Simple Minds- New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) REACTION & REVIEW
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Again one of those songs where I really envy you that you can listen to this for the very first time. My first listen is more than 40 years ago and I still remember how I felt. It was spectacular, it still is and until today it remains one of the fans’ favorites in live concerts which I had the pleasure to attend 6 so far.
Simple Minds was firing on all cylinders with this album. Outstanding from start to finish.
"New Gold Dream", "I Travel" and "Theme For Great Cities" I could listen to every morning to start the day.
There's more great work from Simple Minds, but these three are my absolute favourites.
This Fear of Gods, Premonition, 20th Century Promised Land for me
Great taste, I second.
Also looking forward to "Theme For Great Cities"! It inspired me to create a playlist of all the songs in my library that deal with cities (or just mention them in title). Silly OCD for the win!
@@s.collintuck3227City Life by Camel and Living For the City by Stevie Wonder are a couple of good ones! 😅
Imagine listening to this in 1983 for the first time ! Out of this World back then .
I love this song. It's like a sonic wall of music that just washes over you... from the driving drums, to the incredible layers of keyboards, to the propulsive bass, and the great, floating guitar lines, all with Jim Kerr's deep, soulful vocals. It just all meshes together.
This track is a powerful opener to the second side of the album! I love Michael McNeil's keyboard work on this song.
I just love the whole feel and atmosphere of this album, without ever worrying too much over what Jim is singing about!
Hypnotic.
The Great title track. Up there with Hunter And The Hunted of the best songs on this album. Glittering Prize is also a banger.
Hunter & The Hunted is in my top 5 tracks of all time.
By anyone
My favourite Simple Minds track. It has a very unique atmosphere to it.
I agree. Live versions are so much better though than studio.
Simple Minds, back at the start of the 1980’s was such a great band, New Gold Dream was possibly the pinnacle for me after the excellent Sons and Fascination/Sister Feeling Call and before the following release, sparkle in the rain. Sadly after SITR it was a slow but steady decline as they found fame in America and chased the money. In the UK there was a brilliant Live Music programme called ‘The Tube’ and I recall Simple Minds playing live their new songs from their new Album, New Gold Dream and they sang this song live, it was epic, the Synth player and Bass guitarist were stellar. You can see it all on UA-cam.
Simple Minds followed a similar path to Roxy Music l feel, both bands starting off with more complex 'interesting' songs. Later albums were more commercial from both bands, although l have the later records from both bands it's the Simple Minds albums l prefer and all was not lost with some good tunes such as Travelling Man, 7 Deadly Sins and Andy Warhol's Dead for example. I have always liked Real to Real Cacophony perhaps the most with their early albums.
SIMPLE MINDS still selling out stadiums in 2024
I got front row, whites if their eyes close……amazing!
Stadiums? Are you sure?
This is Simple Minds at the absolute top of their game. Just an amazing soundscape. Still has the Mittel Europa dance vibes of Sons and Fascination/Sisters Feelings Call but with beefed up production.
My favourite Simple Minds song
My favourite Simple Minds track❤❤
Stunning…can’t wait to see them live in June
Enjoy!
I'm so old I have the vinyl and cd😁😍
My favorite Simple Minds song, it's catchy, it's lush, it's mysterious and the beat goes on and on; love it!
One of their better songs.
Kerr & co. were deep into poetry so good luck trying to make sense of their lyrics! I suggest you try the 12" version of this song for further enjoyment, and the amazing live version on the City of Lights album, the most mystical ending to a concert ever!
The years 81/82/83/84 meant that Jim Kerr and the band were positively projecting themselves into the future. 81 was the signing to Virgin Records with their double album Sons & Fascination/Sister Feelings Call, the moment when Simple Minds' career began to take off, even though they had already released three albums on Arista Records which hadn't done much commercially (but were good artistically). Musically, it's a different story according to Jim Kerr:
"We were struggling. We had the backing track. One of the big influences on us was a genre music called Kraut Rock - it's not one of the most flattering terms - it was essentially these German garage bands namely Neu, Can and another called La Dusselldorf, and basically they'd hit on a chord and repeat it and repeat it - until you actually felt the thing was moving. And New Gold Dream was an exercise in that. Again the lyrics were coming from this idea - I suppose we felt there was some sort of alchemy going on in our band and we felt we'd used our influences and with our influences we'd cooked up something of our own. And I think New Gold Dream is about that - and the title track itself is also in a way about that."
Note that there are two drummers on this track and here's what bassist Derek Forbes had to say about it in 2018:
When it came to recording the song, Mike Ogletree and Mel Gaynor recorded their drum parts simultaneously in The Townhouse at four o'clock in the morning. "On New Gold Dream it's both of them. I was in there on bass to play along with them. The two of them were facing each other with a kit each in the live room - and I was in the live room with them. So the three of us were there. They were looking at each other - the two of them. They both had a drum machine as well - and then there was percussion after that. So you've got two full drum kits and two drummers playing at the same time, the drum machine and then a lot of percussion to top it. So it was just monster. If you imagine that sound - and I was doing my tank division bass."
Never see much mention of Real to Real Cacophony album. Real to Real and Premonition a couple of tracks as good as any of their earlier tunes.
