i love it ! all the dislikes / slaging / etc should go and listen to some "music" ????? from today, as they were certainly not from the good old days like the 1388 thumbs up here !!!! nuf said (as they say today) !!!!!!!!!!
@boheeem yr right there... with a slight difference tho'... Who influenced the other one... Yr opinion? It was both the same years... or am I assuming wrong? (Sorry, I'm a metal head ;-)
Without a doubt the guy that plays the keyboard in this is by far the most gorgeous of them all, he kept his looks 2 & so did Derek for years & years & years & years longer than the other 2 . . . Think their probably still quite good looking 2day. The other 2 have lost it - that Jim Kerr looked about 47 at the age of about 26, such a shame as I thought he was well sexy between 1980 & 1984. What the hell happened? lol . . . ;)
@ARIESIsBetterThanLeo Lol, then why prance around in a video wearing make-up & no shirt . . . ? I do like quite a few of their songs frm '80-'82, but my main enjoyment of this 1 comes frm watchin that sexy bastard rolling around in the sand with no shirt on. The music they did after '82 isn't 2 my taste, but I hoped I cud at least enjoy watching the videos with the sound on mute, but alas no . . . Have you seen the video of them performing this song on on TOTPS? Even better, phwoar . . . lol ;)
@MissAshleyJClark Lol. Yeah, I've seen that video many times. :D Mr. Kerr is a charismatic frontman. :):):) He really knows how to look at the camera, hehe. I'm a fan of the "old school" Simple Minds. My favorite is "Hunter and the hunted". My favorite performance of that song is the one where they performed in Newcastle in 1982 (the video is somewhere on YouTube). My least favorite song ever is "Don't You Forget About Me".... :S
@ARIESIsBetterThanLeo I'll look 4 it, lol . . . ;) I also think hes really sexy in the 'Colours fly & cathrine wheel' video, the 'King is white & in the crowd' video in Cologne & the 'get set for summer' 1 & in the 'Love song' video & the 1 in Cologne . . . I don't mind the song 'Don't you forget about me' - but it's not the same & hes really changed his image by then & seems like a middle aged man - tho he had that look singing 'I Travel' in '83 & looks good there. What happened...lol ;)
When I first heard this song on 106.7 KROQ back in the early 80's, I always misheard the lyrics as "I promised you America. Guinea pigs are guinea pigs." LOL
The 80's were no doubt a great time to be young. Other than the ever present threat of global thermonuclear anhilation, it was nothing but good times...
@jgmccabe The video was incredibly futuristic, colorful and eyecatching when the song came out. I was always thrilled to see this song when it was on television. It was probably my favorite video of that era.
@gemear2 Fair point - I guess it was about 30 years ago so there were probably a lot of techniques used that were in their early days. Compared to Wild Boys by Duran Duran though 2 and a half years later though .. :-)
@jgmccabe I AGREE GREAT SONG. I AGREE TO DISAGREE ON THE VIDEO, YES CRAPPY VIDEO, BUT THIS WAS VINTAGE EARLY EIGHTIES STYLE. IT WORKED FOR THOSE DAYS.
All I said was they look like they might. Hell, they look better than the chick in the funny hat and necktie. You don't think she was meant to look androgynous too?
Look. All you people chapping my ass about suggesting they might be bisexual can just STFU. It wouldn't change my opinion in the least about this song. Its brilliant.
But add to that the sexual ambiguity in the video and Voila! you got questions.
@spunkets Shut the fuck up. Don't ever judge a band's sexuality by their aesthetic appearance; it just makes you sound ignorant. Not only is the band's sexuality irrelevant to their music, but it was the 80's dude. Over half the bands who sung about girls were dressed like girls. Simple Minds are amazing, easily the best band of the 80s & maybe of all time.
Well now just hold on there cowboy. Since when do YOU get to tell ME what I should, or shouldn't do or say?
Hmmm. I just said they were pretty, the music is great and that they probably swung both ways. That's not a criticism, just an observation. And I have a right to say whatever the french toast I want, you snooty little twee.
My comment is always and already relevant to anything I perceive in the whole wide world b/c I have a unique point of reference, just like everyone else, from which to query and opine when the impulse compels me to do so.
@spunkets No they didn't swing both ways. Just because they wore black eyeliner,that was fashion of the time. They were just a great band with a good image thats all.
Perhaps so. I just find it amusing some people get so irate when I suggest the makers of great music MIGHT be gay. Some people will actually stop liking a song if they think the singer is gay, which I think is utterly ridiculous. Take Elton John or Freddie Mercury. Tell me they didn't write some exceptionally wonderful music!
Next stop, why some people don't like Motown b/c they don't like black people.
@spunkets People should just dislike a song it if it's crap. This is defo one of Simple Minds's worst. Not terrible but absurd and completely surplus to requirements. There must be tonnes of music written by gay/bi-sexuals whether obvious or not. Now c/rap music is something everyone should be embarrassed about-music my arse!
It so happens I really like this song, and guess what? I (we) can do that w/o concern of being condemned by anyone else's judgement. Maybe I don't like opera, maybe he likes rap, maybe you like whatever.
