Don't You Forget (About Simple Minds)

How do you rate this 80s band? I'm listening to the Glittering Prize CD and remembering how great they were. Not just Don't You Forget (About Me) either. Sanctify Yourself, Promised You A Miracle, Belfast Child, Alive & Kicking and of course Someone Somewhere in the Summertime, to name just those!

What is Jim Kerr up to these days anyway? Is Simple Minds even STILL around? And didn't Kerr and Peter Gabriel do a duet in the 80s?

I've always wondered if Jim is related to Jez.

Jim got married to Chrissy and that is all she/he wrote I loved Simple Minds in the 80's and still listen to them. Haven't heard about them doing anything lately. They could do a come back tour or sumting. I would see them again.

Last I remember of them, they did She's a River back in like '93 or '94. Can't remember anything else since!

Ah Johnny and the Self Abusers.

Never got into them. Never floated any cash their way.

New Gold Dream was ace.Didn`t they do an album full of covers a couple of years ago including LWTUA?.

This is the thread I didn't dare to start myself :D . If you check my profile you will see that I'm Simple Minds fan since 1985 (since Don't you). Jim Kerr was my first love . I saw them live 6 or 7 times...

Yes they are still around and alive. As I heard there will be a new album in autumn. Can't wait for the next concert .

Did you know that they made a cover version of "Love will tear us apart" (kind of disco version) ;) ?

I think SM and NO are kind of similar in their history. Both started as punk bands and someday began to use electronics in their music.

I was a member at this forum, but it has been down for 6 weeks now.

Rian wrote: I was a member at this forum, but it has been down for 6 weeks now.

The SM-Forum? I'm registered member there, but I never posted anything... (what kind of fan am I? ) I checked it... The whole site is down indeed. What is it? Is the band bankrupt? I hope not...

Rian there's no need to worry

Bere wrote: Rian there's no need to worry

6th May.

That's 5 weeks a go.......

a bunch of gingers

Interesting News for those concerned

I liked some early stuff - The American, Promised You A Miracle, Waterfront etc. Jim and Charlie are massive Celtic fans. Charlie's nephew Mark Burchill played for the club a couple of years ago. I remember they were on TOTP in the mid 90's and the drum kit featured the Celtic crest.

How good is Glittering Prize 12" Bere? The instrumental is pukka an all

I do have that Johnny And The Self Abusers single, I play it for a laugh now and then.

Sorry Bere, this is where we differ, for me, it's been all downhill for SM since New Gold Dream, the sleek stylings of songs like In Trance As Mission and This Earth You Walk Upon had been replaced largely by songs that sounded more like U2, there are a couple of things I like on Sparkle but it became diminishing returns for me. Saw them in 86, I think, and about fell asleep, all the songs were post NGD, except for a perfunctory encore of Love Song. I did like the song See The Lights, that was a good return to their old form, there was a nice performance of that one on the Arsenio Hall show I think.

Damn, gonna have to listen to Fila Brazilia's mix of Themes For Great Cities now.

[darkgreen]Green[/darkgreen] wrote: I do have that Johnny And The Self Abusers single, I play it for a laugh now and then.

Sorry Bere, this is where we differ, for me, it's been all downhill for SM since New Gold Dream, the sleek stylings of songs like In Trance As Mission and This Earth You Walk Upon had been replaced largely by songs that sounded more like U2, there are a couple of things I like on Sparkle but it became diminishing returns for me. Saw them in 86, I think, and about fell asleep, all the songs were post NGD, except for a perfunctory encore of Love Song. I did like the song See The Lights, that was a good return to their old form, there was a nice performance of that one on the Arsenio Hall show I think.

Damn, gonna have to listen to Fila Brazilia's mix of Themes For Great Cities now.

I fell into them through "Don't you" in '85. Imagine a young girl falling in love with the singer of the band ... I didn't know about their dark past then and I wasn't ready for the punky-stuff (as I wasn't 1987 for New Order's). I remember... 13.01.86.... The first concert in my life... Sigh...

michael brown wrote: How good is Glittering Prize 12" Bere? The instrumental is pukka an all

(btw what is "pukka"?)

Some Distant Memory wrote: And didn't Kerr and Peter Gabriel do a duet in the 80s?

I think I had to know that... No official release if it exists. Perhaps some live stuff?

Bere wrote:

[darkgreen]Green[/darkgreen] wrote: I do have that Johnny And The Self Abusers single, I play it for a laugh now and then.

Sorry Bere, this is where we differ, for me, it's been all downhill for SM since New Gold Dream, the sleek stylings of songs like In Trance As Mission and This Earth You Walk Upon had been replaced largely by songs that sounded more like U2, there are a couple of things I like on Sparkle but it became diminishing returns for me. Saw them in 86, I think, and about fell asleep, all the songs were post NGD, except for a perfunctory encore of Love Song. I did like the song See The Lights, that was a good return to their old form, there was a nice performance of that one on the Arsenio Hall show I think.

Damn, gonna have to listen to Fila Brazilia's mix of Themes For Great Cities now.

I fell into them through "Don't you" in '85. Imagine a young girl falling in love with the singer of the band ... I didn't know about their dark past then and I wasn't ready for the punky-stuff (as I wasn't 1987 for New Order's). I remember... 13.01.86.... The first concert in my life... Sigh...

When I was 15, I was told that I looked like Jim Kerr.

:D

Simple Minds' music hasn't just faded away like the intelligence of the British & American media.

I felt their 1997 album Neapolis was a disappointment, but they came back strong with their 2001 Neon Lights covers album.

Their 2002 album Cry was outstanding. But like New Order, they made a horrible choice of first single track (the title track Cry) and as a result, the single didn't chart in the UK Top 40.

Disconnected is a sensational song, and The Floating World is an instrumental crying out for reinterpretation (excuse the pun). Or have I said too much already?!?

Rian wrote:

When I was 15, I was told that I looked like Jim Kerr.

:D

Got photos to prove that ?

Anyone know their nearly never released album "Our secrets are the same"? It's a very nice one. Some kind of atypical. Silent and guitary. It's kind of their "Get ready". It comes with the Silver Box.

Bere wrote:

Rian wrote:

When I was 15, I was told that I looked like Jim Kerr.

:D

Got photos to prove that ?

Yes, I think so. Will have a look in my old boxes.

;)

I heard that Kerr lost it on drugs and sacked the whole band shortly before Live Aid. Now it's just session guys.

ANy truth in that?

BIGINOIL wrote: I heard that Kerr lost it on drugs and sacked the whole band shortly before Live Aid. Now it's just session guys.

ANy truth in that?

You confuse that with Barney...

Seriuosly: I don't know. I never heard of drugs... Today it's just Jim and Charlie left of the original band... They had Drummer Mel Gaynor a long time before and after Live Aid... The bassplayers changed often. On their last tour they had their first one with them (Derek Forbes)...

Rian wrote:

Bere wrote:

Rian wrote:

When I was 15, I was told that I looked like Jim Kerr.

:D

Got photos to prove that ?

Yes, I think so. Will have a look in my old boxes.

;)

Well, err, I hade to censor it a bit *cough*.

But this is me aged 14 or 15. Taken for over 23-24 years ago.