May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Now, where do I start with this? I’m not sure. The past 24 hours I have been, although celebrating the anniversary of Empires And Dance – it’s been giving me time to reflect on aspects of the music and my fandom. There are several stepping stones my fandom took as I was discovering them properly….
Back nearly FOUR YEARS ago now, when I took those tentative steps into exploring the Simple Minds back catalogue and having quickly listened to Life In A Day and Real To Real Cacophony to move onto Empires And Dance and fall instantly in love…it was Twist/Run/Repulsion that was the first track I heard that absolutely…
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For the rest of my life. I really wish I could. (This one was so much bloody fun!) But. It’s. Only. Ever. Going. To. Be. A. Hobby!
Well, the reading of the manuscript by a lady in French is the first indicator that something about this song is going to be a little “left field” and wonderfully avant garde. Not to mention the rather unsettling and creepy sounding reversed words at the very intro of the song. It was only VERY recently…
Lyric of the day Song: Twist/Run/Repulsion Album: Empires And Dance Year of release: 1980 Words: Jim Kerr
This has been in my head all day too :-)) #NowPlaying “Twist/Run/Repulsion – Demo” by Simple Minds from Silver Box