Simple Minds - In Your Room 1982 Live, Stereo-Hifi

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Has anyone else notice the reverb on Jim Kerr?

[alekevis]

STRAORDINARIO!!!!!!!!!!!! Incredible........marvellous great, great song! Thanks for post this jewel!

[mantra3000]

Is it Mr Oggletree on drums?

[MrDemilord]

@mantra3000 yes i think its mike

[mysunshinydays]

Hallo Dex, ich bin immer noch schwer begeistert von diesem Video. Was die Jungs so alles zuwege gebracht haben, ist schier unglaublich. Bin tierisch gespannt, was die noch alles auf die Beine stellen in der Zukunft. Ich glaub, man kann noch einiges Tolle erwarten. Ciao, Andrea

[leebedy71]

Great song, great band, great effort thanx 4 posting

[gillo69]

They were fucking great back then!

[robyg70]

This crowd needs ein mosch pit

[grahamkh1]

Great Video. Makes me wonder were have all those years gone!!

[mysunshinydays]

Hervorragend. Jetzt schon das dritte Mal hintereinnder gehört.

[KrustyWalker]

Dexbam, your video's are absolute genius and the quality is amazing, keep it coming my man !!

[maxinblax777]

STUNNING SONG. STUNNING PERFORMANCE. STUNNING ERA 4 THE BAND!

[robyg70]

Wonderful upload. Not a week goes by that I don't watch this video:) Thanks so much Dexbam:)

[MrPip59]

beautifull

[teawanga]

wow this a cracker!!! love it-thanks so much for uploading!!

[gazzatopdude1]

its simple, really, simple minds need to release all live material NOW and it will wipe the floor of all else

[thewildcat1000]

This looks & sounds brilliant!

[DaDancingGirl]

a really fantastic video of this 28 year old track... amazing, thank you SO MUCH sharing!

[stevetriple]

It just dawned on me how similar the start of this is to the live version of Book of brilliant things...

Thanks again for this amazing upload.....

[johnnyblunder]

Class back then.

[leebedy71]

CLASSIC early track.

[jeanmaurice1]

Thanx Dex...this is great....Never saw it before...never heard this song live before....thanks a lot!

[Nigelxman]

I feel like a complete idiot that I am just now discovering how great early Simple Minds were. But better late than never right? :-)

[Dexbam]

absolutely right  :o

[petrusaloisius]

@Dexbam

Early Simple Minds is like early Cure and early U@, MARSway better than their newer stuff..As with all grat bands their always best in their earlier years without the F. commercial influences. :)

[MrDemilord]

@petrusaloisius

Your so right.. But still I find simple minds more inventive and more creative and more courage then U2 which always try to sound the same...

[petrusaloisius]

@MrDemilord

Its good that people have different taste (s?) . Sorry for my poor english. Wont get any better.

When i was young u2 was my favorit band of all, but nowadays while im rediscovering older and better stuff from bands via internet like The CVure, Simple minds and bands like human league depeche mode are the bands i like more nowadays, although i still like the older stuff from u2 and i have much respect how they still go on and on like the stones with modern new stylish music.

[preving]

Don't feel bad. I was 10 years old back in 1982 and I remember seeing Love Song on MuchMusic here in Canada. I wasn't into them myself. I've been a Minds fan now since 1992. :)

[troubleontheline66]

Never to late. The late 70's, early 80's was a magical time for music. Back then we had bands with distinct sounds - Simple Minds, Joy Division, U2 (long ago when they weren't boring), Adam and the Ants, Echo and the Bunnymen, The The, The Police, just to name a few.

Today's mainstream music is interchangeable and monotonous to me. And don't get me started on Hip Hop - the most nihilistic, narcissistic, and mindless genre ever created.

Sorry for the rant.

Huge thanks to Dexbam for these!

[Nigelxman]

@troubleontheline66 Good post. I completely agree with your sentiments. Well except for Adam and the Ants. :-) I would also add The Alarm, Big Country, The Church, The Chameleons, and early REM to that list. Cheers

[troubleontheline66]

@Nigelxman - Big Country is one of my fave bands from that time, and I think they made great music right up to the sad ending.

Adam and the Ants aren't for everyone, but they were original. Listen to the Dirk Wears White Sox album, or songs like Killer in the Home and Pablo Picaso Visits the Planet of the Apes.

I think Tears For Fears' The Hurting was one of the most ground-breaking albums of that time.

I could list a ton of great bands. The ones you mentioned were great.

[my2magoos]

@Nigelxman Get in there Nigel ... so much better than most anything you'll find today even. Enjoy!

[Downbythewater73]

@Nigelxman : "Early" is often the best, in pop-rock-new wave groups, say the most intense. See Cocteau Twins' "Garlands" album !..

[Valeriushansson2]

@Nigelxman It depends on how old you are. Besides, you can´t be perfect allways, can you?

