SIMPLE MINDS This Fear Of God

[adammacer]

Ahem.. "This Fear of 'Gods' ".. Just sayin' like..

[gazzatopdude1]

dont blame jim kerr, mick mcneil and derek forbes are both wastefull people to some extent.

in many ways, like gerry rafferty, fame was too much for them. Mick and derek left but Jim Kerr is versatile

[eLECTROLOSIS]

What happened to this band eh?..

[fortheloveoftunes]

Goes well with "Human League" .-)

[mrpinkheavy]

I would love the band reunited with Forbes and Mac Neil and listen in the 2012 live all the 1980's albums....Jim...do you agree with me???

[maxinblax777]

THIS LP WAS WAY AHEAD OF ITS TIME!

[djh29971]

The best Album SM ever did and certainly one of the best of the decade full stop. I can't help thinking though they would of been better with a different frontman. Kerr never seemed quite right to me...

[panamaniak]

@djh29971 lol, just stating an OPINION not declaring war,lol! but IMHO he MADE SM. he was\is the glue that keeps them together. i couldn't picture anyone else with a unique voice like his and lyric capabilities

[sweetassugar69]

@djh29971 what the hell are u talking about here that voice man !!! chilling to the bone !!

[haileysvomit]

simple minds when they were good, best album they did i rekon !!!

[maskof]

If you haven't heard "A Brass Band In African Chimes" you MUST hear it. Sheer atmospheric beauty.

[Sylvian7]

@maskof I totally agree! Although a kind a longer version than the song 'Shake Off the Ghosts' on SITR, this one is more haunting. If u like this, then listen to the instrumental masterpiece 'Liberty' of Patrick O' Hearn!!

[maskof]

This when Simple Minds were awesome. Truly musical, creative and artistic. They lost all that nuance after they became famous with the Breakfast Club juggernaut and all the substandard pop they churned out afterwards.

[luckystriker888]

Genious bass playin' Derek!

[CONSIDERABLYMORE1]

i must just add this is the best SM album, if not the best album of all time.

[MrFindus]

Hey, Simple Minds. Maligned by the music press for being a stadium band, yet here was the time they were superb.

Can you imagine if Radiohead released an album of similar quality now? NME's bill to Kleenex would be astronomic!

Simple Minds - early stuff is far too under-rated!

[arism74]

I remember back in my teens, when I was listening to this amazing album, reading an interview by Jim Kerr where he was saying he was inspired by a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, where a hunter is waiting all his life for his god to appear and in the end the god appears in the shape of a bird and the hunter kills him. For some reason I couldn't explain it got me to love the song even more and get to read Borges as well, whom I got to love as a writer too

[CONSIDERABLYMORE1]

@arism74 and then he flew off and made a lot of money at the expense of artistic integrity. Yes, the 80's. Jim Kerr, Bono, and all the other cheap capatilist liars.

[LemmingdeMerciless]

oh boy this really brings me back......thanks like

[stanleguetto]

hypnotique.

[alfioled]

Male non fare paura non avere.

Namaste'

[hairycub69]

"Empires and Dance" is a very dark album. It captures the feeling of Europe in 1980 and what was going on then. If you like Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible, Radiohead The bends, Massive Attack - Mezzazine- check this album out and enjoy (o;

[JEELEN1]

I´m sure it has been mentioned before, but the title if This Fear Of GodS.

[AerielaDecesar397]

Download the audio from this tune at speedyconversion doht cohm.

[luckystriker888]

Derek' s one of his genious basslines...brilliant!!!

[y16amp]

@luckystriker888 Hate to say it as I Love em to bits but they have never quite recovered from Mr Forbes departure

[toptonychick]

Thanks Graham!!! ;)

[AntjeBohnhorst]

F...g great!!!!

[goz1970]

Havn't heard this in a long time NICE

[quietRockstars88]

Good Stuff.

[E90N]

I was 7 in 80 not knowing what great music there was....

I discovered Simple Minds at the age of 15 and love all there work.

Especially the early songs

[E90N]

I was 7 in 80 not knowing what great music there was....

I discovered Simple Minds at the age of 15 and love all there work.

Especially the early songs

[mrcodhead67]

@soulkiss1001 1980 as an album track; I don't remember it as a single and I'm pretty sure it wasn't released as one.

[rmzidann]

This is Good....It's damn GOOD!!!......What originality and inventiveness!

[bashey63]

turn it up !!!!!!!!!!!

