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Disc: 1
1. Don't You (Forget about me)	Listen
2. Promised you a Miracle	Listen
3. Waterfront	Listen
4. Alive and Kicking	Listen
5. Glittering Prize	Listen
6. All the things she said	Listen
7. Santify yourself
8. Someone somewhere(in summertime)	Listen
9. Ghostdancing	Listen
10. Up on the catwalk	Listen
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Disc: 2
1. Let there be love	Listen
2. This is your land	Listen
3. Kick it in	Listen
4. Let it all come down	Listen
5. See the lights	Listen
6. Stand by Love	Listen
7. Real Life	Listen
8. She's a river	Listen
9. Hypnotised	Listen
10. Glitterball	Listen
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The title of this compilation tells the truth--almost. Although one is moved to question the validity of including the Raven Maize club hit "Real Life"--selected on account of it sampling the tonal poetry of "Theme From Great Cities"(a prime slice of the early Minds' funked-up Eurosynth futurism) and slapped on the end as if to convince a jaded public that Simple Minds really are "contemporary" and have a profound relevance to today's dance scene--this really contains the best of Simple Minds. Which is a very good thing indeed--but where's "Changeling"? These trifling grievances aside, this compilation does Simple Minds' chart-history justice. Sometimes unduly castigated for blustery over-expression and much ado about nothing, re-familiarisation with much of the post-Sparkle In The Rain material reveals a band at ease with an astute musical economy--the grand gesturing of "Mandela Day", for example, may well sound monumentally sincere and overwrought but it consists of a measly three chords, while the trotting-horse bass-line to "Waterfront" is one note repeated for over four minutes (and that note was "D" if you're interested). Some great pop singles aside--"She's A River", "Alive And Kicking", "Up On The Catwalk" and "Promised You A Miracle", a song cut from the same tartan cloth as early Spandau Ballet--the most interesting thing about Simple Mind's evolution is how they started to get more successful once they'd stopped impersonating Roxy Music only to hit pay dirt with a song which Bryan Ferry didn't have enough time to record, namely Keith Forsey's "Don't You Forget About Me". --Kevin Maidment

Description
Jim Kerr's Scottish rockers' greatest hits collection includes the UK Top 10 singles 'Don't You (Forget About Me' (featured in the film 'The Breakfast Club'), 'Alive and Kicking','All The Things She Said', 'Belfast Child' and 'Let There Be Love'. Simple Minds have sold over 30 million records worldwide and have had 5 no.1 UK albums, taking in krautrock, stadium bombast and celtic roots rock.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   13 of 13 people found the following review helpful: Where is New Gold Dream?, 12 Nov 2001 By A Customer Simple Minds were one of the best bands to emerge from Britain in the post-punk era. Their late 70s and early 80s material was a clever fusion of rock and European electronica (think Kraftwerk, Berlin-era Bowie). Then in 1985 the Minds became a major international stadium-filling act and whilst they still made some great music from the late 80s onwards it wasn't as good as the early material and the band lost their way somewhat in the 1990s. Listening to this CD was the first time I'd played a Simple Minds disc for quite some time now and this reaffirmed my belief that the group were top class. This is a very good compilation CD, no doubt about that, but it loses a star for failing to include New Gold Dream - one of the bands' best songs and from what was arguably their seminal LP of the same name. One good thing is that this is a more comprehensive collection of material than the Glittering Prize album from 1992. At last we get two CD's worth of some of the bands' best music. It's good to see some of the very early songs on here (Life In A Day, Theme For Great Cities, I Travel) but I do feel that too much of this compilation is given over to the post-1989 Street Fighting Years era. In fact the first CD concentrates on the early-mid 80s material, the second CD from 1989 onwards. As an introduction to Simple Minds it's pretty good but unfortunately not very definitive. I would like to have seen Book Of Brill