Much like when I'm at a salad bar, and choose some food other people don't like. I can easily afford them the same disinterest over what they choose to eat, b/c its absurd to judge people over their tastes.
@spunkets Maybe I don't give a shit about your stupid little analgy there and hello, people judge people all the time on their tastes. It's called music journalism and as we are the listener it gives us the complete right. Simple Minds are not impassable ok and this song's a joke. No wonder the person above thought he was singing 'guinea pig' or whatever-his clarity sucks-as does rap. I think you comparing food with music is just stupid. After all I don't have to hear my food do I? Childish.
Well, I can see you like Kim Wilde. For me to judge you on that fact alone wouldn't be quite fair now would it?
Just b/c I'd rather listen to a hog scratch its ass on barbed wire than Kim Wilde doesn't mean you are a queer for liking her music. I'm sure you have other reasons for being queer.
@spunkets The fact I like Km Wilde should point to taste actually. Clearly you know nothing of her, prefering death-metal crap or some such-like nonsense. Incidentally, its overly coincidental you should say that about her just cos I like her-if it was Slagdonna or anything else, you'd say the same thing just to be the pissy ass you're being & you do sound to me like the closet queer who protesteth too much. (I bet you're a Kylie fan). Opinions & taste are defo 'queer' ideals-what's your excuse?
@spunkets Well I'm finding it hard to like you, beyond your borderline absurdity. To be so hypocritically black & white in deeming classes of people below-par your so-called demographic cos of their 'sexual orientation' (God, you harp on this, obsessed or what?!). I think I signify a damn sight more than you do. Homophobia-whether faed or otherwise is just another embarrassing form of childish hate & don't certain twits always hate what they fear & don't get? Much like you thinking you know me!
@marcluc1988 You think so??!! I saw JK with his shirt off and immediately thought of buying the single so he could get a decent meal! j/k
I do remember the first time I saw this video and thought the guitarist was kinda tasty. Little did I know this band (& their guitarist) would transfix me for the next 29 years.
@MrAmadaeus I'm still enjoying SFY,i'm not surely focused on the Simple Minds early era nor on NGD sound.I really don't care about how many SM fans appreciate SFY or not,i'm surely nto foscused only one SM era or sound.
Plus i finally can confess that since i heard this song for the first time,was about 1984,i never liked it,after almost 20 years i still don't like it
@MrAmadaeus Maybe you're stuck into early 80's stuff,but imo SFY is a masterpiece.Then again PLEASE stop making silly comparison with U2.U2 right now are dead and boring.Then again if you prefer the early Simple Minds stuff yet are only tastes,but don't claim that SFY is shite,cause it isn't.
@ultrafragola2000 Street Fighting Years was absolute gash. This was, for me, the album they stopped being pioneers and became followers. Even though they lost their way many decades ago, I still buy their albums and still follow them. Sorry for having an opinion!
@MrAmadaeus Again this is YOUR opinion,and there's nothing wrong in having one but clearly you're expressing in the WRONG way.This make a difference.SYF isn't nor gash nor a shite,it's your personal opinion.I never heard something similiar to the sounds of SM in SFY, then is funny,so you prefer even OUAT to SFY?NAAA i personally think that you're focused only on the early era of Simple Minds,that's all.It's so sad to see how simple minds fans recriminate so much towards them,so sad.
Check out the eye-liner on Jim Kerr! I didn't realize this was Simple Minds when I heard it on the radio, even though I recognized Jim's voice. Brilliant sound and video.
i think young folk now appreciate this kinda music because its just so bloody good compared to the crap being spewed out now .. there is no originality anymore .. everything sounds the same , whereas the 80s was so varied music wise.
No way the 80's were a great time to be alive. Loved the music, the atmosphere, all the new things that were discovered during this time. I would take the 80's over today anyday!! This is by far the worst decade EVER!!
@TalonConsult001 my parents told me there was lots of easy money to be made then for any one with half a creative mind. In the 90's it all became manufactured-no talent or skill need not to be applied. so i for one wish i had of been 18 in 1980. instead of 9. Music, fashion, performing, presenting, etc. Yeah the 80's was easy.
@TalonConsult001 plus in 80s cars were meant to last, and not like now, today they're stuffed with all uneccessary stuff and will start falling apart in 5 years! love 80s for cars and music!
@TalonConsult001 Any time when you are young is a great time to be alive and music in later years will never match the music you like when you were young.
@lewisner that's right, but looking back, the 60's, 70's, 80's and even early 90's had great music. Not the same with the 2000's and certainly not with the 2010's.
@fnpt Most music I hear nowadays (especially anything from the X Factor) is insipid unchallenging shit - to me. But my point is that kids growing up with this stuff will think it is the greatest and still think so when they are old.
Nice music! Better than Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Kanye West and all those shitty fake 'music lovers' that just lick the butts of WMG, Universal Studios and so on.
@lejambon08 I mean the group of big fancy producers. They are not doing it for the music or the message. They just write something down on paper, throw a 'cool' beatsound in it and call it a 'hit'. And don't mention the names, they are nothing in this society.
