Tag Archives: New Gold Dream

Simple Minds Dip Into The Surround Sound Well A Second Time With Twin Blu-Rays In Dolby Atmos®

Posted on November 21, 2024 by postpunkmonk

Of course commenter negative1ne has already acted swiftly on the comment thread of a post I made to commemorate “New God Dream [81, 82, 83, 84]” but I was away on travel for a memorial last weekend when I got … Continue reading →

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Simple Minds “New Gold Dream – Live From Paisley Abbey” Album More Than Just A Victory Lap

Posted on December 4, 2023 by postpunkmonk

It was a few weeks ago that I received the CD of Simple Minds “New Gold Dream – Live At Paisley Abbey” that my good friend chasinvictoria ordered for me and while the last month or two has seen my … Continue reading →

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Forty Years Ago Today, Simple Minds Changed Everything with “New Gold Dream [81,82,83,84]”

Posted on September 13, 2022 by postpunkmonk

I was planning on starting a thread about another Scot band today but an email I received from a friend in the predawn hours [he was on OZ time…] alerted me to the salient fact that on this day in … Continue reading →

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Record Review: Simple Minds “New Gold Dream” Boxed Set Of God [part 5]

Posted on March 5, 2019 by postpunkmonk

DISC 6 | Alternative Mixes, Roughs + Demos […continued from last post] The final disc was a revisit of the DVD-A that came out in 2005. I was lucky enough to have gotten a copy back then even though 5.1 … Continue reading →

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Record Review: Simple Minds “New Gold Dream” Boxed Set Of God [part 4]

Posted on February 28, 2019 by postpunkmonk

DISC 5 | Alternative Mixes, Roughs + Demos […continued from last post] The fifth disc is why these Super Deluxe Boxed Sets can be so interesting to fans who would put an album like “New Gold Dream [81, 82, 83, … Continue reading →

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Record Review: Simple Minds “New Gold Dream” Boxed Set Of God [part 3]

Posted on February 27, 2019 by postpunkmonk

DISC 3 | Edits + B-Sides […continued from last post] Disc three is the sort of excess curation that we sometimes do with our own REVO CDs to show off. Every 7″ edit [usually with about 0:30 seconds excised for … Continue reading →

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Record Review: Simple Minds “New Gold Dream” Boxed Set Of God [part 2]

Posted on February 26, 2019 by postpunkmonk

DISC 2 | Extended Versions […continued from last post] So far, disc 2 had two of the three tracks to be found on the UK 12″ single of “Promised You A Miracle.” Next followed the US remixes of the track. … Continue reading →

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