Epic bass, and to peak or not to peak before Sparkle in The Rain is jus a state mind. It's funny, now take U2, I sort of thougth the same, they peaked with Joshua Tree, as did Simple Minds too, but then I came around and it was jus me who had peaked. I stood still in the 80' and 90' they didn't. :-)
That synthesizer part from 2:05 to 2:19 is just completely euphoria inducing. Has a similar effect on me as listening to The Associates' "Skipping" and countless Cocteau Twins songs. I don't know what it was about Scottish bands from that period but they really captured something magical. Unfortunately for Simple Minds, by the time of Sparkle in the rain they had already peaked. The singles were great but the album overall was a disappointment. The new gold dream was all to brief.
The Minds were a power house of show biz...these Scottish kids did it before U2. Both bands were bred into a fairly small UK/IRISH community and with such good grace......
... and damn, I miss the Eighties discos! On those drizzly foggy Friday and Saturday nights in Ireland, dressing up in my best duds for those nights - winklepicker buckled shoes or brogues with white socks, Mods longcoat or Cafr Racer leather jacket, slicked hair. Those were the days!
I listened to this and more of the Great Eighties when I was a teen back then. The music back then is better than the merchandise-stuff today, and that's not being biased. It just is. The music back then was artful labour of love, it needed real talent and effort, and the result, like this soundtrack, speaks for itself.
@Sornpumpkin with you there totally mate especially if you were from the uk loads of great bands !! the mighty clash were still doing there thing !! the fashion was great casual wear just got big !! glasto was the number one festival in the world unlike now !! i wouldnt go if you payed me far too corperate !! stonehenge free festivals were still rocking and at the end of the 80s along came ecstasy and the free raves till that got taken over by big buisness !! thank god i was around then !!
'Move on up! Strong Solid Song...Highly Joyous and Energetic!'Hits Rock Bottom and Still blows ma socks off...! Step it Up...Freedom..!!! Nothing more,Nothing Less.....
I REALLY like this album. it has so much energy and always makes for a good listen. I don't understand why people don't speak much about simple minds these days when they speak of the smiths, joy division, etc. they were just as good a band and put out some great albums.
Too bad the original video isn't on youtube. Always looked forward to seeing it on mtv back in the day. Thanks for posting this though so we don't have to just listen to the live version.
Sorry but whoever thinks Simple Minds is better than U2, better do some song research before saying that. Not all the best songs are the hits. They're very different bands and styles of music, though (like this from '84 sounds a little like U2 from '81, but barely because Simple Minds is so different it's weird to compare the two). It's interesting that at points they have similar sounds...maybe because both had Steve Lillywhite as producer for several albums?
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Did u know: Tears For Fear were recording 'Everybody wants to rule the world' next door to these guys when Roland overhead this beat and took it for his song.......borrowed of course....guess what? Tears For Fear's song became an international mega-super hit, while this song tanked like the crap that it is.........'come in come out of the rain'...lol..........goes to show, rebuilt and make it better.......this song sux.......
born in the 90's teenage now but yet i prefer mostly 80's and 90's because there was soming different each decade but now we have only a FEW good bands now because everything has allready been invented.
You just have to look alittle harder, good stuff is still out there. I was born in 69 and still find some good bands, but the 80's did produce some really origional artists. Try listening to The adventures, The Associates, Tears for Fears, Yazoo
@TheSimonRowell I was born in 1952. The best bands now are Metallica and Megadeth. There are a lot of newer upcoming bands that will become famous very soon such as the band called Demon Boy. Also some older bands are making a come back with new albums such as the Scandinavian band OZ and singer Messiah Marcolin (ex-Candlemass)
@DaRkPlUm Obviously my listening tastes are more eclectic than yours. I am able to listen to ANY type of music and find enjoyment. I will concede that the band Simple Minds are much better musicians than most of the heavy metal bands of today. But I also enjoy modern and classic blues,folk music, rock music from all decades (especially 1963-1966). So as far growing up...it doesn't get any better than this. I appreciate the musician ship for what it is. I like the sound of electric guitar.
