{"product_id":"simple-minds-the-best-of-simple-minds-cd","title":"Simple Minds - The Best Of Simple Minds - [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eBest known in the U.S. for their 1985 number one hit \"Don't You (Forget About Me)\" from the Gold se lling soundtrack \u0026amp; hit film the Breakfast Club. Includes 5 top 40 singles a total of 32 songs on two CD's covering the band's A\u0026amp;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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Post-Punk,POP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47758380695770,"sku":"724381125724","price":28.65,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/7787\/3626\/files\/BESTOFTHE_s7k83v.jpg?v=1776190957","url":"https:\/\/shopmusic247.com\/products\/simple-minds-the-best-of-simple-minds-cd","provider":"Shopmusic247","version":"1.0","type":"link"}