Shame about "Bi some lo lo lo" - don't you know Music For Airports by Brian Eno? It's more famous than Once Upon A Time, of that I am sure. Look it up on Wikipedia (for some reason YouTube are too afraid to let me post a link).
"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."
Fantastic! Very 80s, very very 80s, but with so much energy I actually want to stand up and do something. Which with me is quite an achievement. Nice one Simple Minds.
I love this track, especially the line 'Europe has a language problem' with the other line being 'tragedy, luxury, statues, arts, gallery'.the fit so well..superb stuff though I was disappointed they lost their way slightly
wow I used to dance to this as a teenager at the function suite in Nero's Cardiff in the eighties.It was an 'alternative' night full of great tracks not from the charts but this is the song I used to wait for. Its wonderful with echos of Kraftwerk and Bowie's Berlin trilogy and Eno of course which Kerr makes reference to in a moment of playful post-modernism. It makes you wonder how they lost their way a few years later trying to compete with the stadium air punching routines of Bono/U2.
The Charlston..under..15..swerving,,laughing and falling(orange juice).. The reign of the MossIndians..Pat,Guv, Rab,Greeg,Bones,Foxy,Patsy,Jack, we will remember.
This is from the band's best period - after the experimental phase of their first two records and before the pop commercialism of their latter day stuff. It includes the albums from 'Empires and Dance' (which this song is from) through 'Sparkle in the Rain'. I saw them live on the 'New Gold Dream' tour and it ranks as one of the most memorable shows I've seen. Their onstage energy and dynamism was brilliant and Kerr was one amazing frontman.
@tillie1961 What radio were you listening to, in my part of the world this stuff was and still is so obscure, part of its appeal to me when I was younger, and now frankly(N.E. Florida redneck paradise)
Simple minds at their best!! This is one song I have never got sick of...I still have this Album but have never seen a video of it. thanks for posting! LOVE IT!
@sistermicrowave then fuck off back to the shitty boy and girl dogshit band unimaginative wankers who 's 1/4 inch dicks you like to suck and who's crappy sounds you suck up too with your crappy taste
@sistermicrowave Okay, we all make senseless asses out of ourselves when we're shit-faced. My recommendation is that you lock away the computer whenever you're gonna toss a few back.
I loved this era of music. The 80's produced so many great bands like these guys. I could go on and name a pile, but I don't want too bore you too much. My favorites were New Order, Simple Minds, Depeche Mode, Joy Division and U2, especially early U2. U2 were magnificent in the early eighties. I still like them today, but, I loved them back then. What a great time for music.
@diskochimp Thanks a lot for telling me and I've got that Eno's ambient album on a CD.I don't know why but I just keep on listening to SM's NewGoldDream album over and over this week.I'm just not in a mood for listening to anything else at all for some reason.I miss the good old 80's when it comes to the music.
@foodafokkarez He is singing "Airport playing Brian Eno", it's a reference to Eno's Music For Airports. And I think I encountered a bi some lo lo lo when I was drunk in a bar in Amsterdam once...
@Vispateresa3 Yeah I agree.Some of the bass line sounds kinda identical I think.Unlike this band called U2, SM never needed to hire Mr.Eno himself to make them sound cool.They were already cool enough.
I think there are Simple Minds mark I (from the beginning up to Don't You) and mark II (after Don't You). Mark I is 100 times better than mark II. Check out this video and more, if you don't believe me! The rest is only sad commercial stuff...
Simple Minds evolved with every record, no two records were the same, they had a different sound all of them...this is a definite influence on the punk-funk sound as was, with bands like The Rapture certainly influenced by them...it was inevitable they would "Go Stadium" after "Don't You"...it was the Eighties after all...still a great band...
@glowball01 - They tried to "go U2", but even today I think they're better than that shit band. Always were. SM and Joy Division were the best back in the day.
Simple Minds were good with Life in a Day, Simple Minds were good with Graffiti Soul. Every band evolves and changes and part of that is leaving behind fwits who cannot change. In fact I know of Simple Minds fans who will not listen to anything before Sparkle in the Rain. They are just as bad as as those that won't listen to anything after New Gold Dream. Each to their own but SM still make, not as much granted, but good music.
@brismike65 I agree.But it's sad to see that us Simple Minds fans aren't supportive with this great band.No other bands in 30 years was capable to create such different sounds,such different style,we shoud support Simple Minds that are the most innovative band ever.But no.Several prefers most to crucifx SM for every silly reason.Early stuff-NGD era-Don't you rock stadium era..it's sad.
