This is a masterpiece, a perfect combination of all instruments and singer, it takes you to a place where no other song can. Love it, love Simple Minds.
After so many years still goosebumps. The most beautiful song of my life. Melody that comes from the future. Simple Minds was my first band that I saw live, in Italy. I'm Italian from Naples. Simple Minds, Depeche Mode, The Cure, The Stone Roses, The Charlatans, Shed Seven, Supergrass .... I want to go back in time ....
💜Just reading your sentiments that echo my own.. this came onto an iTunes mix that played in a beautifully unexpectedly way, whilst I was city walking in my lunch hour today and I was transported back in time and forward too .. yes sounds like the future, even now.. Think it’s the the constancy of Jim Kerr’s deep resonating vocals.. and the soaring moments of guitar and electronic sounds .. gives a feeling of hope. Certainly uplifted me in the winter sunshine today 😀
Well done - and said, Nicholas. Mothers and Fathers are precious gifts that leave us far too soon. My youngest 18 yo daughter Natalie and I both had such a wonderful love for many of the same songs. Unfortunately, she and I have lost contact and I miss sharing these things with her. I know that she would love this song.
Exactly what I used to do while listening to this music: travelling by train to Sydney from Woollongong at the end of the working week to visit my family.
Yes. The disco was almost empty and I had all the floor to myself and I soared like an Albatros over the flour, music in every sinew of my body. Just flying.... It's a long time ago but I never forgot.
You are so right. I'm 48. New Gold Dream was the first album I bought . I was 7. It is epic. My 3 children call me Simple Paps. My mum who is 77 tells me " Stop with your Simple Minds". I tell her " Mum, I've been listening to The Minds for 43 years, you think I will stop ?" New Gold Dream ❤
58 year's old with grand kids and it still has the ability to put the hairs up on the back of my neck. Blessed are we to have lived through the 80s. Echo and the bunny men . New order. The blue nile. The chamhelions . Endless. Really sorry for the kids today. But hey , we got the net .
know what you mean, i was 18 when this album came out, so many great memories come flooding back, 80s was a special time. Yes the kids these days are really suffering.
I have bipolar disorder and no word of a lie . If i'm felling very down i come here and listen to New Gold Dream and it lifts my spirits. Day By Day by Canadian band Doug & The Slugs does that too. God bless music !! All kinds of music . Music can really make a difference not only in the world but to each individual .
This is indeed a beautiful song, and one of my favorites since it was released. I'm a bit older than many of the people who commented here, and I've been listening to rock music since 1963. Simple Minds are up there with the best. Don't feel bad if you didn't get to hear the music when it was new - you're helping to keep it alive now! And you'll hear wonderful new music long after I'm gone.
So true, and although the album itself is a classic, the title track is probably the one that has held up best. I wrote here six years ago that this track is *the* essence of the 80s, and I still think it is. I'm 56, btw :)
You are awesome Lynn. Listening since my birth in 92, riding in the back of my dad's ford Fairmont x series, getting fish and chips and cruising around the hills and to the beach,.
This is by far their best song. The driving beat and otherworldly sounds. It was ahead of its time. I played this album in an endless loop in college 35 years ago. It has not aged at all.
Every time ⌚ I listen to this masterpiece of music 🎶 the hair on my neck goes up everytime Jim sings. 'She's your friend' the music at that moment is just beautiful. I feel I'm the coolest dude alive. I've loved Simple Minds since I was 13 in 1984. I'm 52 now and still love them and going to see them yet again in Dublin in 2024 and can't wait ❤
Much as I adore this song I have to be careful how often I listen to it and how strong I'm feeling at the time. It can bring back the most intense memories of youthful joy but can leave me with a dark, post reminiscence despair if I play it too often.
I also have great memories of this song and also bad experiences in the same year that listening to the song bring back. but?????? I have a similar feeling about the past
You bet your ass, I was born in 1970 so it was an amazing period of music.... I can say I know anything about today's stuff I can't tolerate any radio that's for sure unless they have a old playlist. So well said young man.
"new" music is geared towards mass consumption at low cost. Produced programming for the indiscriminate listener. Not all recent music is reprehensible, however, when compared to the good old days the great majority needs to be deleted forever.
I'm 65. The eighties were a caleidoscope of the best music ever. I got a lot of Lp and Mix. The sound of this records is fantastic! Naturally i love Simple Minds!
Fantastic, Epic, I'm 48 and New Gold Dream was and will still be a shock for me. After 43 years my mum tells me " Stop with your Simple Minds" and my 3 children don't call me Papa. They call me Simple Paps. Beautifu.l 😂😂😂😂
I was born in the early 60´s - i grow up with ROCK - Disco - New Wave ... This Album was a Masterpiece ... I love it - Yesterday - NOW - and in the Future ...
This is an ecstasy record. That fantastic chugging keyboard riff is almost Balearic. That and the drifting arpeggiated guitar....It's trance before trance became a dirty word.
@@matthewconnor6817 Usura played a big role in hooking new generations to this classic. What the next trick would be, I don't know 😀. What I do know, is that this classic is on my all-time top 5 list, and, depending on when I'm asked, maybe even number one.
It's unbelievable. I have had my own recording studio for over 20 years and make a lot of music. I was very interested in music. So I know a lot of songs, at least from hearing them. Even if I don't know their names. But I've always loved a synth zither melody. Usura Open your Mind. But I just had to learn that it is much older and from Simple Minds. Simple Minds are one of my favorite bands from the 80's. That earned her even more thumbs up. As I said incredible...👍👍👍
Same, I'm 18 now and my parents were Simple Minds fans. I used to hear music like New Gold Dream and other classics in the car as well which really created my music taste
In 1982 a friend in England sent me a cassette recording of the BBC Top 40 Countdown. On it was Scottish band Simple Minds - 'Promised You a Miracle'. I wore that cassette tape out rewinding that song. The title track off the album 'New Gold Dream' changed my musical taste forever and influenced my career choice! 🏴💙
OK, seriously. Simple Minds are one of the most underrated bands of the time period, at least in the U.S. They are SO much more than "Don't You Forget About Me." New Gold Dream is a stellar record - saw them in 2018, "New Gold Dream" was on the setlist, and it was AMAZE!
