Product Description

Jim Kerr's Scottish rockers' greatest hits collection includes the UK Top 10 singles 'Don't You (Forget About Me' (featured in the film 'The Breakfast Club'), 'Alive and Kicking','All The Things She Said', 'Belfast Child' and 'Let There Be Love'. Simple Minds have sold over 30 million records worldwide and have had 5 no.1 UK albums, taking in krautrock, stadium bombast and celtic roots rock.

Track Listing

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. Santify 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 Day
13. Biko
14. Belfast Child
15. The real life (Raven Maize)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6509 in Music
• Released on: 2001-11-05
• Number of discs: 2

Amazon.co.uk Review
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

Customer Reviews

Recommended to anyone exploring or reminiscing 80's music
Unfortunately, Simple Minds tend to be remembered mainly for a couple of hits, Don't You & Alive & Kicking which kind of misses the (their) point.

Simple Minds came along at the same time as U2 &, for my money at least, were the more "cutting edge" of the two.....up until 1983, New Gold Dream at least.

This collection has the early stuff in abundance, The American, Theme For Great Cities, I Travel yet the absence of New Gold Dream is mystifying.

They made BIG music; pumping, driving, futuristic, Euro-synth dance music & they made it well.

Waterfront virtually confirms the assertion of the time that they were almost too big for stadia yet also proved to be just past the pinnacle of their creative best, which was New Gold Dream,.

This is worth the money for a decent snapshot of their work but perhaps you should supplement it with a copy of NGD.

Brilliant!
There really is nothing much i can say except this album is the best album i have ever bought. Every song on the album is brilliant.

Brilliant
I cannot recommend this double CD enough. It is tremendous, every track is a joy to hear. Buy it, you will not be disappointed.