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Simple Minds: Celebration

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Label: Arista Records
Released: 1982.02.15
Time:
 48:07
Category: Rock
Producer(s): John Leckie
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Media type: CD
Web address: www.simpleminds.com
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Life in a Day (first single, from Life in a Day) - 4:06
[2] Chelsea Girl (second single, from Life in a Day) - 4:34
[3] Premonition (from Real to Real Cacophony) - 5:30
[4] Factory (from Real to Real Cacophony) - 4:15
[5] Calling Your Name (from Real to Real Cacophony) - 5:07
[6] I Travel (fourth single, from Empires and Dance) - 4:02
[7] Changeling (third single, from Real to Real Cacophony) - 4:13
[8] Celebrate (fifth single, from Empires and Dance) - 5:11
[9] Thirty Frames a Second/Kant-Kino (from Empires and Dance) - 6:55
[10] Kaleidoscope ("I Travel" b-side) - 4:17

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Charlie Burchill - Guitar, Vocals
Derek Forbes - Bass, Vocals
Jim Kerr - Vocals
Mick MacNeil - Keyboards, Vocals
Brian McGee - Drums, Vocals

John Leckie - Producer
Thomi Wroblewski - Sleeve Design, Illustration

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Celebration is a compilation album by Simple Minds, released in 1982. The compilation features tracks from the band's tenure on the Arista Records label prior to their move to Virgin Records in 1981.



Originally released in 1982 by Arista in the U.K. and reissued on CD by the Dutch Disky imprint in 2001, Celebration serviceably culls some of the better moments from Simple Minds' first three albums: 1979's Life in a Day and Reel to Real Cacophony and 1980's Empires and Dance. Given the sadly neglected status of the band's early catalogue - meaning anything that was released prior to 1982's breakthrough New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) - through the early 2000s, it is doubly unfortunate that a compilation like this remained out of print for an extended period of time. And though the studio albums remained in print in the U.K., Simple Minds' early years hardly received the red carpet compilation treatment that their later works did. While nothing here came close to approaching the stadium-pleasing popularity of later smashes like "Don't You (Forget About Me)," "Alive and Kicking," or even "Promised You a Miracle," Celebration might provide a little shock to an initiated someone who snaps up a copy. It's a near-definite that plenty of people who own New Gold Dream and/or the Glittering Prize 81/92 compilation remain oblivious to the fact that Simple Minds released five albums that ranged from good to spectacular between 1979 and 1981, before New Gold Dream came along with its perfect balance of art and pop to connect with a mass audience. Not only was 1979-1981 a prolific period for the band, but it was a period that witnessed them blossoming from a decent guitar-based post-punk band to a far more rhythmic and experimental entity that gradually shed their influences while ambitiously building on them. And as the few brave souls who have remained devout Simple Minds fans from day one might tell you, Celebration has stood the test of time better than Glittering Prize track-for-track.

Andy Kellman - All Music Guide
 

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