Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (Live Newcastle 1982, HD)

[@LordCritish]

You can rest relaxed in the calm sense that nothing will ever be as awesome again as the 80s.

[@exactsame]

Beautifully put sir...

[@gentillygirl545]

Yes, thank you. I knew I was correct!

[@acekelis5943]

true, something happened in the 60's and then the 80's into 90's, now??

[@therealismail2132]

Damn Right !

[@NegativeMass85]

Fact checked true 💯

[@lloydrobson]

Derek Forbes the BEST Bassist ever 🎸

[@vallancesmillie5734]

Micks help

[@kieranbegley]

What a performance, I would pay good money to see this line up again. A band on top of their game

[@berardmichel4746]

ME TOO

[@stephenmatthias6408]

Awesome at Delamere Forest in 2011

[@StuartSimms-gj5ui]

Correct seen them umpteen times .that sounds gone just giggin band these days Kerr's best days are well gone.

[@bjornihlar]

NOTHING has ever beaten this particular song...

[@paulmartin3946]

Hunter and the Hunted..

[@rebels42wynn83]

AFTER ALMOST 40 YEARS, THIS IS MY VERY 1ST TIME WATCHING THIS TIMELESS TREASURE. MEL GAYNOR WAS AND WILL ALWAYS BE "THE ULTIMATE SIMPLE MINDS DRUMMER".

[@JAG1651]

He was absolutely awesome for sure...boy, he could hit those skins damn hard...you had to be there to feel it through ya body.

[@Soup-Dragon1]

Billy McNiel .. both him and Mel were great drummers for SM.

[@monicabolognini7962]

Mel Is huge , his drumm has a stunning progression

[@KristofWenner]

I have still his drum Stick at Home. Caught it at the concert - Hockenheim 1990 - will never Forget!

[@mikeburnitt2604]

I was there with my brother, what a gig!

[@blooter6360]

City hall ?

[@axelk.3687]

Is it really 40 years ago? Unbelievable! Sounds from outer space! My youth.

[@jason.martin]

Sounds better than the studio version ! faster with more bite and energy

[@stephenbrown7741]

The boys on fire with their best album and original and best line up

[@TheHipninja]

Mel Gaynor was not the original drummer, but he was my favourite. 😉👍🏾❤️🎶🥁

[@psychedelicfright85]

@@TheHipninja nope. It was Brian McGhee. Wonder where he is today...

[@athelstan927]

@@TheHipninja quite right..

[@chadgallagher6811]

It will never be like this again! 80's was my time as a child coming up and I'm so glad i had this music and I'm jamming this still today!!

[@Royderekroy]

I come back to this video every year to feel something. Perfection

[@stevesemenuk4497]

Same, sometimes more than once a year to get the recharge of this glorious energy

[@Roger_Ramjet]

What an album. What a band. What an exquisite performance. Just wow.

[@BeNice.22]

👍

[@kallbrand]

This is possibly the most aggressive version. The raw energy is amazing.

[@Unplugged70]

Agree. It sounds EVIL. Amazing.

[@archidude8830]

Agree. Like ocean waves at high tide. Power without bombast.

[@JamesSmith-kr7wf]

You got that right

[@pameladiamond9603]

Thank the Lord for You Tube so we can watch this masterpiece over and over again. Simple Minds at their best and best line up. Still love them today, been a fan for 37 years but they will never beat New Gold Dream!

[@Play-gl2yw]

Hehe , this was broadcast on bbc at the time and thank the lord I had a video recorder !

[@jameselliott8203]

Simple Minds 1982 nothing better !!!

[@andrewaldridge3801]

I had forgotten how utterly mesmerising Jim Kerr and his moves were back then. An incredible performance on every level.

[@cupofqwarffee4802]

Such energy! I can't believe the crowd aren't going mental. I would have been going bonkers to this!

[@revelever3201]

Wow....what a great version! Mel Gaynor and Derek Forbes....one of the greatest rhythm sections ever.

[@gnomebmw]

Holy crap I want to listen to this over and over again. The 80's were awesome

[@pellelidell007]

My band supported Simple Minds in Stockholm in the autumn of 1979. They were the nicest, coolest blokes and their crew too. My favourite albums were "Sons & Fascination", "Sister Feeling Call", "New Gold Dream", "Empires & Dance", "Real To Real Cacophony" and parts of "Sparkle In The Rain". I was a massive fan of those records and Simple Minds of that era.

[@garryau9890]

Best version ever.

[@PaulSGraham69]

My god...enough said....if only we could relive gigs like that now..no tossers sticking a mobile phone over your shoulder..just pure dancing and energy

[@LaPtiteAnglaise]

Gutting when you think many won’t be exposed to or ‘get’ how phenomenal these artists were/are. Just brimming with talent, charisma. Glasgow edginess.

