<![CDATA[The Coulda-Shoulda-Woulda Files: The Second Most Famous Simple Minds Song Of All Time - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[The Coulda-Shoulda-Woulda Files: The Second Most Famous Simple Minds Song Of All Time - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:13:01 EST Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:13:01 EST http://idolator.com/tunes/mp3/the-coulda+shoulda+woulda-files-the-second-most-famous-simple-minds-song-of-all-time-215158.php <![CDATA[The Coulda-Shoulda-Woulda Files: The Second Most Famous Simple Minds Song Of All Time]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/mp3/the-coulda+shoulda+woulda-files-the-second-most-famous-simple-minds-song-of-all-time-215158.php#c644745 I've tried to sell countless people on this record over the years, to little avail. "Wasteland" is such a great song, and so few are ever gonna realize it.

d_mosurock

]]> 33:215158:c644745 Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:13:01 EST <![CDATA[The Coulda-Shoulda-Woulda Files: The Second Most Famous Simple Minds Song Of All Time]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/mp3/the-coulda+shoulda+woulda-files-the-second-most-famous-simple-minds-song-of-all-time-215158.php#c641868 tiger and jack, yes, simple minds posse. word.

new gold dream! seriously, anyone who doesn't shed a little tear at the nostalgic glow of 'someone somewhere in the summertime' isn't human. the title track is great as well; also thumbs up to 'promised you a miracle.'

even today, those sound like new romantic hits, but lacking the poofiness and slickness.

and jack -- totally on the drumbeats. 'east at easter.' man.

hndinglove

]]> 33:215158:c641868 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:51:59 EST <![CDATA[The Coulda-Shoulda-Woulda Files: The Second Most Famous Simple Minds Song Of All Time]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/mp3/the-coulda+shoulda+woulda-files-the-second-most-famous-simple-minds-song-of-all-time-215158.php#c641395 Fear, glove - right on. American, I Travel were/are the bomb. New Gold Dream...they were ahead of the game there for quite awhile.

Tiger_Tanaka

]]> 33:215158:c641395 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:01:39 EST <![CDATA[The Coulda-Shoulda-Woulda Files: The Second Most Famous Simple Minds Song Of All Time]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/mp3/the-coulda+shoulda+woulda-files-the-second-most-famous-simple-minds-song-of-all-time-215158.php#c640929 lest we forget "glittering prize" (courtesy of apparently now-poached lost in the 80s)

cpl-593h

]]> 33:215158:c640929 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:57:52 EST <![CDATA[The Coulda-Shoulda-Woulda Files: The Second Most Famous Simple Minds Song Of All Time]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/mp3/the-coulda+shoulda+woulda-files-the-second-most-famous-simple-minds-song-of-all-time-215158.php#c640663 'glove, I knew I liked you.

Sparkle is big, but sometimes big is what you need, you know?

The wife and I were on a long car ride this summer; It's a beautiful day, we're cruising through the back country, and we've just finished listening to Who's Next at punishing volume. As the last chord of "Won't Get Fooled Again" fades, she sez, "What can we possibly listen to now? What could possibly follow that?"

I slot Sparkle into the CD player, and there's that HUGE drum hit that opens "Up On the Catwalk"... and she sez, "Okay, that'll work."

Jack Fear

]]> 33:215158:c640663 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:24:44 EST <![CDATA[The Coulda-Shoulda-Woulda Files: The Second Most Famous Simple Minds Song Of All Time]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/mp3/the-coulda+shoulda+woulda-files-the-second-most-famous-simple-minds-song-of-all-time-215158.php#c640658 For some reason, the CD booklet has "Copyright 1982" under the songwriting credits. I'll amend.

Brian Raftery

]]> 33:215158:c640658 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:24:13 EST <![CDATA[The Coulda-Shoulda-Woulda Files: The Second Most Famous Simple Minds Song Of All Time]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/mp3/the-coulda+shoulda+woulda-files-the-second-most-famous-simple-minds-song-of-all-time-215158.php#c640641 This is all well and good, but the second most famous Simple Minds song of all time is clearly "Promised You a Miracle," not "Life in a Day." Or possibly that horrible "Alive and Kicking" . . .

Crunchbird

]]> 33:215158:c640641 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:21:49 EST <![CDATA[The Coulda-Shoulda-Woulda Files: The Second Most Famous Simple Minds Song Of All Time]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/mp3/the-coulda+shoulda+woulda-files-the-second-most-famous-simple-minds-song-of-all-time-215158.php#c640583 jack fear is right -- 'i travel' is a fantastic song, as is 'twist/run/repulsion.' they had some great, weird, angular early stuff. astralwerks just reissued a simple minds early singles CD.

and 'sparkle in the rain' wasn't a TERRIBLE album. ok, it bit U2 pretty hard; i think lillywhite just produced it. but the hooks were pretty fabulous.

hndinglove

]]> 33:215158:c640583 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:13:57 EST <![CDATA[The Coulda-Shoulda-Woulda Files: The Second Most Famous Simple Minds Song Of All Time]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/mp3/the-coulda+shoulda+woulda-files-the-second-most-famous-simple-minds-song-of-all-time-215158.php#c640272 Yeah, '79 it was.

GASP! IDOLATOR, HOW CAN I EVER TRUST YOU AGAIN?

Jack Fear

]]> 33:215158:c640272 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:31:57 EST <![CDATA[The Coulda-Shoulda-Woulda Files: The Second Most Famous Simple Minds Song Of All Time]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/mp3/the-coulda+shoulda+woulda-files-the-second-most-famous-simple-minds-song-of-all-time-215158.php#c640194 I thought "Life in a Day" was from 1979 or so...

Ned Raggett

]]> 33:215158:c640194 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:19:16 EST <![CDATA[The Coulda-Shoulda-Woulda Files: The Second Most Famous Simple Minds Song Of All Time]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/mp3/the-coulda+shoulda+woulda-files-the-second-most-famous-simple-minds-song-of-all-time-215158.php#c640108 That's a pretty harsh assessment (though not as harsh as the haircut that Kerr is sporting in that photo--yikes!). Simple Minds had plenty of good records in 'em before their descent into irrelevance. Do you dismiss Empires and Dance, Sons and Fascination and Sister Feelings Call as simply "new wave"? To my ears those records carry all the menace of Magazine, but interpolated as angular robot funk.

I'll agree that everything since THE BREAKFAST CLUB has been suckorama, but come on--"This Fear of Gods," "Sweat In Bullet," "The American," "Theme For Great Cities"... great stuff.

Jack Fear

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