@ultrafragola2000 thanks Ultra. I believe the upcoming shows are really good too but I live in Australia so they won't be here this year :(. Yeah I can understand a lot of people's views but to me She's A River is as good as Sound in 70 Cities. That's just my view. Of course NGD is my favourate, but there are great records from Once Upon a Time up. OH well each to their own view, but for me I love it all, even bits of Cry.
@brismike65 I agree again,i loved SM since 1984,so i'm a belated fan,so i do not often listen to early stuff,but since 1984,except Don't You and OUAT,i loved every single recod they made.I'm sad that you haven't any chance to see SM in a gig,i was in Verona in 1988 and was a blast.
By the way i've started to listen to SM from SITR,my elder cousin introduce me to SM and she quitted them since Don't you went out,i listen NGD but i do not loves it in particular.
@brismike65 I'm not great fan of McNeil,as i do not like as much the keyboard line he plays,anyway yes was street fighting years tour,an i attended to the Verona gig,Italy since i'm Italian,the gig which was made in vhs ^^
There is a difference in a band evolving and selling out. Their whole career evolved from JOhnny and The Self-Abusers. The first album was mostly guitar pop and even though you won't admit it "Don't You.." is better than most "With or Without you."
@TheGodParticle Lol do u think thats what he was doin? It did look like he was pulling his zip back up as he turned back round 2 face the audience . . .
I always thought early sm was alot more dynamic and interesting to want to listen to and enjoy,rather than the new "todays" key boardy melodramatic story telling stuff that simply does not hold to ones attention.Although sm is indeed probably one of the greatest bands in europe , I think they are due for a ground breaking album , if at least a top 40 single here in 2011.That would be tottally cooool!!!!!!!!!
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Did they develop or just make too much money to stay original.This music was little heard inAmerica but Lo angeles had krock so we wqere happy musing on these fabulous structures and chord progressions.They are so basic in progression but they add all kinds of non-chord tones and fabulous instrumental textures .I love the early work !
@lovesGenet Totally agree with your comment, their early stuff totally outshines their later commercial releases. Waterfront was inspired and written by Jim Kerr in the shipyard where I served my apprenticeship.
Back in 1980 this track was considered to be to truly modern and futuristic for it's time.Still love listening to "Empires and Dance" up unto this day..
could and should have been as big as U2 but after 'dont you forget about me' they lost it, i cant listen to anything after 1985 it's so bad, which is a shame cos before that they were absolutely superb
@doddy11767 I agree with you M8 they should have been more recognized and appreciated ! They still had good songs after Don't.. but The early Tracks Love Song / Theme sold me on the spot ! Still a Fan however time and tide is starting to show age and somehow unrealistically I still expect to see Simple Minds being Timeless.
@doddy11767 If anything, it was after "Don't You..." where the band seemed to be trying the U2 route! U2 got as big as they did by revamping their sound into something more bland and corporate (and American Radio friendly), and Simple Minds ended up doing the same.
@cloudydaiz123 agreed .. but thats pretty much what people said about this back in the day too .. there's always a point when we look to the past and admire what we once hated
If this 1980, is this a performance in a Scandinavian country? All present glued on seats...typical. Time shift..If this performance was done in 1981 in Birmingham, they would get pre teens bobbing left right in the new romantic way hailing this song as the number 1 song but close competition to Duran Duran Planet Earth
I wish they'd performed this track at the concert I attended in Australia when I was 16 back in 1986.Alas mostly what they performed was from that crappy "Once Upon A Time"era,Love Song was the earliest track from their repertoire which they performed.Well I guess it wasn't it wasn't the post punk era any more.
Great song,Simple Minds are a great band,they were just as good as U2,and I disagree with those who say Once Upon A Time is when the band went downhill.That album was really brilliant.I love the song All The Things She Said.
it is a shame most people think simple minds was a conventional group . i like their whole career but i think their beginnig was a good antidote for groups like sisters and mercy and bauhaus
It all went wrong after New Gold Dream - Waterfront was good but THAT album signalled the fall from critical acclaim into 80s commercial abyss. Unlike Bowie and many others Kerr et al are unable to reclaim any credibility because the change was so great and unlike Bowie they sold out before their credible work was allowed to become their signature - buig mistake, and quite tragic really as their ablums 2-5 are up there with the best.
