SIMPLE MINDS: SPARKLE IN THE RAIN - Album Review 40 years on

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The Electronic Cafe mini series celebrating classic albums turning 40 years old this year (1984-2024). Electronic Cafe Celebrates:
Simple Minds - Sparkle In The Rain (released February 1984)
Jim Kerr - vocals
Charlie Burchill - acoustic and electric guitars
Derek Forbes - bass, vocals
Mel Gaynor - drums, vocals
Mick MacNeil - keyboards, vocals
40 years on the CLASSIC 1980's ALBUM REVIEW and reappraisal.
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40th Anniversary / Classic Album
Life in a Day (1979)
Real to Real Cacophony (1979)
Empires and Dance (1980)
Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call (1981)
New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) (1982)
Sparkle in the Rain (1984)
Once Upon a Time (1985)
Street Fighting Years (1989)
Real Life (1991)
Good News from the Next World (1995)
Néapolis (1998)
Our Secrets Are the Same (1999/2004)
Neon Lights (2001)
Cry (2002)
Black & White 050505 (2005)
Graffiti Soul (2009)
Big Music (2014)
Acoustic (2016)
Walk Between Worlds (2018)
Direction of the Heart (2022)
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@electroniccafemusic 6 месяцев назад

Another great album 40 years old in 2024 - tell us your thoughts ?

@rebels42wynn83 5 месяцев назад

I was 12 years old when this masterpiece had came out. It still is so awesome to listen.

@electroniccafemusic 5 месяцев назад

100%. Thanks for watching Electronic Cafe. MW

@pietroprogman 6 месяцев назад

Hi. Thank you for this video...In my personal opinion this was the last great album of Simple Minds golden era. Ciao!

@electroniccafemusic 6 месяцев назад

Thank you too!. Thanks for watching Electronic Cafe. MW

@divernater 6 месяцев назад

Thankyou guys. Love this album. The colours and shapes of the songs more epic than NGD. Love the drumming, huge in the mix. Your comparison to U2 production wise, I never thought about that Till now, Steve Lillywhites production shines !

@electroniccafemusic 6 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it!. Thanks for your comments and for watching Electronic Cafe. MW

@andymcnab5620 6 месяцев назад

thanks for watching the Electronic Cafe -Andy

@The.Last.Guitar.Hero. 6 месяцев назад

I always thought the production on this album was poor and the remasters haven't improved it. I know Jim Kerr always wished he'd worked with Trevor Horn

@electroniccafemusic 6 месяцев назад

and he did of course later on Street Fighting Years. Thanks for watching Electronic Cafe. MW

@andymcnab5620 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching the Electronic Cafe -Andy

@robertleem5643 4 месяца назад

New Gold Dreams is one of my favourite albums by Simple Minds closely followed by Street Fighting Years, wasn't overly struck on this album but did enjoy listening to it

@electroniccafemusic 4 месяца назад

Definite change of sound but still a great album. Thanks for watching Electronic Cafe. MW

@duncankemp63 6 месяцев назад

Great album, a shift away from originality perhaps? . Thanks guys.

@electroniccafemusic 6 месяцев назад

Our pleasure!. Thanks for watching Electronic Cafe. MW

@andymcnab5620 6 месяцев назад

Agree Duncan although not as creative as Empires and Dance or Sons and fascination for example - this album packs a punch! Thanks for watching the Electronic Cafe -Andy

@honourthefire9182 4 месяца назад

Wonderful album. I remember my cousin gave me the Promised You A Miracle 7" when I was 12. When I played the flip side "Theme For Great Cities" I was amazed to say the least. The following week I was on holiday in Scotland in Peterhead. My other cousin took me to the only record store there and I bought up the rest of their albums. And still play them today. Cheers. Also the way they broke down East At Easter on the OUAT tour was a credit to Mick McNeils genius.

@electroniccafemusic 4 месяца назад

Great comments, thanks for sharing. Thanks for watching Electronic Cafe. MW

@garyfones4908 6 месяцев назад

Nice one chaps - made for stadiums - but still some great tunes.

@electroniccafemusic 6 месяцев назад

Indeed it was. Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching Electronic Cafe. MW

@syracusemusic1539 6 месяцев назад

Good episode lads, Steve Lillywhite definitely up the anti in terms of the Production sound

@electroniccafemusic 6 месяцев назад

Thanks as always for watching Electronic Cafe. MW

@Rr0gu3_5uture 6 месяцев назад

As a kid in the 80s I was obsessed with Simple Minds, and actually, initially kinda welcomed their change to a more commercial sound. But, after Mick McNeil and Derek Forbes left and Jim Kerr's ego went crazy, I very quickly lost interest. Sparkle in the Rain is still an excellent album that holds a lot of positive, personal memories though.

