“Empires And Dance” by Simple Minds - album review
| features in: Album Chart of 1980 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1980s |
With “Empires and Dance”, the adaptable and experimental Glasgow quintet positioned themselves as the darkest, toughest new romantics on the block. Whether high-octane dance or mid-tempo mood-grooves, the sense of cool was omnipresent. The opening 1-2-3 – “I Travel”, “Today I Died Again” and “Celebrate” – was exceptional and, whilst there’s hardly a dud in the set, “Thirty Frames A Second” was particularly excellent on side two.
The Jukebox Rebel
05–Dec–2016
| Tracklist |
| A1 | [03:56]  Simple Minds - I Travel (Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill, Derek Forbes, Brian McGee, Mick MacNeil) New Wave |
| A2 | [04:39]  Simple Minds - Today I Died Again (Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill, Derek Forbes, Brian McGee, Mick MacNeil) New Wave |
| A3 | [05:03]  Simple Minds - Celebrate (Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill, Derek Forbes, Brian McGee, Mick MacNeil) New Wave |
| A4 | [07:00]  Simple Minds - This Fear Of Gods (Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill, Derek Forbes, Brian McGee, Mick MacNeil) Trance Rock |
| B1 | [06:14]  Simple Minds - Capital City (Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill, Derek Forbes, Brian McGee, Mick MacNeil) New Wave |
| B2 | [04:14]  Simple Minds - Constantinople Line (Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill, Derek Forbes, Brian McGee, Mick MacNeil) New Wave |
| B3 | [04:38]  Simple Minds - Twist / Run / Repulsion (Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill, Derek Forbes, Brian McGee, Mick MacNeil) New Wave |
| B4 | [05:14]  Simple Minds - Thirty Frames A Second (Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill, Derek Forbes, Brian McGee, Mick MacNeil) New Wave |
| B5 | [01:50]  Simple Minds - Kant-Kino (Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill, Derek Forbes, Brian McGee, Mick MacNeil) Electronica |
| B6 | [02:30]  Simple Minds - Room (Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill, Derek Forbes, Brian McGee, Mick MacNeil) New Wave |
