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Ty Reacts To Simple Minds - Waterfront
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ส.ค. 2022
- Today we dive into Scottish rock band SIMPLE MINDS. "Waterfront" was the lead single from the band's sixth studio album Sparkle In The Rain released in 1984. Some pretty cool Simple Minds / INXS / U2 comparisons going on in this episode!
What Do Ya'll Think ?!
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ive always preferred simple minds to U2
I agree with you!
great song!
This song turned me into a fan of their music. I got to see them live in 1985, great concert :) Fave songs are "Love Song", "Someone, Somewhere in Summertime", and of course "Don't You"
My fav is Sanctify Yourself, but they have made so many great songs.
Fabulous getting to see them in 1985 in their prime, classic 😎 "Love song" definitely a classic but they had so many great songs it's hard to choose a Fav 😎
Simple Minds have one of the very best live albums of all time: Live in the City of Light.
They altered some of their songs for live performances. The song East at Easter is from the same album as Waterfront, the live version on City of Light is slowed down, stripped back and totally spine-tingling.
I'm in Ireland and I love both Simple Minds and U2.
Similar in some ways yes, but both still very different. It definitely wasn't one or the other for me.
I saw Simple Minds first in Dublin in Croke Park in 1986 when I was 18 and they were absolutely magnificent for one hour and fifty minutes.
Plus they had no less than FOUR great bands on before them including The Waterboys and Lloyd Cole And The Commotions which turned the day into a mini festival almost. That really was value for money!
What a day!
Actually you should check out another great Scottish guitar rock band called Big Country who were also very much compared to both U2 and Simple Minds even though they had their own instantly recognisable unique sound.
You won't go wrong having a peek down that particular rabbit hole!
Wow what a great show you got to see in 1986! Amazing year for music BTW 😎 Big Country are definitely a fav of mine (RIP Stuart adamson) they could really rock out 🤟🏼 ("Were Not In Kansas") , always loved their vibe. "Fields Of Fire" on The Crossing album was epic 😎
@@reactionextraction I shouldn't be surprised that you already know Big Country well!
I'll look forward to watching you sharing one of your favourites on your channel soon. 👍
Must Do Simple Minds New Gold Dream 81, 82, 83, 84 Will surprise You.
I was hooked on Simple Minds from Life in day but my first live was Edinburgh playhouse opening track Water Front this abstract love letter to the River Clyde and the difference between Simple Minds and U2 (who I like) is Simple Minds have less ego it’s more about the music
I’m not a big fan of Simple Minds. But when I first heard this song, it blew me away. Love the drums and bass. Amazing track.
Amazing track indeed 😎😎
@@reactionextraction One of the best live songs EVER!!
After growing up in the US (in the land of KROQ for those who know hardcore New Wave trivia) loving them and then living in their hometown of Glasgow before COVID (which we left and came home for), they have an even more special to me. One of my co workers dated one of them, I was planning to see them live in UK but then COVID.
I always thought Simple Minds should have been bigger.
Some others good songs to check out: Promised you a miracle, New gold dream, Someone somewhere in summertime, Love song
I agree with you, Simple Minds should have been bigger 😎 Just sooo many amazing albums to their credit
Ah those gated drums. Heaven!
Loved Simple Minds back in early high school. Never heard it back in the day but couldn't help but get Walk on By vibes on this revisit! The guitar and bigger/longer vocals especially.
Edit: I saw Simple Minds support INXS in 2010 so interesting Ty mentioned the comparison.
Ty was spot on 😎 "Waterfront" always been a fav of mine 😎 So was JD Fortune on lead for INXS then? Bet that was interesting 😳
@@reactionextraction yes JD out front in 2010. Some say there is no INXS after MH, but in my view JD gave us the chance to see the boys one more time! He was not as talented as the great MH, but he has some swagger and injected some energy and did well imo. And ofc the band still rocked.
Just checked and it was 2011, also found out JD was born the same year as me, dam thought he was younger....it could have been me up there!!
All The Things She Said, Speed Your Love To Me, Come A Long Way, See The Lights etc. lots of fun tunes
lots of fun tunes for sure 😎😎
I was always a fan of both Simple Minds and U2 - good music is good music. I saw Simple Minds in 1982 on their return to Australia after supporting Ice House, when they had yet to break really big. Their album New Gold Dream is one I can still play from start to finish without wanting to skip any song. Brilliant and still going. Love them.