Today's music seems to not last that long on the charts. For example, Katy Perry comes out with a song that is a hit for about 2-3 weeks, then it dies out and is forgotten. This music on the other-hand is timeless. Honestly, I'm not pleased with the message that is interpreted in modern pop music. I mean it sends the wrong message to society. This music has variety, it has originally, and is positive.
Glad to see younger folks appreciate the music that was popular when I was in my 20s. The 80s were a shit decade in so many ways, but the music was awesome - and revelatory. Rock had really hit a creative wall by the late 70s. I can still remember my first taste of groups like Talking Heads, the B-52s, and Elvis Costello and hoping that it as a sign of things to come. Then the floodgates opened and we were treated to all sorts of amazing music. WTF happened to the creativity of the industry?
@crozwayne If you had your time machine there'd be no Internet, Youtube, Ipods or Iphones or even computers. You'd be listening to hissy AM radio or trying to disentangle your cassette tape from your Walkman
@jjcomet33 In the 70s we were scared of Bigfoot. The 80s nuclear holocaust. The 90s terrorism. 2000 more terrorism and fear mongering. 2010> Economy. Not having it as good as our parents did.
@jjcomet33 I think there are plenty of people out there trying to do interesting/different/creative things musically these days - you just have to look for them. In the 80s we all scoured indie record shops and obscure music mags for the new/different stuff - these days you just have to scour YouTube and AmieStreet or listen to obscure online radio. It's just that teenagers have more time for that stuff than those of us over 30.
@swelstead You're probably right about that. When I was younger I spent a lot of time ferreting out new artists and checking out new genres. Today I barely have time to listen to the stuff wit which I'm familiar, much less to hunt down what's new and cool. Discovering music easier back was easier because at least there were a few radio stations willing to play something other than the mainstream sound. Today's radio market is so dominated by "me-too" top 40 stations that doesn't happen anymore.
@daredd5 I can well believe it, neither did I although going against my better judgement, I am willing to admit here, that I've always liked Better the devil you know by Kylie Minogue! That said, a hell of a lot of British people obviously did if the charts were to be believed. I personally feel the music "died" after "82. Yeah there was still good music around but for a while there, it seemed that people were really opening their minds up to some challenging and/or experimental music.
Not a song meaning for the faint hearted. That is for certain.
LifeIsTheGreatest 4 months ago
One of the best videos of the 80s.
jeshkam 4 months ago
promised you a makeover !
g0runse0 4 months ago
just for you Sonia
floyddarkside1 5 months ago
Benditos ochenta
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TheDomingo100 5 months ago
awesome bass riff...
mcbrett1960 5 months ago 3
Modern promos wish that half the imagery of 80's early 90's alternative were thought of by their simpy handlers.
thesouthrim 5 months ago
The guitar player is wearing his VEST!!! Ha, love the 80s'.
sonsielass1 5 months ago
Lovely!
Vallkiller 5 months ago
derek forbes....what a bassist
kenwaaaay 5 months ago
Is that Dana Carvey?
observer75 6 months ago
i love it ! all the dislikes / slaging / etc should go and listen to some "music" ????? from today, as they were certainly not from the good old days like the 1388 thumbs up here !!!! nuf said (as they say today) !!!!!!!!!!
MrVicnash 6 months ago
80's music. The best! nuff sed :)
TequilaCT 6 months ago 14
@TequilaCT especially 81-88 the best
dexterdenise in reply to TequilaCT (Show the comment) 5 months ago
That intro takes you right back
athleticscoach2012 6 months ago
Another paypal tune
TheMcard 6 months ago
great song
TheMcard 6 months ago
they played here in Belgrade two days ago at beer fest...kept their promise!!! Miracle!!!
Uthergreen 7 months ago
denker,voor,jou,dit,doe,je,niet,als,jy,het,niet,waar,kan,maken,morgenmiddag,ga,ik,NAAR,MYN,OUDERS,MET TV,ORANJE,FEESTEN<DAD<LATEN,LACHEN,MER,MYN,SEXUELE<DANCE<SHAKE<MY<HIPS<IETS<OP<TEGEN<ANDERS<VOOR<ALTYD<ZWYGEN
mollysangelique 7 months ago
@mollysangelique Gossie....gaat het meid?Je klinkt een beetje in de war.........
hildaatje in reply to mollysangelique (Show the comment) 6 months ago
fuck they are the same Duran Duran
boheeem 7 months ago
@boheeem no my friend they are total80 s band.
MrPavlos68 in reply to boheeem (Show the comment) 7 months ago
@MrPavlos68
But they both are totally eighties!The Simple Minds a bit earlier perhaps,but what is your point?
hildaatje in reply to MrPavlos68 (Show the comment) 6 months ago
@hildaatje yes you have right,77,78 perhaps
MrPavlos68 in reply to hildaatje (Show the comment) 6 months ago
@MrPavlos68 1982 my freind!!!!
paulm1458 in reply to MrPavlos68 (Show the comment) 6 months ago
@boheeem yr right there... with a slight difference tho'... Who influenced the other one... Yr opinion? It was both the same years... or am I assuming wrong? (Sorry, I'm a metal head ;-)
Misslotusification in reply to boheeem (Show the comment) 7 months ago
Why come on here to dislike..ffs !
