May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
The painting I did today made me melancholy. I had never heard of the artist Sir Howard Hodgkin until his recent death. He seemed very prolific…and seemingly he had a compulsion. A drive. Not because he felt as though he actually painted “subjects” or even ENJOYED the creative process, but because…he just had to to….
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Just right from the off it’s FUNK (not just with a capital F) There’s no fade up…we’re just – BANG! – in! Everything is funky…even the keyboards. Charlie has a short, shrift riff. Derek’s bass is funky as all hell. That keyboard funk though…and then Jim’s amazingly fragmented lyrics. The way he writes on Sons…
Just in case it disappears off the SMO visitor wall…and if he ever visits this sorry excuse of a fan blog (god knows why he would!)….a question: Now…I know I have probably not been ingratiating myself to you much lately, Jim, and you probably won’t reply…but I have to ask anyway. This is probably why…
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Just enjoy this picture for now. All will be revealed later… Photo: Janette Beckman
I posted it on the Simple Minds Facebook page with following words… I’m not always being a silly nincompoop! (Yes…no one believes it.) And not all of my artworks are Simple Minds related (I know! Who’d have thunk it? Granted…it is rare.) All that beautiful David Bowie stamp collection stuff, and sending out those postcards…
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I am SUCH a dirty, dirty bitch. Lol. The penultimate sentence in Jim’s reply stood out for me. And the smiley at the end (I think it should have been a wink, though!) I may be a dirty cow…but how else is one meant to take that sentence?! Lol. On a serious note, though…I myself…
Still no word from Simple Minds on what they’ll be offering up for Record Store Day 2017. It’s on what would have been my brother David’s 56th birthday this year. Of the two Bowie offerings, I’m more interested in the BOWPROMO set than the Cracked Actor set. I like the presentation more…and I’m thinking it…
Wow! I’ve only listened to some of it, so far – but they are tight and Boy be ON FIRE! Hell! Thirty Frames A second is lyrically jumbled up…but I will overlook it for the sheer VENOM he delivers it with…complete with a “fuck you, Jack!” Be still my beating ovaries! Lol. I can visualise…
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It’s the beginning. A rare use of keyboards for the period for SM, and percussive cross-stick snare beat. I find it a mysterious song. Is it already a “Criminal World” and we’re seeking escape? Or is the world “criminal” because we desire answers, light, love? And the trouble you seek from wanting these creates that…
Possibly the two best B sides Simple Minds ever released…