Five minutes and thirty-eight seconds: The eighties revival has come and gone and there are still too few records which sound like “New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)” by Simple Minds. I thought it was seven or eight minutes long, to be honest - it feels wide enough.
What would your 5’38” pick have been?
It feels like a song Kate Bush could have sung. Never heard of this song or this band before, but I love it.
Simple Minds are probably the biggest “listener beware!” in pop history - no other band has such a quality gap between their best stuff and their very worst. But the album this is from - also called New Gold Dream - is basically this all the way through. Start there, work backwards, then step forwards VERY CAREFULLY. :)
Nah, just take New Gold Dream, half of Sparkle in the Rain, and you’re good.