[@HansKarlsson1971]

I just love watching MIck take the synths to their limits... wow.... i would break my fingers trying to play that fast.

[@athelstan927]

Not mentioned nearly enough.. Mick MacNeil was the main ingredient in this sound from outer space!

[@flugsven]

@@athelstan927 He was a rare gem!

[@jerrywallop5647]

For me personally the best line up of Simple Minds……

[@paullaw3382]

Surely this is the only Simple Minds line up.

[@U2HL]

The golden 80's...SM at their best!❤❤🎵🎶🎸🥁🔝

[@arm2644]

This song was way ahead of his time. You can see the lack of enthusiasm of the crowd in 1982. If you put the same song today in a concert the audience will go crazy!

[@showdown2006]

Todays audience would be just as docile recording it with their phones

[@flugsven]

@@showdown2006 😁

[@njaneardude]

You nailed it. This is strong energy and the crowd is just not getting it. I'm rocking with the air buds 😂😂😂

[@redemption843]

Disagree ..the crowd look pretty enthusiastic to me. Different times. People reacted differently. They were probably trying to act cool. We used to.

[@pierremartin9048]

Top 40 in last 40 years, no question. I got it day one and this album remains my no 1 to this day

[@simonpaley3421]

Still by far the best version pure musical magic !!!!

[@mk1960]

Unbelievable this song was created by mankind.

[@timmason9327]

Jim’s voice is just incredible, I couldn’t imagine anyone else having the same vocal impact, it’s a perfect fit

[@nd.r8748]

New Gold Dream belongs to my top 5 albums of all time ❤🙏

[@roparsemma3923]

Me, the first

[@paulbennett7151]

incredible, not just the music but JK's vocal performance here!!!!

[@franciscofarinha9606]

Simply amazing. Best live performance i've seen from this killer track. Magnetic performance by the entire band. I've always found New Gold Dream my favourite SM album with the title track topping the song list.

[@stephsheehy3576]

Yeah, same, but I can't make my mind up between New Gold Dream and Sparkle In The Rain.

[@marcvs1253]

Derek is amazing ! Best version ever !

[@flugsven]

I think he was my favourite! Although they all brought their important part to the table; the band lost their characteristic sound when Derek left/were booted. (Don't know which) They still did some good songs, but for me it wasn't Simple Minds anymore.

[@christophwegener5489]

Excellent phenomenal Michael Mc Neil made the Differences. I miss him.

[@caleyabz536]

That performance was just stunning. Jim kerr's presence is unreal, and the look of utter focus on the drummer's face throughout is amazing

[@shifterbbr1986]

Hands down, the best 80s tune I’ve ever heard. 🔥🔥

[@derrencoles5051]

The best version of this classic.

[@GrooveAndLeisure]

Insane keyboarding, arpeggiator in hands OMG!

[@Tranquillado]

You got that right!

[@Sub_Divisions]

Awesome band ......never the same when Mick MacNeil and Forbesy left

[@markbrewster2630]

Gaynor and Forbes what a rhythm section! Sublime.

[@michaelsylvester3968]

Big mistake removing Derek Forbes. The songwriting for the most part didn't recover. You can't delete an important part of an ecosystem without repercussions.

[@psychedelicfright85]

@@michaelsylvester3968 he had much more presence than most bassists. Instead of just being part of the rhythm, he had a lead bass style of playing.

[@garrybaldy327]

Derek's bass!

[@joachimpeiper8076]

This is just magical

[@giovanniangioi5308]

Beautiful period years 80 ...i miss you...😭😭😭😭😭 whats Songs ...simple minds, Duran Duran, David Bowie ..Depeche Mode ..U2...

[@marcvs1253]

Can’t stop playing :). It reminds me @ the early years in Werchter....Dereks and Jim makes the song drive like a train :)....that bass ...whow

[@stevesemenuk4497]

Totally agreed. Like a massive train in that rhythm section

[@archidude8830]

