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Track List:
- Disc 1 -
1 Don't You (Forget About Me)
2 Promised You a Miracle
3 Waterfront
4 Alive and Kicking
5 Glittering Prize
6 All the Things She Said
7 Sanctify Yourself
8 Someone Somewhere (In Summertime)
9 Ghostdancing
10 Up on the Catwalk
11 Speed Your Love to Me
12 Theme for Great Cities
13 Love Song
14 The American
15 Sweat in Bullet
16 Life in a Day
17 I Travel
- Disc 2 -
1 Let There Be Love
2 This Is Your Land
3 Kick It in
4 Let It All Come Down
5 See the Lights
6 Stand By Love
7 Real Life
8 She's a River
9 Hypnotised
10 Glitterball
11 War Babies
12 Mandela Bay
13 Biko
14 Belfast Child
15 The Real Life (Raven Maize)
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Description
xBest known in the U.S. for their 1985 number one hit "Don't You (Forget About Me)" from the Gold se lling soundtrack & hit film the Breakfast Club. Includes 5 top 40 singles a total of 32 songs on two CD's covering the band's A&M and Virgin Record's careers. The title of this compilation tells the truth--almost. Although one is moved to question the validity of including the Raven Maize club hit "Real Life"--selected on account of it sampling the tonal poetry of "Theme From Great Cities"(a prime slice of the early Minds' funked-up Eurosynth futurism) and slapped on the end as if to convince a jaded public that Simple Minds really are "contemporary" and have a profound relevance to today's dance scene--this really contains the best of Simple Minds. Which is a very good thing indeed--but where's "Changeling"? These trifling grievances aside, this compilation does Simple Minds' chart-history justice. Sometimes unduly castigated for blustery over-expression and much ado about nothing, re-familiarisation with much of the post-Sparkle In The Rain material reveals a band at ease with an astute musical economy--the grand gesturing of "Mandela Day", for example, may well sound monumentally sincere and overwrought but it consists of a measly three chords, while the trotting-horse bass-line to "Waterfront" is one note repeated for over four minutes (and that note was "D" if you're interested). Some great pop singles aside--"She's A River", "Alive And Kicking", "Up On The Catwalk" and "Promised You A Miracle", a song cut from the same tartan cloth as early Spandau Ballet--the most interesting thing about Simple Mind's evolution is how they started to get more successful once they'd stopped impersonating Roxy Music only to hit pay dirt with a song which Bryan Ferry didn't have enough time to record, namely Keith Forsey's "Don't You Forget About Me". --Kevin Maidment
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