[Nigelxman]

@Valeriushansson2 Well said mate. :-)

[ADDELHAIZEPETER]

@Nigelxman its one of the best live bands in the world, also pinkfloyd / dire straits /

ALSO FUN OF U2 BUT ITS THE SHOW THATS MAKE IT NOT THE MUSIC

SIMPLE MINDS IS MY FAVORITE GROUP WHIT SONGS AS / THE HUNTER AND THE HUNTED / BIG SLEEP

ROOM / NEW GOLD DREAM / DOLPHINS / TIHIS IS IT / LOVE SONG / EXTREMELU VERY GOOD

BUT THE NUMBER ONE SONG FOR ME IS COMFORTABLY NUMB BY PINKFLOYD ON THE ALBUM

DELICATE SOUNDS OF THUNDER / LISTEN ONCE TO IT

[mysunshinydays]

@Nigelxman stimmt!

[JohnPerre]

I saw this live performance on German television years ago and never forgot it. Thank you so much, DexBam!

I have Empires and Dance but that studio version of "Room" does not excite. This live version is superbe. Hear Charlie excel and listen to the improviations of the drummer.

I really don't understand why Simple Minds don't release more live albums. And maybe with some old songs on it, like Room. Would buy it instantly and think that many fans of my age would do the same thing too...

[beanser1]

Awesome. The time the place music began

[baldmindsfan]

brilliant.

[toptonychick]

Great stuff! "Room" changed so much from 1979-1982. Strange really. Its almost as if they didn't know what to do with it. You can tell that the studio version on "Empiers & dance" was tagged on at the end. Its different from the other songs on that album.

[DieSchwartzmann]

Actually, Room does have a place on the album- in that the song is about the protagonist being back home and feeling safe after being in several terrifying places in Europe. But it also hints at a darkness similar to that of Real To Real Cacophony, which makes sense as the song was written very shortly after the release of that album.

This live version is fantastic, and proof the band were at the peak of their powers in this era. They changed the tune a lot but it's still recognisable.

[MrDannywatts]

This song was written late 1979. No other Simple Minds songs developed so much. This sounds nothing like the studio version.

[feenoSM]

I `WILL` get the guys in our band Simply Minds to play this..`Take me away`..Rock`n`Rythm bass..WHOW!!!!

[TheRosanero2009]

Thank for sharing these lovely Simple Minds versions, you are the best!!! Just been to see them in Palermo, great show, was my third time, but they are like wine, getting older getting better.

Simple Minds i love you!!!

[Anyone4music]

No amount of remastering will make up for the fact that the guy doing the monitors ( what the band hears, or in this case doesn't hear. ) is rubbish. How they stayed in tune I don't know.

If the sound onstage is rubbish, then no matter how much money you chuck at the sound the audience hears, the result will be this sort of almost but not quite performance.

1985 in a park in Sweden the Minds did it like it should be and I'm sure nobody there had ever felt anything like that in their lives.

[sawhney1]

Fantastic! Thank you for putting the effort into the remastering. You've done a great job.

[bsr7]

fantastic brilliant from pip59

[Berlinerschnitzel]

Blegh... The disco glam and sex-version of one of the best songs on Empires and Dance! Terrible. This must be the very real beginning of commercial and pathetic Simple Minds, after having made 5 of the best albums ever.

[sawhney1]

You are talking absolute rubbish! This version is amazing.

[beaumont1920]

It's true that this 'rocks out' somewhat but the delicate nuances of the album version would not carry in a stadium this size. This, then is probably the defining moment that they lost their Sparkle and became anthem rockers. A poor substitute to their previous unwordly genius: the world embraced them and they paid the price.

[DieSchwartzmann]

If they'd never done Don't You Forget About Me, they'd probably still be a cult band along with Joy Division and Magazine. But they're rarely listed amongst them because they sold out. Real Life is where their career got into the ground, and they were pretty much forgotten during the 90s. Their latest album, Graffiti Soul, is really good, and it's best track, This Is It, is a true return to form and could easily have been on Sons And Fascination.

[irialouise]

Dexbam.. Thanks for the Memorys ..Loved the Kerr Burchil Macneil Forbes Era .. Where did that wonderful base sound Go... Still Love the Minds ..Been a Follower since 79..Last Gig i went to see was Manchester 2008

[SimpleMikes]

Great live performance. Thx.

[Makiss80s]

Fantastic song and amazing Jim and Derek ;-)!!! This live performance of Room is better than album version from Empires & Dance!!!

Thanks for uploading!!!

[cjmcge]

Awesome picture quality....!

[my2magoos]

BRILLIANT!

[kingaduna]

Yeah, million thanks indeed. This video was pulled out of You Tube for a long time. Glad to see it back. The best version of Room as far as I know. Jim looks so good and the music is haunting.

[Anna8523]

Dexbam, million thanks for this one!