May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
To think how much I used to think seeing these scenes back as an 11 year old was icky! If I could go back in time and tell that 11 year old, that, in many years to come, she will think he is the most beautiful man in the universe and these scenes will make…
What is it about this song that has me in floods every time I listen to it? #NowPlaying “Wonderful In Young Life” by Simple Minds from X5
I’m working on a montage of my favourite stills of Jim from various Simple Minds videos. But in the meantime… LOOK AT HIS FACE!!!! LOOK AT HIS BEAUTIFUL, ANGEL FACE!!! ERMAGERD!! Yes, I know! I worry myself sometimes. Lol
Jim and his daughter, Yasmin. She’s beautiful…just like her Daddy-o! (no bias!)
Why I love…Boys From Brazil. I’ve talk about my love for Boys From Brazil in passing several times now. On the Simple Minds FB page too, telling Jim how much I would love to meet Brian McGee and thank him…KISS HIM…for those amazing drums. Yes, Jim says Mel Gaynor is the best drummer in world…and…
Someone took offence to a comment I made on the New Gold Dreamers Facebook group. What I said was TOTALLY tongue-in-cheek and, in my eyes, NO WAY offensive AT ALL. The comment was a post with video showing Jim coaxing Charlie into an end of gig “dad dance”. I said… “Lol. Charlie is sssooo ‘I…
priptona-weird: This man SERIOUSLY gives me a microphone fetish! He has SO many ways of holding a mic – and, you know, mics are all phallic and stuff. JIM, JUST STOP IT! STOP MAKING ME HAVE UNSAVOURY THOUGHTS ABOUT YOU AND MICROPHONES! My beautiful Goth Prince: Laird Dash Fandango I’m the one needing a fan…
Because it is one of the (if not THE) sexiest songs they’ve ever made. Jim’s vocals… Just…OMG…WHAAAAA??! All those sounds and moans and god knows what…just… I don’t know what half the words are. It never got an official release until Silver Box…and it’s obviously a demo. Some lines I do know “Unhappy the land…
“A shelter from the storm in the early beginning” – Big Sleep, Simple Minds (Whatever Jim Kerr is doing with that microphone looks wonderfully suggestive – well, to me anyway. Lol)
“We were on top and the world was spinning / we were only young in the whirlpool of warning” – Big Sleep, Simple Minds