I disagree. "Sparkle in the Rain" was a very creative continuation of New Gold Dreams, debuting at #1 in the UK charts. Aside from Waterfront, there are many other great compositions such as Book of Brilliant Things, White Hot Day, C Moon and the best cover of Lou Reed's "Street Hassle" that I have ever heard. When "Once upon a time" was released, that's when it all started to go wrong.
Let's focus on the positive side, I could not find this song before but now that I know that Youtube has it, I am going to be playing it every day. xoxoxoxo from USA.
@mayangod1isback.... guess who? I am back and play this song 24 hours a day. SIMPLE MINDS kick ASS. Excuse me but I get so excited when I hear this band.
This song rules all over town ( Baldwin Park City). I don't care how long it took me to find this song, what it matters is that I found it. yeah baby!
this song remains me My Uncles in Van Nuys City, San Fernando Valley. No negative comments, only Positive comments. Simple Minds Rules along with the Mayan Empire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nouveaux Decadence....Touche!!! I agree they went down hill fast after Upon the Catwalk...Most of the 'Sparkle..' WAS FULL OF GAYNORS THUMPING...CRASHING DRUMS...Forbes Bass is almost NEVER HEARD on the whole LP...what a disaster for the band....very, very sad that once so great a band ended up so lame....They had it all...Fashion sense...(Futurist look)..The sound....and heaps of class
Totally agree. All their work prior to Sparkle was amazing and thought provoking. Especially Real to Real. Catwalk is a great song. but I think they caught the U2 bug and went down hill. I remember all the hype leading up to Live in the City of Lights. A friend of mine bought it and I'm glad I didn't. It doesn't surprise me that my friend at the time didn't like any of their early work because he didn't start listening to them until Don't You... was released. That was true for a lot of people.
What a pity after New Gold Dream Simple Minds started going complete crap MINUS "Up On The Catwalk" and "Speed Your Love To Me' which are great tracks. "I Travel" is so uttttterly AMAZING, the extended version in particular is one of THE best dance records EVER made. Such pure delight + Simple Minds were SO original in their day. Stunning track forever, music will NEVER be the same as this again!
Too hard working to be a new romantic band. Just fantastic
SaffronSugar 1 week ago
Ha ha.. I used to wear trousers like Jims.. My mates called them 'curtains'..
adammacer 1 week ago
I don't see people making songs like this anymore.
Kenckaplus 2 weeks ago
fuckin fantastic
fitman42 3 weeks ago
One of their best....Luv u Jim x x x
arlenes7s 3 weeks ago
Shame about "Bi some lo lo lo" - don't you know Music For Airports by Brian Eno? It's more famous than Once Upon A Time, of that I am sure. Look it up on Wikipedia (for some reason YouTube are too afraid to let me post a link).
cedarjet707 3 weeks ago
Brum
purpleryder 3 weeks ago
5x5 brim COME ON!!!!!!!
purpleryder 3 weeks ago
7 people likes better justin and gaga
jaibobro 1 month ago
u can dance your ass of to this song.
still sounds fantastic.
jinxelfingers 1 month ago 3
@jinxelfingers i remember goin nuts to this in my early teens fantastic stuff
fitman42 3 weeks ago
superb roll on manchester 5x5
devotee1965 1 month ago
Tragedy, luxury, statues art galleries
glowball01 1 month ago
only simple minds....
liaste6 1 month ago in playlist U2, CURE, SIMPLE MINDS
Simple Minds >>>>>>> U2
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WTFBBQ5 1 month ago
This was obviously rehashed by Toryglens' finest about 10 years after this one ..... "cities buildings falling down, satellites come crashing down"
IvanH1310 1 month ago
awesome
GroovesGirl 1 month ago
most favorite simple minds song ever!!
thegoat48 2 months ago
Very "Giorgio Moroder" in sound
DRRwine 2 months ago
Absolute quality tune, but they really died a death not long after. What a shame.
Keith1867 2 months ago
"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."
Official explanation on their website.
Just for the records ;)
Utcheeow 2 months ago
Jimm`s hair cut-lol)
morrissey102 2 months ago
Still Rockin' after 31 years, brill track that still sounds it
fac5c1981 2 months ago
Ahhh Empires and dance.. a weird and wonderful album which I have on vinyl somewhere.
