Neon Lights

Great covers by a great band.

Remember Simple Minds? They're the guys who did cool songs like "Alive and Kicking" and "Don't You (Forget About Me)" back in the 1980s. They've been around since the late 70s, and it shows, both in their looks and their skill. All of the cool bands are doing covers, from Tori Amos to Madonna, so is it any wonder that Simple Minds have decided to do the same with Neon Lights? It's not as though covers are new to Simple Minds. Way back in the days when they were scrawny and used to be known as Johnny and theSelf-Abusers, they would cover songs by Lou Reed, The Doors, and David Bowie. I guess they've decided to come around full-circle, now that it's trendy again. Although this is a strong album overall, not all the tracks are that great. I skipped ahead to the next track while listening to "Hello I Love You," "Gloria," "Love Will Tear Us Apart," and "The Man Who Sold the World." "Love Will Tear Us Apart" seems like a particularly bad cover; Simple Minds turn it into a techno club song, and I just don't think it works. It makes the Joy Division goth classic both boring and commonplace. However, the album does have several tracks which do shine. "Homosapien" and "Being Boiled" are quirky and interesting, "All Tomorrow's Parties" is a powerful reinterpretation of that ground-breaking Velvet Underground song, and "Neon Lights" is an interesting take on a Kraftwerk classic. This cover album is nice, but I think I'd rather listen to Simple Minds performing original material. Hopefully, their new album, Our Secrets Are the Same, will soon be disentangled from its legal problems and released.

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For any SM fan this is something completly different. I know they have recently done their acoustic thing, which is also great too, a slant on their grass roots stuff! This contains some great covers.

Rivisitazione dei SM di brani appartenenti ad artisti che hanno influenzato la loro formazione e crescita musicale. La particolarità risiede nel fatto che sono versioni spesso molto dissimili rispetto agli originali e questo le rende interessanti, anche perchè avrebbe avuto poco senso "clonare" quei pezzi senza unire un pò di fantasia personale. Forse non è (giustamente) il disco più noto dei SM ma si ascolta con molto piacere e questo è l'essenziale.

Love this CD . Even though it is a disc of covers it is up there with any of Simple Minds later albums .

Great simple minds slant on classic tracks