Artist: Simple Minds
Genre(s):
Alternative
Rock: Pop-Rock
Pop: Pop-Rock
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
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.
