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The discography of the Scottish art rock–new wave band Simple Minds consists of 21 studio albums (either original or covers and counting 1981's Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call as a double album release), eleven live albums, ten compilation albums, fourteen box sets, 68 singles, and five video albums.
The 1985 film The Breakfast Club broke Simple Minds into the US market, when the band achieved their only No. 1 U.S. pop hit in April 1985 with the film's opening track, "Don't You (Forget About Me)", [11] a song written by Keith Forsey and Steve Schiff; [11] which had previously been offered to Billy Idol and Bryan Ferry before Simple Minds ...
Most of the songs on the album was written and demoed in 1978 and were part of Simple Minds live set that year. The song "Wasteland" had been written for the bands earlier incarnation as Johnny and the Selfabusers in 1977. [3] "No Cure" was a reworking of an earlier song called "The Cocteau Twins". [4] "
Early Gold is a compilation album of Simple Minds early material, released in 2003. It contains songs from years 1979-1982. The tracks were selected by the band themselves from their first five albums and also features a short sleeve note written by Jim Kerr. The album cover feature a photo of Kerr taken at a Simple Minds live concert in Munich ...
"Waterfront" is a song by Scottish rock band Simple Minds, released as the first single from their sixth studio album, Sparkle in the Rain, in November 1983. "Waterfront" became a chart hit around the world, topping the New Zealand Singles Chart for two weeks during February 1984.
"She's a River" reached number nine on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the band's eighth top-10 hit on that chart, [2] and number five in their native Scotland. [3] Throughout mainland Europe, the song reached number three in Italy, [4] number seven in Flemish Belgium, [5] and the top 40 in several other nations, including Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland.
The song was written and demoed in early 1981 and was tried out live on their Canada/US Tour in March 1981 before the recording sessions for the album had begun. It has since been performed on most of the band's subsequent tours. [6] "Love Song" became Simple Minds' first single to enter the UK Top 50 - peaking at #47 in August 1981.
New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84) is the fifth studio album by Scottish band Simple Minds.The album was released in September 1982 by record label Virgin.It is considered one of the defining albums of the new pop movement of the early 1980s.