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Simple Minds - Neapolis (1998)  Music

Posted by Designol at Dec. 4, 2022
Simple Minds - Neapolis (1998)

Simple Minds - Néapolis (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 313 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 105 Mb | Scans ~ 71 Mb
Label: Chrysalis | # 7243 4 93712 2 4, 493 7122 | Time: 00:45:57
Adult Alternative Pop/Rock

Simple Minds signed to Chrysalis for Néapolis and saw the return of Derek Forbes on bass. Néapolis signals a return to form while remaining on the cutting edge. Unlike U2, the band they have been most often compared to, Simple Minds have not lost themselves in techno beats and processed samples. Longtime fans will embrace this album; from the opening track, "Song for the Tribes," through the two singles, "Glitterball" and "War Babies," one immediately recognizes that classic sound. Other standout tracks include "Tears of a Guy," "Superman V Supersoul," and a potential third single, "Killing Andy Warhol." The biggest surprise on the album is "Androgyny," a welcomed instrumental in the tradition of their earlier works (see Empires and Dance, Sister Feelings Call, and Sons and Fascination). It's nice to know that in the 1990s, one classic new wave band hasn't forgotten what it is all about. Unfortunately, Chrysalis felt there was not enough of a following outside of Europe to justify the worldwide release of the album.

Simple Minds - Cry (2002) Limited Edition  Music

Posted by Designol at Dec. 7, 2022
Simple Minds - Cry (2002) Limited Edition

Simple Minds - Cry (2002) Limited Edition
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 314 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 109 Mb | Scans ~ 186 Mb
Adult Alternative Pop/Rock | Label: Eagle | # EAGLT196, EDL EAG 433-9 | 00:47:34

That the opening bars to Cry finds Jim Kerr opining "It's difficult to love you when you do the things you do time and time again" almost implies that the hideously unfashionable Simple Minds are once again anticipating getting stabbed in the buttocks by poison pens and have decided to save their critics the bother by writing the reviews for them. Well, if that's the case, they've done themselves a little bit of an injustice. The good news–and from this world, not the next–is that Jim Kerr has not reneged on his commitment to making an indecently modest pop record, one where any delusional notions of stadium rock empires are held in check and where melody is a stronger currency than reverb and hot air. Although the cleaner-than-a-kitchen-showroom production is out of step with the contemporary, scuffed-up sounds of "now"–Simple Minds remain hamstrung by their own outmoded brand of professionalism–Cry has more than enough decent tunes to entice persons beyond the well-creased folds of their fan base.

Simple Minds - Neon Lights (2001)  Music

Posted by Designol at Aug. 19, 2022
Simple Minds - Neon Lights (2001)

Simple Minds - Neon Lights (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 262 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 95 Mb | Scans ~ 47 Mb
Label: Eagle | # EAGCD194, GAS 0000194 EAG, EDL EAG 373-2
Adult Alternative Pop/Rock | Time: 00:41:41

Neon Lights is Simple Minds' covers album. Frankly, these projects often serve little purpose beyond announcing that the artists concerned have run out of original ideas. With the Simple Minds' new album of freshly composed material, Our Secrets Are the Same, now shelved due to legal complications, the Minds have opted to doff their caps in the direction of the heroes of their youth, such as David Bowie, Lou Reed, and the Doors. This is the material the band performed when they were scrawny Glaswegian punks called Johnny & the Self-Abusers. The arrangements here are slightly dated techno-rock efforts, albeit without the expansive pomp and bluster of their stadium-straddling 1980s heyday. Even so, Neon Lights is probably too respectful. Many of these numbers–Echo & the Bunnymen's "Bring on the Dancing Horses," Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World"–are identikit presentations, while electro-rock assaults on Them's "Gloria" and the Doors "Hello I Love You" are monotonous and misguided. A very interesting revision of Pete Shelley's "Homosapien" and a faithful, powerful reading of the Velvet Underground's "All Tomorrow's Parties" are much better.
Simple Minds - The Best Of Simple Minds (2001) PS3 ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Simple Minds - The Best Of Simple Minds (2001)
PS3 Rip | 2x SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 148:05 minutes | Scans included | 4,68 GB
or DSD64 2.0 (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Full Scans included | 4,08 GB
or FLAC (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Full Scans included | 3,53 GB

This 2 SACDs set featuring 5 top 40 singles and a total of 32 songs covering the band's A&M and Virgin Records careers. Also includes the bonus track 'The Real Life' (Remix by Raven Maize, sampling Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody).

Simple Minds - Real Life (1991)  Music

Posted by Designol at Feb. 10, 2024
Simple Minds - Real Life (1991)

Simple Minds - Real Life (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 340 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 120 Mb | Scans ~ 63 Mb | 00:52:15
Alternative Pop/Rock, Dance-Rock | Label: Virgin | # CDV 2660, 0777 7 86384 2 1

Real Life is the ninth studio album by Scottish rock band Simple Minds, released in April 1991. This was the first Simple Minds album recorded without keyboardist and original bandmember Mick MacNeil, who left the band after the previous tour in 1990. The core band on this album comprise only Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill, and Mel Gaynor (who all appear on the rear cover), with the remaining personnel being session musicians.

Simple Minds - The Best Of Simple Minds (2001) Repost  Music

Posted by v3122 at May 17, 2018
Simple Minds - The Best Of Simple Minds (2001) Repost

Simple Minds - The Best Of Simple Minds (2001)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
2CD | Virgin, CDVD2953/7243 8 11257 2 4 | ~ 1076 or 358 Mb | Scans(png) -> 303 Mb
New Wave / Pop Rock / Synth-Pop

Simple Minds, the Scottish group led by Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill, has had a very different career in the U.S. from the one it's enjoyed in its native U.K., and that leads to different estimations of this compilation. As far as Britain is concerned, it is a much-needed, comprehensive collection of the band's hit singles, no less than 26 of which placed in the charts between 1979 and 1998, including eight that hit the Top Ten…