No, my tastes are quite electric thanks. I just think that bands such as Metallica, Megadeth, Disturbed, Korn... I could go on forever, will never be as good as back in the days of Simple Minds, The Smiths, Pink Floyd, The Who, The Cult, Steve Vai, The Doors etc. Who were original, inventive and actually carried a level of soul and sophistication. These were the kings of Rock and I truly believe, every band in this day and age will aspire to be no more than peasants.
@ellielilac2 YOUR SO WRONG, I LOVE SIMPLE MINDS AND THEY HAD A GREAT SOUND BUT U2 IS BY FAR A BETTER GROUP...DIG DEEP INTO U2'S VAULTS AND IT'S AN EYE OPENER
Major Classic
lunarbluesmusic 1 week ago
This is superb comfort music
ninelivecat 1 week ago
I meant Sheffield Wednesday come out to this at kick-off :)
HukinOwl 1 week ago
SWFC
HukinOwl 2 weeks ago
better than most of the tripe that was circulating circa 1984. bit too bonoesque for me..
ralphcraddock 3 weeks ago
Reminds me of Now Thats What I call Music 1, first album I got for my walkman, Played this song to death. Great times. Class song.
AlannTH 1 month ago 3
I heard a trance remix of this song but never the original. This way better.
SickAmongThePure1 1 month ago 2
gotta love these guys...live in concert was the best!
007billyray 1 month ago
go away u lot
strangetextlady 1 month ago
waterhole :!! clydeside we miss u xx
strangetextlady 1 month ago
The greatest track they ever did in my opinion...class
alan59able 2 months ago
@alan59able nope not greatest but a great one i agree
strangetextlady 1 month ago
awsome band :-)
nick8v 2 months ago
Good LP but not as good as New Gold dream.Though Sons and Fascination/ Sister Feeling Calls was their most inventive, atmospheric release.
brinojuly 2 months ago
Epic bass, and to peak or not to peak before Sparkle in The Rain is jus a state mind. It's funny, now take U2, I sort of thougth the same, they peaked with Joshua Tree, as did Simple Minds too, but then I came around and it was jus me who had peaked. I stood still in the 80' and 90' they didn't. :-)
Splitteren 2 months ago
Epic intro bass indeed!
fortheloveoftunes 2 months ago
That synthesizer part from 2:05 to 2:19 is just completely euphoria inducing. Has a similar effect on me as listening to The Associates' "Skipping" and countless Cocteau Twins songs. I don't know what it was about Scottish bands from that period but they really captured something magical. Unfortunately for Simple Minds, by the time of Sparkle in the rain they had already peaked. The singles were great but the album overall was a disappointment. The new gold dream was all to brief.
MisAnnThorpe 3 months ago
Step in Step out of sin, That's what I did though out my Life.
albertchandler2 3 months ago
@albertchandler2 lol
MrDemilord 2 weeks ago
The Minds were a power house of show biz...these Scottish kids did it before U2. Both bands were bred into a fairly small UK/IRISH community and with such good grace......
finto415 3 months ago
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... and damn, I miss the Eighties discos! On those drizzly foggy Friday and Saturday nights in Ireland, dressing up in my best duds for those nights - winklepicker buckled shoes or brogues with white socks, Mods longcoat or Cafr Racer leather jacket, slicked hair. Those were the days!
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I listened to this and more of the Great Eighties when I was a teen back then. The music back then is better than the merchandise-stuff today, and that's not being biased. It just is. The music back then was artful labour of love, it needed real talent and effort, and the result, like this soundtrack, speaks for itself.
NiallatUTube 3 months ago
wat a belter of a tune by the minds takes me back pure quality!!!!!
tyhghgfeewr 3 months ago
Brilliant,brilliant,brilliant.
taffythesheep 3 months ago
hasn't always been that way youth?
warhola1 3 months ago
This is class, music these lacks this sort of intensity!!