JACKANDJAY10 7 months ago
ALMOST
Brutuss445 7 months ago
Without a doubt the guy that plays the keyboard in this is by far the most gorgeous of them all, he kept his looks 2 & so did Derek for years & years & years & years longer than the other 2 . . . Think their probably still quite good looking 2day. The other 2 have lost it - that Jim Kerr looked about 47 at the age of about 26, such a shame as I thought he was well sexy between 1980 & 1984. What the hell happened? lol . . . ;)
MissAshleyJClark 8 months ago in playlist Simple Minds
@MissAshleyJClark Ok, lol. The music matters, not the looks. LMAO
ARIESIsBetterThanLeo in reply to MissAshleyJClark (Show the comment) 7 months ago
@ARIESIsBetterThanLeo Lol, then why prance around in a video wearing make-up & no shirt . . . ? I do like quite a few of their songs frm '80-'82, but my main enjoyment of this 1 comes frm watchin that sexy bastard rolling around in the sand with no shirt on. The music they did after '82 isn't 2 my taste, but I hoped I cud at least enjoy watching the videos with the sound on mute, but alas no . . . Have you seen the video of them performing this song on on TOTPS? Even better, phwoar . . . lol ;)
MissAshleyJClark in reply to ARIESIsBetterThanLeo (Show the comment) 7 months ago
@MissAshleyJClark Lol. Yeah, I've seen that video many times. :D Mr. Kerr is a charismatic frontman. :):):) He really knows how to look at the camera, hehe. I'm a fan of the "old school" Simple Minds. My favorite is "Hunter and the hunted". My favorite performance of that song is the one where they performed in Newcastle in 1982 (the video is somewhere on YouTube). My least favorite song ever is "Don't You Forget About Me".... :S
ARIESIsBetterThanLeo in reply to MissAshleyJClark (Show the comment) 7 months ago
@ARIESIsBetterThanLeo I'll look 4 it, lol . . . ;) I also think hes really sexy in the 'Colours fly & cathrine wheel' video, the 'King is white & in the crowd' video in Cologne & the 'get set for summer' 1 & in the 'Love song' video & the 1 in Cologne . . . I don't mind the song 'Don't you forget about me' - but it's not the same & hes really changed his image by then & seems like a middle aged man - tho he had that look singing 'I Travel' in '83 & looks good there. What happened...lol ;)
MissAshleyJClark in reply to ARIESIsBetterThanLeo (Show the comment) 7 months ago
jim kerr, fantastic voice great group
qooq88 8 months ago
Awesome song. The bass get's me, so rhythmic yet powerful sounding.
SgtSteel1 8 months ago
2:20 to 2:40 my fave part :)
ilovekurtcobain11 8 months ago
I Like the bassline, But there is too much reverb on vocals!
Janinedugroin 8 months ago
@Janinedugroin 80's were all about reverb.
Meevinman in reply to Janinedugroin (Show the comment) 8 months ago
By far the best Simple Minds song of all... just has a great 'feel' to it...
thesavannahjobcoach 8 months ago
anything and everything is possible.
albertchandler2 8 months ago
When I first heard this song on 106.7 KROQ back in the early 80's, I always misheard the lyrics as "I promised you America. Guinea pigs are guinea pigs." LOL
sjdrifter72 8 months ago
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sjdrifter72 8 months ago
I LOVE the bassline in this song!
neckwatch 8 months ago
@neckwatch Me too!
Diamondblade2008 in reply to neckwatch (Show the comment) 8 months ago
@neckwatch It sounds better in the verses than the chorus though.
Diamondblade2008 in reply to neckwatch (Show the comment) 8 months ago
proper bass, proper voice, proper 80s, love it !!!!
MrVicnash 8 months ago
grandi simple minds,mitici anni 80
TheDumbo1964 8 months ago
Masterpiece. Apparently Herbie Hancock was so enamoured of this song that he used to play it again and again. He wasn't the only one either!
MisAnnThorpe 8 months ago
This is my jam.
PostPunkFan 8 months ago
The 80's were no doubt a great time to be young. Other than the ever present threat of global thermonuclear anhilation, it was nothing but good times...
EarlofCrawford 9 months ago
Fantastic song. Video is utter crap though!
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gemear2 in reply to jgmccabe (Show the comment) 8 months ago
@jgmccabe The video was incredibly futuristic, colorful and eyecatching when the song came out. I was always thrilled to see this song when it was on television. It was probably my favorite video of that era.
gemear2 in reply to jgmccabe (Show the comment) 8 months ago
@gemear2 Fair point - I guess it was about 30 years ago so there were probably a lot of techniques used that were in their early days. Compared to Wild Boys by Duran Duran though 2 and a half years later though .. :-)
jgmccabe in reply to gemear2 (Show the comment) 8 months ago
@jgmccabe it was athe 80's what do you expect.
gypsycolombo in reply to jgmccabe (Show the comment) 6 months ago
@gypsycolombo Fair point. Although it wasn't long before things improved big time, e.g. Duran Duran etc.
jgmccabe in reply to gypsycolombo (Show the comment) 6 months ago
@jgmccabe yes perhaps video wise, but musically i was never a duran duran fan, i thought simon le bon was an owner operator ;0)
gypsycolombo in reply to jgmccabe (Show the comment) 6 months ago
@jgmccabe I AGREE GREAT SONG. I AGREE TO DISAGREE ON THE VIDEO, YES CRAPPY VIDEO, BUT THIS WAS VINTAGE EARLY EIGHTIES STYLE. IT WORKED FOR THOSE DAYS.
