Simple Minds- I Travel (REACTION//DISCUSSION)
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There you enter the heart of Simple Minds' discography ! You can do the whole Empires and Dance album, because it's an exemplary model of new-wave arty trance music.
Here's what Jim Kerr said about the album and the track "I Travel":
Empires And Dance was written about the experiences and places visited by the band during their previous tour. "I was twenty, and I looked around me. We had the talent always to be in the place where the neo-Nazis exploded another bomb. Bologna, a synagogue in Paris, a railway station in Munich. Don't tell me anything like that could leave you unmoved."
"We were seeing the picture postcard stuff, statues parks and galleries - but bombs were going off, the Red Brigade had struck, or Baader Meinhof, or one time when we were in Paris, a synagogue had been set fire to - there was danger in the air. Against the backdrop, you've got classical Europe, you're reading Graham Greene and Albert Camus and back in London, there were so many independent cinemas showing these great Italian and French classics - it all fed in, that and our own experiences. We seemed to be in Berlin every week there, going through the corridor from Hamburg, seeing all these Russian guards and feeling like these post-war kids, able almost to touch that." The 'language problem' in the song is politics.
And here's what producer's John Leckie said about the sessions: "Empires and Dance was great record to make. Derek Forbes was there with the bass lines which really formed the backbone to Simple Minds music right up to time he left and very often his line was first idea written."
"We spent a lot of time working on guitar sounds to sound like keyboards and keyboards to sound like guitars. Technology was a bit primitve at time as no-one was MIDI conversant and yet we did some great tracks with the arpeggiator on the Roland Jupiter and Korg MS20. We spent a lot of time doing handclaps and getting the right tone and reverb space and size, and weird ringing snare drums."
Finally the last word to Derek Forbes about "I Travel": "Mick MacNeil was messing around with settings, pulled down a key, and we got that chop rhythmic sequence. I knew exactly what I was doing. Brian McGee did a kind of disco beat to it - that Keith Forsey sound, he did it with Donna Summer and stuff. Do you know the slap sound? That's us and John Leckie around a ping-pong table."
Wonderful insight and info. The comments about Derek Forbes being at the centre of thr SM sound mirror my own made above.
Early Simple Minds, so so good.
I think this song could still pack a dance floor.
The verse "Airport playing Brian Eno" is a reference to his first ambient album, Music For Airports, released in 1978!
@@Katehowe3010 hey, I just commented a trivia related to the song, just it! And I know Justin said that right after he finished the song, chill out!
@@Katehowe3010 okay 👍
Good song , I bought this on a Simple Minds greatest hits , the reference to ENO flew over my head , clever though , a bit like Kraftwerk name checking Bowie and Iggy on Trans Europe Express and a Bowie name checking Florian Schneider on V-2 Schneider . Btw Simple Minds early stuff is far better than the MOR stuff after DYFAM !
Bassline drives this track perfectly with the addition of keys,guitar and Jim Kerrs distinctive vocal delivery layered above the bass. Result is dope
The genius of Derek Forbes on bass. They were never the great band when he & Mick on keyboards left.
This was from the early 80's...played this in clubs in Glasgow and it rocked the dance floor....😊..🏴....release it today and it would blow the audience's minds....
I loved early Simple Minds with the Kraftwerk influences and before they became overproduced and bloated after New Gold Dream. The discos of my youth had I travel, The American, Love Song and Sweat in Bullet on heavy rotation. Derek Forbes bass was the driving force of their sounds on the early albums
Now that's a proper Simple Minds track. Danced to this so many time at Strathclyde Uni discos.
This was a good time to be visiting discos (especially in Glasgow). The late 70s string laden Bee Gees stuff was on the way out and the post-punk bands had discovered synthesisers - this track, early Duran Duran, New Order - Everything's Gone Green, Spandau Ballet - To Cut A Long Story Short, Adam & The Ants, cheap beer and women who liked to dance. I loved it.
After their debut and before they became just another big stadium commercial rock band Simple Minds produced a series of 5 brilliant albums that were influenced by blend of krautrock, art-rock and electronic dance music. Still listen to them on a regular basis.
TBF, I think ‘just another’ is a bit harsh. The sound became more commercial and horror of horrors more popular but even amongst so called stadium bands they maintained an individual and distinctive sound.
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Fair point but I would still maintain that the creativity in that transition was hugely diluted.
@@philbell5774 100% agree
This was there best, you have to blast this out, used to live in Glasgow in the 80s and every weekend in the disco this would play more than once and pack the floor,
"Somebody Up There Likes You" is my favorite Simple Minds song. It's a beautiful instrumental. There is a video using this song that is footage of the earth from space.