71yid 3 months ago in playlist Simple Minds
Fantastic! Very 80s, very very 80s, but with so much energy I actually want to stand up and do something. Which with me is quite an achievement. Nice one Simple Minds.
jazzzyy13 3 months ago
Love SM
AlgisKemezys 3 months ago
I love this track, especially the line 'Europe has a language problem' with the other line being 'tragedy, luxury, statues, arts, gallery'.the fit so well..superb stuff though I was disappointed they lost their way slightly
chewblued 3 months ago
wow I used to dance to this as a teenager at the function suite in Nero's Cardiff in the eighties.It was an 'alternative' night full of great tracks not from the charts but this is the song I used to wait for. Its wonderful with echos of Kraftwerk and Bowie's Berlin trilogy and Eno of course which Kerr makes reference to in a moment of playful post-modernism. It makes you wonder how they lost their way a few years later trying to compete with the stadium air punching routines of Bono/U2.
MrSunrecords1956 3 months ago
Seen them in the Barrowlands 1983 totally mobbed magic gig.
fadux1 3 months ago
not many bands put the same lyric in the first line of a song twice do they ?
evertonio 3 months ago
love this song
roseyragga 4 months ago in playlist 80's new wave & cold wave by LSB
there is only 1 derek forbes
Burghbhoy1 4 months ago
wow 1980!!!!
irinisva 4 months ago
@ scaramonga1......????
ktownmikey 5 months ago
bi some lo was a scottish folk song. i know this because jim kerr told me so back in ottawa canada in 1981...
ktownmikey 5 months ago
@ktownmikey
Smell it? Yup.......BULL!!
scaramonga1 5 months ago
The Charlston..under..15..swerving,,laughing and falling(orange juice).. The reign of the MossIndians..Pat,Guv, Rab,Greeg,Bones,Foxy,Patsy,Jack, we will remember.
bodthetim 5 months ago
This is from the band's best period - after the experimental phase of their first two records and before the pop commercialism of their latter day stuff. It includes the albums from 'Empires and Dance' (which this song is from) through 'Sparkle in the Rain'. I saw them live on the 'New Gold Dream' tour and it ranks as one of the most memorable shows I've seen. Their onstage energy and dynamism was brilliant and Kerr was one amazing frontman.
cmdraven 5 months ago
This song drived (and drives) me crazy!! I just love Simple Minds!!
MsEcrivain 5 months ago
Heard this song on radio today for the first time in years. I still really enjoyed it.
tillie1961 5 months ago
@tillie1961 What radio were you listening to, in my part of the world this stuff was and still is so obscure, part of its appeal to me when I was younger, and now frankly(N.E. Florida redneck paradise)
pollobionico 5 months ago
@tillie1961 wow, what station was it???
Biigfish559 4 months ago
Simple minds at their best!! This is one song I have never got sick of...I still have this Album but have never seen a video of it. thanks for posting! LOVE IT!
Luvna45 6 months ago
When I hear this kind of stuff I'm so glad the 80's are over. They were an all time low in every sense, with music to match. Fuckin' AWFUL.
sistermicrowave 6 months ago
@sistermicrowave The worst comment I've ever red. 80's were class. But maybe you didn't live in them ??
doctorwhonico 5 months ago
@sistermicrowave f*ck off...and go crawl back under the rock you came from...
dizzycorner 5 months ago
@dizzycorner As long as it will shield me from this pompous, bombastic racket, thats fine by me :)
sistermicrowave 5 months ago
@sistermicrowave then fuck off back to the shitty boy and girl dogshit band unimaginative wankers who 's 1/4 inch dicks you like to suck and who's crappy sounds you suck up too with your crappy taste
DerVampyrEngel 5 months ago
@sistermicrowave Okay, we all make senseless asses out of ourselves when we're shit-faced. My recommendation is that you lock away the computer whenever you're gonna toss a few back.
xreddragonx 2 months ago
sensational great band.
cosmicrider287 6 months ago
@cosmicrider287 i remember very well about them great group what ever happend.s to them they are dormant now day
echoes707 5 months ago
tits up when mick left.coincidence?
modebhoy67 6 months ago
@modebhoy67 i remember about them the 80ssssssssssssss excellent
echoes707 5 months ago
why is Brian's kit set up right handed?!?!?!? he was left handed
cultmetfan 6 months ago
capital A in Awesome 4 this choon!
Turbodeadlybuzz 7 months ago
Yet more evidence of how Simple Minds were massively more talented than U2 until the day when they absolutely went off a cliff.
cpbadgeman 7 months ago
Any bad albums? pretty on
boogsox 7 months ago
Danced many times on this song on saturday nights at the 't Brune Jaske, Drachten Friesland, new wave at it's best!.
Gytsjerk1967 8 months ago
Ow Lordy how young they are...