HOOSIERS35 in reply to jgmccabe (Show the comment) 6 months ago
@jgmccabe Well it's the 80s, what do you expect?
theheartshoes in reply to jgmccabe (Show the comment) 5 months ago
I love this wonderful song!!!
PacificOceanClub 9 months ago
Awesome song.
Djvdzss 9 months ago
Argh! My body refuses to lie still and focused! ;)
magnacore11 9 months ago
One of my favorite songs by Simple Minds.....
ilonabologna8 9 months ago
And last time I checked w/ my society it was o.k. to pose questions.
spunkets 9 months ago
What if they did swing both ways?
You wouldn't like them then?
All I said was they look like they might. Hell, they look better than the chick in the funny hat and necktie. You don't think she was meant to look androgynous too?
Look. All you people chapping my ass about suggesting they might be bisexual can just STFU. It wouldn't change my opinion in the least about this song. Its brilliant.
But add to that the sexual ambiguity in the video and Voila! you got questions.
spunkets 9 months ago
goin to see them at dalby in 2weeeks cant wait
daveyboy150374 9 months ago
"New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84)" is one of the most aesthetically pleasing musical productions I've ever heard. "Sparkle In The Rain," is also.
But of course, talking about music is like swimming for Jupiter.
It don't get you rhubarb pie.
spunkets 9 months ago
@spunkets Truth is the new dream had already died by the time of (fake) Sparkle in the rain. The singles were great but.....
MisAnnThorpe in reply to spunkets (Show the comment) 8 months ago
@MisAnnThorpe
Well, I see your point, but if you rearrange your hair no one will notice.
But seriously, "Up on the Catwalk," and "Waterfront" are some very fine tunes.
spunkets in reply to MisAnnThorpe (Show the comment) 8 months ago
BEST BAND OF THE 80'S, MAYBE EVER.
pathogensmusick 9 months ago
How androgynous they are!
Such angelic music, I'm sure they were all bi.
spunkets 9 months ago
@spunkets Shut the fuck up. Don't ever judge a band's sexuality by their aesthetic appearance; it just makes you sound ignorant. Not only is the band's sexuality irrelevant to their music, but it was the 80's dude. Over half the bands who sung about girls were dressed like girls. Simple Minds are amazing, easily the best band of the 80s & maybe of all time.
pathogensmusick in reply to spunkets (Show the comment) 9 months ago
@pathogensmusick
Well now just hold on there cowboy. Since when do YOU get to tell ME what I should, or shouldn't do or say?
Hmmm. I just said they were pretty, the music is great and that they probably swung both ways. That's not a criticism, just an observation. And I have a right to say whatever the french toast I want, you snooty little twee.
spunkets in reply to pathogensmusick (Show the comment) 9 months ago
@spunkets Sorry if I offended you but your comment is ridiculous. Lets just agree that Simple Minds are a great band.
pathogensmusick in reply to spunkets (Show the comment) 9 months ago
@pathogensmusick
My comment is always and already relevant to anything I perceive in the whole wide world b/c I have a unique point of reference, just like everyone else, from which to query and opine when the impulse compels me to do so.
Ridiculous, you say?
Well, welcome to reality, son.
spunkets in reply to pathogensmusick (Show the comment) 9 months ago
@spunkets No they didn't swing both ways. Just because they wore black eyeliner,that was fashion of the time. They were just a great band with a good image thats all.
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MissAshleyJClark in reply to spunkets (Show the comment) 8 months ago
@MissAshleyJClark
Perhaps so. I just find it amusing some people get so irate when I suggest the makers of great music MIGHT be gay. Some people will actually stop liking a song if they think the singer is gay, which I think is utterly ridiculous. Take Elton John or Freddie Mercury. Tell me they didn't write some exceptionally wonderful music!
Next stop, why some people don't like Motown b/c they don't like black people.
spunkets in reply to MissAshleyJClark (Show the comment) 8 months ago
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MissAshleyJClark in reply to spunkets (Show the comment) 8 months ago
@spunkets People should just dislike a song it if it's crap. This is defo one of Simple Minds's worst. Not terrible but absurd and completely surplus to requirements. There must be tonnes of music written by gay/bi-sexuals whether obvious or not. Now c/rap music is something everyone should be embarrassed about-music my arse!
TheMjblades in reply to spunkets (Show the comment) 8 months ago
@TheMjblades
De gustibus non est disputandum.
It so happens I really like this song, and guess what? I (we) can do that w/o concern of being condemned by anyone else's judgement. Maybe I don't like opera, maybe he likes rap, maybe you like whatever.
