Tag Archives: Cry

Simple Minds Sidebar 1: Ranking The Cover Art [part 9]

Posted on May 5, 2015 by postpunkmonk

ALBUM 16: Cry| 2002 | designer: 2Fluid_Creative The next album design was the effort of the company responsible for the band’s 2nd generation website; 2Fluid_Creative. They inexplicably went with photos from the “Dancing Barefoot” video session, albeit altered on the back cover … Continue reading →

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Rock G.P.A.: Simple Minds [part 49]

Posted on March 3, 2015 by postpunkmonk

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]

Posted on March 2, 2015 by postpunkmonk

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]

Posted on February 23, 2015 by postpunkmonk

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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