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Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 12 July 2009 CE
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Jim Tones
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Edited Jul 13, 2009, 12:55
Re: Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 12 July 2009 CE
Jul 13, 2009, 12:49
keith a wrote:

EMPIRES & DANCE – Simple Minds
This is how the future used to sound! Indeed, it’s easy to forget how good this lot once were. If they had split any time before 1987 then they would surely be revered in a way they can only dream about now. And if they’d split after Sons & Fascination, well they could well have the same aura about them as, say, Magazine.


Bang on Keith, although it would be hard to imagine for some younger HHers amongst us, Magazine, Ultravox! and Simple Minds were usually lumped together in the UK press and referenced in various speculations of where music was heading (regarding 'alternative music' that is) from late 1977 to late 1978.
Then thanks to Sandy Robertson and Jon Savage of Sounds early on during that time, the constant plugging of what they coined 'New Musick' (i.e. Suicide, TG, Wire, Pere Ubu, Cabs, Residents, Devo to name a few), not forgetting Peel's constant support of The Fall and Joy Division (and all points inbetween) during 1979 onwards , the whole UK post-punk scene became die-cast with a benchmark that had a real contemporary edge.
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