Absolutely glad you listened to our recommendations to go for some earlier Minds. They still play this in concert and it is quite the show. Sister Feelings Call (usually combined with Sons and Fascination) is my all time favorite more 80's industrial sounding EP. They have gone quite the journey of their albums. Give "Real Life" a chance... my favorite of their post 80's albums. I also want to call out he mentions "Love Song" in the lyrics (another great tune), and the "Cities Buildings Falling Down" which he also uses in "Ghostdancing." I love the Easter Eggs that Jim leaves in his lyrics as you just discovered.
I Travel actually morphed into Ghostdancing. A live performance in January 1985 of I Travel started with the new music of Ghostdancing. By the time they tried it again at Live Aid the words and music and words had changed to Ghostdancing which was released a few months later on Once Upon A Time.
Simple minds at their fantastic best thank you for the video
It's a travelogue of events at that time in Europe during their European tour supporting Peter Gabriel. Brian Eno released a superb album called Music for Airports.
They have admitted on several occasions that the song borrows heavily from Giorgio Moroder & Donna Summers track ' I Feel Love' , not necessarily a bad thing.
Love your interpretation of these lyrics. I was always a child of the 1982 Simple Minds but this early stuff is great. Btw, love that your cat made an audible appearance haha.
This illustrates where Simple Minds came from. The first three albums had a similar feel which morphed into the sound you heard from New Gold dream when they changed record labels to Virgin. The lyric ‘City’s buildings falling down’ was re used as the opening line of ‘Ghost Dancing’ from the ‘Once upon a time’ album. Great track and worth a listen.
Ghost Dancing was in fact a re-working of the Theme For Great Cities track, which I think is infinitely superior to Ghost Dancing
"New Gold Dream " is classed as the 5th Simple Minds Album but seeing as " Sons and fascination " and "Sister Feelings call " the latter given initially as a free bonus Album but then sold as a stand alone Album later would make " New Gold Dream " their 6th Album.
@@dctbass There is a live version from January 1985 where the music was altered to that of Ghostdancing but retained the lyrics of I Travel at that point.
Radical back then, such a fast-paced frantic dancey beat laden with electronic effects. This is 1980, pre-"Blue Monday". Down south in Sheffield (haha), the Cabs and HL etc. are crafting the more proto-indus version of this, but "I Travel" manages to be the most perfect Kraftwerk-meets-Roxy-meets-Moroder single of that year. And it's Scottish. Still, nobody liked it nor cared.
Great find mate. What a tune 👏
Remember this was pre- 80's. I used to bring the 12" of this to the club I went to..... any time there was a lull on the dancefloor this was put on and the entire building starting bouncing with everyone on the floor....everytime!
At one time this was my ringtone but my current is This Fear of Gods....check that one out.
Hi I NEED THIS RINGTONE!
Veeery different from later Simple Minds. Cool sound, I should check out their 1st albums...
80's dance clubs... I heard this at some Goth clubs... I like the later proggish songs.
Great reaction video, thanks... I have great memories of dancing to this in clubs at the time, whole crowds shouting "I Travel!" when the music drops out at the end of each chorus 😃
Your next stop should be the "New Gold Dream 81-82-83-84" LP, a defining album of the 80s...
I remember buying this when it came out! Best track off the album, and for me in the UK, they're breakout album. Great choice as ever! Thanks 😊
This track is a Masterpiece. Check out the American, Love Song and Theme For Great Cities too. Heard them play Love Song live last night in Glasgow.
This was a really big song back in 1980. It was huge in Edinburgh Scotland. Way out in front of anybody else at the time.
Written about experiences whilst touring Europe, specifically Berlin (where Jim found the contrast between the east and west sectors startling), I Travel appeared during the second leg of the Real To Real Cacophony tour. Subsequently demoed, it opened the band's third album Empires And Dance.
The 'language problem' in the song is politics.
Jim was so enthusiastic about the track that he badgered their temporary lighting technician to listen to the demo on his walkman. It was the lobby of the Taft Hotel, New York in 1980 and the technician was Steve Pollard - who has worked with the band ever since.
The lyric sheet included with the album included a final verse which was not present on the album - although it does appear in the demo and live versions. The transcriber also fluffed one of the lines: Airport playing "Bi Some Lo" was obviously Airport playing Brian Eno, a nod to his first ambient album Music For Airports.
I'm not the hugest Simple Minds fan, but I like a lot of their songs and think Jim Kerr is a great frontman. This is one of their less sentimental-sounding songs, so is a good break to the ones you've heard previously. I don't think this one can be fully appreciated until you're on a dance floor, it's a great song to dance to.
Love it!
41 years old and not dated at all. In my top 5 singles of all time. Soft Cell Memorabilia is another single not to have dated.
The open lines from the song were "revisted" in the track "Ghostdancing" from Once Upon A Time......
Derek's bass playing on this is as equally as sublime as much of SM's early work. He bounced brilliantly from Mick's keyboards, which if you removed either musician from this band, they would be a poorer outfit without them.