Sannaatje 8 months ago
Top song
enneffess 8 months ago
this song is brillliant , , thats the eno influence
machanalan 8 months ago
I loved this era of music. The 80's produced so many great bands like these guys. I could go on and name a pile, but I don't want too bore you too much. My favorites were New Order, Simple Minds, Depeche Mode, Joy Division and U2, especially early U2. U2 were magnificent in the early eighties. I still like them today, but, I loved them back then. What a great time for music.
lismclis51 8 months ago
I may be wrong but to me, it sounds like he is singing "Airport playing Brian Eno" What a hell is bi some lo lo lo.
foodafokkarez 8 months ago 7
@foodafokkarez Yes, he's definitely singing "Brian Eno". It's a reference to his Music For Airports LP...
diskochimp 7 months ago
@diskochimp Thanks a lot for telling me and I've got that Eno's ambient album on a CD.I don't know why but I just keep on listening to SM's NewGoldDream album over and over this week.I'm just not in a mood for listening to anything else at all for some reason.I miss the good old 80's when it comes to the music.
foodafokkarez 6 months ago
@foodafokkarez He is singing "Airport playing Brian Eno", it's a reference to Eno's Music For Airports. And I think I encountered a bi some lo lo lo when I was drunk in a bar in Amsterdam once...
kristallin 5 months ago
@foodafokkarez It's funny you said that, because I found a bit of "Sweat in Bullet" too sounds a lot like "Blank Frank" by Brian Eno.
Vispateresa3 3 months ago
@Vispateresa3 Yeah I agree.Some of the bass line sounds kinda identical I think.Unlike this band called U2, SM never needed to hire Mr.Eno himself to make them sound cool.They were already cool enough.
foodafokkarez 3 months ago
@foodafokkarez Yes, they were cooler than cool, but only until 1984, I'm afraid. After 1984, they went downwards.
Vispateresa3 3 months ago
@foodafokkarez
It IS Brian Eno! Iol
SaffronSugar 1 week ago
I think there are Simple Minds mark I (from the beginning up to Don't You) and mark II (after Don't You). Mark I is 100 times better than mark II. Check out this video and more, if you don't believe me! The rest is only sad commercial stuff...
zorman743 8 months ago
Simple Minds evolved with every record, no two records were the same, they had a different sound all of them...this is a definite influence on the punk-funk sound as was, with bands like The Rapture certainly influenced by them...it was inevitable they would "Go Stadium" after "Don't You"...it was the Eighties after all...still a great band...
glowball01 8 months ago 12
@glowball01 - They tried to "go U2", but even today I think they're better than that shit band. Always were. SM and Joy Division were the best back in the day.
zombyfart 6 months ago
Simple Minds were good with Life in a Day, Simple Minds were good with Graffiti Soul. Every band evolves and changes and part of that is leaving behind fwits who cannot change. In fact I know of Simple Minds fans who will not listen to anything before Sparkle in the Rain. They are just as bad as as those that won't listen to anything after New Gold Dream. Each to their own but SM still make, not as much granted, but good music.
brismike65 9 months ago
@brismike65 I agree.But it's sad to see that us Simple Minds fans aren't supportive with this great band.No other bands in 30 years was capable to create such different sounds,such different style,we shoud support Simple Minds that are the most innovative band ever.But no.Several prefers most to crucifx SM for every silly reason.Early stuff-NGD era-Don't you rock stadium era..it's sad.
ultrafragola2000 8 months ago
@ultrafragola2000 thanks Ultra. I believe the upcoming shows are really good too but I live in Australia so they won't be here this year :(. Yeah I can understand a lot of people's views but to me She's A River is as good as Sound in 70 Cities. That's just my view. Of course NGD is my favourate, but there are great records from Once Upon a Time up. OH well each to their own view, but for me I love it all, even bits of Cry.
brismike65 8 months ago
@brismike65 I agree again,i loved SM since 1984,so i'm a belated fan,so i do not often listen to early stuff,but since 1984,except Don't You and OUAT,i loved every single recod they made.I'm sad that you haven't any chance to see SM in a gig,i was in Verona in 1988 and was a blast.
