Simple Minds - The Early Box Set Years - "Speed Your Love to Me" and "Don"t You (Forg
Virgin Records issued 4 Simple Minds Box sets Volumes in 1990, each one containing 5 picture discs or 'Themes'.
These Box sets document Simple Mind's music/sound in (nearly) chronological order from 1979 to 1990 by reissuing their early 12" vinyls on CD for the first time.
Forget the comments found in certain rock-magazines: they are not a best of, nor a purely commercial rip-off.
As mentioned on the Boxes themselves, they are an official collection of existing (vinyl) twelve inch singles, be it executed in original, aesthetically fashion (crucifix-shaped boxes).
Subsequently 19 of these individual Themes were individually sold as 5" Theme-CD-singles, be it not as picture discs.
Theme 20 - from Volume 4 - was taken from the live video Verona and never released separately.
These individual CD-singles ought to be the official replica's of the Themes from the Box sets, yet a few (significant) differences do emerge.
In 2009 the 4 original Volumes were re-released, together with a new 5th one.
In groups of 2 Themes at a time, we will review each song individually.
Volume 2 - Theme 9 - Speed Your Love To Me Track listing: 1.
Speed Your Love To Me [extended, 07:24] 2.
Speed Your Love To Me [album version, 04:06] 3.
Bass Line [instrumental, 04:41] Speed Your Love To Me, 12 inch: the crème de la crème.
Ab-so-lu-te-ly majestic.
If the album version already turned you on, be ready for this one: top-drawer vocals, stinging guitars, the intro so fastidiously inviting, even the unborn want to join.
Speed Your Love To Me (the maxi is an increase of 55% compared to the Sparkle edit!) is BIG.
All but subtle, yet - placed in Simple Minds' oeuvre - this cut really seems to come straight from the heart.
Something Chrissie and Patsy proclaimed too.
For a while.
Bass Line, the instrumental of Sparkle's White Hot Day (the original working title of the album was Quiet Night Of The White Hot Day, btw), is collector's B-list stuff.
Unless your name is Stereophonics.
Then you'd kill for such a track.
Volume 2 - Theme 10 - Don't You (Forget About Me) Track listing: 1.
Don't You (Forget About Me) [extended, 06:35] 2.
Up On The Catwalk [extended, 07:36] 3.
A Brass Band In African Chimes [instrumental, 9:23] Don't You (Forget About Me): Nothing much to add.
All is said about this career-defying Breakfast Club song.
Originally turned down by Bryan Ferry and Billy Idol (who actually released it later - William, what is all that?).
As far away from the 30 Frames A Seconds as possible, Don't You still is a great track.
No discussions about that, please.
And at least it opened and filled the Minds' Platinum Visa account in the US.
A mesmerizing 12"-bang of Up On The Catwalk follows.
A must-have for your SM-collection.
For the summing of names (towards the end of the song), someone suggested to add Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet).
Thank God things turned out differently.
The Natasha Kinski link probably came from the poster, which one of the band members had hung up in the recording studio.
A Brass Band In African Chimes has 'class' written all over it.
Nearing the 10 minutes-border, this harder to find instrumental made the Theme 10-CD one of the longest un-repetitive official CD-singles around (more than 23 mins).
Up until then, A Brass Band - an athmospheric, multi-layered triplet, the 3 parts divided by the fading out-trick - also was Minds' most expensive recording.
They didn't mind.
Nor do I.
Or does my Stella.
These Box sets document Simple Mind's music/sound in (nearly) chronological order from 1979 to 1990 by reissuing their early 12" vinyls on CD for the first time.
Forget the comments found in certain rock-magazines: they are not a best of, nor a purely commercial rip-off.
As mentioned on the Boxes themselves, they are an official collection of existing (vinyl) twelve inch singles, be it executed in original, aesthetically fashion (crucifix-shaped boxes).
Subsequently 19 of these individual Themes were individually sold as 5" Theme-CD-singles, be it not as picture discs.
Theme 20 - from Volume 4 - was taken from the live video Verona and never released separately.
These individual CD-singles ought to be the official replica's of the Themes from the Box sets, yet a few (significant) differences do emerge.
In 2009 the 4 original Volumes were re-released, together with a new 5th one.
In groups of 2 Themes at a time, we will review each song individually.
Volume 2 - Theme 9 - Speed Your Love To Me Track listing: 1.
Speed Your Love To Me [extended, 07:24] 2.
Speed Your Love To Me [album version, 04:06] 3.
Bass Line [instrumental, 04:41] Speed Your Love To Me, 12 inch: the crème de la crème.
Ab-so-lu-te-ly majestic.
If the album version already turned you on, be ready for this one: top-drawer vocals, stinging guitars, the intro so fastidiously inviting, even the unborn want to join.
Speed Your Love To Me (the maxi is an increase of 55% compared to the Sparkle edit!) is BIG.
All but subtle, yet - placed in Simple Minds' oeuvre - this cut really seems to come straight from the heart.
Something Chrissie and Patsy proclaimed too.
For a while.
Bass Line, the instrumental of Sparkle's White Hot Day (the original working title of the album was Quiet Night Of The White Hot Day, btw), is collector's B-list stuff.
Unless your name is Stereophonics.
Then you'd kill for such a track.
Volume 2 - Theme 10 - Don't You (Forget About Me) Track listing: 1.
Don't You (Forget About Me) [extended, 06:35] 2.
Up On The Catwalk [extended, 07:36] 3.
A Brass Band In African Chimes [instrumental, 9:23] Don't You (Forget About Me): Nothing much to add.
All is said about this career-defying Breakfast Club song.
Originally turned down by Bryan Ferry and Billy Idol (who actually released it later - William, what is all that?).
As far away from the 30 Frames A Seconds as possible, Don't You still is a great track.
No discussions about that, please.
And at least it opened and filled the Minds' Platinum Visa account in the US.
A mesmerizing 12"-bang of Up On The Catwalk follows.
A must-have for your SM-collection.
For the summing of names (towards the end of the song), someone suggested to add Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet).
Thank God things turned out differently.
The Natasha Kinski link probably came from the poster, which one of the band members had hung up in the recording studio.
A Brass Band In African Chimes has 'class' written all over it.
Nearing the 10 minutes-border, this harder to find instrumental made the Theme 10-CD one of the longest un-repetitive official CD-singles around (more than 23 mins).
Up until then, A Brass Band - an athmospheric, multi-layered triplet, the 3 parts divided by the fading out-trick - also was Minds' most expensive recording.
They didn't mind.
Nor do I.
Or does my Stella.
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