Without having Georgia On My Mind, I would say Please Come To Boston. But I have the Detroit Rock City blues, and by The Time I Get To Phoenix, it will be Tulsa Time! But I Ramble On, Peace to all complex craniums.
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But I do wish you had worked my region, Seattle, in to that somehow.
(I admit that I can't think of any Seattle references to call upon, though)
@@IllumeEltanin Like Sir Mix a-lot said "Seattle Ain't Bullshittin'"! Peace from the Northeast.
@@jamespaivapaiva4460
LOL!
First reaction I’ve ever seen to this masterpiece…. 👍🏻
I live in San Francisco and will be traveling to NYC and Philly at the end of the month. I'll be visiting a friend and going to see my favorite current performer, Scarypoolparty, at two shows. It will be a short but fun trip! I know some Simple Minds, but this track is new to me. I don't love it on first listen, but I could see coming to really like it as a part of an album listen.
I want to put IT on repeat x20 with espresso
Back in the 70’s & 80’s. Ideal Homes was also an exhibition on housing development in the U.K.
Going to Sicily in a couple of weeks.
This takes me right back to the only disco in Livingston , cheap suit from Fosters , sleeves rolled up cis that was the current Miami Vice style … pencil thin tash .. thinking I was gods gift but in reality I just looked like a douche as I wandered unsteadily back to my flat … alone usually 🥲 due to my looking like a douche , isn’t hindsight wonderful 😂
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Reminds me of Roxy Music. First listen for me too.
Hey Justin. If you're headed in this direction, you must absolutely check out Scoundrel Days from A-ha. A sweeping epic and dark song with soaring vocals and an amazing chord progression.
I think Simple Minds reached their peak, where they balanced their Euro influences with a level of pop sensibility and commercial appeal, with "Love Song" and "The American". The extended mixes of both songs in particular, are fantastic. The American and Love Song just pre-date the New Gold Dream album, which I think they reached their album zenith. Things began to crumble with "Sparkle In The Rain" and when, after that album, Derek Forbes, the bass player, left, and a big part of the sound of Simple Minds went with him. Really not a fan of Once Upon A Time, which is where the bombast overcame the innovation and they morphed into what I think was a fairly anonymous rock band.
Maybe I'm just lucky, but I like their early and later stuff.
@deeceetee, I pretty much agree with everything you say. Which is a rare thing. (With people in general.)
Played this because I was curious about "early" Simple Minds.. interesting. Based on the names of the albums I didn't quite expect hardcore dance music. This beat is very Donna Summer.. "I Feel Love" maybe? I still can't figure out Jim Kerr marrying Chrissy Hynde.. musically they couldn't be more different - and they even look like an odd couple. Sorry - couldn't resist. LOL! Ok, now I hear why some of the articles about their early albums say that with "New Gold Dream" they found more emotion.
Simple Minds and Roxy Music were similar in the way their music changed so much from the early more complex sound to their later much more accessible/ commercial recordings.
I just know their mid 80s songs which I like. This is kind of cool.
Probably the best Scottish band ever ? Discuss ? Early stuff before the anthems came along
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sorry sir I'm a bit late coming to this reaction! This record is a belter and is on heavy rotation round at mine along with 'Changling' and 'New Gold Dream'.
Maybe you'll get to "Sparkle in the Rain" someday until then. I'm enjoying the early SM visits.
Brian Eno started in Roxy Music and went on to Produce Simple Minds. Eno is considered to be the Creator of Ambient Music.
Brian Eno never produced Simple Minds ! Where did you read that ?
Although, not one of my favourite Simple Minds songs, the 'sound' is still very impressive .HONEST TOWN (which they released in 2014), is also 'dance orientated', and quite atmospheric - sadly, much overlooked, but definitely worth checking out.
Synth overload with very little variation.
I would like to hear more Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello, Squeeze, Crowded House.
Ps, I used to ride thousands of miles on my motorcycles every year. Now I mostly travel in my mind. I’m a Day Tripper.
I'm seeing a few Donner Summer "I Feel Love" comparisons mentioned here. You have to remember, until Simple Minds came along in the year of 1980 and New Order subsequently, not even Donner Summer managed to replicate the I Feel Love's electro dance beat magic of her 1977 hit. Essentially, you listen to I Travel the same way as you'd listen to I Feel Love, best suited for the dance floor. And lyrics be damned!
John Leckie must have gone straight from producing Empires and Dance in 1980 to assisting Martin Hannett on New Order's Movement album a year later. So much talent around in those days.
@@piershollott339 Love his work and love the early 80's electro sound. In fact, I love pretty much everything about the British music scene in this creative period.
@@SmartCookie2022Simple Minds first Album was released in 1979, this Came off their third Album in 1980.
