised you A Miracle, New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84), Someone Somewhere In summertime, Big sleep. This album is Perfect!
Although I’d say Hunter and the Hunted is my personal Favourite.
Whole album is great.
The whole album is like an early 80s psychedelic fantasy. Forget the singles - it's the other tracks that make this album what it is. Their masterpiece.
Whole album is killer
My favorite from this album is "Somebody up there Likes You". Beautiful and evocative instrumental.
Isn't it.
YES!!!
Thank you, Justin, for reacting to this song. I am a big fan of Derek Forbes' bass playing. I love whole subtle, atmospheric feel of this album. An absolute classic!
Just the bass alone probably makes this one my favorite Simple Minds tracks. Thanks for reacting to it, JP! I always enjoy your measured take on stuff like this.
Oh wow JP, you are going to LOVE this album... a band at the absolute top of their game, brilliant songs, brilliant production, and a great SOUND to the whole LP... standouts are the singles (Promised You A Miracle, Glittering Prize, Someone Somewhere In Summertime, the title track) but there are no duff tracks, a stupendous record...
The Old Grey Whistle Test live version of this from September 1982 is fantastic. Worth a look for an enhanced sound
OGWT was so awesome. I wish full episodes were available, they used to play them sometimes on VH1 Classic 10-15 years ago.
Good shout, what about the 20 minutes broadcast on "The Tube" from Newcastle in 82 a must watch for all SM fans or those who wonder what they were like.
@@djmull63 yes indeed.
"It moves you but also kind of chills". Well said my man.
One of my fave tracks! Herbie Hancock guesting on the keyboard solo at towards the end!
Love this song from this outstanding album.
There is a warmth to their sound here that isnt always present on their other albums.
Every single track is marvelous.
It's a stone cold masterpiece.
One of my definitely favourite albums of all genre's of all time what a great album every song is a absolute pleasure
Yes!! More Simple Minds please!!
New Gold Dream 81,82,83,84 album by Simple Minds is pure perfection.
That was a beautiful review. You’ll also love Big Sleep. However, Somebody Up There Likes You perfectly captures how it felt to be a teenager in the 80s. Walking at night through London.
The album is a masterpiece.
Fantastic simple minds love this song and the Album New gold dream is awesome❤
I love this album. When I took a deep dive into their catalog i kept finding more and more that I liked. Another one of my favorite albums is Live In The City Of Light.
This was my first Simple Minds album. I purchased when it came out. It was also my first color vinyl. It was gold with flecks of the other cover colors.
I saw them play at a mid size venue in Dallas called the Bronco bowl. I’m not sure how they ended up there because it had to be around the time they were hitting big with the single from the Breakfast Club soundtrack. They were on the heals of becoming the next thing.
They performed the whole album live for Sky Arts a few weeks ago - superb
A good album, especially the title track, but personally I prefer the earlier albums like Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call. Derek Forbes is such a good bass player.
Shirley he's also a Solicitor
They were the best band in the world at this time. Peerless. This is simply magnificent. x
I am a fan of Simple Minds since 1982, this album is a unique piece of art in all sens, like no other. SM do not know probably how big their influence is on people who listen to there songs, romantic, elegant, rhythmic, melodious and the list goes on. Amazing.
For me one of SM’s crowning moments. You are so right in your assessment. This track washes over you in waves, it’s a sonic massage for your ears and soul. Perfection.
Mi banda preferida de los 80's...Saludos desde Chile 🇨🇱
Herbie Hancock, jazz legend, did that synth solo on it towards the end.
I always find this song really dark and haunting and it's fantastic, there's some cracking 12" mixes of this song to be found.
Glorious track from a special special album❤
This track and « The King is white and in the crowd » are my favorites of this wonderful and criminally underrated album
One of their best
Great album! Hard to beat… but then came Sparkle in the Rain. The energy, the drive and the power of that album! Life moves so fast!
This is that perfect song 😊
New Gold Dream as an album is a masterpiece. Its complete in every sense . The atmosphere, the colours ,the groove ,the melodies, the mystery & the ambience are all present in Hunter & the Hunted . NGD still has echoes of the original band that featured Brian McGee . Every track is killer & its an album that still pleases my soul 40 + years on .
Simple Minds had a well earned rest in between the next album Sparkle in the Rain . By comparison IMO I,always felt that SITR came up short ... The 3 singles Waterfront, Speed your love to me & Catwalk are brilliant tracks . The other tracks sound like demos compared to the big hitter singles ....Thats why NGD will always outshine SITR for me
One of my favorite SM songs. This album is great, very good rhythm section. I'd suggest either the opener "Someone Somewhere in Summertime" or "Glittering Prize" next.
I like Big Sleep, it's my second fave after this, or the Dreamtime Mix of this
Mick Mc Neil....👏👏
Derek Forbes… enough said
The bass work on this album by derek forbes is legendary. One of the best players to come out of the 80's.