Nothing of today compares to the awesome music of Simple Minds. I have all their albums and play them constantly. Wish I could go back to the 80s and just remain there for eternity. Miss those days!!!
The 80’s saw the emergence of The synthesiser & that changed everything. Sounds were created that we’d never heard before. Simple Minds were one of the best.
One of the pioneering first to use the synthesizer (in this case an ARP ?2400) was Pete Townshend - on Who's Next '71 50th Anniversary 8/14! (no disrespect - love NGD song & Album)
Sorry friend. Synthesiser came up in early 70s. Listen to the Who’s Next and Fragile by Yes. to understand Synthesiser infused rock. Having said that, this track by Simple Minds is
@@rallabhandiprabhakar4750 ..Fair enough, I certainly wouldn’t argue with you on that. Perhaps I should just have said how important & game changing the Synthesiser became in the 80’s.👍
In a restaurant kitchen in Stockholm, working with my best bud. Our 80's hair repeating and rewinding this song on cassette. Great memories. Best build up song ever. 40 years later I can still feel it.
Mortis xx So again, for all the simple minds here, my point was: this is everything but rock. This is pop, plain popmusic. If you want to see that as blasphemy, fine with me, who's trolling in that case, who's the prick con balls.... Never said I didn't like the track in itself, as long as I don't have to look at the singer playing Jezus Christ in front of dedicated followers. Fortunately, some wisdom and more acceptable stage presence came with the years. All hope is not idle.
Remember listening to this song for the first time on a school trip to The Soviet Union in 1985. A girl asked the bus driver to play a tape on which the song was. He agreed and when the song hit the speakers of the bus I was spellbound by the song especially the intro that it just plain awesome - still is today. Allways have this piece of memory in mind when I listen to the song today.
Very cool story. I first heard it in Rio, possibly '84. The city was on fire, I'm glad I lived to see Rock in Rio in '88. Then I came to NYC, another glorious stage for the tail end of the greatest decade.
not a trip to Ukraine and chernobyl . ahahha/// I saw simple minds in 82? on the new gold dream tour.. awesome .. saw them again a few years later was ok .. no Derek Forbes though .. saw them last year.. good again
Utah Saints also released an excellent stadium house cover before that, in 1992. No guitars but still quite epic and the vocals are in that similar style which reminds me of A. Eldritch of Sisters of Mercy. Simple Minds musically still sound amazing live, but Jim's vocals for this song no longer have that seductive dark gloom that to me is essential to the song.
I'm really angry that I'm 54 years old and this is the first time I've heard this song I'm angry at myself mainly wow I never knew this song it existed until today and I'm so happy that I'm here for it thank you for sharing!
I grew up with this song, on Saturday nights in the bathtub with the cassette of 70s-80s-90s songs of my dad on the radio. What beautiful memories and I finally found this song again, I'm 17 now and I already listened to it when I was 8/9 without knowing the title.
Just sublime - I can't imagine what it would've been like to hear this playing out in a club back then. This is one of those songs that I can't just listen to once. I always end up putting it on a loop.
The first album I bought after coming back from the Falklands in 82. 1974 3.0 Ford Capri in black and gold......blasting down the road on leave. 19 years old and not a care in the world and what a soundtrack to my life.
I had the same engine but in a Scimitar... Powermax pistons, Vulcan head, lightened, tufted, balanced, bigger valves, 200bhp could beat any car going up a hill!
Hey raquelthestripperfromhell69! I don't mean to be out of line, or show any disrespect, but, I cant help but picture you dancing to this song, and numerous other Simple Minds tunes, as your name implies.
I was 20 in 1981. I grew up listening to pop and by 14 in 1975 I was into funk. I still love funk and these days I really enjoy and appreciate late 60s & early 70s rock. Having said that music from 1979 to 84 was very special. I don’t know if I’m just being nostalgic, I was a young man going out 5 nights a week, dressing up like a pirate 🏴☠️ and dancing the night away with wonderful people. Such great times. I’ve lost touch with nearly all the people I knew back then, it wasn’t easy to stay in touch those days, people moved or change telephone number and you had no idea where they gone. It may of been just over 40 years ago but that’s how it was at the time.
You described thos years perfectly feel the same way. Bowie and Idol brought the synth to the world in the 70s and took off from there. Cant get enough of this .
I was a 70's music boy and I held out for a long time not getting into the new 80's stuff. This is one of the albums that got me into the swing of it all. Respect.
Extraordinary music. Jim Kerr wasn’t really a singer, he was a genuine vocal stylist - he wasn’t a dancer, but he moved so well on these numbers. I saw them a couple of times, they’d spend ages building it up to a big drop, ‘And the beat goes crashing!’, they were somewhat ahead of their time. Haven’t heard that in ages!
That's exactly what I've always thought since the first listening! Great suggestion and charm, melody and rhythm drag me in a circle of lights and colors ... Great song ... wonderful memories of summer nights of my youth ... infinite nostalgia...!
@@gapper3 Yup! I listen to it on a somewhat regular basis and still get goose bumps every single time. This songs mean SO much to me, you wouldn't believe!! Such a great time.........