[Hwral]

It's a bit 'duh', but the title is misspelled. It's "This Fear of Gods", with the plural gods.

Leave out one letter and the whole context changes.

[slowdown1]

Greek military junta ??

[CombatRocks]

Great album. Along with Reel to Real Cacophony.

[soulkiss1001]

what year did this song originally come out

[grayham37]

@soulkiss1001 It's from the album EMPIRES AND DANCE which was released in SEPT 1980.

[Beelzebubbbbles]

Bass lines. The early stuff had such cracking bass lines. Impossible to not dance to. We never heard much of this in the "discos", but at house parties you could play SM for half the night and the kids who had never heard it before would bounce and bounce...

[robyg70]

nicely done, gray.  really.enjoyed that!!

[msshortbread1]

when i hear this i think there must be a god to bring us jim kerr and simple minds.pure heaven!

[marcvanlaere]

This is great.

[SaschaDuda]

This is the hardest-driving, relentless, trancy track they've ever done, and it just doesn't slow down one bit or let go for all of SEVEN frikkin minutes!! Massive.

[Alifeindreams]

Yet another classic track from a classic band.

I love the early Simple Minds music - Empires & dance, Sister feelings call, Sons & fascination, Reel to reel cacophany etc.

I also find it incredible that a band capable of stretching boundaries with tracks such as this have also created possibly the best collection of instrumental tracks in recent times.

[3CPNO]

Very underated band of the 80's still Alive and Kicken thanks for the tunes !

[TheUtubesuxass]

Gods

[galnic61]

i know what you guys mean, i was 20 when simple minds arrived and i agree it was real music, not trash. thanks for that

[msshortbread1]

even to this day i still cant have a shower without singing this!lol.brilliant tune.

[zebramol]

Legendary !  ^ _ ^

[zzbozz]

Derick Forbs,if i got the spelling of his name write,the best bassist ive ever heard,when he left SM i think they died,& i think i speak 4 all original SM fans out there ;why did Jim let this happen?

[bubblesqueek123]

FANTASTIC!!!!! Simple Minds was once all about the BASS!!!..... true legends......

[vulturenarc]

Dereck is one of the best bass players in the world

[WalshNo5]

I love haunting songs like this and Aphex Twin was also amazing at doing haunting soundtracks. However, for more popular stuff I adore U2's The Ocean on Boy and also The Cure's Subway Song, Splintered In Her Head and Lament as tracks that are also haunting.

[maskof]

@WalshNo5 Listen to "Bass Trap" by U2 youtube.com/watch?v=QjO0A2hqRy­w

[WalshNo5]

Simple Minds were far better in their first four albums than generally anything else they'd done.. although I do actually love Street Fighting Years, Real Life and Neapolis as later albums.

[myperfectstar]

my favourite track of the album

[Chamindo7]

Saw them do this live in Toronto...twice.

God it was wonderful.

[DerVampyrEngel]

So brilliant

[VikingInvaders]

One word: Magnificent

[jumma71]

If you don't like this there must be something very wrong , have also a listen to i travel and changeling .

[MrGolddreamer]

met derek forbes tonight in falkirk,scotland!!! watchin simple minded!!!(great tribute band) the legend got up and played with the band,2 hours ago,im in shock,just amazing!!!

[casinodelonge]

you cant have this as background music, you have to LISTEN to it.. and this is "just" and album track.. whew, still a good dance vibe though.. visceral...

[leonardouy]

yes yes yes I even played it at the club in the 80s and nobody danced but myself. greaaaat!

[ivevu]

Still gives me goose pimples, fantastic track .

[peterikarlstad]

The bassist rules. Pure voodoo!

[PinkSmarties72]

lets make a "dream team"

McNeil, Forbes,Burchill and Gaynor

With of course Kerr but with less views on Celtic please! lol

[docbreaknik]

SHIT HOT TRACK!! nice 1 grayham.

[Byrontheone]

They don't get forget with time: =o, no, don't you forget about me.

[robyg70]

Ha! Ha! Haaaa!!! breathe! Breathe! this is sooo SM !!!!!

[jpmac69]

OMG!!! I forgot how phenomenal this album was. I learnt how to play drums to this tune when I was 12.

[dancejig]

Absolute class...... only those growing up in the late 70s early 80s will understand.

[72HourBurnCycle]

Not so...take that back !!!

[bajen3]

Yes, pure class and a amazing time!

[WalshNo5]

I was 4-5 in the early 80s but because of an older sister I knew all of the greats from this creative era. I stopped listening to pop music in about 93/94 when Britpop first came onto the scene. Oasis to me are crud !!

