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Simple Minds - Big Music [2CD Deluxe Edition] (2014)

Posted By: gribovar
Simple Minds - Big Music [2CD Deluxe Edition] (2014)

Simple Minds - Big Music [2CD Deluxe Edition] (2014)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 560 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 183 MB | Covers - 293 MB
Genre: Synth-pop, New Wave | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Sony Music (88875038622)

When Simple Minds released Black and White in 2005, it was obvious they'd been doing some creative soul searching in light of the success of bands clearly influenced by them, namely, the Killers and Manic Street Preachers. 2009's Graffiti Soul saw the return of drummer Mel Gaynor to the fold. He brought a familiar, tight, propulsive foundation to Charlie Burchill's guitar playing and Andy Gillespie's imaginative synths. Jim Kerr's alternately whispering and soaring vocals were still at the fore, but were showcased inside more economical songwriting, and Jez Coad's production celebrated the band's pop identity. Big Music finds Simple Minds coming full circle - going all the way back to 1979 for inspiration. They've rediscovered the urgent, keyboard-driven post-punk futurism of recordings such as Empires and Dance and Sons and Fascination. Rather than try to merely re-create them, they've integrated them with the more guitar-centric classicism of New Gold Dream, Sparkle in the Rain, and Once Upon a Time. Three tracks here - "Blindfolded," "Midnight Walking," and " Imagination" - draw directly from Simple Minds circa 1982-1985. Big beats and drum programs, careening synth pop, and Burchill's fat, edgy guitar frame Kerr's trademark clipped phrasing, which emotes even when he's whispering. "Honest Town," one of two tunes written with the Chvrches' Iain Cook, is a gem. It's as stirring as "Someone Somewhere in Summertime," but with its house intro and trancey pulse fueling the moving narrative (Kerr taking his dying mother for a last drive around their town), it dives headlong into dance music. This isn't an isolated incident. The other Cook collab, "Blood Diamonds," uses SM's textured, synth-driven romanticism to blur vintage and modern dance pop. The quirky, fat kick drums and loops in the intro, and the choruses of "Kill or Cure" evoke glitch with four-on-the-floor basslines and synth pulses adorned with shimmering guitars in the verses. Despite the Cult-esque guitar riff in the intro, "Imagination" is a largely electro-driven rocker; it suggests Sons and Fascination more than it does anything else - Gillespie's multivalent keyboards are in accelerated swerve. "Concrete and Cherry Blossom" and "Broken Glass Park" are anthems laden with irresistible hooks and warm atmospherics. They revel in the cinematic drama of Kerr's voice. (The former contains the repetitive line "I'm on the rooftop" which unmistakably and unabashedly echoes "I'm on the catwalk….") The cover of the Call's "Let the Day Begin" substitutes enormous, zig -zagging synth vamps in place of the original's roaring guitars (though Burchill stings in the break alongside a bagpipe sample). This revisioning displays the song's continued appeal even when updated for the club floor. Ultimately, Big Music is certainly that. Here Simple Minds have finally come to terms with all the fragments of their musical identity, focused them in a complementary manner, and delivered a whole with an unapologetic pop savvy and flair. It is easily their most consistent offering since Once Upon a Time.
CD 1 Tracklist:
01. Blindfolded
02. Midnight Walking
03. Honest Town
04. Big Music
05. Human
06. Blood Diamonds
07. Let the Day Begin
08. Concrete and Cherry Blossom
09. Imagination
10. Kill or Cure
11. Broken Glass Park
12. Spirited Away

Total time: 50:48

CD 2 Tracklist:
01. Swimming Towards the Sun
02. Bittersweet
03. Liaison
04. Riders on the Storm
05. Dancing Barefoot
06. Blindfolded (Reprise)

Total time: 26:04

Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011

EAC extraction logfile from 8. November 2014, 13:54

Simple Minds / Big Music (CD1)

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Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011

EAC extraction logfile from 8. November 2014, 14:45

Simple Minds / Big Music (CD2)

Used drive : ASUS BW-12B1ST Adapter: 0 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 128 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
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Additional command line options : -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "ALBUM ARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "COMMENT=EAC Secure Mode, Test & Copy, AccurateRip, FLAC -8" %source%


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3 | 9:14.36 | 4:37.01 | 41586 | 62361
4 | 13:51.37 | 3:46.37 | 62362 | 79348
5 | 17:37.74 | 4:02.60 | 79349 | 97558
6 | 21:40.59 | 4:23.61 | 97559 | 117344


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[CUETools log; Date: 01.08.2023 14:13:53; Version: 2.1.4]
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Thanks to the original releaser

See also:
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream ...982) [5CD Deluxe Edition 2016]