@@keithjones7390 In my opinion, Real to Real Cacophony, Empires and Dance plus the double album Sons & Fascination/Sister Feelings Call are Simple Minds' best work and where the band experimented successfully. Of course, their first three albums for Arista were unfortunately unsuccessful at the time, and only garnered a small amount of critical acclaim.
Heard Kerr on the radio explain what the lyrics refer to, very much in line with your explanation👍
Glittering Prize always was /always is my track from this album
JP: "I like that bassline."
ME: "D'uh. It's Derek Forbes."
Never the same after they sacked him ☹
My all-time favorite song - nit just on the album or by SM - but ever.
Don't care for the group, but I do like this song! I used to load up my ipod with all kinds of stuff and just play random shuffle during the night. This came on and I didn't know who it was, and I was surprised when I found out!
Love the bass. Love all the songs they've done
One of THE songs of ANY decade. Watch Mick McNeil play it on his accordion.
Sweetwaters music festival the year before was the best one SPLIT ENZ headlining the weekend with Toots and the maytals The Church DD SMASH. BLAM BLAM BLAM amongst dozens of other bands
Hay there Justin brother i saw these guys in 83 at the Sweetwaters music festival with my dad The PRETENDER'S played that weekend as well WICKED
"After an album obsessed by fear we'd made an album looking to the future. In spite of everything. That explains the years to come. Also, 1984 was taboo. New Gold Dream went against that. It said: let's hear the news, good or bad"
(Jim Kerr)
I've just kinda found this gem as well. Although I know the synth sample very well from some amazing British house music of the early 90s. Amazing tune.
I've been really bloody lucky to have seen TOOT'S and the MAYTALS 3 times over my lifetime
R.I.P TOOT'S 😢
Its a great track. Repetitive but still great. I think the outro is definitely the best part with that synth arpeggio that comes in, love the atmosphere there
Don't even dare to compare this to Don't you.This is on a different level.
Watching these reviews of any artist especially the more popular well known songs is a little bit frustrating as l often think there are so many 'deep cuts' that are way better than this!
Parts of this song was used in a techno track open your mind
Great song, great album!!
81 82 83 84 referred to their amplifier "Dis one goes...to 84 which is 74 louder"
@@davidbull7210 please extend the explanation of this
@@juanpablo9692 It's a reference to the joke in the film "This is Spinal Tap". I was probably drunk when I wrote that 😂
That’s my take on the lyrics: they’re just celebrating their era. The song came out in 1982 right? What they feel is…it’s like a golden age to them - or maybe it’s just what they hope…and there’s a wish as well, that this golden moment extends until subsequent years (that ‘s why 82 83 84..)
This reminds me of my teenage years...fun period
40 years on and just saw he’s not singing “Eddy 1, Eddy 2, Eddy 3, Eddy 4”
What a donut, never be able to confess this to my friends 😂
amazing song
Awesome track off a great album, one of my favourite non -single tracks. Really powerful live...takes me back to my teens...
One of the 80's seminal albums. This entire album was highly original and influential back in 82. Saw them perform this live at the Lyceum Ballroom, London, in 82 and they were fantastic! This was before they could pack out stadiums.
This track and Glittering Prize are standouts however, the entire disc is great ❤
Thanks for reviewing it.
"I'm of simple mind."
Saw this Live in 1985 and the lyrics were changed to 82,83,84,85 and Bono from U2 joined them on stage for it 🙂
Wonderful❤ Band
Imagine this: my brother went once to Lisbon for a few days - we live about 380 km away, which, for our scale, is a bit - and at night he went out with his friends. Get a beer, hanging around, that usual stuff. It happens entering in a bar where there was music. Guess what, it was Simple Minds who was playing. I suppose, a reduced members and acoustic set, but... As if nothing, there they were! The band that fill stadiums were there playing for less than 50 people.
Aren't we all humans?
Those we learned to admire, to say the least, are just like us, have our size and can be close as we need to be.
It sounds a joke, but just a pretext to get philosophical.
Thank you, music. 😊
Kerr performed like he sang- weaving around on stage...just mesmerising
This song as well as many others on this album to me seemed to use new ways of propelling songs along.
Love SM. Do more:-)
Living briefly Monroeville Al..Truman capote hometown..Bryan Ferry..bete noiire..played a lot
Kia Ora hello i hope everyone is doing well
I prefer Sons & Fascination, but New Gold Dream is a great album. I occasionally play it as background music at work and virtually nobody knows who it is but they all like it. It's easier on the ear than S&F for the newbie, imo.
Superb, but Hunted & The Hinted off that album is even better ❤️❤️ wait until you hit that
1982 hymn! 🎉
You should listen to On the Verge by Quantum from Down the Mountainside - album of the year
Justin of all the things I've lost i don't miss my mind at all. If you see it anywhere don't tell it where i am shhh
😆
It took me ages to ditch that mind. Always getting in the way of a good time
For the bassline, here Derek Forbes Masterclass (still great even with a wrong note...) ua-cam.com/video/w79gmTDXJTM/v-deo.htmlsi=lUQaxg5842N3Ntyq&t=498
go backwards towards 79 with these...
mak esme wa nto dan ce
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