May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I’m up early this morning, in readiness for the final stint of study and assignment work. Uni breaks up for the summer officially on Thursday. I didn’t expect to have any headspace for this week’s MMM but I have a few minutes up my sleeve while I down my first morning coffee. On pondering what…
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If you know me, you know my love for Life In Oils. All of that heavy breathing and panting from Jim at the start of it is just sssooo bloody sexy! This mix has been nicely done. They haven’t overcooked it and the adding of the drums has really lifted it. In my DREAMS stuff…
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Released in May, 1981 – while the band are still busily recording the Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call albums, the first of the singles of the album is rushed out. But as “rush jobs” go, it has been a mainstay in the Simple Minds live set…well, since even BEFORE it was recorded in the studio…
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It’s the Greg Jackman and Charlie Burchill mix produced for the Glittering Prize compilation 1992. It’s only very subtly different to the version on Sons And Fascination…but I really like those subtle differences. This is my fave version of Love Song.
One of my favourite mixes…
Us Aussie’s knew a good thing when we heard it! (Even if some of us took 30 odd years to REALLY appreciate it! Now – that always makes me sound like I wasn’t a fan then. Not so! I was…but I was decidedly casual and not the UBER DIE HARD fan I am now.) So…