Requesting a few artists:
*Elbow*
*Level 42*
*St. Vincent*
Repetitive but that’s the hook. Great early career SM song.
Listen to the Track Hunter & The Huntered as you referenced Herbie Hancock on your Someone Somewhere in Summertime review
Recuperated through the weekend, still have to finish up some things at work, this got me in work mode pretty fast. Not bad, liked some things about this track. I prefer Jim’s lower register singing, not much of it here.
The farther one travels, the less one knows…
I’m afraid if I go somewhere I’ll end up staying.
Peace and eno Music
I hope recuperation was a success. Good thoughts to you.
@@maruad7577
Thank you, I’m hanging in there.
This reminded me of New Order. I liked their later stuff better but to each their own.
I'm happy listening to any New Order!
Listen to “she’s a river”
Justin, just a reminder ... Stones "Time waits for no one", my favorite song of them, incredible composition by Mick Taylor who left the band because they didn't give him the credits, the guitar solo is from another planet. You never made a reaction from them, it's time to do it brother, because time waits for no one 😂. You will love this song!
JustJP, if you do a react video to Simple Minds' songs, "Don't You Forget About Me" and "Ghostdancing", I recommend their performance at Live Aid 1985. Amazing stuff!!
Not heard that before. Not a classic, but a much more interesting synth-led post punk track than their later bombastic, slightly overblown rock numbers in the mid-eighties. Traces of *the* classic disco track 'I Feel Love' by Donna Summer in there too. Love the Eno reference! Apparently John Leckie produced this - went onto work with XTC, Stone Roses and Radiohead. According to simple minds . org : it was written about "experiences whilst touring Europe, specifically Berlin (where Jim found the contrast between the east and west sectors startling)", which makes sense.
in UK this track is, definitely, a true classic
@@Ignatius1972 Yes, "I Travel" has been released three times as a single (as a 7" in 1980 & 1982 & 12" in 1983).
Do you will listen something about Depeche Mode too? Simple Minds its a great band for me.
Me to Simple Minds: You've changed, man.
I love '80s New Wave but not the electro dance-pop. VERY '80s synth sound on this one. Honestly I prefer to listen to Gary Numan who helped pioneer synth music and earned the title Godfather of Goth.
His Tubeway Army albums were enjoyable, followed by his breakout album "The Pleasure Principle" (all anyone seems to remember is 'Cars'). After that listen to his "Telekon", "Dance" and "I, Assassin".
Gary Numan is much closer to electro-synth-pop than this first period of Simple Minds where we can hear the guitar very clearly !
Life in a day by Simple Minds next please
If there's one song from the Life in a Day album that Justin has to do, it's "Pleasantly Disturbed" !!!
CHeck out The The sometime,very special band.
Alive and Kicking
Personally I decided not to take the plane anymore, because of climate change. I last took it in 2017 to see Pat Vegas from Redbone and my friends from the Gentle Giant Convention in Albuquerque…
Sparkle In The Rain is the album you need to dip into for first time listens.
When you know nothing.
Just and idea Justin ....
How about starting two Y-tube sites !!
Just JP "Prog & Hard Rock" and Just JP "Pop & Soft Rock" !!! : )
Early simple minds. Much better tracks than this
😖 gawd...the 80s were where it all went wrong 🤷♂️
@@Katehowe3010 not harsh at all. The 80s were bloody awful. Cheap, synthetic tinky-tonk crap with drum machines thwacking over the top. Even the artworks, fonts, clothes...everything...terrible 😳
@@Katehowe3010 yes i know...Paisley Underground etc, but i’m talking about the mainstream. Absolute cack with knobs on.
@@mickcapewell6369 But the point is that there's no drum machine on this song, there is a real bass and the guitar holds an important place but it is deliberately tampered with and mixed in order to sound like a synth and vice versa...
@@a.k.1740 and that’s a good thing? 🤷♂️
@@mickcapewell6369 It's just facts. nothing more, nothing less.
Too many songs take me nowhere. Another simple mindless trip. Dull and vacuous - repetitive and tedious.
@@Katehowe3010 good morning, get back to you in ten hours!
Repetitiveness is precisely the principle of Simple Minds' music at that time !
@@a.k.1740 Hi A.K. - but is it a good listen? Not to me.
@@vdggmouse9512 I love it, but indeed, each to their own!
You just described most of the 80s:-)
Wow this's bad, could be the poster song for the worst of the 80's. Sounded like they'd filched elements of Donna Summer, Depeche Mode, and Sparks, jumbled them up, and this was the result, very poor. * Re travel, nothing planned, sadly. I travelled extensively prior covid, home and abroad. But now, the hoops you have to jump through to fly... Not to mention the uncertainty in flight, and if destinations are taking all necessary precautions etc. It'll likely be a while yet.