New Gold Dream - Simple Minds

mosstin

Listening to Tom Dunne on the radio this morning when he played the title track from New Gold Dream. Nothing quite like hearing a lost classic randomly played on the airwaves. Not sure if many are familiar with this album but it's near perfection. Simple Minds are too often lazily dismissed as stadium rock behemoths and Belfast Child used as evidence of the band's pomposity but once the opening notes of Someone, Somewhere In Summertime begin, it's clear that in the early 1980's the band had managed to create and capture a beautiful sound. Any Simple Minds heads out there?

NapoleonInRags

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Listening to Tom Dunne on the radio this morning when he played the title track from New Gold Dream. Nothing quite like hearing a lost classic randomly played on the airwaves. Not sure if many are familiar with this album but it's near perfection. Simple Minds are too often lazily dismissed as stadium rock behemoths and Belfast Child used as evidence of the band's pomposity but once the opening notes of Someone, Somewhere In Summertime begin, it's clear that in the early 1980's the band had managed to create and capture a beautiful sound. Any Simple Minds heads out there?

Wow - I'm going to have to go and listen to that album right now (and maybe Sparkle in the Rain too!). Haven't listened to SM in too long. Was at their Croke Park gig in 1986 - great stuff. I remember it was lashing rain with thunder and lightning and the start of Waterfront when the drums come in co-incided with a big flash of lightning and a clap of thunder - magical stuff!
Thanks for the memory.

Jenroche

Brilliant album. However, not one that I own, surprisingly. Must put that to rights. Love their 'Live in the city of light' live album though.

Jen ;->