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This compilation album is fascinating in that it tracks the dramatic artistic decline (and parallel commercial rise) of one the most successful groups of the post-punk era. "Love Song", "Promised You A Miracle" and "Someone, Somewhere In Summertime" see Jim Kerr and co. teetering like a cat poised on a fence, their sound a skittering, graceful interplay of glittering keyboards and adrenaline guitars, with Kerr's lyrics epic yet ambivalent on top. Then around the mid-1980s, Simple Minds fell from the fence into lumbering stadium rock rifferama. "Alive And Kicking" and "Sanctify Yourself" were big scarf-waving anthems but lacked the tantalising panache of their earlier work. As Jim Kerr sank further into megastardom, the music suffered further as he indulged in piously cumbersome ballads like "Belfast Child" and "Mandela Day". But while critics sighed, the Minds' audience swelled regardless--their "New Gold Dream" had come true. --David Stubbs
内容紹介
Out of print in the U.S.! 1992 collection from the Scottish New Wave veterans. Picking up where the band's previous hits compilation, 1982's Themes for Great Cities left off, Glittering Prize compacts five albums into 16 tracks. Because they were bigger critical and commercial successes, 1982's New Gold Dream, 1984's Sparkle in the Rain and 1985's Once Upon a Time are better represented than 1989's Street Fighting Years and 1991's Real Life. The mid-'80s tracks, particularly 'Don't You (Forget About Me)', 'Up on the Catwalk', "Promised You a Miracle' and 'Someone Somewhere in Summertime' remain classics to this day. EMI.
Product Description
This release includes 16 tracks.
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