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Originally Posted by crazysugarboy
Have just been listening again to Simple Minds' album "Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call", produced by the legendary Steve Hillage and released in 1981 just prior to the band becoming mainstream, which I bought all those years ago. For me personally, there are defo similarities with elements of u/w - tracks 5-8 ("Love Song", "This Earth that you Walk Upon", "Sons and Fascination", "Seeing Out the Angel") in particular have a similar vibe to the recently released proto-dubnobass tracks.
I used to have a copy of the late lamented Sounds newspaper, featuring an article and interview with Simple Minds at the time of the albums' release. They cited 1970's German electronica as one of their major influences (where have I heard that before??).
Some of you may pick holes in my thesis i.e. 1980's music = 1980's music. However, early Simple Minds is characterised by rythm/bass driven tracks, linear structure rather than the traditional "verse, chorus, verse, chorus, middle bit, chorus", and very random/esoteric lyrics.
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what he says and.....
the first two albums they did were more new wave/punky,both produced by john leckie.the only reallly good track imo is "changeling" which was a bowie/blitz/futurist fav.
best albums are "empires and dance" "sons of fascination" and "new gold dream"."new gold dream" was their first hit l.p and had their first hit singles on it,unfortunately it was downhill after that.along with u2 and someother new wavers it all got a bit stadium rock but they became big in europe and the usa so i suppose they were happy.
like loads of bands they started out challenging and ended up a bit blandand most people that dislike them don't know their early years.
they didn't even write their biggest hit "don't you forget about me" i think?
must admit i do like some of their tracks around "the waterfront" period also.