All ' epoca ero universitario fuorisede . Vivevo in un appartamento che prima era uno studio dentistico .......... c ' era ancora la poltrona ad olio . C ' era un bagno tutto blu che nessuno usava mai , usavamo solo l ' altro bagno con la doccia a 2 soffioni ................ era una casa particolare . Silvia viveva sempre con noi ; mi ricordo quando scoprì i Simple MInds e Valerio ( il suo guru ) le disse " sono una cagata " ,,,,,,,, la ghiacciò . Poi gli chiesi " perché le hai detto questa cosa ? perché le hai parlato così duramente ? " ,,, Valerio era filosofo ( cioè .... si fa per dire ) e mi rispose " perché si entusiasma troppo " . Valerio lo trovi su TH-cam alla voce " Valerio Mazza " è nato nel paese in cui ha vissuto Chaplin , è uno dei più grandi chitarristi che ho mai conosciuto .......... all ' epoca era incredibile , adesso ..... lasciamo perdere .
Every time I play this track I am taken back to my early 20s and playing it getting ready to go out to the pubs and clubs to drink and dance the night away, they were some of the happiest days of my life.
It is 1982. I am dancing with my friends Zoe and Tina plus many others at Camden Place to this glorious record. The Associates "Party Fears Two", Siouxie's "Happy House", Bowie's "Ashes To Ashes", the Bunnymen's "Rescue", Joy Division's "Transmission", the Human League's "Love Action" and many more wonderful records. The Minds' finest moment. My Golden Years.
I was raised partly on the music from the Big Band era - I'm 54. Maybe good music influences and shapes ones likes throughout life....regardless of time.
I was thinking about the same thing recently. It's weird how the gap between the 80s and the present has grown to where it's equivalent to the 40s and 80s but doesn't seem that way. Maybe I'm misremembering, but I recall the 40s as seeming distant and like another era even in the 80s (though I think there was a fair bit of 50s/60s nostalgia back then). Realizing that the 80s is to today what the 40s was to the 80s feels surreal.
84 i graduated from high school...heard this tune at a summer camp staff party ...was one of many tunes i carry from my youth. ...summer love ...long good byes
One of the true epic songs from the 20th century. Its up there with Heroes, Ashes to ashes, Games without frontiers, Wuthering heights and Comfortably numb.
@@murdered33 What!!? SM were absolutely MASSIVE back in the day. I had the good fortune to see them live at the Lyceum in London around 84/85. Unforgetable, Jim Kerr intense he was.
+Paul Ockenden - With respect, Big Country dont come close to these guys. My teenage years were in the 80's listening to this (and others). Sounds cliched but simple Minds sound as good today as they did when I was 15. Brilliant band.
I'm 55 too and it reminds me of those wonderful times, although I have to say I'm also coping well with the maturity of this age. I rediscovered this song after so many years. These days I noticed that in the early 80s I had a crush on a little girl. But even these days I have a crush on another girl.... 😄
First heard this melody from the U.S.U.R.A and Utah Saints samples, never knew until the late 90's it was a Simple Minds song they sampled from. If this came out today the so called talent that exists today in the music world would be history. Outsanding.
+Richard Brooks well ... there are real musicains working together behind The singer. AFIK one direction are mostly singers with commercial team behind.
This song brings me back to the days when my daughter was about 10 , 11 years old and we would hear this song while riding in the car, ( my daughter will be 40 in September) I was one of the few who had a child while in my early 20's back in 1980, but it was great to listen to these songs and watch my daughter grow-up
BIG TIME! Best concert even 1984 in Bologna under a circus tenta. Magical a long time ago in February '84 in the outskirts of Bologna with Francesca. Palo e Francesca looking amazed after the concert.
Gill right on. im a old fart 54 mate ive worked as sound engineer in Aussie for many big bands in the 80s and i have some fantastic memory's this music will never die great music but better musicians cheers
@@murdered33 Really? U2 copied Simple Minds, there is no doubt, and J im's a better singer anyway. now go and read some rock history if you were no there.
@@petercarlin9691 Yeah it was definitely the other way round. U2 were inspired by Simple Minds. If you're looking for Simple Minds influences think more Joy Division. Bono has a better voice purely on vocal quality imo, but I prefer Jim as a frontman and singer.
@@petercarlin9691 It is subjective for sure, I agree with that. Influenced by JD though; I think so. They were peers not predecessors for sure but Kerr really admired them. www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/music/2012/feb/23/simple-minds-rock
You know they're still playing? Sounding great as ever and playing big shows here in the UK and continental europe; some good recent videos here on TH-cam. :)
81 82 83 84 ... I remember singing along to this in my bedroom, when 84 was still in the distant future! A brilliant song from a brilliant album - even now it makes my toes curl with pleasure.
Words cannot do justice to the brilliance of this song.. it is like the sixteenth chapel, Mona Lisa , Van Gogh…we really should put simple minds in the same category
I am 89 years old & remember so many decades....but the music of the 80's was the best by far.....
still alive and kicking
Sorry, although I share your apreciation, for me, the 90's were the years...
I lived in the S.F., San Jose Bay area from 79-89. This is my California music.
I hope you're still alive and kicking :) I'll never grow out of my love of this music
Respect Balmacara with this music you will be 100 years old , greetings from Belgium I'm 66 years old
This is a masterpiece, a perfect combination of all instruments and singer, it takes you to a place where no other song can. Love it, love Simple Minds.
You are correct. Absolutely fantastic!
Stayed across the road from me
The electronic synthesiser bit at the start is so cool!
Absolutely 💯 perfect
Peak Simple Minds.
I was a teenager then, now i am 52 and still playing itt LOUD❤🕺🏾, best years ever the 80's!
@THE GREAT PYRAMID REVELATIONS me too im 53
I'm the same age and still playing it too
I’m 8 years older. The 70’s was really something. Amazing as well.
Same…😊 👏
I'M 64 AND STILL ROCKIN... FULL BLAST AND LOVING EVERY SECOND OF IT!!! TU SIMPLE MINDS... BEST MUSIC EVER!!
After so many years still goosebumps. The most beautiful song of my life. Melody that comes from the future. Simple Minds was my first band that I saw live, in Italy. I'm Italian from Naples. Simple Minds, Depeche Mode, The Cure, The Stone Roses, The Charlatans, Shed Seven, Supergrass .... I want to go back in time ....