By the way i've started to listen to SM from SITR,my elder cousin introduce me to SM and she quitted them since Don't you went out,i listen NGD but i do not loves it in particular.
ultrafragola2000 8 months ago
@ultrafragola2000 you mean the Street Fighting Years tour?? Awesome. I was at the SFY show where it was Mick's final gig :(. All Good.
brismike65 8 months ago
@brismike65 I'm not great fan of McNeil,as i do not like as much the keyboard line he plays,anyway yes was street fighting years tour,an i attended to the Verona gig,Italy since i'm Italian,the gig which was made in vhs ^^
ultrafragola2000 8 months ago
There is a difference in a band evolving and selling out. Their whole career evolved from JOhnny and The Self-Abusers. The first album was mostly guitar pop and even though you won't admit it "Don't You.." is better than most "With or Without you."
h8jf1 9 months ago
my fav frm way back xx
HDZinZero95 10 months ago
love this song....
eefjeeitje 10 months ago
Awesome and fantastic bass. By the way compare this bassline with Red Hot Chilli Peppers "C'mon Girl". Flea has ripped this off.
Nokkieification 10 months ago
@Nokkieification i love this , got it on 12 inch xx
HDZinZero95 10 months ago
Dammit I love this song! Its simply awesome :) I wish I could've seen them in their hey day (...the perils of being born 30 years too late)
Simple Minds created some amazing music... I love all of it, though of course their early 80s stuff is the best.
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adventurem210 10 months ago
0.15 Jim kerr takes a piss on the drummer...
TheGodParticle 10 months ago
@TheGodParticle Lol do u think thats what he was doin? It did look like he was pulling his zip back up as he turned back round 2 face the audience . . .
MissAshleyJClark 5 months ago
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TheGodParticle 5 months ago
@TheGodParticle Uch well, he shuda went b4 he went on stage, lol . . . ;) :P
MissAshleyJClark 5 months ago
I always thought early sm was alot more dynamic and interesting to want to listen to and enjoy,rather than the new "todays" key boardy melodramatic story telling stuff that simply does not hold to ones attention.Although sm is indeed probably one of the greatest bands in europe , I think they are due for a ground breaking album , if at least a top 40 single here in 2011.That would be tottally cooool!!!!!!!!!
bocno1fan 10 months ago
Simple Minds was the greatest rock band of early 80s.
Then came sucess and lack of creativity dúe to band members exchanges.
Then came pressure from the record company and the public expected conservative hits. Thats my 2 cents how it went.
Up to day i got much vinyl, including Changelin/Premonition single.
Greetings Mike, Simple Minds fan since 1980.
mk2007al 11 months ago
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jcafesin 11 months ago
Dope!
MrTecism 11 months ago
shame they had to mime
offthelinegt 1 year ago
Simple minds are brill :D
THEVEE1996 1 year ago
The rhythm section of the early "Minds" was awesome!
peterikarlstad 1 year ago
Did they develop or just make too much money to stay original.This music was little heard inAmerica but Lo angeles had krock so we wqere happy musing on these fabulous structures and chord progressions.They are so basic in progression but they add all kinds of non-chord tones and fabulous instrumental textures .I love the early work !
lovesGenet 1 year ago
@lovesGenet Totally agree with your comment, their early stuff totally outshines their later commercial releases. Waterfront was inspired and written by Jim Kerr in the shipyard where I served my apprenticeship.
tonskiwood 11 months ago
I always think of Globe Trekker when I hear this song. Heck, this should be there theme song!
Thanks for posting!
Lalo3001 1 year ago
i remember my neddle could take it.ive still got the 12"
weedeli1 1 year ago
sooooooo true, check out the extended version ( can't post here)
hannahbufton 1 year ago
been dancing alot that time on this song and i travel!! Great flashbacks :)
coffinbass666 1 year ago
Timeless classic, still love listening to this 30 years on
1874wullie 1 year ago
A very nice classic!!!
gongolense 1 year ago
reaaaaaaaaaaaly greaaaaaaaaaaaat!!
pipapolleke 1 year ago
Back in 1980 this track was considered to be to truly modern and futuristic for it's time.Still love listening to "Empires and Dance" up unto this day..
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Thank you!
toptonychick 1 year ago
@DisappointerSisters It was when they did "Don't you..." They did a Bono and disappeared up their own asses...
