simple minds hunter & the hunted

[@markleyland2772]

True still in 2020 ...30 Dec. Best song ever

[@MarcusWainwright]

This is a masterpiece my favourite song of all time brilliant

[@rebels42wynn83]

Awesome closeups of Derek Forbes and Mel Gaynor, 😎🎸♥️🔥😎🥁♥️💋🔥

[@qiflow88]

thanks for it psychic greetings from nuernberg to all of the 80`S wave and independent friends. i was there. great timeless yeahh

[@15chipshops]

Beautiful, my favourite Simple Minds tune!!!

[@markymark63]

how good is this

[@sparklerain]

Certainement Le plus grand groupe de musique new-wave des années 80...à nos jours. Les "simple minds". Bravo pour votre parcours. J'attend votre dernier album avec impatience et brio!

[@DEADMOON78]

j'adore cette chanson,que de souvenir.

[@thegoldenyear]

Wonderful post. For about five years there, this was the best band on the planet. And it's not as if there wasn't competition.

[@joanjordan9543]

These guys are great,and their scotiah

[@Blackandwhite05]

this song is the absolute best.

[@noodoo19]

this band deserves intense praise. they were so unique . the lyrics are sublimely disjointed and esoterically intriguing... not just to listen to, but to really hear.

[@tkrypton]

Mel gaynor - born for drumming. Derek Forbes - played bass like a lead Charlie B and his grin. The 1980s Minds got an injection from Mel G and THIS is what makes their live sound at this time THE BEST of all Minds set ups.

[@MsCrazytoo]

Must be one of the most haunting pieces of music written? Mystical and tugs at your emotions. Hard to believe it was written by guys so young? Still baffled by Simple Minds music, trippy, just never ceases to make me feel, sometimes joy when i listen.

[@ludovicguenot2298]

Vive Simple minds pour l'éternité ! 😀😀😀

[@andreaprodan5616]

Great Basses, Guitars ,Keyboards AND drums... and Jim's snakey Armani seduction. Damen und Herren... Le Menti Semplici!

[@80s2Heart]

My favorite album from the 80s

[@MicktheMarmaliser]

My favourite song on the album. One of the most underrated albums around. Saw them in Liverpool a couple of years ago ........ made me realise why i loved their early stuff, and hated them big time when they became a high drama stadium rock band ... a poor man's U2. Shame. Even worse, they re-did all their old classics in 'stadium rock' style almost as though they were ashamed of them. Unforgivable.

[@jamika68]

Best Simple Minds song ever!!!

[@davidhra]

nah, "somebody up there likes you" is the best track from this brilliant album

[@class66]

you can get the full quailty version of this track on the dvd 'seen the lights' which was recoreded in the 1082 by the bbc, otherwise it was the b side of the origanel relese of Waterfront in 83. whity

[@Laveau]

Thanx a bunch for the tip ! Cheers, Laveau

[@40ny]

I wish I had written this song!

[@RyanMilne22]

Simple Minds at the height of their powers...confident...hypnotic...unconventional...optimistic... New Gold Dreams, Glittering Prizes, and Promises of Miracles... if only everthing was possible!!!

[@40ny]

Wow, thanks for posting this awesome clip. Imagine - they released New Gold Dream, Glittering Prize, Someone Somewhere In Summertime, Promised You A Miracle, Big Sleep and Hunter And The Hunted all on the same album! What a band! For me, at their peak no one could touch them.

[@CraigR70]

Its Mel Gaynor, Herbie Hancock played the keyboard solo on the album.

[@ZAOUWV]

Badlands - Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. Great movie

[@babyspeck34]

You are so right ! a very underrated band that the 80's /90's not survived. They used to be as big as U_2

[@erinpielamb1]

love this track so much,love the early stuff more than the latter but still enjoy anything by the band.

[@JarrefanErPenombra]

Greatest presence on stage by Jim!!!

[@kieranbegley]

Possibly the greatest song ever,certainly in my life time

[@kniphofia]

oh my..seeing this again.. I was at the recording in Newcastle for The Tube when they did this. Their finest hour I think. Derek Forbes was the heart of the band for me. I saw them several times live in these early years. This is my youth on tape right here!

[@hughesy45108]

If ever you need to chill, bang on the album "New Gold". Listen to those bass lines and rifts and your in another world. It still has its magic 25 years on.."Brilliant days, wake up on brilliant days..."(someone,somewhere.)