Brava.
I'm going to Naples in January and i'm a Scotsman, glad you enjoy our tunes!!!!
💜Just reading your sentiments that echo my own.. this came onto an iTunes mix that played in a beautifully unexpectedly way, whilst I was city walking in my lunch hour today and I was transported back in time and forward too .. yes sounds like the future, even now.. Think it’s the the constancy of Jim Kerr’s deep resonating vocals.. and the soaring moments of guitar and electronic sounds .. gives a feeling of hope. Certainly uplifted me in the winter sunshine today 😀
It DOES come from the future… open your mind usura (21+19+21+18+1) = 80
One Word - "HOT"
Close your eyes and imagine yourself back in the 80s listening to this song. It’s like a gold dream rite.
You started with this song
Love you loads 🤗
@@BaldricksTurnip1 Can't. The batteries on my Walkman died and the in-the-ear headphones are in bits.
anni 80.... I MIGLIORI...........
It was great then and will always be great when we play this.
I m only 21 but I know I will die to this song
Most beautiful thing I've heard in my life
Thanks you dad I love you
Well done - and said, Nicholas.
Mothers and Fathers are precious gifts that leave us far too soon.
My youngest 18 yo daughter Natalie and I both had such a wonderful love for many of the same songs. Unfortunately, she and I have lost contact and I miss sharing these things with her. I know that she would love this song.
Sometimes a good idea to listen to your parents "wisdom".....
Listen to the 1900s music more often than the 2000s is lacking 2010s is not even good.
Hey man,live your life first brother,ok 🙂
And we love you too
Get this on your headphones, get on a train and travel, watch the world go by to this rhythm, its a new gold dream
🙌❤🙌
Exactly what I used to do while listening to this music: travelling by train to Sydney from Woollongong at the end of the working week to visit my family.
I have done such for over 40 years now. Yep.
40 years old and still a pure masterpiece
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Yes. The disco was almost empty and I had all the floor to myself and I soared like an Albatros over the flour, music in every sinew of my body. Just flying.... It's a long time ago but I never forgot.
They did and still suck
Dem ist nichts hinzuzufügen
We always knew you were a masterpiece - I'm glad you agree with us and the music reminding you of that fact :)
You are so right. I'm 48. New Gold Dream was the first album I bought . I was 7. It is epic. My 3 children call me Simple Paps. My mum who is 77 tells me " Stop with your Simple Minds". I tell her " Mum, I've been listening to The Minds for 43 years, you think I will stop ?" New Gold Dream ❤
43 plus 7 mmmm 48 ..
58 year's old with grand kids and it still has the ability to put the hairs up on the back of my neck. Blessed are we to have lived through the 80s. Echo and the bunny men . New order. The blue nile. The chamhelions . Endless. Really sorry for the kids today. But hey , we got the net .
Totally agree mate
know what you mean, i was 18 when this album came out, so many great memories come flooding back, 80s was a special time. Yes the kids these days are really suffering.
Dude I'm 58 and tell you this back in 80s no one can't best new order not even Depeche mode
The net was born to expand knowledge. It has become a trawl for catching lots of cod :(
Me toooooo
I have bipolar disorder and no word of a lie . If i'm felling very down i come here and listen to New Gold Dream and it lifts my spirits. Day By Day by Canadian band Doug & The Slugs does that too. God bless music !! All kinds of music . Music can really make a difference not only in the world but to each individual .
BLESS YOU !
@@nicholasbrandon8699 thank you. Sincerely.
All the best to you my friend, GREAT words!
@@zamiadams4343 thank you.!
@Bluewolfe96 thx!
I'm teaching my son, who's 12, everything about this music and I'm loving every minute of it. I feel it's my duty to pass this on.
SOmeone has to keep this music going when we are all gone… hope he loves it as much as we do! Well done ❤
Well done Gerrit!
Outstanding parenting work there. 👍
This is indeed a beautiful song, and one of my favorites since it was released. I'm a bit older than many of the people who commented here, and I've been listening to rock music since 1963. Simple Minds are up there with the best. Don't feel bad if you didn't get to hear the music when it was new - you're helping to keep it alive now! And you'll hear wonderful new music long after I'm gone.
what a generous and lovely comment.
Thanks Lynn! I'm from Glasgow and they are an amazing band.
So true, and although the album itself is a classic, the title track is probably the one that has held up best.
I wrote here six years ago that this track is *the* essence of the 80s, and I still think it is.
I'm 56, btw :)
You are awesome Lynn. Listening since my birth in 92, riding in the back of my dad's ford Fairmont x series, getting fish and chips and cruising around the hills and to the beach,.
I grew up in Fife, now live in Spain, have always loved Simple Minds, great memories, I'm 63 now but still feel 20!
This is by far their best song. The driving beat and otherworldly sounds. It was ahead of its time. I played this album in an endless loop in college 35 years ago. It has not aged at all.
Every time ⌚ I listen to this masterpiece of music 🎶 the hair on my neck goes up everytime Jim sings. 'She's your friend' the music at that moment is just beautiful. I feel I'm the coolest dude alive. I've loved Simple Minds since I was 13 in 1984. I'm 52 now and still love them and going to see them yet again in Dublin in 2024 and can't wait ❤
I can still see myself dancing to this song😢
This song is timeless, needs to be loud. Still play this in my car daily. Now have 5 grandkids ...
Defenitely - it needs to be loud!!!!
and - its not a shame to keep in in endless loop.....
5 is GOLD
Lucky grandkids :)
So lucky
Much as I adore this song I have to be careful how often I listen to it and how strong I'm feeling at the time. It can bring back the most intense memories of youthful joy but can leave me with a dark, post reminiscence despair if I play it too often.