Kallytom 3 months ago
classic minds!
williamforsyth1 4 months ago
1984
jaddajn1 4 months ago
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TheDomingo100 5 months ago
As an eighties kid,I just love this band.There is NOTHING to touch this era.80s were the best.wow I feel old.
Sornpumpkin 5 months ago
@Sornpumpkin with you there totally mate especially if you were from the uk loads of great bands !! the mighty clash were still doing there thing !! the fashion was great casual wear just got big !! glasto was the number one festival in the world unlike now !! i wouldnt go if you payed me far too corperate !! stonehenge free festivals were still rocking and at the end of the 80s along came ecstasy and the free raves till that got taken over by big buisness !! thank god i was around then !!
bristolcityifcation 4 months ago
this album is fantastic. it's impossible to say which song is better than the other one. I'd listening to SM for all day long!!
PEPO322 5 months ago
'Move on up! Strong Solid Song...Highly Joyous and Energetic!'Hits Rock Bottom and Still blows ma socks off...! Step it Up...Freedom..!!! Nothing more,Nothing Less.....
MichaElyason 6 months ago
I can play the intro.
faggio60 6 months ago
favorate song of all time
mrcook552 6 months ago
ich liebe die simple minds *o* zwar erst ende der 90er geboren aber ich liebe sie X) ich mag eigentlich auch musik aus dieser zeit XD
Biatchesillo0or 6 months ago
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Biatchesillo0or 6 months ago
I'm sure I was born about 20 years late :S
Sascopa 8 months ago
@cimino39 i enjoyed reading that comment
faceinembryo 8 months ago
I REALLY like this album. it has so much energy and always makes for a good listen. I don't understand why people don't speak much about simple minds these days when they speak of the smiths, joy division, etc. they were just as good a band and put out some great albums.
faceinembryo 8 months ago
@faceinembryo lets not get ahead of ourselves
thundertower 8 months ago
@thundertower you shouldn't troll, especially if you don't know your stuff
faceinembryo 8 months ago
first 8 seconds remind me of roadhouse blues - the doors
hellyfornication 9 months ago
masterpiece
sidandmoi 9 months ago 17
@sidandmoi ye u got it :-)
nick8v 2 months ago
Too bad the original video isn't on youtube. Always looked forward to seeing it on mtv back in the day. Thanks for posting this though so we don't have to just listen to the live version.
dapercodanman 9 months ago
And today we have Lady Gaga, Justin Beaver...rap?
oakleyfan 10 months ago
@oakleyfan Lady Gaga isn't all bad....
AjaxtheWerewolf 10 months ago
that bass is awesome, they used to come on to this!
martymarts67 10 months ago
Sorry but whoever thinks Simple Minds is better than U2, better do some song research before saying that. Not all the best songs are the hits. They're very different bands and styles of music, though (like this from '84 sounds a little like U2 from '81, but barely because Simple Minds is so different it's weird to compare the two). It's interesting that at points they have similar sounds...maybe because both had Steve Lillywhite as producer for several albums?
LandsEbb 10 months ago
I love the sampled single note bass. Always ahead! The drums are just huge
parke464 10 months ago
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Did u know: Tears For Fear were recording 'Everybody wants to rule the world' next door to these guys when Roland overhead this beat and took it for his song.......borrowed of course....guess what? Tears For Fear's song became an international mega-super hit, while this song tanked like the crap that it is.........'come in come out of the rain'...lol..........goes to show, rebuilt and make it better.......this song sux.......
101philosopha101 10 months ago
born in the 90's teenage now but yet i prefer mostly 80's and 90's because there was soming different each decade but now we have only a FEW good bands now because everything has allready been invented.