[nyggis]

@WalshNo5

Born in 78, with a sister with great music taste I know what you are talking about... Cheers from Sweden..

[maryanddaisy]

@dancejig you are completely right there. to have listened to this music in my teens was one of the best things in my life. i am listening to this now and am in my early forties and the feeling is still the same. it's is like being zoomed back in time... love it love it ...

[CUORDILATTUGA]

51 commenti solo perchè pochi conoscono questo fantastico gruppo. all'epoca erano incompresi, molto all'avanguardia. ora il tempo è maturo come una mela rossa

......è ora di propagare!

[rsweres]

My favorits are the old-school Simple Minds, the early 80's before they went commercial. This is one of songs i like together with Factory, Life In A Day, Love Song, Constantinople Line. The 3 albums i like the most were Empires And Dance, Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call and New Gold Dream, i still like to hear them often...awesome :))

[johnnyblunder]

Mick and Derek were the driving force behind the Simple Minds early stuff, that throbbing rythme and euro synth sound made them awesome, Jims Lyrics were excellent but they were hungry then and as time went Derek left then Mick, Bruce Findlay management parted company and now the driving force behind the simple minds is Money as the new material is dreadful.I love there old stuff still has that vibrant sound that catches you out....This track is one of the best.

[squeakens]

Not sure I agree with you mate. While Derek and Mick made up one half of the best musical quartet I have ever known and it was tragic that they left, Charlie in his own right is a phenomenal musician and can just about fill the void on his own. His guitar and keyboard work(bass as well) is the best I now know. I get lost in Graffiti Soul because the music on its own is so good. I don't think money drives this band. P.S. this song is bloody incredible, thanks for the post!

[maxwellsmart71]

holy words!!!! Mick and Derek but don't forget Brian McGee!

[bajen3]

just BRILIANT !!! LOVE IT!!

Simple Minds as it very very best.

[Hwral]

One of the most beautiful Minds tracks. If only they'd have made more of these gems. But whatever, I will never, ever part with my cardboard sleeve version of Empires and Dance.

Best new wave album of the year 1980.

[grizzadams2110]

Loads of folk are name dropping the minds now. About time too. Remember first hearing this song at school. I was petrified and optimistic at the same time. It really conjures up images of travel, fear and landscapes

[cjmcge]

cheers for loading....class!

[sweetassugar69]

people talk about inovative and seminal bands ! for 7minutes and 1 second its gets no better than these !!! simple minds are as cutting edge as you can get ! 29 years old this song is ! unbelieivable band

[timm4521]

When I first listened to this song I was completely surprised. SM where great. And they still are, but so very different nowadays. But that's ok, the world also has changed the past twenty years. And the strength of SM is that they continued renewing their music.

[sirGiedion]

i used to steal this from my older brother's collection that i was forbidden to touch at the time and I'd listen to it with such a guilty pleasure ;)

[lec0roh]

The thing I like about this song is that it is TOTALLY different to EVERYTHING ELSE. It just shows how pioneering the early Minds were, a bit like the early Human League in a roundabout way, as I've said before on other videos.

[struantheruin]

Great tune - if you like early Simple Minds try and dig up some Cabaret Voltaire or Suicide.

[TheDulwichOnion]

Saw them at the London Lyceum when Empires and Dance came out.

Totally hypnotised by them.

[tkrypton]

Mick McNeill spotted us from the stage and cracked a big smile. He caught Jim's attention during the set, probably during a dull track like 'Great Wall of Love', and was Kerr pleased? Not really! I think Derek Forbes and Mick McNeil must have loved playing this stuff more than Mr Kerr. Bass and keyboards take the lead on Empires and Sons./ Fascination, My mum still loves Seeing out the Angel &SOmebody up There Likes You, coz Kerr doesn't moan through em! Hunter & the Hunted - what a beauty!

[tkrypton]

OH, I used to have a live bootleg cassette, a recording of the beautiful MInds live in Glasgow 1981, and this track and 30 frames a Second used to be on my Walkman each and every day, even in the late 80s. Mick McNeil is the main lover of this type of hypo-trance in the band if you ask me. I remember going to see them at Wembley Arena in 1989, & both me and my mate wore the baggy trousers, jet black hair, panda eye make up and big boots that Kerr used to wear. Unbelievably, Mick McNeil spotted

[dermut71]

wouldn't it be fantastic if McNeill returned. I think it would be make and amazing difference. If anything the atmospheric melodies of Mick really set the old from the new. I would go so far to say that SM need Mick back. Can someone start a bloody petition or something??