Agreed
Great reply, you sound like me, massive introspection,one day we will skip through the cloud's
Spot on! It’s a feeling that can’t be described.
I also have great memories of this song and also bad experiences in the same year that listening to the song bring back. but?????? I have a similar feeling about the past
Yes, melancholy nostalghia must be avoided by rationing this beautiful track.
Still gives me goosebumps just like it did in the 80s.
I think this is one of the few songs which will give goosebumps to the people in 400 years when they listen to this track !
70,s early 80s music was the fucking bomb
+lake fire Absolutely!
:)) So true!
You bet your ass, I was born in 1970 so it was an amazing period of music.... I can say I know anything about today's stuff I can't tolerate any radio that's for sure unless they have a old playlist. So well said young man.
listen to there early albums are now mainstream t,v show music
"new" music is geared towards mass consumption at low cost. Produced programming for the indiscriminate listener. Not all recent music is reprehensible, however, when compared to the good old days the great majority needs to be deleted forever.
I’ve been living in the 80’s since the 80’s and simple minds are timeless! What a great way to start and finish the day
It's just the 40th year of the 80's
baz06683 I am totally with you ....a time never to be repeated and this classic will always stand the test of time
I've been living the 80s since birth in late 90s. With a 80s shitbox and music from 1900s.
I'm 65. The eighties were a caleidoscope of the best music ever. I got a lot of Lp and Mix. The sound of this records is fantastic! Naturally i love Simple Minds!
Fantastic, Epic, I'm 48 and New Gold Dream was and will still be a shock for me. After 43 years my mum tells me " Stop with your Simple Minds" and my 3 children don't call me Papa. They call me Simple Paps. Beautifu.l 😂😂😂😂
May all your Golden Dreams come true.
I was a teenager in the 80s....best days of my fvcking life and I feel truly blessed to have lived then. New Gold Dream 4 Ever!!!
Thanks Rentaghost okish. You expressed exactly how I feel.
I was 20 in 1980
Rentaghost okish, I can say the same exact thing, only I didn't realize it at the time.
Luv the Song Luv your Story
@@eddygsmusicworld1708 the best of times, eh? I wouldnt trade 'em for all the riches in the world!
OMG......what a band.......their songs should have hundreds of millions of views......one of the greatest BANDS of ALL TIME.......no doubt
22 years old and even I can feel the atmosphere of the 80s spirit rush through my blood as I listen to this gold. man...
Bobby Burnin Well said
@@massimo9113 now i'm 26 what happened hahaha. thanks
55 years old, saw them live, have this on gold vinyl, and I still feel the passion in my blood; so rich and even a little painful.
Happy to hear that Bobby Burnin.! I Saw them in 1984 Rotterdam Holland. Great band.!
I’m 59 now. Gosh….time flies. Enjoy Bobby.!!! Take care buddy.!
They are incredible.
This song moved me to tears & took me back to the happier years of my life. Incredible angelic voice.
without doubt one of the greatest songs ever written
For sure
I was born in the early 60´s - i grow up with ROCK - Disco - New Wave ... This Album was a Masterpiece ... I love it - Yesterday - NOW - and in the Future ...
This is an ecstasy record. That fantastic chugging keyboard riff is almost Balearic. That and the drifting arpeggiated guitar....It's trance before trance became a dirty word.
This has much more to do with music than with ecstasy. But your choice.
The world would be a better place if we all listened to trance. Js 🤷♂️
Yep.. Just needs a 909 drum machine and someone saying ‘open your mind’ over it a few times
@@matthewconnor6817 Usura played a big role in hooking new generations to this classic. What the next trick would be, I don't know 😀. What I do know, is that this classic is on my all-time top 5 list, and, depending on when I'm asked, maybe even number one.
Trance with a soul
I have their double cd, The Best Of Simple Minds. How on earth is this song not on that album?? It is one of their greatest songs.
Seriously, criminal that they let that happen!
It's unbelievable. I have had my own recording studio for over 20 years and make a lot of music. I was very interested in music. So I know a lot of songs, at least from hearing them. Even if I don't know their names. But I've always loved a synth zither melody. Usura Open your Mind. But I just had to learn that it is much older and from Simple Minds. Simple Minds are one of my favorite bands from the 80's. That earned her even more thumbs up. As I said incredible...👍👍👍
Now this, lady’s and gentleman, this is music!
*ladies and *gentlemen
Amazing they knew these years...81,82,83,84...... Best years for music ever!
Magical days ❤️
this song is a gigantic cannon blast of sound...it all works.
I’m only 13 years old but when I was 5 my dad would play this in the car, I still remember it’s amazing and unique tune❤️❤️
Your Dad obviously has very good taste in music
Then again, this is up there with the very very best of those 80's classic's !!!
So glad I'm 100% Scottish.
Spent Crimbo 1982 listening to this repeat after repeat after....
Same, I'm 18 now and my parents were Simple Minds fans. I used to hear music like New Gold Dream and other classics in the car as well which really created my music taste
The gift that keeps on giving....
Musica divina come questa non ne fanno più.
Più che altro: non c'è più niente di nuovo da inventare, ecco perchè andiamo a riaprire i vecchi cassetti!
Semplicemente sublime
fantastica!!!!!
Si ma questi sono un mito
Un Mito
Simple Minds 78-84 were untouchable.
Ditto.
Unbeatable.
They still are
Except for USURA. Love both version!!
85 was great
In 1982 a friend in England sent me a cassette recording of the BBC Top 40 Countdown. On it was Scottish band Simple Minds - 'Promised You a Miracle'. I wore that cassette tape out rewinding that song. The title track off the album 'New Gold Dream' changed my musical taste forever and influenced my career choice! 🏴💙
OK, seriously. Simple Minds are one of the most underrated bands of the time period, at least in the U.S. They are SO much more than "Don't You Forget About Me." New Gold Dream is a stellar record - saw them in 2018, "New Gold Dream" was on the setlist, and it was AMAZE!