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djscotty1111 1 year ago
could and should have been as big as U2 but after 'dont you forget about me' they lost it, i cant listen to anything after 1985 it's so bad, which is a shame cos before that they were absolutely superb
doddy11767 1 year ago
@doddy11767 I agree with you M8 they should have been more recognized and appreciated ! They still had good songs after Don't.. but The early Tracks Love Song / Theme sold me on the spot ! Still a Fan however time and tide is starting to show age and somehow unrealistically I still expect to see Simple Minds being Timeless.
djscotty1111 1 year ago
@doddy11767 Their last album is pretty great actually. Honest.
dirkbogarde44 1 year ago
@doddy11767 If anything, it was after "Don't You..." where the band seemed to be trying the U2 route! U2 got as big as they did by revamping their sound into something more bland and corporate (and American Radio friendly), and Simple Minds ended up doing the same.
xreddragonx 1 year ago
Agreed that in their day SM were brilliant but soon got over grand -too many stadiums!
dwiseman1 1 year ago
love this sooooooooo fucking much!
glasshouse1111 1 year ago
cant believe this was in 1980. it just shows that music today is crap. well most of it is.
cloudydaiz123 1 year ago
@cloudydaiz123 agreed .. but thats pretty much what people said about this back in the day too .. there's always a point when we look to the past and admire what we once hated
offthelinegt 1 year ago
karma paid them back (artistically) for sacking forbes. tell me i'm wrong? thought so...
johntoledo 1 year ago
@johntoledo You're right.
murraydeschot 1 year ago
Very cool, although all mimed - basic drum kits don't have hi-tech electro hand-clap samples!
slickedmachine 1 year ago
@slickedmachine It's the synth, not the drums. you can see him playing it.
Hydrok9 1 year ago
@slickedmachine
That's what I thought too but it looks like the keyboard player is hitting that clap/synth snare sound.
dkahale 1 year ago
This is rare...I mean actually from 1980...judging by the bands look and McGee on drums...Hyslop was on promotional duties after Sons album..amazing
khorrumg 1 year ago
Wow, one of the best songs of all time!
milbury55 1 year ago
Are you sure this isn't 1981 or 1982?
degree7 1 year ago
This song is so far a head of its time its scary, you could play this in a club today and its 30 years old
abigailsda 1 year ago
LISTEN TO THIS WHEN YR SMASHED......
TheSluddsy1 1 year ago
Amazing music, they can play, Derek Forbes= legend
Rawlinson18 1 year ago
Gonna see them tonight,strange idea!
SuperSaaki 1 year ago
Umm .. .this is not an instrumental
offthelinegt 1 year ago
If this 1980, is this a performance in a Scandinavian country? All present glued on seats...typical. Time shift..If this performance was done in 1981 in Birmingham, they would get pre teens bobbing left right in the new romantic way hailing this song as the number 1 song but close competition to Duran Duran Planet Earth
Koeningsplein15 1 year ago
Was that "Chelsea Girl" Patsy Kensit turning around to look at the camera at 2:20 ?
Perhaps just my imagination :)
norrisonthespot 1 year ago
like could be better i like the beeat
jeana417 1 year ago
this blows my mind every time!
glasshouse1111 1 year ago
classic!
kayrosx1 1 year ago
fuckin' classic i miss those days so much......
jonnybagrfc 1 year ago
Jim Kerr looks so hot in this video xxxx
dollydarlin1 1 year ago
I wish they'd performed this track at the concert I attended in Australia when I was 16 back in 1986.Alas mostly what they performed was from that crappy "Once Upon A Time"era,Love Song was the earliest track from their repertoire which they performed.Well I guess it wasn't it wasn't the post punk era any more.
abagail4me 1 year ago
I really miss the 80's music and the 80's in general!
metzbull 1 year ago
Awesome Eighties sound!
johanbove 1 year ago
Great song,Simple Minds are a great band,they were just as good as U2,and I disagree with those who say Once Upon A Time is when the band went downhill.That album was really brilliant.I love the song All The Things She Said.
nema1218 1 year ago
i travel. miles ahead of its time.
cosnobro 1 year ago
This looks a bit later than 1980.
degree7 1 year ago
it is a shame most people think simple minds was a conventional group . i like their whole career but i think their beginnig was a good antidote for groups like sisters and mercy and bauhaus
txfantastic 1 year ago 6
it is a fab song, an i do love joy division,,this is pretty good,ha ha says glaswegian in dublin
chasman19651888 1 year ago
It all went wrong after New Gold Dream - Waterfront was good but THAT album signalled the fall from critical acclaim into 80s commercial abyss. Unlike Bowie and many others Kerr et al are unable to reclaim any credibility because the change was so great and unlike Bowie they sold out before their credible work was allowed to become their signature - buig mistake, and quite tragic really as their ablums 2-5 are up there with the best.
bowiedavidziggy 1 year ago
@bowiedavidziggy
I disagree. "Sparkle in the Rain" was a very creative continuation of New Gold Dreams, debuting at #1 in the UK charts. Aside from Waterfront, there are many other great compositions such as Book of Brilliant Things, White Hot Day, C Moon and the best cover of Lou Reed's "Street Hassle" that I have ever heard. When "Once upon a time" was released, that's when it all started to go wrong.
coolal19 1 year ago
@coolal19 Speed Your Love To Me
panamaniak 1 year ago
@coolal19 Hi coolal, I agree with you. I couldn't believe my ears what they did later.