@electroniccafemusic 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for comments and for sharing. Thanks for watching Electronic Cafe. Appreciated. MW

@Exmirror 6 месяцев назад

I purchased this album along with Soft Cell's This Last Night in Sodom in early April of 1984. I was in 10th grade and my parents had just moved us a few miles away from the University of Delaware.

@electroniccafemusic 6 месяцев назад

Two great purchases. Thanks for watching Electronic Cafe. MW

@markomiljak9895 6 месяцев назад

Not best Simple Minds album, but some tracks from that album are probably best Simple Minds live songs, especially "East At Easter" & "Book Of Brilliant Things".

@electroniccafemusic 6 месяцев назад

Indeed. Book of Brilliant Things is awesome live. Thanks for watching Electronic Cafe. MW

@geraldtir 6 месяцев назад

Fantastic, classic 80s band along with Duran Japan O M D and others. For me, the best album was new gold dream., but to be honest they didn’t really ever put a foot wrong.

@electroniccafemusic 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for your comments and for watching Electronic Cafe. MW

@andymcnab5620 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching the Electronic Cafe -Andy

@geraldtir 6 месяцев назад

@@andymcnab5620 thanks for doing the show Andy.

@geraldtir 6 месяцев назад

@@electroniccafemusic thank you for doing the show…

@electroniccafemusic 5 месяцев назад

@@geraldtir Thank YOU for watching. MW

@robmccann9844 6 месяцев назад

Sons and fascination, sister feelings call get played in my house much more then sitr

@electroniccafemusic 6 месяцев назад

Indeed, two great albums. Thanks for watching Electronic Cafe. MW

@honourthefire9182 4 месяца назад

Same here mate. As I write I've got 20th Century Promised Land coming out of the speakers ❤

@user-xb3oy3vk7v 5 месяцев назад

It’s not the best simple minds album but I still like it

@electroniccafemusic 5 месяцев назад

Indeed. Thanks for watching the Electronic Cafe. MW

@obee66633 3 месяца назад

Ich denke das Album war seinerzeit sicherlich vom Mix her sehr extrem, auch heute noch so zu empfinden. Beim ersten Hören 1984 dachte ich, die LP springt mir gleich vom Dreher, sehr dezibelstark und ans obere Limit gemixt. DIe Band wurde auch von Lillywhite bis an die Grenze getrieben, und spielte manisch. Der Sound sprang einen förmlich an und distanzierte sich sehr von NGD. Er war seinerzeit extrem frisch, leider fand ich es stellenweise aber auch immer etwas matschig, Neuauflagen konnten das nicht ändern. Trotzdem ein starkes und so ganz anderes Album der Minds. Und das letzte der amtlichen Besetzung.💜

@electroniccafemusic 3 месяца назад

Great comments, thanks for sharing. You are right, it's a very LOUD album but still great. Thanks for your support + for watching Electronic Cafe. MW

@davidbowie2046 3 месяца назад

New Gold Dream was my favourite Simple Minds album, so this album had a lot to live up to. It's a good album, but not great, stand out tracks to me were Up on The catwalk and Book of brilliant things. All went downhill like a few other bands when they went to America and became a stadium band along with U2 and Depeche Mode, they all seemed to lose direction and forget what they started out as.

@electroniccafemusic 3 месяца назад

Thanks for sharing + thanks for watching Electronic Cafe. MW

@robmccann9844 6 месяцев назад

Mel gaynor ramped up the sound thats for sure,the stadiums and large arenas were beckoning as their fan base grew,but i think for many fans who loved them from the start this was the point where they stopped being our band for the knowledgeable few,not the bands fault it happens to most acts,i dont play sparkle in the rain that much certainly much,certainly

@electroniccafemusic 6 месяцев назад

Thanks comments + for watching Electronic Cafe. MW

@keekeefries6298 6 месяцев назад

Last really good album from Simple Minds. Their zenith as a band. Unfortunately after they got the fame they lost their touch. Still love the band and their early material in particular…

@electroniccafemusic 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for your comments and for watching electronic Cafe. MW

@bjornmagnusson6909 6 месяцев назад

There are a couple of really good hits on the album but it also heralded the transition of SM to be a bleak copy of U2. Away from the unique mysterious sound of the earlier work and to a stadium adjusted style. I am ambivalent to the album…

@electroniccafemusic 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing your comments and for watching Electronic Cafe. MW

@robmccann9844 6 месяцев назад

I thought the u3 comments made at the time was very lazy journalism

@electroniccafemusic 6 месяцев назад

Journalists lazy? .... Thanks for watching Electronic Cafe. MW