Great reaction! My favorite song from a masterpiece of an album. Simple Minds was firing on all cylinders and at the peak of their collective powers here. Simply outstanding.
Superb LP
I have suggestions from the same band for you
Street fighting years
Let there be love
Belfast child
Come a long way
Dolphins
Banging on the door
Seeing out the angel
Waterfront
Shake off the ghosts
Yes, but so many more... let it all come down, hipnotized, blood o type, great leap foward, this is your land, warbabies, the signal and the noise, let the day begin, wondertimes, broken glass park, etc...
fortunately my friend and I watched simple minds play the entire album live in Glasgow, it was note perfect.....RIP Stephen 😢
It just doesn’t get any better than this does it the brilliant simple minds thank you
Great album! Lush synths through out that gives this whole lp a great atmosphere.
Hope you cover the whole album. I think it would be worth it.
The album that should have made them millionaires, but it didn't, I wonder why, possibly coz they were Scottish and not hip enough, although the breakfast club was just around the corner and the money would soon roll in, such an underrated band
This song contains the best recorded bass drum in history IMHO
I have been a fan since 79 and this is one of my favourites, current keyboard player Berenice Scott does a great keytar solo on this track the during their current live shows.
"Hunter and the Hunted" is a good, relaxed, atmospheric piece which swings nicely with, icing on the cake, a beautiful solo from Herbie Hancock not relying on the ego but in the service of the song. This is one of my favorite pieces from the album New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84), which for me is their last great album, before sinking into more standardized music.
Justin, I would like you to look at their earlier albums which are more interesting from my point of view. The double album Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call (released in 1981) produced by Steve Hillage is their must in my opinion but Empires and Dance (1980) and Real to Real Cacophony (1979) are not far behind and their debut album Life in a Day (1978-1979) is worth a listen just to hear the primary influences of Simple Minds in their early days (Magazine, Roxy Music...).
A very underrated band check out love song .
Great choice JP, I owned all their albums in the '80s, and they were the first band I ever collected.... brilliant hearing this again thanks!
While we're talking 80s bands, you gotta check out some James, underappreciated this side of the pond and deserving of being HUGE.
Would love to hop in a time machine and reexperience this musical period again. This was an absolute belter of an album and the early 80's was heaven.
I bought this when it came out on clear yellow vinyl. My favorite album by these guys. Good stuff!
Just listen the synth that's beautiful
Look man... I know this song so well cince 1984...
Chill groove!
That was my reaction when I heard this when I was 15.
Perfection
Life moves so fast
Your review is spot on. This song is a sonic massage. Relax, just let it wash over you and drown in its beauty. Every musician in sync and not overplaying their part, including HH. The pinnacle Simple minds track for me
This album ranked 175 on my favorite albums. I really, really, really liked it. It was my first SM, and I played the hell out of it. the next album Sparkle in the Rain ranks 21st on my list.
My favorite is Big Sleep, melancholy and steady with a great bass line.
Herbert Hancock solo.
You seem to enjoy 80’s pop. You may want to revisit Aha. I got you off on the wrong foot and I’m sure there’s another request that will set you straight. Lead singer, Morten Harket, is one of my faves. His two and half octave range on Take On Me (which I know you’ve heard) is the widest I can recall on a recording. He also sings the longest sustained pitch on a recording that I know of.
Class !
Great band. Excellent live.
Hey JP, thanks ever hear of a band named Coven? I think you find them an interesting listen.
Whole album is great. Epic bass lines and synths. Atmospheric sound scapes on guitar.This is 1982 but does not sound out of place in 2023.
They are releasing a live album of New Gold Dream in October. Recorded in Paisley Abbey (Church) Scotland. Was also filmed for release as a Sky TV Sky Arts Performance .
This brings us nicely to dubious bands in charity shops. I have many later CDs by SM purchased for 50p (hi PT) and i can honestly state I have no reason why because they're the most frustrating of bands. I may go as far to say that I actually dislike them. In fact Justin , I'm learning from your channel that my musical taste is far more limited than I thought:
Bowie Gimme a break
No, I won't continue this poetic tirade.... This ? I'm singing Someone In Summertime over it and it's seamless. Ah well. Randy sings all the same songs too and we love him.
Plod plod plod. PC Plod.
Thanks to yer channel I can make it thru songs like these..and that helps me cough.... consolidate my opinions.Guess what? My bike gears broke. I walked home. `I CALLED IN THE CHARIDEE SHOP. All sweaty n hot. I bought a £4 A1 hardback photo book of The Wonders of the World and a £10 crouching stool (embroided) for 14 pounds sterling. The also gave me 4 cds FOR FREE. I've just given the dvd /cd Dave Gilmour On An Island disks to the shopping delivery guy who said he heard PF DSOTM on headphones as a kid and it made his head spin. I told him DG was watered down PF and apart from his first two solo LPs , I had little patience with his soloing post Final Cut.
