Reaction To "Simple Minds - Book Of Brilliant Things Rotterdam, 1985" THE WOLF HUNTERZ Jon and Dolly

[@ForGoodnessSake3G]

Fantastic hearing you guys appreciate a band that in all honesty were and in many ways still are quite simply as good a live act as it is possible to ever see. They are amazing. Extraordinary.

[@_Dei_]

I had the Simple Minds Live in the City Of Light double CD playing to see in the new year. The sound quality and the song versions in that recording are just incredible. I tried to find a few requests that carry the same sort of feel. For those who remember these songs, hope you enjoyed them as much as I did. :)

[@ForGoodnessSake3G]

Simple Minds with no doubt at all are one of the all time greatest acts, purely because of the massive variety in their catalogue and pure musical prowess and originality...As a live act they cannot be bettered by anyone. Absolute legends. Absolute genuine stars, beyond the 80's, way beyond to this day. Their music will be played in a hundred years. Classic.

[@darrengreen4080]

Mick McNeils piano is sublime!

[@DavidePorcu-u8d]

The 80'. Golden age of music. From Sardinia

[@karenglenn6707]

Saw this freaking amazing band in Melbourne Australia in 1984. Still love them to this day, and still have my treasured cassettes stored away. How lucky we were, I saw Queen at the same venue in 1985!! Blew my mind and my ears!!

[@MarcusWainwright]

Best version of this song from the brilliant simple minds allways loved it thanks for the video

[@charliegeorge9393]

This live version is off the scale!

[@roccomarciano6099]

One of the greatest intros ever in my humble opinion 🎶💙🎶

[@syebba]

The energy & passion of musical excellence is all here.

[@francislester6327]

Jim Kerr and charlie burchill Glasgow boys at the top of their game. Simple minds are superb🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍🏻

[@gailhill5734]

Truly top of the tree for live arena bands. Songs sound exactly as they do on vinyl. Top 3 British bands in my view

[@dianebrown8046]

Love It !! I saw Simple Minds 2 times in the 80's ( never met & met LOTS in 80's),.......I'm 64 & seen 57 bands in my life...LOTS more than once & Met Quite a few by making stage clothes & friends in bands I Had A GREAT 80's....one of BEST 1983 got to sit a bit in studio in Manayunk Pa ( Philly) with friend Rob Hyman ( from Band called The Hooters) while he & Cyndi Lauper worked on song Time after Time...we( me & other friends) left to go eat....after at another friend's house Rob & Cyndi showed up & we all did tequila shots...LOL... && Went NUTS at a House Party 2 years Later when We all watched Rob & Cyndi sing the song at the 85 Grammys & saw her win Best New Artist...knew Guy who wrote " Girls Just Wanna have Fun " too...Robert Hazard...but he was an asshole....stiffed me on a jacket & 2 pair of pants I made...LOL.. LOVE the 80's Shit !!...& 90's Goth LOL...try another I met & made clothes for..Sisters Of Mercy, Vision Thing ROCKS...

[@ForGoodnessSake3G]

You've lived!!!

[@dianebrown8046]

@jonmortimer5831 Yep and Thanks for your reply...I actually got my start "living " because I was going to Penn State 1978 on concert committee and Talking Heads came to play...met them and got to talk to Awesome Woman Tina Weymouth..long Story short she liked dress I was wearing told her I made it she said she thought bands in NYC might like my clothes and gave me number of guy Hilly Krystal owned club called CBGBS...things went Nuts after...1st shirt I sold through club...$5 to guy Clem Burke drummer of band called Blondie... gave 2 T shirts away for no $$ that one to bassist of band called The Shirts ( lead singer Annie Golden...fucking Awesome)..2nd Johnny Ramone...he was kind of a butt head...Joey was a sweetheart... but LOL I got to know them and others from CBGBS one of most fun...met Iggy Pop through Blondie...he was insane 😳

[@beds139]

Nearly 40 years later the band still play this song but with female singer Sarah Brown taking the lead vocal. It is also awesome.😊

[@LostInSweden-cc2zu]

Thank you for the voishty eyes and the memory shine Just love the Minds.

