Simple Minds - Love Song 

I, too, am here from reddit.

Internet training required my friend 😉

Exactly feel the same as I’m in my 52s!😊

The beginning of the 80's was a New Gold Dream

Totally agree it was a very fun time

Still a tuff song as I’m in 50’s and still love it, best to listen to this when your walking or jogging whether early or late at night 🇦🇺

yes Sir, I would not mind to be an older guy, as long as I had lived through the 1950s and especially the 1980s. the 80s had the best music, fashion, movies, etc. I can only fantasize about being a young man in those golden years of music!

Agree

A sparkling and explosive exploit put them at the top...unfortunately they could not keep such a high profile. What do you think it’s about?

A great opener to a concert.

I concur

I travel is better

They are still one of the best bands in the world ❤😊

Really glad you discovered it my friend. Have you heard the extended edition with the different, more drawn out ending? I would also urge you to look into - if you haven't already - New Gold Dream 81 82 83 84. Their finest album hands down. Hunter and the Hunted is pure genius. Give it a few listens. Let it seep into your soul.

This was the first song I ever heard with Simple Minds, so I was late to the party. (And jumped off when Forbes left/were ousted) They were amazing!

Great band! Search out more.

Guess what? I've just done exactly the same thing!? What a fantastic band they were,...

@@edwardchapman3309Still are.

dont forget the late 70s dude

+Joseph Devlin have you heard Celebration album ? that's a good one

I know that compilation album but I love Sons & Fascination, Sister Feelings Call and New Gold Dream LPs.

I agree. Early 80s had such a feel behind the music

79-81!

So what happened after that. ?

Do you have tab for the bass line

So many of their songs were driven by Forbes' bass engine. 😌👌

Derek explains in on a RU-vid video, the fun fact is that someone in the comments who did not get who he was, tried to say he was not doing right….

​@@flugsvenWaterfront

Dancing in kitchen as I Cook 😀

Go for it again-in the rain/brilliant whatever-I will be dancing also

Turn it up during lockdown

2022

Still awesome in 2024.

No it isn't, everyone WAY better than this has worse treatment. The list is endless: Kim Wilde, OMD, A-ha, Bangles, Kirsty MacColl, Bluebells, Aztec Camera, Cock Robin, Comsat Angels, Toyah, Big Country, Belouis Some, China Crisis, T'Pau, Shakespears Sister, Sheena Easton, Roxette, Crowded House, Deacon Blue, The Smiths, Talk Talk, Belouis Some-even Duran Duran's post-1984 even better tunes and the grand ABBA get treated like this, especially all the girls' solo stuff. Even bloody worse for acts like Sandra, Alphaville, 'Til Tuesday, Real Life and Information Society that weren't even give a proper crack at the Top 75! Simplistic Minds get bloody lucky in comparison and should be considered bloody lucky, when they're nowhere near as good as their rep lies. Big bad, sometimes absurdly sung interchangable stadium noise that often goes on too long. Simply put, 'Don't You Forget' is probably their best and it made them remembered for it in the US. Least they get that. Anyway, 'Promised You A Miracle' is a thick and twatty number, their worst 80s song ever, and way too often all heart radio's old crappy 80s night, where they never played 'Don't You Forget'. How funny is that? Not. Best forgotten is that horrible tune. Their most standout numbers for me are the quite few-'This Is Your Land' and 'See The Lights'. Even on good rowdy numbers like 'Alive And Kicking' & 'All The Things She Said', his pompous and bawdy and often none-too discernible singing-and often overdone, does these tunes no favours. There are better vocalists fronting bands out there in the 80s-he is weak compared with them.

Bro I live in Perth Australia and there is a radio station called Easy Hits Fm that plays the worst of '70s and 80s music and I'm forced to listen to it at work. No chance of hearing artistic gems like this and yes the only Simple minds track that gets played is Don't You Forget. The station sucks shit and even the news bulletins are bollocks.

Mate, this is just like the UK. They always play crap-even when it was in the 90s, unless you were an overrated, undeserving 80s artist (Sting, Phil Collins, Paul Weller, The Cure, Slagdonna-the worst-Michael Jackson) they never play your stuff anymore, and NEVER EVER any new stuff the artist has got out. US radio is even worse as those xenophobic tossers only care about their own crap, apart from the bullshit from the UK today, when we've nothing any more, like everywhere else. Says it all. Easy Hits FM-the title says it all. It's so 'easy' to play shit-and as every station for decades is only interested in the Top 10-and mostly, it IS full of shit as the best songs usually never make the Top 40-and some see no charting, or even release at all! Bet there's still many artists in my list who didn't even get one play where you are.