Much like when I'm at a salad bar, and choose some food other people don't like. I can easily afford them the same disinterest over what they choose to eat, b/c its absurd to judge people over their tastes.
spunkets in reply to TheMjblades (Show the comment) 8 months ago
@spunkets Maybe I don't give a shit about your stupid little analgy there and hello, people judge people all the time on their tastes. It's called music journalism and as we are the listener it gives us the complete right. Simple Minds are not impassable ok and this song's a joke. No wonder the person above thought he was singing 'guinea pig' or whatever-his clarity sucks-as does rap. I think you comparing food with music is just stupid. After all I don't have to hear my food do I? Childish.
TheMjblades in reply to spunkets (Show the comment) 8 months ago
@TheMjblades
Well, I can see you like Kim Wilde. For me to judge you on that fact alone wouldn't be quite fair now would it?
Just b/c I'd rather listen to a hog scratch its ass on barbed wire than Kim Wilde doesn't mean you are a queer for liking her music. I'm sure you have other reasons for being queer.
spunkets in reply to TheMjblades (Show the comment) 8 months ago
@spunkets The fact I like Km Wilde should point to taste actually. Clearly you know nothing of her, prefering death-metal crap or some such-like nonsense. Incidentally, its overly coincidental you should say that about her just cos I like her-if it was Slagdonna or anything else, you'd say the same thing just to be the pissy ass you're being & you do sound to me like the closet queer who protesteth too much. (I bet you're a Kylie fan). Opinions & taste are defo 'queer' ideals-what's your excuse?
TheMjblades in reply to spunkets (Show the comment) 7 months ago
@TheMjblades
"Protesteth?"
Hahaha! A Shakespearian too? I like you in spite of your sexual orientation!
"Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing!"
spunkets in reply to TheMjblades (Show the comment) 7 months ago
@spunkets Well I'm finding it hard to like you, beyond your borderline absurdity. To be so hypocritically black & white in deeming classes of people below-par your so-called demographic cos of their 'sexual orientation' (God, you harp on this, obsessed or what?!). I think I signify a damn sight more than you do. Homophobia-whether faed or otherwise is just another embarrassing form of childish hate & don't certain twits always hate what they fear & don't get? Much like you thinking you know me!
TheMjblades in reply to spunkets (Show the comment) 7 months ago
One of the best songs ever made
Wiseonebk 9 months ago
Yes I'm also amazed how many young people like this music. My GF is 23 year old, 20 y younger than me and she loves it!
zeproo 9 months ago
@zeproo
Your GF is 20 yrs. younger than you?
That's got to be a kind of hell, isn't it?
spunkets in reply to zeproo (Show the comment) 9 months ago
miracle of those scissors get through!
lifereguard 9 months ago
My favourite part is the guitar 2:25 - 2:39
EatTheTele 9 months ago
@EatTheTele I agree, that guitar solo kicks arse.
its4it in reply to EatTheTele (Show the comment) 9 months ago
Jim Kerr looks sexy with his shirt off.
marcluc1988 10 months ago 5
@marcluc1988 You think so??!! I saw JK with his shirt off and immediately thought of buying the single so he could get a decent meal! j/k
I do remember the first time I saw this video and thought the guitarist was kinda tasty. Little did I know this band (& their guitarist) would transfix me for the next 29 years.
lorenauk in reply to marcluc1988 (Show the comment) 6 months ago
a good one for the dance floor
skouf007 10 months ago
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Super hot song!!!
foggycityguy 10 months ago
We'll agree to disagree, Enjoy SFY's Suppose someone has to!
MrAmadaeus 10 months ago
@MrAmadaeus I'm still enjoying SFY,i'm not surely focused on the Simple Minds early era nor on NGD sound.I really don't care about how many SM fans appreciate SFY or not,i'm surely nto foscused only one SM era or sound.
ultrafragola2000 in reply to MrAmadaeus (Show the comment) 10 months ago
Plus i finally can confess that since i heard this song for the first time,was about 1984,i never liked it,after almost 20 years i still don't like it
ultrafragola2000 10 months ago
ES FRESON EL BATOO
MrPuertoescondido 10 months ago
This was when SM where at their most inspirational as Kraftwerk imo.
Listen to the shite that is Street Fighting Years is and compare. If only they never met U2. U2 evolved SM stagnated in the Gorbals Irish diaspora
MrAmadaeus 10 months ago
@MrAmadaeus Maybe you're stuck into early 80's stuff,but imo SFY is a masterpiece.Then again PLEASE stop making silly comparison with U2.U2 right now are dead and boring.Then again if you prefer the early Simple Minds stuff yet are only tastes,but don't claim that SFY is shite,cause it isn't.
ultrafragola2000 in reply to MrAmadaeus (Show the comment) 10 months ago
@ultrafragola2000 Street Fighting Years was absolute gash. This was, for me, the album they stopped being pioneers and became followers. Even though they lost their way many decades ago, I still buy their albums and still follow them. Sorry for having an opinion!
