May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
It’s been a while since I did a post for MMM and I’m thinking about the anniversary of Real To Real Cacophony this week. It’s the 44th anniversary is this incredibly uniquely original gem of an album from Simple Minds. The only regret I have now when it comes to getting my SM tattoos is…
If you know me then you will know that I have said MANY times that I am a very slow reader. There have been very few exceptions where I am able to ramp up the pace of my reading to such a degree that I am able to devour a book in less than a…
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The lyrics are incredible. Steeped in realism. How does a 20 year old man write with such depth? And write with more depth than the 63 year old version of the same man seems capable of? Genuinely. I mean…Jim has depth in his writing on Facebook. It still comes across there but it doesn’t seem…
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A person asked on one of the SM Facebook groups I am on – if you were introducing a current non-fan to Simple Minds, what song would you choose to play to them? I’ve been thinking about it over the past couple of days. One song? To encapsulate a band that has an 18 album…
This post contains a YouTube video with a Simple Minds music catalogue review. Click the post to view…
That cost a bomb. A few little unseen treasures from various publications. Sadly music magazines are notorious for not always giving photo credits, but I will try and credit those who took these gems, if published. This one is a small little inset. A clipping from what I think might be a Dutch magazine. Taken…
“This is a fast story”, author Graeme Thomson says at the beginning of the book and keeps reminding us a few more times further in. It’s a story of the formative years of two pals from Toryglen, their school chum down the road, the keyboard player from the Chinese restaurant and the bass player that…
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A couple of things to highlight from recent days. One is an interview (well, part one of an interview said Neil Saint in reply to a comment left on the FB post) with Kenny Hyslop about his days in Slik. You can listen to the interview by clicking HERE UPDATE: There is a part two…
Interesting retrospective review from these guys. Very brief and quite broad. Not even any praise for Pleasantly Disturbed on Life In A Day – which is a HUUUUGE oversight in my eyes. They don’t really get much into the nitty gritty of the albums…but if you have a spare 15 mins…