Open Your Mind, Open You Mind!
@@johnbajada5158 quuuaaaaddddde
@modegirl4779 have u grown up since leaving your childish,cliche comment?
Think the action was more in the UK and Europe that time. Simple Minds were very popular.!!
1980's music heaven for those of us lucky enough to experience it first hand. Incredible.
Nothing of today compares to the awesome music of Simple Minds. I have all their albums and play them constantly. Wish I could go back to the 80s and just remain there for eternity. Miss those days!!!
I love them since 30 years, but I just discover this one this week! Shame on me!😁
The 80’s saw the emergence of The synthesiser & that changed everything. Sounds were created that we’d never heard before. Simple Minds were one of the best.
One of the pioneering first to use the synthesizer (in this case an ARP ?2400) was Pete Townshend - on Who's Next '71
50th Anniversary 8/14!
(no disrespect - love NGD song & Album)
Still are mate
Sorry friend. Synthesiser came up in early 70s. Listen to the Who’s Next and Fragile by Yes. to understand Synthesiser infused rock. Having said that, this track by Simple Minds is
@@rallabhandiprabhakar4750 ..Fair enough, I certainly wouldn’t argue with you on that. Perhaps I should just have said how important & game changing the Synthesiser became in the 80’s.👍
Took off in the 80s but if you listen to some 70s Bowie or even Idol tunes they came in early
I never tire of this song! Still as amazing as it was back in the 80's! What a band they were :)
went to see them in 2022 and still one of the best bands ever
My hand ❤❤❤❤❤
In a restaurant kitchen in Stockholm, working with my best bud. Our 80's hair repeating and rewinding this song on cassette. Great memories. Best build up song ever. 40 years later I can still feel it.
One the finest pop/rock tracks ever committed to vinyl. PERIOD.
+User58747 You said it.
+User58747 rock ????? From which planet did you say you were ?
Bassmanfallon OK simple mind, keep on "rocking".
+Benoit Vanhees Keep on trolling if you want to. Some of us still love this track.
Mortis xx So again, for all the simple minds here, my point was: this is everything but rock. This is pop, plain popmusic. If you want to see that as blasphemy, fine with me, who's trolling in that case, who's the prick con balls....
Never said I didn't like the track in itself, as long as I don't have to look at the singer playing Jezus Christ in front of dedicated followers. Fortunately, some wisdom and more acceptable stage presence came with the years. All hope is not idle.
Remember listening to this song for the first time on a school trip to The Soviet Union in 1985. A girl asked the bus driver to play a tape on which the song was. He agreed and when the song hit the speakers of the bus I was spellbound by the song especially the intro that it just plain awesome - still is today. Allways have this piece of memory in mind when I listen to the song today.
+Krestian Nielsen Be glad the school trip wasn't in 1986, or you'd still be a light bowl ;) I was only 13 in '85, but nevertheless, had the record.
+Krestian Nielsen Sounds like a great trip!!!
School trip '85 was France, in our case...
Very cool story. I first heard it in Rio, possibly '84. The city was on fire, I'm glad I lived to see Rock in Rio in '88. Then I came to NYC, another glorious stage for the tail end of the greatest decade.
not a trip to Ukraine and chernobyl . ahahha///
I saw simple minds in 82? on the new gold dream tour.. awesome .. saw them again a few years later was ok .. no Derek Forbes though .. saw them last year.. good again
I used to hear it when I was doing my military service in 1982 hearing it makes me cry 😪
Without a doubt one of Scotland's finest bands ever.
One of?
@@a.tanner8524 Avarage White Band
It’s Wales though
@@maureencholewka9755where's Glasgow?
Bassline is just pure mustard ❤
This sounds so ahead of its time. It sounds as if it could be released in the 2000s as a trance hit, except it's from 1982. So, so great.
U.S.U.R.A.used this track in 1993 for their rave banger Open Your Mind. which is categorized as techno house
Funny you say that. It was remixed by usura which was also an amazing hit.
Utah Saints also released an excellent stadium house cover before that, in 1992. No guitars but still quite epic and the vocals are in that similar style which reminds me of A. Eldritch of Sisters of Mercy. Simple Minds musically still sound amazing live, but Jim's vocals for this song no longer have that seductive dark gloom that to me is essential to the song.
I'm really angry that I'm 54 years old and this is the first time I've heard this song I'm angry at myself mainly wow I never knew this song it existed until today and I'm so happy that I'm here for it thank you for sharing!
Ist's never to late.
Enjoy that you go in contact to this great music. 🍀🇩🇪🍀👍👍
better late than never 😊
I thought that the intro part to the song was a sample of the '95 Urasia song! Then I realised it was the other way around.
@@danniifan3115 I know I'm baffled that I never knew this information.
Remembering when i was 14 in 1982. This album illuminated my life with the joy of life of that period. Infinite thanks to the Simple Minds
Same for me . I was born in 1966, so 16 in 1982
I grew up with this song, on Saturday nights in the bathtub with the cassette of 70s-80s-90s songs of my dad on the radio. What beautiful memories and I finally found this song again, I'm 17 now and I already listened to it when I was 8/9 without knowing the title.
Just sublime - I can't imagine what it would've been like to hear this playing out in a club back then. This is one of those songs that I can't just listen to once. I always end up putting it on a loop.
It was an amazing time
I can tell you it was amazing bands like big country u2 and simple minds got the place rocking
It was great. Club music in general was upbeat and uplifting. When this song came on, the dance floor was packed.
The first album I bought after coming back from the Falklands in 82.
1974 3.0 Ford Capri in black and gold......blasting down the road on leave.
19 years old and not a care in the world and what a soundtrack to my life.
sounds like heaven
Time machine
damn - falklands... it was in 82? Well times goes by - but good music stay forever....
