Best Of (W/1 Bonus Track)

Product Details

Artist : Simple Minds
Format : Best of, Original recording remastered
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0724381125724
Label : EMI Music Canada
Number of Discs : 2
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2001-11-06
UPC : 724381125724

ASIN : B00005QITR

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Don't You (Forget About Me)
2. Promised You a Miracle
3. Waterfront
4. Alive and 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

Disc-2
1. Let There Be Love
2. This Is Your Land
3. Kick It In
4. Let It All Come Down
5. See the Lights
6. Stand By Love
7. Real Life
8. She's a River
9. Hypnotised
10. Glitterball
11. War Babies
12. Mandela Day
13. Biko
14. Belfast Child
15. Real Life (Raven Maize)

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Editorial Reviews

From Amazon.co.uk

The title of this compilation tells the truth--almost. Although one is moved to question the validity of including the Raven Maize club hit "Real Life"--selected on account of it sampling the tonal poetry of "Theme From Great Cities"(a prime slice of the early Minds' funked-up Eurosynth futurism) and slapped on the end as if to convince a jaded public that Simple Minds really are "contemporary" and have a profound relevance to today's dance scene--this really contains the best of Simple Minds. Which is a very good thing indeed--but where's "Changeling"? These trifling grievances aside, this compilation does Simple Minds' chart-history justice. Sometimes unduly castigated for blustery over-expression and much ado about nothing, re-familiarisation with much of the post-Sparkle In The Rain material reveals a band at ease with an astute musical economy--the grand gesturing of "Mandela Day", for example, may well sound monumentally sincere and overwrought but it consists of a measly three chords, while the trotting-horse bass-line to "Waterfront" is one note repeated for over four minutes (and that note was "D" if you're interested). Some great pop singles aside--"She's A River", "Alive And Kicking", "Up On The Catwalk" and "Promised You A Miracle", a song cut from the same tartan cloth as early Spandau Ballet--the most interesting thing about Simple Mind's evolution is how they started to get more successful once they'd stopped impersonating Roxy Music only to hit pay dirt with a song which Bryan Ferry didn't have enough time to record, namely Keith Forsey's "Don't You Forget About Me". --Kevin Maidment

Customer Reviews

A true desert island fav! (2004-07-10)

Where do you start with these guys? My first Simple Minds album was New Gold Dream which is another must have.I picked this CD up trying to fill the gaps and really liked it. They have so many different sounds and styles and they are all here (except for New Gold Dream. Their is a different version of Promised You a Miracle which is great with a little more bounce. Just about any person who grew up in the 80's would like this CD as their is something for everyone here. There newer material on disc two was somewhat more mellow but works great at dinner or on a roadtrip. I have a ton of respect for these guys as their songs shaped my childhood and made me feel good. 5 star all the way!!

It is a chronology (2004-05-25)

"best of simple minds" is an effective double cd collection that covers all of band's most important tracks up to around year 1999. i enjoyed it and it made me get their other albums. i think it is a perfect album for someone who knows only few simple minds songs and wants to know their music better.from the cold new wave sound up to warm and emotional pop-rock Simple Minds remained a fresh band that has their own recognizable sound. of course they had some weaker spots ("biko" sounds much better in Peter Gabriel's version,and what the heck is the last track?) but who is perfect? even the lack of presence of some tracks doesn't change the fact that it is the best and most ineresting Simple Minds collection avaible.

Great, but where is "New Gold Dream?" (2004-05-14)

I agree with all of the other reviewers that this is a great compilation of one of my all-time favorite 80s bands, but where is "New Gold Dream?" If it's a greatests collection, this band's greatest tune is missing. Listen to Flashbackalternatives.com for more great Simple Minds tunes.

Where is Dr. Phil (2003-11-18)

hello:

i bought this cd thinking it was songs about dr. phil mcgraw. these guys may me want to dance like belinda carlisle. it is happy new wave music. leg warmers and big hair. chest hair and sharls.

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Simple is often the best way... (2003-11-15)

This album captures the distinctively mellifluent, textured, Kraftwerk-inspired new wave sound that Simple Minds made their own in the 80s. "Glittering Prize", "Waterfront", "Promised You A Miracle", "All The Things She Said" (a damn site better than that awful TATU record of the same name), "Don't You Forget About Me", all those early classics are here.

If this record does have any shortcomings, it's that it features too much of the political dirge from the late 80s/early '90s era, when they briefly lost their way. The second disk, however, does feature "She's A River" and "Hypnotised" from their renaissance in 1995, when they dramatically returned to form.

Given that they released the dreadful covers album Neon Lights a couple of months prior to this compilation, it looked as though they'd finally gone to the point of no return, so the timing of the release of The Best Of Simple Minds could't have been better - reminding folks about what a great act they weree in their heyday.

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