Best Simple Minds Single, 1979-1986

Too hard at this point. I'll come back and probably vote for one of "Changeling", "I Travel" or "Someone, Somewhere (In Summertime)".

I don't know why I posted this poll myself since I'll never decide.

I just listened to "Love Song" and goodness, that closing bit is still so ace. "IN-GLORY-DAYS...THAT-COME-AND-GOOOOOO..."

what's the one in that film?

Uh, "Film Theme" was an album track.

"Promised You a Miracle" is the best of the "New Gold Dream" singles, which automatically means it's their best single.

"Love Song", the bit where the band kicks in over the burbling synthesiser noise is so thrilling. The lyrics are terrible! Never mind though. "New Gold Dream" probably just as good as "Love Song" really.
"Sons and Fascination" / "New Gold Dream" are so good. How could they fuck it up so badly?

I'll go with "Promised You a Miracle" (love the way that guitar sounds), but "...Catwalk" is a close second.

Everything after that was insufferable crap.

"Sons and Fascination" / "New Gold Dream" are so good. How could they fuck it up so badly?

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And the downhill turn started on "Sparkle In The Rain" already. That's where they transformed from a great new romantic pop band into a boring stadium rock band.

But...I like "Waterfront"!

"Glittering Prize".

But...I like "Waterfront"!

Lots of people like "Alive And Kicking" and "Sanctify Yourself".

OMFG i agree with geir! and alex's choices (though i don't think that SM's pre-"don't you forget about me" back catalogue is total crap).

i mean, "promised you a miracle" does so effortlessly what those douchebags in franz ferdinand, et. al. so laboriously tried to do that it deserves to win for that reason alone.

i've owned sparkle in the rain & once upon a time for years and have never listened to them. i like alive and kicking alright, though. and "Up on the catwalk" is pretty good.

def. "promised you a miracle" for me; basically what geir said

"Someone, Somewhere"

The guitar at the end of The American decides it for me, though so many of these are great...

I'm finding it hard not to vote "Promised You A Miracle" because it's, oh, only of the best songs ever AND it has "Theme for Great Cities" as the B-side.

I got a root canal to their best of!

Hearing "Speed Your Love To Me" as a teenager was a revelation. So much energy to that, so thrilling. It's like being in a fast car!

I was once driven from the airport by some deranged brother of a friend of mind who insisted on (A) driving with the windows wide open the entire way (it was in January in the midwest) and (B) playing "Alive & Kicking" and "All the Things She Said" BACK TO BACK TO BACK TO BACK the entire way. It was kinda like the narrative of PiL's "Poptones" -- only without the naked torture stuff.

friend of mine, not mind, although "Friend of Mind" would make for a great prog rock band name.

I was playing "Alive & Kicking" the other day, and that's my favorite of theirs.

i add to the "someone somewhere" love.

"New Gold Dream," obviously.

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"The American" - best last 30 seconds of any record ever.

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Voted "I Travel".

It's also the greatest opening track ever.

"The American." Just googled the lyrics and realized that other than the title and "What do you know about this world anyway," I know absolutely none of them.

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OH alright, but you folk don't really know what you're talking about with Simple Minds singles. Sorry.