[@lostinsweden5039]

Glad you found this, guys. Saw Minds live a few times round about that time, and they were the best live band in the world.

[@charliegeorge9393]

Not seen this in 38 years - thank you.

[@desalley]

You should see & hear it live in real life, 100 times better, although lost some of it's power since Mick MacNeil not playing it...

[@Gourockz]

Check out the studio version on their album Sparkle In The Rain. You will not believe it is the same song…

[@miguimau]

This version is shit, actually.

[@glenndouglas8822]

Yes, they changed the structure of the song because they were going into new territory playing in sold out stadiums and needed a few slower anthem's into the show so they did this version. You can also see the change of tactic to slower songs in street fighting years album.

[@dctbass]

Simple Minds developed an almost unique talent later in their career whereby live versions of songs would be changed and slowed down, but some how manage to sound more epic!

[@glenndouglas8822]

@@dctbass Read my comment above, I got my information from an old Jim Kerr interview I remembered.

[@dctbass]

@@glenndouglas8822 I had read it. The unusual thing was slowing songs down live, to make them work better; normally instinct and adrenaline result in songs being played faster to make them more exciting in a gig. Takes courage and discipline to go the other way, but it worked. They also did a similar trick with New Gold Dream too.

[@charliegeorge9393]

You're picking some great tunes today.

[@dhevingovender5414]

Thoroughly enjoying the reactions to Simple Minds and glad you guys seem to be enjoying the journey! It's all subjective, of course, but for me, this is the greatest song in the Simple Minds canon, and comes off their greatest album, Sparkle In The Rain. Ironically, this live version sounds completely different to the album cut, which I also love - but they way they re-arranged it for the live performance took it to another level. Please consider doing a reaction to their other deep cut White Hot Day, also from the Sparkle In The Rain album. Or their instrumental track Somebody Up There Likes You, from the preceding album. New Gold Dream. Thank you.

[@chefblanc]

they are going through a rebirth and re hashing things now last fe wyears but still going strong.. I think they should re do some of the older Albums or reinterpret them - as theyve done things with the 'accoustic' and New Gold dream

[@gardenchill4013]

Simple Minds should play the Superbowl. Don't you forget about my comment.

[@leebedy71]

Great arrangement of this song

[@dctbass]

Think this is John Giblin on bass, not the original bass player Derek Forbes. John just died a few days ago.

[@sondorp]

A song with that kind of depth is really hard to find in today's music.....

[@GooseMcSwan]

They were the greatest band in the world back then 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@allenheath6564]

Book of Brilliant things is about the bible, Nobody gets out of here alive! Just a great way of saying things….I’m not religious, but live this expression……

[@HighlandMike325]

Kirsty MacColl, who sung backing vocals on the album it came off, once said it was about a porn mag

[@allenheath6564]

I saw them in 1989 and JK made a ref to what it was about during the gig. They also had a graphic projected, same as Alive and Kicking which is a pro life song.

[@frankschlanker]

Early 80's groups could change from an album version to a live version and it not sound remotely similar!! This version sounds nothing like the album version, for me this is far better!!

[@superalber1970]

Jonnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SIMPLE MINDS IS THE BEST BAND OF THE WORLD with your eyes you see and hear this song and is not the best of simple minds

[@emcash7042]

Where did you find this video???

[@Carl-i6f]

Not bad hey...... you can't beat simple minds.

[@chefblanc]

I watched this live broadcast on ch4 live that night in 85.. I think kerrs voice was especially good that night and for that tour.. They did a live Album from paris in 86 but I believe they should've just released this concert instead as the Live in the city album was over produced and to dubbed. This version of Book of brilliant things was one of the highlights of the night.

[@melissaheneghan5939]

Please please react to Solstice kiss by Simple minds, it’s from the new album please check it out! It encapsulates their sound!

[@marcomarcos7329]

The original version is among the top 3 excellent songs of Sparkle in the rain, the last worthy of the fundamental and extraordinary group that they were, of the unrepeatable cycle of Sons and Fascination and New Gold Dream... then the slow decline started up to Street figheten years and the light of the city of life..., but it was still them.. After that it's completely another thing, distant cousins ​​without Forbes, McNeil.. 😁