Simple Minds

   
Artist: Simple Minds

   Genre(s): 
Alternative
   Rock: Pop-Rock
   Pop: Pop-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 The Best Of (CD 2)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 15


   
 The Best Of (CD 1)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 17


   
 Silver Box (CD 5) - Our Secrets Are The Same

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10


   
 Silver Box (CD 4) - 1991-1995

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 13


   
 Silver Box (CD 3) - 1985-1991

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10


   
 Silver Box (CD 2) - 1981-1985

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 12


   
 Silver Box (CD 1) - 1979-1980

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 15


   
 Our Secrets Are The Same

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 10


   
 Cry

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 12


   
 Neon Lights

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 10


   
 Glittering Prize: 81-92

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 16


   
 Real Life

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 13


   
 Street Fighting Years

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 11


   
 Celebration

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 10


   
 Sparkle In The Rain

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 10


   
 New Gold Gream (81-82-83-84)

   Year: 1982   
Tracks: 9


   
 Black and White 050505

   Year:    
Tracks: 9

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Best known in the U.S. for their 1985 number one hit "Don't You (Forget About Me)" from the motion-picture show The Breakfast Club, Scotland's Simple Minds evolved from a post-punk art rock candy band influenced by Roxy Music into a grand, epic-sounding pop band along the lines of U2. The stria grew forbidden of a Glasgow goon radical called Johnny and the Self-Abusers, which featured guitarist Charlie Burchill and lead isaac M. Singer Jim Kerr. The inaugural address 1978 card of Simple Minds featured a calendar method section of Tony Donald on freshwater bass and Brian McGee on drums, asset keyboardist Mick McNeil; Donald was presently replaced by Derek Forbes. Their early albums leaped from one style to another, with Sprightliness in a Day consisting mostly of impenetrable, arty pop songs; critical applaud followed the darker, more than experimental graphics stone of Spool to Real Cacophony and the Euro-disco of Empires and Dance. The mathematical group began a transition to a more than accessible crop up stylus with the albums Sons and Fascination and Baby Feelings Call, in the first place issued together and later on split up. Fresh Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) became their low chart record album in the U.S., and the tour-shy McGee depart undischarged to burgeoning popularity, eventually organism replaced by Mel Gaynor. Following the Steve Lillywhite-produced Effervesce in the Rain, Jim Kerr marital Pretenders pencil lead isaac Bashevis Singer Chrissie Hynde (the two groups had toured together).


Later on Bryan Ferry jilted the chance to sing "Don't You (Leave About Me)," Simple Minds nearly did so as well; Kerr was dissatisfied with the song's lyrics, which he regarded as formulaic. His change of bosom gave Simple Minds their only American chart-topper, and the song dynasty later became an international hit as well; however, Kerr's feelings about the song remained ambivalent, and it did not appear on the review album, One time Upon a Time. This album went gold and reached the U.S. Top Ten, in cattiness of literary criticism for its turgid, sinful approach. A live record album and the uncompromisingly political Street Fighting Years wasted Simple Minds' commercial-grade impulse, however. By the time the mathematical group returned to more than personal themes and its square, anthemic rock on 1991's Real Life, staff office changes and audience loss left the group's future viability in uncertainty. But they weren't all deterred, all the same. Kerr and Burchill trudged on, releasing Good News From the Next World in 1995 patch the single "She's a River" received curb airplay. A short tour of North America before long followed, merely Simple Minds' instruction besides quick faded. They requisite a break to elucidate their possess personal stance in euphony. Derek Forbes returned for 1998's Néapolis, merely that, too, wasn't unattackable sufficiency to nourish Simple Minds' newfound creative thinking. Their famous pop songs had dilute a bit; however, the raw millenary proven poignant. Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill sign-language to Eagle Records in early 2001 and constructed their start covers record album, Atomic number 10 Lights, later that fall, paying tribute to Patti Smith, Neil Young, David Bowie, and others. In summer 2002, Kerr and Burchill issued Blazon out, Simple Minds' low clutch of new material since 1995's Dear News From the Next World. Our Secrets Are the Same, an album that was intended for discharge in 2000, sawing machine official release in 2003.

The New Popwreck Palace?

As TMZ first reported, Britney Spears is looking to move out of her Hollywood Hills home and into the Valley -- namely Calabasas.

Check out one of the cribs Brit Brit has looked at -- appropriately called "Chateau Suenos" or "House of Dreams" -- and it's a house made for MTV.

Apparently crazy can buy happiness after all!






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Hollywood actors unions at war with each other

By Leslie Simmons


LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The bad blood between
Hollywood's leading actors unions is boiling.


As the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) enters its 25th day of
negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television
Producers (AMPTP), the union will hold a rally Monday morning
at its Los Angeles headquarters for members.


While SAG bills the event as a "solidarity" rally, some
members are expected to use the gathering to speak out against
the new primetime/TV contract that its sister union the
American Federation of Telvision and Radio Artists (AFTRA) will
be sending to members for ratification.


In the meantime, AFTRA president Roberta Reardon plans to
meet with AFL-CIO leader John Sweeney to discuss the clash
between the two actor unions, which intensified Friday when
SAG's national executive board voted 13-10 to spend $75,000 on
educating members about the AFTRA deal.


In an e-mail to members Sunday, SAG president Alan
Rosenberg outlined what he called contract gains that AFTRA did
not get, and said that he and the union's negotiators are
trying to win for SAG members. Among them were improvements in
money and schedule breaks and a significant increase in the
major role minimum; more background coverage and compensation;
guild coverage and residuals for all original new media; the
right to consent to product integration; improving DVD
residuals; and an increase in mileage compensation for the
first time in 30 years.


Rosenberg also told members that SAG believes the tentative
AFTRA deal and its ratification -- which is expected to be
voted on by July 7 -- is a distraction that the AMPTP is using
"to delay significant progress in our negotiations."


On Thursday, SAG sent AFTRA a letter asking that its
national board vote to delay a ratification vote on the
tentative contract.


"Delaying ratification of the AFTRA contract could benefit
all actors," Rosenberg wrote to members Sunday. "AFTRA members
too would benefit by increased leverage in our negotiations and
through any favored nation clauses SAG might be able to achieve
that would provide improvements in the AFTRA deal." 

Brangelina Done in By Star Magazine

Turns out Miss "I'm a lawyer" Jones ain't the only Star that's full of crap these days.

According to the cover of the latest Star Magazine, Brad Pitt and his peeps "panicked" after Angelina "collapsed" on a beach in France. Problem is -- it just ain't true.

A series of photos taken at exactly the same time on the same day show she was juuuust fine, playing with the kids and having grand old time. In fact, Brad and U2's The Edge are just helping her up off the beach ... like gentlemen should do with preggy women.

By the way, Star makes this sound like it just happened -- these pics were taken a month ago.



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