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Steel Cage Match: Simple Minds VS OMD Boxed Sets Due October 4th!
Holy frijoles! You take a day off blogging to work extra hard, and all heck breaks loose with one’s favorite bands. Let’s discuss this in the order that I found out about it. Today both OMD and Simple Minds have … Continue reading
Posted in Core Collection, Record Review, Scots Rock, Steel Cage Match
Tagged 2019, boxed set, Live In the City of Angels, OMD, Simple Minds, Souvenir
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Steel Cage Match: Go-Gos vs Fun Boy Three
I recently bought a copy of the US 12″ single of the Fun Boy Three version of “Our Lips Are Sealed,” so now I could finally hear something more than memories for the first time in 35 years. I had … Continue reading
Steel Cage Match: Elvis 2003 VS Elvis 2004 [Part 2]
[…continued from previous post] Elvis Costello + The Imposters: The Delivery Man US CD [2004] Button My Lip Country Darkness There’s A Story In Your Voice Either Side Of The Same Town The Delivery Man Monkey To Man Nothing Clings … Continue reading
Steel Cage Match: Elvis 2003 VS Elvis 2004 [Part 1]
Nearly four years ago in a Gaineville, Georgia thrift store we found a cache of one dollar CDs that beckoned. Among the delights to be had were a pair of Elvis Costello albums of late [for me] vintage. I have … Continue reading
REDUX: Steel Cage Match – Simple Minds VS U2
September 24, 2013 Sure, sure. We all acknowledge that there’s a weird, almost reciprocal relationship between U2 and Simple Minds. I can’t shake the feeling that the each band has somehow used the other for artistic inspiration and that were it a … Continue reading
Posted in Blast From The Past, Scots Rock, Steel Cage Match
Tagged 2013, Simple Minds, Steel Cage Match, U2
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Steel Cage Match: Heaven 17 Vs Simple Minds
This is a Steel Cage Match that I thought about writing a few years ago but then the massive Simple Minds thread, nay… book happened and I didn’t think it was prudent to invoke the Scots any time too soon … Continue reading
Posted in Core Collection, Scots Rock, Steel Cage Match
Tagged 1989, 1999, New Wave Cover Version, Prince
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Steel Cage Match: KMFDM vs …The Osmonds?
Until the mid 90s, I had a penchant for, shall we say, industrial rock sounds. I was such a fan of Cabaret Voltaire, who were the reason I put up with so many also ran bands. No other acts gave … Continue reading