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I love songs born of a simple idea made into a fully-blown, multicolored thing.
Simple Minds are from Glasgow and yes, this song bears more than a passing resemblance to vintage U2 (the bands were friendly and this song was debuted at a 1983 live gig in Dublin with Simple Minds having been invited to open for.⌠wait for itâŚ. U2.)
This composition comes from the bandâs bassist playing one repeated note (in D) throughout the entire track. The lyrics were written by the bandâs frontman, Jim Kerr, inspired by a walk along the River Clyde observing his cityâs native shipyard industry in decline.
A song of hope and rebirth from one of the finest live bands Iâve ever witnessed, as the video (also shot at a gig in Glasgow) makes clear. đ´ó §ó ˘ó łó Łó ´ó ż
Simple Minds: theyâre so much more than just a hit track from an 80s John Hughes teen movie!
Feb 4, 2025
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I canât decide which is more perfect:
The Roblox-looking video
Or the âI fell in love to that songâ summertime perfection of the tune itself?
(Which seems to be about starting over/turning a life page, appropriate for a band that hasnât released an album in six years)
On auto-repeat in my head rn đś
Jul 8, 2024
In this case the song. Britpop is usually more of a fall affair for me but this one is so fun and springy.
This part of the song gets me every time:
I feed the pigeons, I sometimes feed the sparrows too
It gives me a sense of enormous well-being
(Parklife)
And then I'm happy for the rest of the day
Safe in the knowledge there will always be
A bit of my heart devoted to it
Link to this part because the accent is crucial
Apr 4, 2024
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Best band name of recent vintage.
Not a blues song.
But definitely a song about having the blues because of love things. đ
Feb 8, 2024
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Hey tyler hopefully this doesnât violate some PI.FYI golden rule
But after nearly two years of writing, editing and arguing, my book about the EP is coming out in May and can be preordered here:
https://hozacrecords.com/product/aifl/
The book is about the origins, history and cultural impact of the EP since these little objects first started coming out in the 50s.
Over 50 of my music biz friends then helped me shape the list and review the top 200 ever released, according to us (ha).
For those of you who are into this kind of geekery/snobbery, I canât wait to hear what you think. A labor of love, as all books are! â¤ď¸
Mar 27, 2024
âSongs Of a Lost Worldâ coming to a goth listening station near you Nov 1 đ¤
The fr FW Me Friday the 13th the world was looking for
Sep 14, 2024
I will fail to explain just how much this band meant to me in the 90s.
So I will borrow from AV Club who did a fine job of distilling it:
âUnwound is the best band of the â90s. Not just because of how prolific, consistent, and uncompromising it was, but because of how perfectly Unwound nested in a unique space between some of the most vital forms of music that decade: punk, post-rock, indie rock, post-hardcore, slow-core, and experimental noise. That jumble of subgenres doesnât say much; in fact, it falls far short of what Unwound truly synthesized and stood for. Unwound stood for Unwound. But in a decade where most bands were either stridently earnest or stridently ironic, Unwound wasnât stridently anything. It was only itself. In one sense Unwound was the quietest band of the â90s, skulking around like a nerdy terror cell. In another sense it was the loudest, sculpting raw noise into contorted visions of inner turmoil and frustration.â
R.I.P. Vern Rumsey.
This is their finest song, from their finest album.
I really canât say enough about the sheer bloody minded genius of this group. đ¤
Mar 23, 2024