[fstop77]

This is truly an amazing album. I played this constantly in the eighties. I heard "I Travel" back in '82 at the Ripley in Philly and I was hooked for life.

[faddy24]

So let's try and avoid being too musically elitist here. Don't want to end up like those stuck up nobs who worship at the temple of the absurdly overrated Joy Division, do we!?

[faddy24]

There is no doubting the mertis of this trance like, dark and industrial minds song. But i take issue with those of you who dismiss them after 'New Gold Dream. The only album they did that pitched ..to..much..at the masses was 'Once Upon Time' and even that has a few gems on it like 'Oh Jungleland.

[bazzermn]

Another great great track from that album is Capital City.... grayham37, can you upload for the world at large ?!!??

[grayham37]

Sure Can it will be straight away

[ultrafragola2000]

@grayham37 This fear of god is one of the best tracks on the empire and dance album the more you listen to it the better it gets

Damn you!!!I XD it's true now i can't do without T3T and i haven't the record..poor me!

[Berlinerschnitzel]

Joy Division is a hype now, if you are a Joy Division fan you're cool nowadays... Don't try the same with Simple Minds! Walk with a Minds-shirt and everybody will laugh. Well, Joy Division and Minds, both postpunk bands from end 70's, both with a dark album in 1980; I think the Minds are much better! But, Jim didn't hang himself like Ian Curtis did... Maybe the Minds were historically better off if Jim hung himself in 1980 instead of that pathetic Bono-imitation he became...

[WalshNo5]

I adore Radiohead, but I am sure they were influenced by this, Pink Floyd, later Talk Talk and even Aphex Twin and The Black Dog with their later sounds !!

[bonnyroy]

this is a sound a will never let some dust grow on it!!

[Berlinerschnitzel]

Hey, my favorite Minds song of my favorite Minds album. Someone posted "what the hell happened with them after '83?". I know the answers:

Derek Forbes was thrown out by Jim - and secondly, Jim wanted to be Bono instead of Jim Kerr. They could have been a Joy Division, but they chose to be Rick Astley.

[ghostsonatasong]

they blew it big time.

this early stuff gives me the heebee gee bees.

this is the stuff of legend. ruined. i'll pretend the later fluff never happened.

[WalshNo5]

Completely agree.. Forbes was one of the best Bass Guitarists, although they did later capture Mel Gaynor - a very under-rated drummer

[DerVampyrEngel]

Amazing song never heard it before as I only got Sons and Fascination in the early to mid 80's, and never bought Empires and Dance I missed a lot of great music on that

[monotyper]

great moody song. well ahead. sounds fresh now. best thing they ever did. seems like a few people agree too.

[bazzermn]

Can you upload Capital City off the same album? That is such a quirky but sweet track!

[klausen12]

Fantástico

[KamikaziNuWave]

Amazing hypnotic record

[pulsehouse]

Fantastic track from their best album. They were ahead of their time. Fresh, interesting, different, great dance music. Nothing sounded so good around the time this was released. However, they progressed on into a great double release Lp then went all commercially shite! Real shame.

[semitelfeletem]

Favorite song of the entire 80s (90s too).

[RHCristobal]

"the more you listen to it the better it gets "

Hell YEAH!

[animatetime]

Remember it well. God how they became bland.

[ianwr000]

You forgot Mick!

[jangenk]

sheer brilliance

[thebrnochairsvideos]

It's the greatest Simple Minds album

[imonlyhumantoo]

Can't you post "Today I died again"? Thanx.

[grayham37]

Your wish is my command

[imonlyhumantoo]

Thanks man...

[imonlyhumantoo]

How great they where then....What the hell happened after ' 83?????

[59mph]

Brilliant album, best track on it alongside "Today I Died Again". Pity the band turned dull.

[redel67]

magical.

[slickedmachine]

this fear of Godfrey:

fear is black i'm tuning white now

faster faster lust lust

[kafkaian]

You should put more up from this album. I'd forgotten how good it sounds.

[molokaicreeper]

CATCH THE NAME @ 5:32

Peace.

[molokaicreeper]

OH MY GOSH thanks for posting this!!!! That's my favorite from that album. I love Real To Real from Real To Real Cacophony as well...

I love Fear of Gods so much I listen to it LOUD!!! It does get better the more you hear it, been loving it for years too!

[leamingtonlamb]

old school minds love it