Category: simple minds
Vinyl Night – Good News, Graffiti Soul And Kawala
Been enjoying the fun of opening a sealed copy of Good News From The Next World on vinyl…and listning to it and a bloody great copy of Graffiti Soul on vinyl. And finally a copy of Kawala’s Humanistic on vinyl. Awesome!
Best. Video. Glitch. EVER!
No more words… ?? ?? I was just looking to grab a still to use…
Laser Disc Play
It’s on and…looking good! Singularly the most expensive bit of Minds memorabilia I’ve bought (£75!) On second thoughts…maybe the Themes set was more expensive. Think that might have been £95. It was a big outlay anyway!
New Acquisitions – Inc. Glittering Prize Laser Disc!!!
OH MY GOOD LORD! On the rarity scale of Simple Minds memorabilia…fewer things could be more highly prized (a GLITTERING PRIZE indeed!) than the Glittering Prize compilation on laser disc. Just…wow! Was almost as much as a house mortgage…but hey ho! The Good News From The Next World vinyl is STILL shrink wrapped and unplayed! …
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The American – Interference Mix
Just about my most favourite Simple Minds remix of them all!
Out Of My League…
Never in it in the first place *le sigh* (Ignore me. I’ve descended into “wallow” mode again. Lovely picture though. That is definitely how one does “aesthetically pleasing”. It’s not even Thursday yet…)
Simple Minds – Lightning
Because I tend to listen to a Minds mix on Spotify in bed at night, I may not hear a particular song for several weeks (shuffle mode never really moves away much from a set number of songs it plays…never really seems like a true randomised algorithm). A case in point: this morning, 7am. I…
Sycophancy Nancy…
I just had to. Nigel Tufnel helped me turn it up to eleven 😉
Why I Love…Factory
A fabulous synth intro from Mick, then a fabulous classic rock riff from Charlie. And then….like the crashing elevator within the chorus, in comes Jim with such stilted and stark lyrics…getting straight to the point of it! It’s bleak. It’s dystopia! Industrial. Gritty. In a pea-soup fog. It’s a Lowry painting. It’s Fritz Lang’s Metropolis….