🎵 AotW Simple Minds - NEW GOLD DREAM 81-82-83-84 (SP-4928)

[LPJim]

Simple Minds
NEW GOLD DREAM (81 82 83 84)
A&M SP-4928

A1 Someone Somewhere In Summertime 4:34
A2 Colours Fly And Catherine Wheel Backing Vocals – Sharon Campbell 3:49
A3 Promised You A Miracle 4:25
A4 Big Sleep 4:59
A5 Somebody Up There Likes You 4:58
B1 New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) 5:36
B2 Glittering Prize Backing Vocals – Sharon Campbell 4:33
B3 Hunter And The Hunted

Keyboards – Herbie Hancock​

5:54
B4 King Is White And In The Crowd 6:59

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  • Bass – Derek Forbes
  • Drums – Kenny Hyslop (tracks: A3,), Mel Gaynor (tracks: A1, A4, B1 to B4), Mike Ogletree (tracks: A2, A5, B1)
  • Guitar, Noises [Effects] – Charles Burchill*
  • Keyboards, Noises [Effects] – Michael MacNeil
  • Percussion – Mike Ogletree
  • Producer, Engineer – Peter Walsh
  • Technician [Studio Co-ordination] – Gemma Corfield
  • Technician [Tape Operators] – Francis Xavier Gallagher, George Chambers, Keith Richard Nixon*
  • Vocals [Voices] – Jim Kerr

Entered the Billboard Top 200 on Feb. 19, 1983
Charted for 19 weeks and peaked at # 69
Initial vinyl pressings were on gold and red marbled vinyl
Available on CD

JB

 

[jfiedler17]

Ah! Good album! This was definitely an artistic breakthrough for Simple Minds. All their albums prior to this one showed a bit of promise, but they'd really yet to master the art of writing a catchy song - their earlier works are fun and intriguing to listen to, but very little on those albums actually sticks in your head afterwards - and on this album they grew by leaps and bounds as songwriters. Quite a few good tunes on here - "Someone Somewhere in Summertime" and "Promised You a Miracle" are my faves. Once Upon a Time remains their best overall album, but this is arguably their second-best record. (And that original vinyl pressing on marbled vinyl is insanely cool, too!)