Lol I should meet your friend… Both songs are from New Gold Dream, probably my favourite album of all time. Yes, that’s quite a statement!
I remember when this came out and I listened to it - it was so completely different in terms of sound. And it has always had up until now a timeless quality, never really in fashion, and hence always in fashion. Plus one of the best bass players of all time.
Simple Minds never really recovered from making this - like U2 they became massively popular and massively annoying. Though I do listen to Street Fighting Years once in a while.
Unfortunately I was too young to really experience these guys in real time. I would have really loved going out when this came out, eg in New York clubs. He a fan too?
I had the amazing luck to catch him live in Berlin this summer at a fairly small venue - a tiny announcement in the music section of the local city mag, not even a featured weekend event (WUT!). Almost missed it!
He was fantastic, his guitarist & drummer were ridiculously talented as well.
If I could go back in time, I would’ve been at the Shane castle in Ireland for the U2 Go Home tour. Waving my hands in the air. Loved it when Bono brought up the fact that their parents gave them 200 or 250 pounds to get started. And his father and Edge’s father were drinking buddies. That’s putting it mildly. Helluva show. I have no idea what they’re up to nowadays and really don’t care.
Some ancient review of her I read long ago memorably for me called Sade the “sultry songbird.” She’s a lot more than that. Still I didn’t check that box in the columbia record and tape club card.
Both songs are from New Gold Dream, probably my favourite album of all time. Yes, that’s quite a statement!
