Tag Archives: 2002

Rock G.P.A.: Simple Minds [part 49]

Simple Minds | Cry – 3 [continued from previous post] The album’s second half kicks off with by far the most successful Mark Kerr tune the band committed to disc. On “Lazy Lately,” Charlie Burchill managed to get one of … Continue reading

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Rock G.P.A.: Simple Minds [part 48]

Simple Minds | Cry – 3 Now ensconced on the smaller Eagle Rock label, Simple Minds actually managed to release a follow-up album to “Neon Lights” just six months afterward. The title track was released as a single prior to the album’s … Continue reading

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Rock G.P.A.: Simple Minds [part 47]

When the “Neon Lights” album was announced, the most intriguing thing about it was not that the band were active after the failure  of “Néapolis” three years earlier. It was that there was a mooted follow up album of original material … Continue reading

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Shriekback Consider Mining Past Glories [part 2]

So Shriekback have a petition up to gauge interest in a CD re-issue of “Jamscience” paired with the elusive Hatfield Poly ’85 show they self-issued on CD-R a dozen years ago. Getting those on legit, pressed CD will go a … Continue reading

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