Simple Minds, Simple Things, Promised Me A Miracle..

[StreetCowboy]

I often log on to TV when I am grumpy or frustrated; and then all you effwits do your best to wind me up... but the first thing I do is go to look at the battles I;m fighting already,,,

and at the top of the page it says "Stretcowboy's content"

And I am. And whenever I think I am not, I go back to that page, and I conclude that I am,

Simple things Simple Minds. Promised me a miracle.

and delivered.

Ha ha... for those of you that are still not satisfied.... try drink and drugs, It will not make you happy, but you;ll be glad to get back to real life.

SC

[Patsycat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpc7TBhilFI

[Patsycat]

With ya!!!

Understood you.

Sorry, i didn't get to Diggers, the snow in Edinburgh was even deeper that Switzerland - next time...

Edited January 22, 2011 by Patsycat

[SteeleJoe]

Why a link to one of their worst songs -- and one they didn't write and by all accounts weren't especially proud despite its massive success -- when it's not even the right song?!

Sorry...I liked Simple Minds and used to get annoyed that people would reduce them to that one Top 40 hit...carry on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd6riYfLPXk

[Ulysses G.]

IMHO, it was the only good song that they ever did and they should have been very grateful to whoever actually wrote it.

[SteeleJoe]

IMHO, it was the only good song that they ever did and they should have been very grateful to whoever actually wrote it.

No doubt you are not alone in thinking that -- indeed it's not a very Simple Minds song (it was written for The Breakfast Club and not even for them) -- and so it's not surprising that someone who didn't otherwise like Simple Minds liked that one. And I was exaggerating a bit -- it's not a bad song, I just got annoyed with how overplayed it was and how many people knew only that song from them.But there are -- in my opinion -- loads of other good ones, for example:

Up On the Catwalk

Alive and Kicking

New Gold Dream

Waterfront

All The Things She Said

Sanctify Yourself

and...

The last one holds a special place i my heart not only because I think it's so cool but because I heard it (and watched the video) the first time in the Sugar Shack Bar in Bangkok Thailand in 1982 (as I was falling in lust -- though at 19 it sorta felt like love -- with my first Thai chick...and therein lies a tale in itself...).

The Sugar Shack -- everyplace was playing CCR and mostly other crap 70s rock and the Shack was playing videos of Depeche Mode, Duran Duran and the like; cutting edge for its time.

Anyway...I'm sure people stopped reading this a long time ago...

Edited January 23, 2011 by SteeleJoe

[Orac]

How about Book of Brilliant Things - one of my all time favourites, especially live.

[SteeleJoe]

How about Book of Brilliant Things - one of my all time favourites, especially live.

Oh, yes. Most definitely.

Right now? Listening to Once Upon A Time. (Inspired by thread to open the Simple Minds folder...)

Edited January 23, 2011 by SteeleJoe

[Farang0tang]

New Gold Dream - classic!

Watched them live a few times in the 80s.

And U2 were around same time, but possibly not as popular then.

Got to mention;

Someone, Somewhere, in Summertime

Big Sleep

Hunter and the Hunted

[Thaddeus]

It's all good.

I just played 'All the things she said' on the radio.