I had the same engine but in a Scimitar... Powermax pistons, Vulcan head, lightened, tufted, balanced, bigger valves, 200bhp could beat any car going up a hill!
Hey raquelthestripperfromhell69! I don't mean to be out of line, or show any disrespect, but, I cant help but picture you dancing to this song, and numerous other Simple Minds tunes, as your name implies.
I was 20 in 1981. I grew up listening to pop and by 14 in 1975 I was into funk.
I still love funk and these days I really enjoy and appreciate late 60s & early 70s rock. Having said that music from 1979 to 84 was very special. I don’t know if I’m just being nostalgic, I was a young man going out 5 nights a week, dressing up like a pirate 🏴☠️ and dancing the night away with wonderful people. Such great times. I’ve lost touch with nearly all the people I knew back then, it wasn’t easy to stay in touch those days, people moved or change telephone number and you had no idea where they gone. It may of been just over 40 years ago but that’s how it was at the time.
You described thos years perfectly feel the same way. Bowie and Idol brought the synth to the world in the 70s and took off from there. Cant get enough of this .
I was a 70's music boy and I held out for a long time not getting into the new 80's stuff. This is one of the albums that got me into the swing of it all. Respect.
Best band !! Or simple minds or tears for fears
Bro is 80s all the way
Back in that time was so much good bands is hard to choose but new order is on too 10 ??
Extraordinary music. Jim Kerr wasn’t really a singer, he was a genuine vocal stylist - he wasn’t a dancer, but he moved so well on these numbers. I saw them a couple of times, they’d spend ages building it up to a big drop, ‘And the beat goes crashing!’, they were somewhat ahead of their time. Haven’t heard that in ages!
Describes his vocal ability well. Their are singers..and then guys like this
Simple Minds. One of the greatest bands ever. No doubt!
Simple minds fenomenali ,musica eccezionale.....e grazie pure da parte degli USURA per una melody che spacca ancora alla grande!!!!!
2025. and this tune still sounds like it comes from the future
I agree
lol, so true !
Indeed ❤️👌
That's exactly what I've always thought since the first listening! Great suggestion and charm, melody and rhythm drag me in a circle of lights and colors ... Great song ... wonderful memories of summer nights of my youth ... infinite nostalgia...!
@@gapper3 Yup! I listen to it on a somewhat regular basis and still get goose bumps every single time. This songs mean SO much to me, you wouldn't believe!! Such a great time.........
after 39 years, I still have goosebumps listening to it !
..nostalgia...fino alle lacrime..bellezza allo stato puro..
Vero!
Mitici, quelli 80's.Mi spiace x quelli che non c'erano. Vi siete persi un sacco
@@giovannimalagrino4748 APPROVO Pienamente !!!
BRIVIDI!!!!!!
All ' epoca ero universitario fuorisede . Vivevo in un appartamento che prima era uno studio dentistico .......... c ' era ancora la poltrona ad olio . C ' era un bagno tutto blu che nessuno usava mai , usavamo solo l ' altro bagno con la doccia a 2 soffioni ................ era una casa particolare . Silvia viveva sempre con noi ; mi ricordo quando scoprì i Simple MInds e Valerio ( il suo guru ) le disse " sono una cagata " ,,,,,,,, la ghiacciò . Poi gli chiesi " perché le hai detto questa cosa ? perché le hai parlato così duramente ? " ,,, Valerio era filosofo ( cioè .... si fa per dire ) e mi rispose " perché si entusiasma troppo " . Valerio lo trovi su TH-cam alla voce " Valerio Mazza " è nato nel paese in cui ha vissuto Chaplin , è uno dei più grandi chitarristi che ho mai conosciuto .......... all ' epoca era incredibile , adesso ..... lasciamo perdere .
Quanta nostalgia. Musica immortale. Anni 80 for ever
As a Scot I can say these guys were amazing .. soundtrack to my youth 😊
walking in to Danceteria and getting goosebumps as the music played loud to this song. Long live the 80's
Every time I play this track I am taken back to my early 20s and playing it getting ready to go out to the pubs and clubs to drink and dance the night away, they were some of the happiest days of my life.
Me too
It is 2024 and this still sounds ‘fresh’❤️🔥
Timeles good music. 🍀🇩🇪🍀👍👍
put it on a loop and let it play forever...
It is 1982. I am dancing with my friends Zoe and Tina plus many
others at Camden Place to this glorious record.
The Associates "Party Fears Two", Siouxie's "Happy House",
Bowie's "Ashes To Ashes", the Bunnymen's "Rescue",
Joy Division's "Transmission", the Human League's "Love Action"
and many more wonderful records.
The Minds' finest moment.
My Golden Years.
I know i was checking u out lol
Great records
Great memories, i can only imagine
@@djphylt929 The Camden Palace was a great place.
Fabulous music, fabulous-looking people.
How time has flown.........
Capolavoro assoluto!!!!!!! Tutto l'Album è un gioiellino anni '80!!!!!!
Perfettamente d'accordo. Capolavoro senza tempo.
Esatto assoluto capolavoro sembra impossibile che qualcuno possa realizzare ciò ma è questo il bello del mondo grazie simple❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
ONE OF THE GREATEST MASTERPIECES OF ALL TIME !
My God, this song just keeps getting better and better. Pure perfection. Chilling and wonderful.
38 years old. Wow. when this was released I would never have dreamed of listening to music from 1944.
It's the new wave!
In some way also the last wave..
What a fantastic perspective! Totally blew my mind!! 🤯
I was raised partly on the music from the Big Band era - I'm 54. Maybe good music influences and shapes ones likes throughout life....regardless of time.
I was thinking about the same thing recently. It's weird how the gap between the 80s and the present has grown to where it's equivalent to the 40s and 80s but doesn't seem that way. Maybe I'm misremembering, but I recall the 40s as seeming distant and like another era even in the 80s (though I think there was a fair bit of 50s/60s nostalgia back then). Realizing that the 80s is to today what the 40s was to the 80s feels surreal.
