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I'm a late comer Simple Minds fan. I found their early work a bit too Pop-New Wave oriented at the time and largely ignored them. I recently had access to many of their albums look and was extremely surprised by how many great songs they'd written and how few of the great ones made the airwaves. With each passing album, they've progressed from less of a choppy pop feel to a more rock-new age direction in their writing. This album is far and away my favorite as it perfectly hits the sweet spot between pure New Wave and Rock. The songs are richer, fuller, with much cleaner flows yet with that distinctly "Simple Minds" stamp to them. Of my many hundreds of Cd's, this one lands easily in my top 20 of all time. "She's a River" is one of my favorite songs and is a good example of the general feel of the songs on this album. "7 Deadly Sins", "My Life", and "And The Band Played On" follow in this hard rocking theme. Close behind is " A Great Leap Forward". It's amazing none of these made it on their Best Of CD's. That makes this the perfect album to buy if you already own the 2002 Best Of compilation CD's as there is no overlap (She's a River " is a different version on the Best Of CD). If you prefer more of a New Wave feel, go with "New Gold". If you like more of a rock feel, go with this one, Reel Life and Once Upon a Time.

I recall there was a five-year wait for this album. It's their hardest-rocking, guitar-centered album up to that point. The only other Simple Minds albums that compare to it are their two most recent, "Black & White 050505" from 2005, (never released in the US), and their excellent brand new "Graffiti Soul", (2009).

A top quality album in spite of the band being reduced to the Kerr/Burchill duo by this time. This really rekindled my fandom flame after the stadium era wasteland of albums like "Once Upon A Time" and "Street Fighting Years" as well as the unfocused [but qualitatively better] exercise of "Real Life." All of the songs here are memorable and given great performances and arrangements. This is an album that should have sold really well in America. There's nothing off putting about it like their brilliant earlier work, but the album is undeniably strong and robust if not avant garde, and I still love it deeply. These songs get under your skin and deliver the goods capably!



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