Ca y est, la Silver Box 5 CDs tant attendue de Simple Minds est sortie ! Son impeccablement remasterisé, un livret de 75 pages... que du bonheur... le Tracklist :
silver box: disc 1
1. Life In A Day [Live London 1979] (3:51)
2. Chelsea Girl [Live London 1979] (4:52)
3. Here Comes The Fool [Live London 1979] (4:32)
4. Changeling [Peel Session] (3:59)
5. Premonition [Peel Session] (5:37)
6. Citizen (Dance Of Youth) [Peel Session] (2:53)
7. Room [Peel Session] (4:18)
8. I Travel [Demo] (3:52)
9. Celebrate [Demo] (4:24)
10. Thirty Frames A Second [Demo] (5:30)
11. Twist/Run/Repulsion [Demo] (4:08)
12. Capital City [Demo] (5:33)
13. New Warm Skin [Demo] (4:20)
14. Constantinople Line [Demo] (4:41)
15. Careful In Career [Demo] (6:18)
silver box: disc 2
1. The American [Demo] (4:03)
2. Life In Oils [Demo] (4:19)
3. Sweat In Bullet [Demo] (4:33)
4. Love Song [Demo] (5:00)
5. Promised You A Miracle [Jensen Radio Session 1982] (4:24)
6. In Trance As Mission [Jensen Radio Session 1982] (4:27)
7. Somone Somewhere (In Summertime) [Jensen Radio Session 1982] (5:19)
8. Glittering Prize [Jensen Radio Session 1982] (4:22)
9. Hunter And The Hunted [Jensen Radio Session 1982] (5:53)
10. The Kick Inside Of Me [Jensen Radio Session 1982] (5:56)
11. New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84) [Live] (12:32) Une version exceptionelle de 1985 en duo avec Bono qui a une pêche phénoménale sur ce titre
12. Don't You (Forget About Me) [Live Aid 85 Rehearsal] (7:25)
silver box: disc 3
1. Waterfront [Live Rotterdam 85] (10:48)
2. Ghostdancing [Live Rotterdam 85] (7:57)
3. Book Of Brilliant Things [Live Rotterdam 85] (7:27)
4. Once Upon A Time [Live Rotterdam 85] (8:07)
5. All The Things She Said [Live Rotterdam 85] (5:46)
6. Alive And Kicking [Live Rotterdam 85] (7:39)
7. Sanctify Yourself [Live Rotterdam 85] (5:56)
8. Mandela Day [Live @ Mandela Day 1988] (5:10)
9. Real Life [Live Barrowlands 1991] (5:05)
10. See The Lights [Live Barrowlands 1991] (4:52)
silver box: disc 4
1. Travelling Man [Live Barrowlands 1991] (5:13)
2. East At Easter [Live Barrowlands 1991] (4:22)
3. Banging On The Door [Live Barrowlands 1991] (5:38)
4. Stand By Love [Live Barrowlands 1991] (4:35)
5. Oh Jungleland [Live Barrowlands 1991] (7:00)
6. King Is White And In The Crowd [Live Barrowlands 1991] (5:42)
7. Big Sleep [Live Barrowlands 1991] (4:21)
8. Let There Be Love [Live Barrowlands 1991] (5:30)
9. Ghostrider [Live Barrowlands 1991] (4:05)
10. Belfast Child [Live Barrowlands 1991] (4:05)
11. She's A River [Live Barrowlands 1995] (4:40)
12. Up On The Catwalk [Live Barrowlands 1995] (4:40)
13. Hypnotised [Live Barrowlands 1995] (6:43)
silver box: disc 5... Enfin l'album inédit de 1999, "Our Secrets Are The Same", jamais sorti pour cause d'embrouille avec Virgin
1. Swimming Towards The Sun (4:32)
2. Jeweller To The Stars (3:27)
3. Space (4:15)
4. Death By Chocolate (3:35)
5. Waiting For The End Of The World (3:25)
6. Neon Cowboys (3:51)
7. She Knows (4:07)
8. Hello (3:23)
9. Happy Is The Man (4:23)
10. Sleeping (4:30)
A l'écoute de ce coffret... que du bonheur et on se rend compte que ce groupe est d'une créativité incroyable. Je ne comprendrais jamais la haine que les médias entretiennent face à ce groupe depuis 15 ans !
Autres (Good) News (From The Next World

Bon alors désolé pour les anti Anglo, mais je dois filer, donc pas le temps de traduire...
Source et graphisme temporaire du nouvel album : http://www.simpleminds.org/sm/discog/na/nalp1.htm
Excellent site, quasi officiel. Le webmaster a de très bonnes relations avec le groupe et reçoit très souvent les news en exclu... en 5 ans que je visite ce site,j amais une news n'a été érronée d'une virgule
Simple Minds' new studio album is scheduled for release in 2005. The artwork shown here is not official; it's been put together by a budding graphic designer and photographer called Optikon.
The title isn't official either. God Save Us From Our Governments was a song title mentioned by Jim, which sounds bloody excellent. Other sources suggest Scorpio is the proposed name. Until then... I'll go with former.
Work started on the follow-up to Cry in 2002. As Jim and Charlie were performing at Proms 2002 in the evening, it left plenty of time to compose new material during the day.
They had a head-start: material was left-over from Cry including some Mark Kerr/Charlie Burchill songs.
And a new song, Freedom Angel, was sessioned on Billy Sloan's show on the 15th April, 2002.
Rumours persisted on the Internet that the album was going to be called Scorpio.
Sean Kelly, who wrote Spaceface, contributed Light Travels for this album. It was described as "...an incredible song. We've made something of their own of it. There are twenty songs in the pot - some are 95% completed, some are 20% completed."
The album is influenced by the live work from 2002.
Other potential song titles were: Automatic Love, God Save Us From Our Governments, Dolphins, Beneath The Ice, Light Travels and Scorpio.
"We have one new tune that is very much in the style of something from our earlier album Empires and Dance. The working title of this dark and dramatic piece is God Save Us From Our Governments - it aptly sums up how we feel regarding Tony Blair's stance towards the notion of disarmament in Iraq. Despite the heavy-handed song title, this is not sloganeering for the sake of it. Throughout our career we have within our music tried to encapsulate the feeling and issues of the times that we live in." - Jim
Further songs were heard in a bar in Taormina in 2002, a day before the band were appearing live. Precious and So Precious formed a pair (much like Cry and Cry Again) with Jim mentioning the song was strong enough to be a single. Another exclusive new song, Stranger, was also debuted that evening.
A vocal version of Somebody Up There Likes You called Easy was also played, and there were whispers of a remix of Speed Your Love To Me. These two songs were probably intended for the Remix Album, a project proposed in 2002, but never saw the light of day. (At least, not yet anyway).
The original plan was to work on the album through the winter of 2003 and spring of 2004 to be released in late 2004. However, given the band's touring schedule, it was not to be.
Work did start with the live line-up (Jim, Charle, Mel, Eddieand Andy) in early 2004.
By the time of the 2004 tour, five songs were finished.
Tours of Australia and beyond were offered in late 2004. However, the band decided to postpone these trips, and get the album finished instead.
"So for the moment at least, god save us from the madness of our collective governments and the war loving media machines. There is a light for me currently, and it is in the written commentaries from authors such as John Pilger, Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore et al. If any of the above strikes a chord then check out their incredible books. If not, you are free to ignore me." - Jim