mp3 : Simple Minds - Glittering Prize (Club Mix)
A #16 hit from 1982. One of a number of great tracks on the LP New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84). After this, there's not many who will disagree Simple Minds went downhill at an increasingly rapid rate.
Here's yer very 80s style promo. Jim Kerr would probably have gotten himself a good kicking in Glasgow and indeed most of Scotland if he'd walked the streets looking like this.....those of us who dressed similarly often had to run for our lives.
Happy Listening**
** Link fixed
19 comments:
Your not wrong. Great tune.
SC
In a word. No.
Wish it hadn't been taken down, then some sceptics might have changed their mind about the band.
I have always loved that song. If it is on, I close my eyes and I am back at university, young and crazy, having that light shine on me.
Um, I dare to disagree. This is one of the two tracks, for me, that just ruin NGD from being a stunning album. The other track is obviously 'Promised you a miracle'. Both tracks, in my view, spoil the whole sound and 'feel' of the album. Just try listening to the album minus these two tracks... I hope you might see what I mean.
Not at all. Good tune, solid vocals, tight rhythm, great production. Maybe a bit dated with the synthy sounds but still holds up well after years and years.
Excellent track. This is a great album. I think the follow up, Sparkle in the Rain, is also terrific. I suspect you and others will disagree. Although it's no Fred Lowery "Whistles your gospel favourites".
Great trakc form a great lp - beofre the days when he started wearing a beret and a white smock and seemed to have the urge to release doves everywhere
In a word, yes
No i downloaded instantly it is one of those tracks that take you back to a place & time of great memories sort of like a picture of your granny.
thanks
son of the rock
NGD is a great album.
Up on the catwalk and Promised you a miracle are always on my ipod. I let them play without shame. Claim this song if you love it.
God knows why it was taken down so quickly - it is available in other places.
Great track from a great album. NOT as good as Son and Fascination (+ Sister Feelings Call) but, as Julie Walters is want to say, as good AS!
Just before everything went a bit too 'stadium' in the mid 80s,SM made some magnificent music,'speed your love to me' is the one I keep going back to on a regular basis.....
OK so I do actually own this. And quite liked it at the time. One of few.
Sorry TVV, stop scraping your fingernails down the blackboard, putting salt in a paper cut etc. They are .....bad. Worse than that. Bad and earnest.
The Minds 1980 - early 1983 where great. And then they met Bono...
The U3 period of Sparkle in the Rain was pretty bad, but once Derek Forbes the bassist went it was time for Once upon a Time or as Adam Sweeting described it in Melody Maker 'a squat fart straining to be released on mankind'. Real shit.
Please post the proper 12 inch version of Someone Sowhere in Summertime with the revised guitar intro sometime?
It's one of my favorite Simple Minds tracks from the era. Don't feel ashamed for enjoying it!
There is no shame in liking Simple Minds up to the end of Side One of Sparkle in the Rain. After then...
(Mind you, some of the early stuff stinks too.)
NGD is kind of a bridge album, the band finding their feet after much exploration. Simple Minds are really a great band, even today. Yes they have a few throw away albums, mostly in the mid 90''s, but NGD and the follow up Sparkle In The Rain are powerful works. The former based on the power of its subtleties, the latter based in the power of its urgency.
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