Stunning rhythmic elasticisty between the drums, bass and keyboard. Not metronomic or drum machine like or sequencer like. Like something in a Steve Reich piece, when an phasing pulse emerges from the interaction of instruments. Something quite amazing happens just after the “...all along the way” line in the bridges. Very cleaver rhythmic shift; I think Mel drops the drum back half a beat from the bass for a bar or two, everyone speeds up just a bit, and then the drums slowly drift back by the end of the chorus. Happens at every chorus so it’s not a mistake. The effect is like down shifting a car when already racing: engine rpm slows but increases power output. Then layer in the guitar riff...the effect is Like a shot of sonic adrenaline to the heart. Unbelievable musicianship and feeling. New gold dream is a masterpiece song in a masterpiece album. Like OMDs Architecture and morality, such an apotheosis can make it hard to find a way forward. OMD went one way into further experimentation. with Dazzle Ships and had a commercial flop that in hindsight had become understood as brilliant and the seed for many other bands. Simple minds’ demos for Sparkle and Smedt of the remixes indicate they could have gone with even greater rhythmic interplay between all the Instruments and experimentation. Alas, perhaps in part due to Lillywhite’s production it became far more conventional, drum and guitar forward, rhythm biting under melody instead of the melody emerging from it.While this served the U2s less than virtuoso musicianship well, it smothered the textures of Simple minds playing and composing, replacing power with bombast. Lanois and Eno can be understood to have brought a rhythmic complexity and atmospherics to U2 beginning with Unforgettable Fire (an album U2 has stated was forged by a desire to create something approaching New Gold Dream’s achievement).

[@eliaol4231]

I mean you said everything except how mesmerizing Kim's voice is. It's truly a force of nature

[@jane-scotsflower72]

Love this song forever 😍 always again and again 💞

[@666sdkfz]

1982... a great time to be 16 !!!

[@BeNice.22]

💛

[@stevenhumphries110]

God this is good...you can feel the 70's Bryan Ferry vibe coming thru WOW!

[@archidude8830]

Umm if you mean early, Eno Era Roxy Music, then ok. But by Avalon and Boys and Girls it’s clear that Ferry had been listening to bands like Simple Minds as much as the other way around.

[@MichaelB-gi4lt]

Wow…just a blistering performance. Simple Minds had some bangers…and this one ranks in my top three

[@JuiceTerry87]

Brilliant recording, thanks for uploading

[@nolteandreas1]

still a masterpiece since i am a tennager-ty for that wonderful music

[@roinebloom2807]

Derek Forbes ❤️

[@Carol-xp8tb]

I'm here in 2024........🎉

[@dietmarschweer9891]

Me too 59 years old still screamin lalala!!!

[@Carol-xp8tb]

@@dietmarschweer9891 lol I'm 56 and still loved them back in the day and now

[@gabrielepontello8124]

Me too 👍👍👍🐬

[@freddyfox500]

I'm 49. I first heard this song when I was 13. Blew my mind. This song is also in the opening scene of the film The Informers.

[@Carol-xp8tb]

Me too ✋️

[@RaoulDukeSr]

Thank you dexbam ,this track is my spirit animal for 2021,let's all work on expanding our collective consciousness together, we are one love. Peace, health, and love to everyone reading this 🧡 and a magical new era to all !

[@tanktanktanktanktank]

Probably fave SM track next to I Travel .... somewhere summertime. I was 12/13 when this happened. Saw them a few years later in Birmingham

[@julianfogarty2243]

I saw them in Birmingham 89, Street Fighting Years tour.

[@frontsidegrind]

Unbelievable how good this is!!

[@jorgepuhl]

Superb... 👏👏👏👏👏

[@ManFromLaBamba]

The best live version I have heard. And it’s ALL in the rhythmic interplay between the bass and keyboard. That is what made this band so unique: an amazing bassist and keyboardist that worked together to create an atmospheric sonic landscape. The guitar and vocals are in service of that pulsing sound scape. It’s as if Steve Reich wrote rock music instead of modern classical. Once that was lost, a process that started with Sparkle in the rain, what made the band special was gone and replaced with pomposity. The bassist was THE most important member of the band in that regard. Mel, new drummer to the band for new gold dream is fantastic here as well, with real power and intensity that adds to the bass and keyboard. I think the producer of their next album, Steve lillywhite, was the wrong choice, as he shifted emphasis into more conventional melodic leads with guitar forward, as found in the albums he produced for U2. Of course U2 have stated that New gold Dream album was a benchmark and they aspired for their next album to be more like it. In that quest, they ditched lillywhite for Eno and Lanois for the Unforgettable Fire. And U2 made three VERY different but New Gold Dream level albums with that production duo, Fire, Joshua Tree and achtung Bab, arguably reinventing themselves twice along the way and expanding their music’s scope and depth along with their audience. I guess SM reinvented themselves via lillywhite and clearmoubtain into the Kerr and Burchill show. Imagine if simple minds had Eno, or Lanois or someone like padgham (think police hoist in the machine) produce sparkle in the rain. The leaked demos hint at what might have been. A cross genre bit of trivia: lillywhite was signed up to produce Rush’s album, grace under pressure, but bailed on them at the last minute to produce Sparkle in the rain. In the end probably fortunate for rush because I can’t see lillywhite’s heavy 4/4 hand pomposity working very well with Rush’s intricate time signature shifts. just like I don’t think he worked well with simple minds intricate rhythmic layering and atmospherics-he just flattened it all into sonic mush won sparkle, a record with dreadful audio quality as everything is cranked to 11 and the dynamic range is flattened to zero like a jet engine on your turntable/cd player. Just listen to the beginning of the first bridge, when the pulsing intensity skips / drops for a split second, and then explodes. Amazing. Masterful version of a perfect song that holds up because it’s timeless.