Simple minds forever ❤
Great song, love Simple Minds and U2, you both are spot on with the INXS similarity and U2 being huge in the USA and not as big in the UK, I think the problem with U2 was/is the hate they have for the British Government and that will in turn means that some UK citizens are not going to like them. U2 are a highly political band and sometimes they piss people off.
Gotcha, great insight there 😎
@reactionextraction This comment above is wrong U2 ,started off a little bit political but sold out to the Americans in more than one way Bono always one for a photo opportunity getting his mugshot with every corrupt American president, Simple Minds first 5 albums recorded between 1979-82 are way better on all levels, U2 could only dream of doing what Simple Minds did in their early years.
A national tresure🏴
My favourite Scottish band were del amitri ( apart from that woeful world cup song) 🤣
@@davidpearson6785 a good live band is del amitri👌seen them back in 92 in plymouth...
Oh I love Belfast Child.
saw them live roskilde festival 1992 rain pouring down it was awsome
Problem being the yanks are obsessed with u2 when alot of people massively underestimate simple minds who are equally as good.
I kind of liked this first time i saw the video and it does go very close to the early U2 sound of the time.Like a lot the energy,the electric guitar arrangements and the 'speedy' atmoshere,as if i'm running with my car in a long highway.I do prefer though much more their other one 'SPEED YOUR LOVE'(great video) as well as 'Alive and kicking'
It totally does have a lot of energy 😎 Classic tune from a Fab era of music
It is because the producer of Waterfront and the album in wich there is Waterfront/Speed your love to me is Steve Lillywhite who also produced the first albums of U2, Boy, October and War. Steve Lillywhite "explode" the sound, i would have preferred that Simple Minds follow their New Gold Dream album with the same producer Pete Walsh because when you hear the demo of Book of Brilliant things and Speed your love to me, it sounds very different from what Steve Lillywhite has done with it with his rock footprint, it sounds like New Gold Dream 2.0. Sparkle in the rain is an epic album and very different from New Gold Dream but imho it would have been even more brilliant if it had follow the lush and dreamy sound of New Gold Dream.
Although Simple Minds were Scottish, they were a Glasgow band..Irish immigrants. Im irish but i've got family all over Scotland. The U2 thing isn't imitation..it's just a vibe :)
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Loved simple minds takes me back to when l was in my 30s thanks boys muriel
You are the only person I’ve heard refer to the u2/ Simple Minds thing ,I remember it at the time but there was no rivalry between the bands it was purely fan based. In fact Jim Kerr had Bono come on stage & perform with them. I love both bands & Simple minds have just completed a tour & made a new album.
Waterfront is there anthem it always gets the crowd going crazy.
Never really got the whole SM vs U2 thing, yes some music crossover was there in the early 80s but I think that was just a New Wave thing, hence INXS getting a fair mention. Simple Minds had three albums released before U2 made their debut and by their 8th album U2 was only on their fourth release. For me the 80s was Simple Minds and I didn't really get into U2 until Achtung Baby (1991), which blew me away and I loved their 90s sound. Saw Simple Minds in concert 1989 and U2 in 1997, both in Scotland and they were great and memorable performances.
Your absolutely right, Simple Minds puts on an amazing show! 😎😎
Best version on YT is the live version from the SSE Hydro
Simple Minds appeals more to my synth pop sensibilities than U2.
Totally agree 😎😎
Prefer simple minds from 79-83 music was incredible
i think u should checkout simple minds live music. their alot of it on youtube.
U2 couldn’t hold a candle to the talent of these guys.
Charlie...
Charlie Burchill 😎 Pure Legend
I have seen Minds and U2 live and loved both bands, and undoubtedly Minds were a superior live band compared to U2. I did think that U2 got a bit precious and pretentious. Simple Minds kept to their roots
Yeah simple minds were Scottish, a lot of people thought they were Irish coz of Belfast child. For me, Jim Kerr's biggest achievement was pulling patsy kensit! Punching above his weight or what?! Personally, I never really liked simple minds , not then or now. We can't like everything I guess! 🤣
Really, he was married to Patsy Kensit ? 😎 wow you go Jim 🤘🏼
@@reactionextraction he was haha, and patsy was with Liam Gallagher for a couple of years also!
Wow , 2 lucky dudes 😎 She’s really beautiful & sassy in a Fab way
@@reactionextraction defo agree!
He was also married to Chrissie Hynde from the Pretenders.
Everything up to and including New Gold Dream was great. Everything after that was wank, sorry.
from sparkle onwards it was so downhill, shame really.