So,
after hearing DON’T YOU FORGET ABOUT ME (and it’s
awesome flip side A BRASS BAND IN AFRICA),
I quickly ran out and bout SPARKLE IN THE RAIN
and NEW GOLD DREAM, and then that was
about it for Simple Minds, cuz their early stuff was rare beyond belief in my
part of redneck USA.
When
I finally stumbled upon a beat-up import copy of REEL TO REAL
CACOPHONY in the cooler of the 2 mall record stores (about a year
later), I snatched it up. And wow….
I
had a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that this was essentially the
same band that recorded the shiny, sparkly stuff that I already owned. Amazing music, but I had zero context for it
in the Simple Minds canon. And then,
about a year after that, Virgin records (for reasons unknown to anyone, even
today) released SISTER FEELINGS CALL
as a budget priced cassette. And, again,
it was like a transmission from some alien planet of musical awesomeness. Took me a few more years to track down LIFE
IN A DAY, EMPIRES AND DANCE
and SONS AND FASCINATION, but they were all
worth searching for.
Early
Simple Minds. The foreign exchange
student in high school new it kicked ass, and who the hell are you to say any
different?
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