84 i graduated from high school...heard this tune at a summer camp staff party ...was one of many tunes i carry from my youth. ...summer love ...long good byes
One of the true epic songs from the 20th century. Its up there with Heroes, Ashes to ashes, Games without frontiers, Wuthering heights and Comfortably numb.
doesn't get the recognition though, Glasgow thing one suspects...
Yes it really is!
Absolutely the greatest song
@@murdered33 What!!? SM were absolutely MASSIVE back in the day. I had the good fortune to see them live at the Lyceum in London around 84/85. Unforgetable, Jim Kerr intense he was.
And Octopus, Syd Barrett!!
Simple Minds are without doubt the finest Scottish band of the last thirty years. And I'm a Big Country fan.
+Paul Ockenden - With respect, Big Country dont come close to these guys. My teenage years were in the 80's listening to this (and others). Sounds cliched but simple Minds sound as good today as they did when I was 15. Brilliant band.
1. Ac/Dc 2.Simple Minds 3. The rest.......
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I'm 55 too and it reminds me of those wonderful times, although I have to say I'm also coping well with the maturity of this age. I rediscovered this song after so many years. These days I noticed that in the early 80s I had a crush on a little girl. But even these days I have a crush on another girl.... 😄
Open your mind. Open your mind.
First heard this melody from the U.S.U.R.A and Utah Saints samples, never knew until the late 90's it was a Simple Minds song they sampled from.
If this came out today the so called talent that exists today in the music world would be history. Outsanding.
Masterpiece! to me, the song that is all my 80s...then the best ever!
Real music, when music was great to listen too.
Yes it was, for sure
One Direction will never even offer anything close to this absolutely perfect music.....getting old seems like yesterday!
+Richard Brooks
well ... there are real musicains working together behind The singer.
AFIK one direction are mostly singers with commercial team behind.
This song brings me back to the days when my daughter was about 10 , 11 years old and we would hear this song while riding in the car, ( my daughter will be 40 in September) I was one of the few who had a child while in my early 20's back in 1980, but it was great to listen to these songs and watch my daughter grow-up
One of the best songs ever!! Never get tired of it. "She is the one in front of me, the siren and the ecstasy".
I can only agree 83
BIG TIME! Best concert even 1984 in Bologna under a circus tenta. Magical a long time ago in February '84 in the outskirts of Bologna with Francesca. Palo e Francesca looking amazed after the concert.
Best song ever - never tire of it.
Yep. I heard it first time in England (Holiday). Genial... great, super ... lol
I agree totaly!
Ian Short So do I do. Agree with you.
Brings back great times while going thru Navy dive school in Panama City, Fl in 1985.
Sin duda de lo mejor de todos los tiempos!!!
Just superb. Ageless and distinctive simple minds, simple genius.
Gill right on. im a old fart 54 mate ive worked as sound engineer in Aussie for many big bands in the 80s and i have some fantastic memory's this music will never die great music but better musicians cheers
Well said!
ahoy there mate wait did you tour with the Gurus in 85 ? Lolz
This whole album is so lush, so beautiful. Jim Kerr's voice brings back so many memories...there is no other.....
until he tried to imitate Bono!
@@murdered33 Really? U2 copied Simple Minds, there is no doubt, and J
im's a better singer anyway. now go and read some rock history if you were no there.
@@petercarlin9691 Yeah it was definitely the other way round. U2 were inspired by Simple Minds. If you're looking for Simple Minds influences think more Joy Division. Bono has a better voice purely on vocal quality imo, but I prefer Jim as a frontman and singer.
@@hollyblue28 The Minds were not inspired by JD, vocal quality ? Subjective
@@petercarlin9691 It is subjective for sure, I agree with that. Influenced by JD though; I think so. They were peers not predecessors for sure but Kerr really admired them.
www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/music/2012/feb/23/simple-minds-rock
I'm seven centuries old, doomed to an eternal life, and I still can't believe how sweet this tune is.
The best song ever that has been produced! New Gold Dream! 81 82 83 84!
Absolutely without a doubt !
You know they're still playing? Sounding great as ever and playing big shows here in the UK and continental europe; some good recent videos here on TH-cam. :)
Way cool, so glad to hear it
***** Try The Simple Minds vids I shot on my channel. HD quality and excellent sound !
81 82 83 84 ... I remember singing along to this in my bedroom, when 84 was still in the distant future! A brilliant song from a brilliant album - even now it makes my toes curl with pleasure.
Words cannot do justice to the brilliance of this song.. it is like the sixteenth chapel, Mona Lisa , Van Gogh…we really should put simple minds in the same category
Sistine? Only kidding, I agree 100%
Cant wrap my head around the ones coming up with this tune, writing it, the progressions etc.
Over the top talent for sure
Anni 80....indescrivibili ,poi questa canzone ti piglia lo stomaco e te lo strizza dalla nostalgia.....😰
Great music reminds me my youth. Saw Simple Minds five times,always excellent concerts😊
In 1983, I lived across the road from Eddy Grant. My flatmate and I loved this song and used to sing "81, 82, 83, Eddy Grant".
thats sick!
This is probably the greatest comment I've ever seen on the web.
Bet Eddy didn't want to dance after that...
Did it give you hope Joanna? (;
Brilliant anecdote.
The best song of Simple Minds and the best album of Simple Minds. And furthermore the 80's was the best time of my life - no woman no cry :P
you cant get more EIGHTIES than with this song - it's a perfect time capsule
Yes !!!!
It even says 81 82 83 84 in it
81...82...83...84....New Gold Dreams, I love it, still!
Its class
i'mfrom belgium near the pond, yes simple minds love them speciale this song. new gold dream. hmmm
You are not alone in that.
24 years old and my dad played this masterpiece. Amazing!
Underrated band and underrated album.
I don't know about underrated band.lol!