The Final Cut, JP/. I was obsessed with that. It's still got Presence in 2023.
Anyway, Clive said the chicken was close to it's sell by date so we could have it For Free! Vangelis Best of CD Pulstar says hi too- (I first hear that when i was 10 and thought Donna Summer was gonna start singin at any moment!)
As does Brandon Flowers and a Various Artists CD covering the songs of the Jam.( Details on request.)
You couldn't make it up.
I also unload the dishwasher and reload it with supper trails B4 listening to ur daily reactions, so ur a great help to structure my post work tendencies.
And for that i say
Ffanx.
This is a really good song. I have heard the hit. "Don't You (Forget About Me)" and that's a really good song as well. I like this song better. I'll have to check out more Simple Minds music. Thanks for playing this song. Now back to a Rippingtons album (Sahara) I was listening too....
‘Don’t you (forget about me) was written for them, not by them (they only added the lalala part).
It’s a good song and a hit, but they have written masterpieces themselves. For example this one.
@@Liesbeth881 Thank You for the clarification and added info. I'll be checking out more of their music.
Fantastic album, Love Simple Minds saw they live four years ago and they were great. Personally I prefer Sparkle in the Rain and Once Upon a Time ( which was a huge hit in the UK, and around the world when I was still at University in the mid 80’s). Anyway you tend to like all the stuff I Love so I think you will enjoy your Simple Minds journey. They are one of the few 80’s bands that still produce great albums, Big Music (2014) and Walk Between Worlds (2018) have some great tracks on them.
For me, the most sophisticated album of the early '80s. Great musicians, great material, great production, deeply layered music. Nothing like it.
grandi simple.minds❤
Now there's the '80's sounding like the best of something that belongs in the '80's - unlike Emerson, Lake and Powell.
If you dig this song you'll find you like the whole album, as this is a good cut but I don't think the best one. The tone and quality is consistent throught the whole album - reminds me of the laid-back moody vibe of some albums of the time like Roxy Music's Avalon. This was a big one for me in high school, but I was the only one in my school who knew who they were. But soon, the Breakfast Club would come out and Don't You Forget About Me would change that.
Take it for what it is/ what it sets out to achieve, and it's still a great song. They went looking for peace. They found it. It's been a long time since I last listened to this album. Too long.
If you want some more of that piece combined with Celtic folk music from Brittany, listen to *Belfast Child* - their live collaboration with Breton musician, Allan Stivell (responsible for a revival in interest in the Celtic Harp, once). It's a great fusion of different Dreamtimes. I think you might like the tone of this particular kind of harp, too. ruclips.net/video/HOximtbiFmw/видео.html
If, after that, you think you might fancy some music just by *Alan Stivell* one of the places to start is with *Tri Martolod* (lyrics in Breton, I think - but it's possible they're in something like Erse, too. He sings in various languages - even French, at times.) ruclips.net/video/wMQbcGNs9kg/видео.html
Some of his music is real ethereal, misty, dreamy, Beyond-the-9th-Wave, Tuatha de Danaan stuff (the tall fairy folk who live in the ancient mounds, and pop up to do some magic sometimes).
Tri Martolod makes a few more compromises with rock than other songs of his, hence the idea that it might be a good meeting place between worlds, at which to enter the one he either found or made up, depending on who you ask.
oh no. i'm gonna have to press ze Link. I despise Belfast Child but I love Allan Stivell...Countdown to Conflict....Ta!
@@HippoYnYGlaw :D I hope it doesn't disgust you too much.
@@sicko_the_ew I think it's Jim Kerr's vocals and bonogabriel dress sense that put me off the original and that Mandela Day damp squib too
@@HippoYnYGlaw Long Road to Freedom looks more and more like a Road to Hell, Paved With Good Intentions, every day.
But :D
(Could be worse.)
(It was worse. People get forgetful.)
(Don't think I could sing in that church again, though. For starters I know for sure now that God is Dead.)
:D
Finish this album off and keep digging into SM’s catalog!
Yes, yes, yes, Justus. So, that Derek Forbes, eh? And you ain't heard noffin' yet - please hear Colours Fly & Catherine Wheel from the same album.
please vulcan worlds by return to forever loving the other reactions to
Their last album to receive more than a 6/10 from me though, as others point out, this was the start of their most commercial period (are the two things connected, I wonder. Hmmm....) This track is actually pretty dull. Better check out their previous Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call (a double album packaged as two separate single albums though cellophaned together, weirdly) which was produced by Steve Hillage. That's at least an 8/10.
I really like Simple Minds but this song doesn’t do much for me. I prefer a bit more dynamics from them as with Waterfront and All the Things She Said.
Have a look at the live versions on youtube especially at Newcastle city hall 1982, totally different pace
This is not their best albums. Check out Sons and Fascination, Sparkle in the Rain, Black and White, Graffiti Soul and Big Music…. Great f…ing band.
Used to like it but it sounds dated.
and plodville central.