[@stevemertens8324]

I was 7 in '82...but still love that song ☺️ nostalgic 🖤

[@crisbernocchi8060]

Olimpo divino e al centro Jim morbido, elegante, karismatico

[@Massimo.RossiCfi]

La numero 1 degli anni 80.

[@BeNice.22]

👍

[@p262shp]

Awesome! Got in to simple minds when I was 12 and that’s was 1983 and still love them. also this is classic minds👌

[@vallancesmillie5734]

Mick playing like possessed from heaven

[@marcelavez1899]

Monumental morceau, absolument fabuleux !!!!

[@Androandresi]

I born this year.. this song have 40 years already!!... such a big band!!

[@straw242_]

I first heard this song covered by Utah Saints back in the 90s. Did not even know it was a cover at the time! Have much more love and respect for Simple Minds now more than ever. Looking into all their back-catalogs and love their stuff! This sound so reminds me of being a kid as I grew up in the 80s.

[@marciadevore406]

Dexbam you are king thank you for sharing our lovelys if the world 😍 😍😍 😍

[@stevesemenuk4497]

Thank you, Dexbam. Better than any other recording

[@flugsven]

Found this today, thank you Dexbam, and it felt like if I had stumbled upon expensive jewellery on the street- only I can keep it 😊

[@niemalsmeister]

the 80s. best time of my life

[@egobuilders415]

Such an amazing band and song ❤️

[@mk1960]

Pure art!!

[@Edward.1979.]

Best live version

[@eliseamouret1816]

Toujours grandiose..30 ans apres...quelle chance d avoir pu connaitre une telle epoque..Jim tu etais si craquant ...

[@deanc1174]

One word to describe this… BRILLIANT.

[@DickCarlsson]

Love it!!!! 100% energy!!!!!!

[@davenight]

What a magnificent fucking noise!! These guy at their very best. Mick McNeil, what a keyboard player! Analogue monster!! Listen to Forbes and Gaynor

[@depeche79]

Magic 😍 Italy 🇮🇹 loves Simple Minds ❤❤❤

[@nancyverano6249]

Mick MacNiel on keyboards was amazing

[@roparsemma3923]

The Biggest best player of SM et fabulous keyboard

[@theinhumanlogic]

Just wow! Great Simple Minds. One of the best songs ever

[@panayiotisfitsoros4713]

MASTERPIECE!!!!!

[@enmanueleperez]

This is the best Simple Minds life performance ever!!!

[@navalerman1508]

One of the best songs ever ♥️🔥⚡️

[@MrVinylista]

One of the greatest songs of the eighties. This and Grace Jones's 'Slave to the Rhythm' does it for me, plus maybe The Associates' 'Club Country' and The Smiths' 'This Charming Man'. What a decade for music!

[@njaneardude]

I love listening to NGD live and this did not disappoint!

[@risingtide_official]

So intense and incredible. This is a live performance.

[@alansingh1993]

Yep incredible

[@oliviermauroux1945]

saw at san sebastian (spain) last year on the beach...absolutly fabulous !! please come back at san sebastian !

[@simonblouin2218]

Love how they upped the tempo at 30secs when drum comes in. Young and excited!!!!

[@seanpaulfarnan5742]

2021................how perfect is this, utterly superb!

[@markvance3959]

one of the best EVER

[@steviekeane]

You guys might not be ready for this ,, but your kids will love it .

[@anthonysmith1624]

AM HERE IN 2023 WHO HERE WITH ME ??. 😎 😘!.

[@privatebribert]

24

[@geordiewook]

City Hall. Was only 8 at that time, but it wasn't long before I loved this album. Still do!

[@testtesttesttesttest884]

We would never see this if it wasn't for KZbin

[@mattw8626]

A band, right at their optimum. Perfect.

[@claireadams5953]

Saw them Edinburgh 82. Just Fantastic!!!!!

[@NachtSchreck13]

She is your friend....Until the bitter end...

[@massimoritti3995]

Masterpiece NEW WAVE

[@neotectonics]

I lov u dexbam, thank you for that

[@ashingtoon]

For the Geordies! Love it.... HOWAY THE LADS!