So not Simple Minds.
Jutifyful 1 year ago
@coolal19 I agree. Sparkle in the rain was a great album, maybe the best.
I often listen to "The kick inside" when i am upset.
DocLibertos 1 year ago
@bowiedavidziggy Chrissie Hynde
rsp196607 1 year ago
loved to have been old enough to have heard it in clubs when it came out in 1980.
this band could take anyone on. unfortunately politics got in the way late 80s
MYBLUES74 1 year ago
Still one of their best. Love the hair cuts. I used to have one just like it.
TheDeane64 1 year ago
better than all the belfast child stuff :o)
thosch71 1 year ago
fuck! so good!
daviddancer 1 year ago
Flippin' awesome!! Never knew it was Simple Minds
ericjtucker 1 year ago
Flippin' awesome!! Never knew it was Simple Minds
ericjtucker 1 year ago
Flippin' awesome!! Never knew it was Simple Minds
ericjtucker 1 year ago
Genius.
ladystardust2008 1 year ago
This song makes me party!
stientje21 1 year ago
AllYouNewRomanticsDanceAgainstTheWallNow
Hellishcrusade 1 year ago
Let's focus on the positive side, I could not find this song before but now that I know that Youtube has it, I am going to be playing it every day. xoxoxoxo from USA.
mayangod1isback 1 year ago
@mayangod1isback.... guess who? I am back and play this song 24 hours a day. SIMPLE MINDS kick ASS. Excuse me but I get so excited when I hear this band.
mayangod1isback 1 year ago
This song rules all over town ( Baldwin Park City). I don't care how long it took me to find this song, what it matters is that I found it. yeah baby!
this song remains me My Uncles in Van Nuys City, San Fernando Valley. No negative comments, only Positive comments. Simple Minds Rules along with the Mayan Empire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mayangod1isback 1 year ago
sensational......why did they end up shit?from belfast child onwards? from their first 2 albums they ruled.
gasgas270 1 year ago
@gasgas270 Too much money.
lewisner 1 year ago
Was this sampled by Justice on the song, "Stress"? Very similar. Cool song.
CairoEast 1 year ago
This is like a Britsh Talking Heads - top shop
JanusCloudCOM 1 year ago
@JanusCloudCOM No!! Talking Heads were like American Simple Minds lol!
15harbourstreet 1 year ago
Nouveaux Decadence....Touche!!! I agree they went down hill fast after Upon the Catwalk...Most of the 'Sparkle..' WAS FULL OF GAYNORS THUMPING...CRASHING DRUMS...Forbes Bass is almost NEVER HEARD on the whole LP...what a disaster for the band....very, very sad that once so great a band ended up so lame....They had it all...Fashion sense...(Futurist look)..The sound....and heaps of class
khorrumg 1 year ago
Totally agree. All their work prior to Sparkle was amazing and thought provoking. Especially Real to Real. Catwalk is a great song. but I think they caught the U2 bug and went down hill. I remember all the hype leading up to Live in the City of Lights. A friend of mine bought it and I'm glad I didn't. It doesn't surprise me that my friend at the time didn't like any of their early work because he didn't start listening to them until Don't You... was released. That was true for a lot of people.
TidesWillTurn 1 year ago
THE song that made me get into simple minds...
Malinky2Stoatir 1 year ago
ugh! yesss!!!
glasshouse1111 1 year ago
What a pity after New Gold Dream Simple Minds started going complete crap MINUS "Up On The Catwalk" and "Speed Your Love To Me' which are great tracks. "I Travel" is so uttttterly AMAZING, the extended version in particular is one of THE best dance records EVER made. Such pure delight + Simple Minds were SO original in their day. Stunning track forever, music will NEVER be the same as this again!
TheNouveauxdecadence 1 year ago 24
@TheNouveauxdecadence - I agree whole-heartedly. I like Real to Real Cacophony lp the best.
I think they eventually caught U2 fever. That's another band that could have been great. Now they're the biggest and most boring band on the planet.
I recall the hype right before Live in the City of Lights was released. Yawn......
Oh well.
bfall66 1 year ago 2
@TheNouveauxdecadence Derek Forbes left ...
murraydeschot 1 year ago