MrAmadaeus in reply to ultrafragola2000 (Show the comment) 10 months ago
@MrAmadaeus Again this is YOUR opinion,and there's nothing wrong in having one but clearly you're expressing in the WRONG way.This make a difference.SYF isn't nor gash nor a shite,it's your personal opinion.I never heard something similiar to the sounds of SM in SFY, then is funny,so you prefer even OUAT to SFY?NAAA i personally think that you're focused only on the early era of Simple Minds,that's all.It's so sad to see how simple minds fans recriminate so much towards them,so sad.
ultrafragola2000 in reply to MrAmadaeus (Show the comment) 10 months ago
I don't know about y'all, but I like her Annie Hall inspired outfit, especially the hat.
jrquist404 10 months ago
Check out the eye-liner on Jim Kerr! I didn't realize this was Simple Minds when I heard it on the radio, even though I recognized Jim's voice. Brilliant sound and video.
chondestes 10 months ago
Met Jim Kerr in Chicago a few years back when they were on tour. Very nice guy .
" New Gold Dream " is one of the finest albums ever recorded. I have the original marbled vinyl version. Outstanding bass sound .
backhand51 10 months ago
i think young folk now appreciate this kinda music because its just so bloody good compared to the crap being spewed out now .. there is no originality anymore .. everything sounds the same , whereas the 80s was so varied music wise.
paulinefraser 10 months ago
Innovative beats and uplifting message!
sabrinasjourney 11 months ago
Promises promises??
Breezerboy1219 11 months ago
No way the 80's were a great time to be alive. Loved the music, the atmosphere, all the new things that were discovered during this time. I would take the 80's over today anyday!! This is by far the worst decade EVER!!
TalonConsult001 11 months ago 25
@TalonConsult001 my parents told me there was lots of easy money to be made then for any one with half a creative mind. In the 90's it all became manufactured-no talent or skill need not to be applied. so i for one wish i had of been 18 in 1980. instead of 9. Music, fashion, performing, presenting, etc. Yeah the 80's was easy.
EB1050482 in reply to TalonConsult001 (Show the comment) 8 months ago
@TalonConsult001 Fucking whiny moron.
dawguy in reply to TalonConsult001 (Show the comment) 8 months ago
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MissAshleyJClark in reply to TalonConsult001 (Show the comment) 8 months ago
@TalonConsult001 plus in 80s cars were meant to last, and not like now, today they're stuffed with all uneccessary stuff and will start falling apart in 5 years! love 80s for cars and music!
bluemoondiadochi in reply to TalonConsult001 (Show the comment) 8 months ago
@TalonConsult001 Any time when you are young is a great time to be alive and music in later years will never match the music you like when you were young.
lewisner in reply to TalonConsult001 (Show the comment) 7 months ago 5
@lewisner that's right, but looking back, the 60's, 70's, 80's and even early 90's had great music. Not the same with the 2000's and certainly not with the 2010's.
fnpt in reply to lewisner (Show the comment) 4 months ago
@fnpt Most music I hear nowadays (especially anything from the X Factor) is insipid unchallenging shit - to me. But my point is that kids growing up with this stuff will think it is the greatest and still think so when they are old.
lewisner in reply to fnpt (Show the comment) 4 months ago
I couldn't think who Jim Kerr reminds me of in this video for ages then realised Reba MacIntyre! Similar face.
bellanita 11 months ago
@bellanita what about emily watson? strikingly similair lol
cleric443 in reply to bellanita (Show the comment) 11 months ago
I FUCKING LOVE SIMPLE MINDS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
stars7803 11 months ago
Bit of Jim Kerr makes my day !!
Chinablu1969 11 months ago 3
bring back the 80s music not like the crap like its now its so crap
MorrisManDanceMan 11 months ago 2
This is when they were good before they "sold out" with that stupid breakfast club song and turned to shit!
cambruoso 11 months ago
SIMPLE MINDS deffinatly wasnt a simle group!!!!
CoconutJoel 1 year ago
jim and the band broke 25 peoples promises!
RibCageFaceNuts 1 year ago
love it! thanks for posting!!!
boso54 1 year ago
25 people don't believe in miracles!
Pacisdiligo 1 year ago
fantastic record
philcomic1 1 year ago
Dance Jimbo, dance!
PerignonPop 1 year ago
musica fantastica do Simple Minds.
brunoviking84 1 year ago
class pure class love these guys
boardy777777 1 year ago
Nice music! Better than Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Kanye West and all those shitty fake 'music lovers' that just lick the butts of WMG, Universal Studios and so on.
daniel849 1 year ago 2
@daniel849 I agree with you man
Bends95 in reply to daniel849 (Show the comment) 1 year ago
@daniel849 your scum for even mentioning their names and promoting them!!!!
Who are you talking about anyway :P
lejambon08 in reply to daniel849 (Show the comment) 1 year ago
@lejambon08 I mean the group of big fancy producers. They are not doing it for the music or the message. They just write something down on paper, throw a 'cool' beatsound in it and call it a 'hit'. And don't mention the names, they are nothing in this society.
daniel849 in reply to lejambon08 (Show the comment) 1 year ago
i dont believe in miracles
huskyam 1 year ago
Yanky my cranky.
