Re: Simple Minds - Life in a Day (1979)

by Guest Fri 16 Oct 2020 - 19:35

'Dr*gs just can't be bought'

You can take the boy out of Glasgow…

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri 16 Oct 2020 - 19:37

Last track - Murder Story.

by Nightjar Fri 16 Oct 2020 - 19:37

Joy Division.

by Nightjar Fri 16 Oct 2020 - 19:39

Nightjar wrote:Joy Division.

+ Sparks

+ The Strangulars

= This

by Nightjar Fri 16 Oct 2020 - 19:40

Phasing effects.

by Nightjar Fri 16 Oct 2020 - 19:40

Speeding up like Roxy Music/Iron Maiden.

by Guest Fri 16 Oct 2020 - 19:40

This came out 6 months before Transmission, gasp

And 3 months before An Ideal for Living gasp

Are Joy Division just a bunch of Simple Minds clones with a better producer?

by Guest Fri 16 Oct 2020 - 19:41

by Nightjar Fri 16 Oct 2020 - 19:41

Geldof vocal stylings.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri 16 Oct 2020 - 19:41

by Nightjar Fri 16 Oct 2020 - 19:43

My assertion is that this sounds overall most like Sparks.

This may be purely an accident however (considering how many different recording artists it all sounds like).

by Guest Fri 16 Oct 2020 - 19:43

Something of the Alex Harvey about the lyrics.

by Guest Fri 16 Oct 2020 - 19:44

I liked that.

I understand it's not GR8, yes

★★★★

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri 16 Oct 2020 - 19:45

It is over.

They clearly had a talent for mimicking the work of others and it was a lot more tolerable than later stuff that I've heard by them but, mostly, it just made me want to listen to the people they were pastiching.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it. Excited

by Nightjar Fri 16 Oct 2020 - 19:45

WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:Something of the Alex Harvey about the lyrics.

Yes, yes.

Why not.

I feel that no other record we've ever commentated on has sounded like so many other artistes all at once.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri 16 Oct 2020 - 19:45

I shall give it 3 stars.

by Nightjar Fri 16 Oct 2020 - 19:47

I found that all quite bewildering.

I'm going to go back and make a list of all the bands and singers we all thought it sounded like.

This I feel will help us understand what the h*ck it was all about.

shifty

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri 16 Oct 2020 - 19:49

I heard:
Cockney Rebel.
The Boomtown Rats.
The Skids.
Bruce Springsteen.
Sparks.
The Attractions.
The Ramones.
The Cars.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri 16 Oct 2020 - 19:49

And the Bay City Rollers.

by Nightjar Fri 16 Oct 2020 - 19:49

★★ BTW.

I would've given it ★★★, but there's no way it deserves any more than a combined ★★★.

That score in itself is absurd, but I'd be a churlius maximus to give it ★.

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Simple Minds - Life in a Day (1979)

He's so simple-minded, he can't drive his module He bites on the neon and sleeps in a capsule Loves to be loved, loves to be loved