Simple Minds covers album

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(This may have come up before) Does anyone have this album? Only just come to my attention courtsey of The Onion. I'm tortured by the very idea. Neon Lights covered by Simple Minds etc, those kerazy guys ...

Track listing
1. Gloria
2. The Man Who Sold The World
3. Homosapien
4. Dancing Barefoot
5. Neon Lights
6. Hello I Love You
7. Bring On The Dancing Horses
8. The Needle & The Damage Done
9. For Your Pleasure
10. All Tomorrow's Parties
11. Being Boiled
12. Love Will Tear Us Apart

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Ha ha ha! They try to be cool and then do a fucking Echo & the Bunnymen song! Plus songs already covered by Paul Young, Nirvana, Japan, Nick Cave, everybody.

"Theme for Great Cities" and "The American" still rule tho

― dave q, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

They've already covered 'Neon Lights'. They just called it 'Real To Real Cacophony' last time.

My fondest SM memories would probably be 'Thirty Frames A Second' and 'King Is White And In The Crowd'.

Has Jim got his funny yelping new wave voice back on this new record, the one he had when he was thin?

'Feel I'm going backwards, thirty frame a second' indeed.

― Momus, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

No Magazine covers? I guess they already did that... sort of.

― Andy K., Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Ever hear their version of Street Hassle? (from Sparkle in the Rain.) Now, why would anyone cover a song like Street Hassle and reduce it to a 4 minute pop song?

Why can't they be like the rest of us and just post an internet thread: "12 songs that changed our lives."

― Dave225, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"We change 12 songs that changed our lives, so they never change anyone else's"

― mark s, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Reminds me of that Duran Duran covers album.

― helenfordsdale, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

thanks for posting this. I have been done with Simple Minds since around 1985 or so but I think I have to get this. Hopefully I can find it used. Their recent stuff is mostly drivel but I love covers albums (stil have to get that Stina Nordenstam one). If there hasn't been a thread on them, someone should do it, they were quite good up until they got their big hits. Then they went down fast & hard...

― g, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

And what of the new "THis is" Stina Nordenstam. Only listened to it once so far. Think I'll minidisc it along with the 1st album that i've only listened to once. Shame really, as Closed her eyes hit me 1st play.

― Alan at home, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Well they've already, in a sense, covered "She Moves Through The Fair".

Shame they felt the need to build the most pompous "political statement" of the 80s around its broken limbs.

Taking the piss out of Simple Minds: still, somehow, rewarding after all these years. But, when Mandela was still in prison and Nicholas Fairbairn still walked the earth, there was actually a reason to stand up for them, albeit not musically.

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Simple Minds = saddest degeneration in rock music? It's hard to really process how awesome _Reel To Real Cacophony_ is and yet how awful everything post circa '83 is.

― Tim, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

during the 90s when loadsa rock/rap sounded earthy/sludgy/raw [not a bad thing but got boring even before mezzanine] i would listen to the shiny surfaces and clean lines of new gold dream. i hated belfast child + later stuff but their early stuff is better than cabaret voltaire whose 'ruthless' on radiation reminds me of SM.

― changeling, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

two months pass...

neon lights is purly a fan-album, a sort of thank you for waiting 4 years. their new album [with new materiale] is due to be released round april 1st, and early buzz claims that it is probely a back to shape for the 'minds ; their best album in 10 years perhaps.

the minds mythology and dimensions can't be underestimated, their muse has remained constant and awesome through their many styles, from postpunk, new wave romantisism, epic stadionrock and the various latter eurohybrids of recent years. the Passion, vision comes through. believe me. just open your eyes and sense.

― denis sjöblom, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

seven years pass...

denis, i regret opening my eyes and sense to this everywhere i go in glasgow

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_g4txmyyIYek/SZXBNmIxQ8I/AAAAAAAACUQ/e5Cc9Dv9CBw/S220/simpleminds.JPG

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 21:43 (fifteen years ago) link

against all expectation, the reviews i've read are rather favourable.

― mark e, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 21:53 (fifteen years ago) link

Okay, so half the songs are new and half are covers. There were so many 5 star reviews on Amazon I decided to give it a go, but alas, I found it bland, too modern sounding, too polished and clean. Then I got to the covers part of it and heavens to god them doing Neil Young's "Rockin' In the Free World" was so disgusting I had to turn it off right away. I don't need Simple Minds to "rock out" thank you!

― "But didn't MBV come from a nasty goth background?" (Bimble), Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link

Case closed?

― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link

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