Next up.. Our Secrets Are The Same. Although never officially released the album was included in the 2004 Silver Box release so let's vote!
— Simple Minds Online (@SimpleMinds1977) April 14, 2017
The Simple Minds Twitter account @SimpleMinds1977 (an unofficial, fan run account – that is wonderfully maintained by Shaun Edwards) is currently running “knock out round” polls to find the favourite SM song from each of their studio albums. We’ve reached “Our Secrets Are The Same”.
What a truly overlooked and underrated album it is! A lot of fans think that Cry is the catalyst to the “return to form” (if ever they truly “lost” form for that long?) for the band. NOT FOR ME! It is Our Secrets Are The Same! If ANY album was worthy of a reissue it is this! It is buried within Virgin’s box set release of Silver Box. It needs to see the light of day in its own right!
Please, guys, consider the next reissue to be “Secrets”? It deserves prominence!
Agree! I’m listening to it now. It’s a very intriguing album that truly sees them stretching out in new directions. I’m at a loss why this went unreleased.
It is strange that in the 20 years since its release as part of the Silver Box set that it hasn’t had an independent stand-alone release. Maybe it feels like or is too much a reminder of what Kerr (and Burchill?) see as a musical nadir for Simple Minds? I think fans like ourselves would disagree with it being their musical nadir – but I think at the time it was recorded, around 1999, as where Jim was really contemplating his future in the music business. It’s just my guess that it’s this aspect if it – that maybe he feels the album is “best left to history.” Which is a shame if so.