InvalidUsername1323 1 year ago
better than U2.Jim Kerr has a better voice.Mon the hoops
1888wulliek 1 year ago
@1888wulliek No. U2 were fabulous when they were still young. "Two Hearts Beat As One" is still a fantastic record but they got too rich too young.
lewisner in reply to 1888wulliek (Show the comment) 1 year ago
25 people don't believe in miracles.
exasee 1 year ago
cause MTV had to cave into the 'PC' crap and now it's taken over with 'Yo' raps and crap. will you see this on way black when. hell no.
dogboy161 1 year ago
volvo 1971 u absolutelly right so sad to hear tha t lol and i still have that album on Vynil classic one
Mhaza 1 year ago
volvo 1971 u absolutelly right so sad to hear tha t lol
Mhaza 1 year ago
Today's music seems to not last that long on the charts. For example, Katy Perry comes out with a song that is a hit for about 2-3 weeks, then it dies out and is forgotten. This music on the other-hand is timeless. Honestly, I'm not pleased with the message that is interpreted in modern pop music. I mean it sends the wrong message to society. This music has variety, it has originally, and is positive.
falloutgpx 1 year ago 7
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falloutgpx 1 year ago
Cool song.
yazorrbird 1 year ago
Jim Kerr was so darn sexy.... I love his voice and I love this band.
zzyyxxo 1 year ago 4
this is what the 80s were about great sounds, great summers, great times, growing up!!..wish i was still there.
dianeandwilson 1 year ago 20
Best song from Simple Minds !! <3
PecheMelba113 1 year ago 2
Wily little bugger isn't he?
4isenuf 1 year ago
Glad to see younger folks appreciate the music that was popular when I was in my 20s. The 80s were a shit decade in so many ways, but the music was awesome - and revelatory. Rock had really hit a creative wall by the late 70s. I can still remember my first taste of groups like Talking Heads, the B-52s, and Elvis Costello and hoping that it as a sign of things to come. Then the floodgates opened and we were treated to all sorts of amazing music. WTF happened to the creativity of the industry?
jjcomet33 1 year ago 72
@jjcomet33 If the 80's was such a shit decade then you must be ready to jump off of a bridge somewhere by this time then. no offense
hfish83 in reply to jjcomet33 (Show the comment) 1 year ago
@hfish83 - Yeah. I didn't think things could get worse than the Reagan years. Shows just how wrong you can be.
jjcomet33 in reply to hfish83 (Show the comment) 1 year ago
@jjcomet33 You ARE so right, much, much happy times back then. we just didn't know what was around the corner so to speak! wish I had a time machine.
crozwayne in reply to jjcomet33 (Show the comment) 1 year ago
@crozwayne If you had your time machine there'd be no Internet, Youtube, Ipods or Iphones or even computers. You'd be listening to hissy AM radio or trying to disentangle your cassette tape from your Walkman
lewisner in reply to crozwayne (Show the comment) 1 year ago 2
@jjcomet33 at least I had a job in the 80's and lots of great music. I'll take it over today anytime.
TheStrainers in reply to jjcomet33 (Show the comment) 1 year ago
@jjcomet33 In the 70s we were scared of Bigfoot. The 80s nuclear holocaust. The 90s terrorism. 2000 more terrorism and fear mongering. 2010> Economy. Not having it as good as our parents did.
southport97 in reply to jjcomet33 (Show the comment) 11 months ago
@jjcomet33 X -Factor came along and helped to kill the British music industry (in part)
PeteGeeza86 in reply to jjcomet33 (Show the comment) 1 year ago
@jjcomet33 I think there are plenty of people out there trying to do interesting/different/creative things musically these days - you just have to look for them. In the 80s we all scoured indie record shops and obscure music mags for the new/different stuff - these days you just have to scour YouTube and AmieStreet or listen to obscure online radio. It's just that teenagers have more time for that stuff than those of us over 30.
swelstead in reply to jjcomet33 (Show the comment) 1 year ago
@swelstead You're probably right about that. When I was younger I spent a lot of time ferreting out new artists and checking out new genres. Today I barely have time to listen to the stuff wit which I'm familiar, much less to hunt down what's new and cool. Discovering music easier back was easier because at least there were a few radio stations willing to play something other than the mainstream sound. Today's radio market is so dominated by "me-too" top 40 stations that doesn't happen anymore.
jjcomet33 in reply to swelstead (Show the comment) 1 year ago
@jjcomet33
17 here ; )
mnhypercam in reply to jjcomet33 (Show the comment) 11 months ago
@jjcomet33 Stock , Aitken and Waterman killed it ... :-(
daredd5 in reply to jjcomet33 (Show the comment) 11 months ago
@daredd5 Ultimately the British record buying public have to take responsibility. We can blame SA&W but no one forced us to buy their shite!
MisAnnThorpe in reply to daredd5 (Show the comment) 8 months ago
@MisAnnThorpe Believe it or not I fall into that minority of never having purchased or liked for that matter any product or artist from their stable.
daredd5 in reply to MisAnnThorpe (Show the comment) 8 months ago
@daredd5 I can well believe it, neither did I although going against my better judgement, I am willing to admit here, that I've always liked Better the devil you know by Kylie Minogue! That said, a hell of a lot of British people obviously did if the charts were to be believed. I personally feel the music "died" after "82. Yeah there was still good music around but for a while there, it seemed that people were really opening their minds up to some challenging and/or experimental music.
MisAnnThorpe in reply to daredd5 (Show the comment) 8 months ago