Tracks1.1 In Trance As Mission -2002 Remaster 1.2 Sweat Bullet -2002 Remaster 1.3 70 Cities As Love Brings the Fall -2002 Remaster 1.4 Boys from Brazil -2002 Remaster 1.5 Love Song -2002 Remaster 1.6 This Earth That You Walk Upon -2002 Remaster 1.7 Sons and Fascination -2002 Remaster 1.8 Seeing Out the Angel -2002 Remaster 1.9 Theme for the Great Cities -2002 Remaster 1.10 The American -2002 Remaster 1.11 20th Century Promised Land -2002 Remaster 1.12 Wonderful in Young Life -2002 Remaster 1.13 League of Nations -2002 Remaster 1.14 Careful in Career -2002 Remaster 1.15 Sound in 70 Cities -2002 Remaster 1.16 Someone Somewhere (In Sommertime) -2002 Remaster 1.17 Colours Fly and Catherine Wheel -2002 Remaster 1.18 Promised You a Miracle -2002 Remaster 1.19 Big Sleep -2002 Remaster 1.20 Somebody Up There Likes You -2002 Remaster 1.21 New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84) -2002 Remasterglittering Prize 1.22 Hunter and the Hunted -2002 Remaster 1.23 King Is White and in the Crowd -2002 Remaster 1.24 Up on the Catwalk -2002 Digital Remaster 1.25 Book of Brilliant Things -2002 Digital Remaster 1.26 Speed Your Love to Me -2002 Digital Remaster 1.27 Waterfront -2002 Digital Remaster 1.28 East at Easter -2002 Digital Remaster 1.29 Street Hassle -2002 Digital Remaster 1.30 White Hot Day -2002 Digital Remaster 1.31 "C" Moon Cry Like a Baby -2002 Digital Remaster 1.32 The Kick Inside of Me -2002 Digital Remaster 1.33 Shake Off Teh Ghosts -2002 Digital Remaster 1.34 Once Upon a Time -2002 Digital Remaster 1.35 All the Things She Said -2002 Digital Remaster 1.36 Ghostdancing -2002 Digital Remaster 1.37 Alive and Kicking -2002 Digital Remaster 1.38 Oh Jungleland -2002 Digital Remaster 1.39 I Wish You Were Here -2002 Digital Remaster 1.40 Sanctify Yourself -2002 Digital Remaster 1.41 Come a Long Way -2002 Digital Remaster 1.42 Street Fighting Years -2002 Digital Remaster 1.43 Soul Crying Out -2002 Digital Remaster 1.44 Wall of Love -2002 Digital Remaster 1.45 This Is Your Land -2002 Digital Remaster 1.46 Take a Step Back -2002 Digital Remaster 1.47 Kick It in -2002 Digital Remaster 1.48 Let It All Come Down -2002 Digital Remaster 1.49 Mandela Day -2002 Digital Remaster 1.50 Belfast Child -2002 Digital Remaster 1.51 Biko -2002 Digital Remaster 1.52 When Spirits Rise -2002 Digital Remaster
NotesEU-only five CD set containing a quintet of albums from the Scottish New Wave band: Sons & Fascination, New Gold Dream, Sparkle in the Rain, Once Upon a Time and Street Fighting Years. EMI.
Love this! Best part of this set is to have the full/expanded Sons and Fascination album, including the tracks from the Sister Feelings Call EP. There's also an extra end track on Street Fighting Years - When Spirits Rise - that I do not have on my LP. All the tracks have been remastered well and sound very nice. Well worth adding to your music collection if you don't have these albums on CD yet.
They never caught on in America, but Simple Minds has been releasing fascinating synth-pop for decades. These discs catch the group on the brink of their widest success and feature many of their best songs. The band has had many personnel changes, but the lineup in this version is by far their strongest. You can't beat the price. However, the packaging leaves much to be desired. The five discs in paper sleeves are crammed into a too-small box. I have to leave one of the sleeves permanently out so I can grasp another one. I would have paid a bit more for easier access. Even so, a good value.