jakarta
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Never got them at all back in the 1980's, they weren't switch off the radio dreadful but would far rather listen to Talking Heads etc..
. When I read stuff like "I liked their early stuff" I know I'm going to be bored to tears by some self important blowhard. simple Mind were very popular with Catchy tunes, but not rock lol.
I liked your early stuff.They like U2 were another guitar twanging popular pop band. Also like U2 but not later bands like Oasis they sold big overseas as well. Also like Oasis and U2 when they started dipping their toes in politics they began to be seen as nobheads.
When I read stuff like "I liked their early stuff" I know I'm going to be bored to tears by some self important blowhard. simple Mind were very popular with Catchy tunes, but not rock lol.
Never got them at all back in the 1980's, they weren't switch off the radio dreadful but would far rather listen to Talking Heads etc..
Milton keynes bowl , Wembley stadium :remembering their stadium targeted rock, live aid, alive and kicking, lighters aloft, the scottish u2.
Imo none of this comes close to their early stuff. Real to real cacophony is a work of genius and many of their early albums contain tracks that blow don't you forget about me clean out of the water from a hundred paces. It's also hard to disagree the widely held belief that new gold dream is the best album of the 80s.
What happened to simple minds people?
With respect, their early stuff is genuinely fooking brilliant, maybe if you gave it a try you could perhaps make your own mind up
see them at Milton keynes, cost me £1 return from lewes on the train ! SE trains were doing a deal that day go ANYWHEREI saw them at Jenkinsons Brighton October 1980, a mate had Life in a Day single which I liked, but I hadn't heard anything else by them.
Did anyone else see them at Jenkinsons? From what I remember it didn't go very well that night, I wasn't that impressed with them.