[@battlestarone]

remember i used to see jim kerr walking around glasgow in the early 80s,there something about him them that made him stand out from the crowed,didnt know the he was in what was to become on of the biggest bands to walk the earth,there i not many bands that can sell out 30k tickets these days for a venue, even though they have not had any singles in the uk top ten for some years now.

[@Katrinawitch]

Wow, Jim can really "bring it" on stage! What a great voice, and such presence. I think this was my favorite of his looks throughout the years. He still has a gorgeous voice, and looks amazing. I don't know much from the New Gold Dream era, but now I want to go and get those CDs!

[@pablodollard50337]

Best song on a crackin album

[@Katrinawitch]

Thanks so much! I am going to purchase them this week! Everything I've heard/read points to these albums as their pinnacle.

[@fabulousbigman]

memories of being a teenager :-) class. the minds went downhill from mid 80's as they tried to be U2. But in the early days they were both exceptional

[@stefanoradici7402]

UNO DEI MOTIVI MIEI PREFERITI DEI GRANDI SIMPLE MINDS....

[@DrHeckill]

memories............................

[@bassatnight]

Derek Forbes is so underrated, he really is a great bassist...

[@astridsmile]

LOVEEEEEEEEEEE

[@finlaybiddlesden2426]

I never get tired of hearing this..has to be live though..!

[@40ny]

Go get them now! Early Simple Minds were sublime. On one album (New Gold Dream) they achieved what few other bands could achieve in an entire career. Sparkle In The Rain had some superb tracks too, especially Waterfront. But their very early album Sons & Fascination/Sister Feelings Call had some truly landmark songs...The American, Love Song, Sweat in Bullet, Wonderful in Young Life, Seeing out the Angel, 20th Century Promised Land, In Trance as Mission. You will enjoy discovering these gems.

[@permaveg]

Derek forbes leaving was a mistake, they never quite had that unique sound again.

[@Laveau]

Love this song !a pitty though the sound quality is poor...

[@Piucheperfetto]

MYSTIC.......... i can't find words.........

[@TheGodParticle]

So true...

[@oriettazuffolato167]

troppo bella w 1982

[@ChiquitoKan]

I thinc mike McNeil was the real soul of the band...When he quitted...everything went road down

[@Katrinawitch]

Believe it or not, I saw them open for The Pretenders in '86, and I had no idea who they were! I went to see The Pretenders (who rocked, by the way). I remember SM as being a good opening act, but it's all a haze. What I wouldn't give to go back in time! I've just recently gotten into them, and now they're one of my favorite bands. I can't get over Jim's amazing voice!

[@TheJackie212]

@usignup Hey---I agree--I still love it and can listen to it over and over :)

[@rhabdoviridae]

This is really one of there best songs and the first one I ever heard from them. Too bad the recording is messed up where the solo starts. 5 stars

[@sinister066]

its cauld outside but this is called someone, somewhere in summertime. classic Jim kerr.only us scottish people get that.

[@tezhed]

Is that Herbie Hancock or Mel Gaynor on drums

[@jezphotos]

I was at this gig - superb! They did a third song after the show finished - 'someone somewhere'. Any HD versions of this about?

[@gerthie]

it has aged well only the smiths compare

[@yohppoy]

i agree with permaveg. forbes was an understimated bassist. i think that also mcneel keyboard sound missed in their last 15 years.

[@MakinMovies7]

They were great......but got lost some how...in stadiums.

[@theredraven]

He had a falling out with Jim (he wasn't turning up to practise etc). Jim said in an interviews years later "Something about him having a better girlfriend than me or something". They patched things up but it still sucks he fired him.

[@class66]

sorry i was a bit drunk last nite , i meant to say 1982!!

[@TheNouveauxdecadence]

@RyanMilne22 What a truly inspiring and beautifully deluxe comment. I agree, just gorgeous +

[@ruffian1868]

Why ?

[@johnnyblunder]

ye simple minds at thier best,forbes was a great bass player, he left just after new gold dream and joined propoganda.

[@Laveau]

I figured that much (:>)hahahaha ! Hope you didn't get a hangover (:>)Many fangs though...

[@theredraven]

Nope, I thought he was gay when I first saw him but he got married and had kids..........And then like a true pop star he got divorced :-D