May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I have been delving into the extended mixes offered by the YouTube channel 110Berlin and their output is getting very good indeed. It has taken me a little while to catch up with their output since my previous post. Sometimes, some things still don’t quite hit the mark, but of the mixes I have listened…
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I think I’ve come to understand one of the main reasons why I love Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call so much. Firstly, musically, it just progresses so beautifully. There is that undercurrent connective theme of travel, linked by the musical stamps of Derek Forbes’s fabulous bass lines, Mick MacNeil’s synth riffs and melodies and those…
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This week I will be somewhat cheating, as I did a lengthy post about this song for MMM barely six months ago. I wanted to post about it last week, as the song was my earworm over the previous weekend and I was just feeling a lot of love for it. But Empires That Dance…
Just ONE song I would sell a kidney to hear played live. But then again, it’s probably best left in 1981 and I get a TARDIS…
A song that you think everybody should listen to – Of the Simple Minds canon, Careful In Career seems a particularly overlooked and undervalued piece. It’s amazingly atmospheric and moody and Jim’s vocal is just…the best thing. Ever.
A bridge version split somewhere between the demo that can be sampled on Silver Box and what gets recorded for the Sister Feelings Call album…this is the only known live recording of SM performing Careful In Career. A song that I feel is vastly underrated within the SM canon. A pity it is so under-appreciated…
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Jim’s voice, and his lyrics. They are deep (both voice AND lyrics), as per usual in these early years. His lyrics have a depth beyond his tender years at this point in the Simple Minds story. He so very quickly becomes such a stark, bold lyricist. The imagery he conveys is startling. God, can you…
Lyric of the day Song: Careful In Career Album: Sister Feelings Call Year of release: 1981 Words: Jim Kerr A.K.A – The Kerrster 😉 (not that I would call him that! – Even though I just did…oops!) Bloody love this song!
‘Careful In Career (Demo)’ by Simple Minds Love this version as much as the Sons And Fascination album version #SimpleMinds