BritishToby 10 months ago 14
@BritishToby
You just have to look alittle harder, good stuff is still out there. I was born in 69 and still find some good bands, but the 80's did produce some really origional artists. Try listening to The adventures, The Associates, Tears for Fears, Yazoo
TheSimonRowell 7 months ago 2
@TheSimonRowell I was born in 1952. The best bands now are Metallica and Megadeth. There are a lot of newer upcoming bands that will become famous very soon such as the band called Demon Boy. Also some older bands are making a come back with new albums such as the Scandinavian band OZ and singer Messiah Marcolin (ex-Candlemass)
BBINGHAM032352 5 months ago
@BBINGHAM032352
Metallica and Megadeth? I was born in 1991, grow up mate
DaRkPlUm 4 months ago
@DaRkPlUm Obviously my listening tastes are more eclectic than yours. I am able to listen to ANY type of music and find enjoyment. I will concede that the band Simple Minds are much better musicians than most of the heavy metal bands of today. But I also enjoy modern and classic blues,folk music, rock music from all decades (especially 1963-1966). So as far growing up...it doesn't get any better than this. I appreciate the musician ship for what it is. I like the sound of electric guitar.
BBINGHAM032352 4 months ago
@BBINGHAM032352
No, my tastes are quite electric thanks. I just think that bands such as Metallica, Megadeth, Disturbed, Korn... I could go on forever, will never be as good as back in the days of Simple Minds, The Smiths, Pink Floyd, The Who, The Cult, Steve Vai, The Doors etc. Who were original, inventive and actually carried a level of soul and sophistication. These were the kings of Rock and I truly believe, every band in this day and age will aspire to be no more than peasants.
DaRkPlUm 4 months ago
@DaRkPlUm So what do you think of the new Alice Cooper album?
BBINGHAM032352 4 months ago
Sorry but I think Simple Minds were better by far than u2 what a fantastic voice two favourites of mine Waterfront and Chelsea girl.
ellielilac2 10 months ago
@ellielilac2 YOUR SO WRONG, I LOVE SIMPLE MINDS AND THEY HAD A GREAT SOUND BUT U2 IS BY FAR A BETTER GROUP...DIG DEEP INTO U2'S VAULTS AND IT'S AN EYE OPENER
moneycheeba 10 months ago
Epic!
superdetartrant 10 months ago
what a legend of a song. Grew up with it, it grew up in me for 20 years, never left me, will stay with me forever. Proper milestone
cimino39 10 months ago
Sorry but I think Simple Minds were better by far than u2 what a fantastic voice two faverites of mine Waterfront and Chelsea girl.
ellielilac2 11 months ago
@ellielilac2 i agree 100%
sparkyanddaisy 11 months ago
what can i say in de jaren 80 gingen we naar dordrecht en de newe wawe tijd was indien tijd echt te gek
auto2905 1 year ago
what can i say
auto2905 1 year ago
simple Minds.scottish? stehen für mich mit U2 auf einer Stufe.
TheDepeche68 1 year ago
@TheDepeche68 Yeah Scottish, but I think U2 might have had the 'edge' so to speak!!
603mac 1 year ago 2
@603mac they were both good in their early days but i think the minds were far superior to u2 in terms of versitilaty and musical inventiveness. x
hargohargo2 11 months ago
@TheDepeche68 they are irishs too....
tartorul100 11 months ago
Pure genius. Can't rate it highly enough.
4isenuf 1 year ago
as a toryglen boy i adore this music ;)
tubedazz 1 year ago
@tubedazz Absolutely yes that would make it so much more meaningful you are lucky! :-P
4isenuf 1 year ago
We come out to this tune :)
LiamTheSheffieldOwl 1 year ago
@LiamTheSheffieldOwl
Hope Milan brings you the success he gave us.He promised us a miracle and left us in great shape.
He will do the same for wednesday i have no doubt!
Lcfc.
dmp160170 1 year ago
pure power!
cleric443 1 year ago 2
what a crappy bass line to play but jesus it sounds so amazing and came out one of there best songs.
jaon1969 1 year ago
SIMPLE MINDS, ARE AMAZING
leedumett444 1 year ago 2