petak, 16.01.2009.
Simple Minds - Glittering Prize (1992)
thx wajorama for this share...
This compilation album is fascinating in that it tracks the dramatic artistic decline (and parallel commercial rise) of one the most successful groups of the post-punk era. "Love Song", "Promised You A Miracle" and "Someone, Somewhere In Summertime" see Jim Kerr and co. teetering like a cat poised on a fence, their sound a skittering, graceful interplay of glittering keyboards and adrenaline guitars, with Kerr's lyrics epic yet ambivalent on top. Then around the mid-1980s, Simple Minds fell from the fence into lumbering stadium rock rifferama. "Alive And Kicking" and "Sanctify Yourself" were bigmore… scarf-waving anthems but lacked the tantalising panache of their earlier work. As Jim Kerr sank further into megastardom, the music suffered further as he indulged in piously cumbersome ballads like "Belfast Child" and "Mandela Day". But while critics sighed, the Minds' audience swelled regardless--their "New Gold Dream" had come true. ..Rainer Zuphall
Codec: mp3
Bitrate: 320 kB/s
Size ca.: 128 MB
Genre : Rock
2000mustangs
Tracklist:
01. Alive And Kicking 4.47
02. See The Lights 4.24
03. Don't You (Forget About Me) 4.21
04. Promised You a Miracle 4.00
05. Sanctify Yourself 3.57
06. Belfast Child 6.41
07. Stand by Love 4.06
08. Up on the Catwalk 4.06
09. Let There Be Love 4.43
10. All The Things She Said 4.18
11. Someone, Somewhere In Summertime 4.37
12. Waterfront 4.50