Damn straight so many hits. Make U2 look like a joke. These guys were freaks

@@chipcity3016 More chart entries at heights than they deserved. Quality varied, and anyway, most 80s groups make U2 look and sound a joke, but while guitar-driven bands will never have the edge over synth-based ones or singers, Big Country and Crowded House outstrip them every time, and Duran, while not being solely guitar-based, certainly do. Anyone can have 'many hits' if they've a insane critically acclaimed following in the media; it's usually the people that only are allowed to get sparing hits that are better. Simple Minds still get treated way better on radio than most, along with Depeche Mode, Sting, Weller, Cure, Phil Collins, Slagdonna, Minogue, Tina Turner-all crap like that.

this and the next album are not only absolute masterpieces but among the most seminal of all time..or rather all modern music owes them a huge tribute, pop, electronic, new age..they traced the path which then was undertaken...

100%

They had some good songs go 80s

definitely. it has a real edge

Have it on lp

Like someone already texted , 1980 - 1983 was their best period . After the album New Gold Dream it all became less interesting.

No, the best were the 60s and 70s

They were all great eras. ❤❤❤

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Aye they were mate..👍

Still are something else brilliant bands

81,82,83,84.......

With sons and fascination and new gold dreams as their best albums

Very modern, they were ahead of their time

@@tamaragarrett3625 A pure definition of New Wave and Synth Wave sound. Simply the best music.💙💙

Bora BRASIL 🇧🇷

That'll be Jim Kerr Then...🤷‍♂️

Did you like Chelsea girl, life in a day? Epic all time greatness 😃

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Have you seen them live?

@@fryim06 Unfortunately I have not.

@@fryim06 luckily for me a number of times , supposed to have seen them again but the pandemic stopped it.

@@fryim06 YES IN JULY 1986

Sex Drug Baby Bomers JESUS on BACK burner ! Look where Repentance Can Redeem?

YES...I would hit that floor and blow everyone away!

Ohhh we knew it alright, just didn’t flaunt it..... Didn’t need to back then 😉

Aye, they were never the same after Forbes left the band.

DF is my new bass crush. Love his groove!

Forbes and MacNeil gave the band their signature sound, IMHO.

In most cases always with Derek playing

Add 4 to 6 beers as well, and it's even better!

Same. I mean, the big songs of S.M. I know very well. This little little ditty I had never heard and I love it.

Same here, came across it today June 2nd 2024. Yesterday I bought a 4 disc CD ‘Now 80’s Alternative’ and one of the tracks on the discs that just blew me away was Simple Minds - The American. I came on You Tube to find a visual copy and I found this track, Love Song, at the same time. Two mind blowing tracks I’d ever heard before today.

and young. .. like us :)

Looks like Gary Oldman.

agree😘

+Kishanna Conan Doyle I agree too...

YESSSSSSSSSSS

Nooooooo!

Yes my favourite SM song.

The 12 inch version is the full version. And the best version. Love the way it finishes with the keyboards and bass as the drum stop rather than just fading out.

This is one of their later songs, not early.

Late by what measure? It's 1981 pre New Gold Dream from Sons and Fascination when they wouldn't be considered big anywhere outside of Scotland.

I wasn't aware this was an earlier song. I clearly remember this single hitting the UK charts in 1992. Thanks for the info, Tom.

Todos los días la pongo

Actually, you're not wrong. They edited it a bit and re-released this particular song in '92. It was indeed in the UK charts at that time.

Being a child of the 60s, teen in the 70s, Bowie, glitter, punk, and then the 80s came! Loved dancing to this song in the clubs where I was at every weekend and some weeknights (Tuesday being ladies night). New Order, Cure and Bauhaus were sooo much fun on a dance floor.... where I met my 1st born son's dad :)

The 80s were awful. Some of the music was good, and some of the films, but the decade itself was pretty terrible, with economic destruction and the threat of nuclear war.

Richard Anderson but this is about the music surely..... and I think you find the world is more fractured now than it ever was in the 80’s?

@@dja69 holy shit! I've always said the same..that 87 was the last great year in music

And to note...it was staggering how many great albums came out in 87

Stephen Campbell much better than anything now

Their still together and preforming, better than most acts out there. Simple Minds have and always will be great

Music these days pales in comparison to the 80s

You couldn't have heard this track anywhere in the world in the late 1970s since it was recorded in 1981. Great music anyway, one of SM's finest before they went downhill with Once Upon A Time and what followed next.

ViaggiatoreFantasma good news from the next world was one of their best albums