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Dream giver redux discography albums new gold dream (81,82,83,84) new gold dream (81,82,83,84)new gold dream (81,82,83,84): informationJK: ' Every album sounded different. We kept moving onto the next thing. Even in the 90s the records were dramaticallydifferent - as different as Bowie's - in terms of sounds; certainly the second, third, fourth and fifth records. People lookon this album as perfection. Everybody would be writing, someone would be listening to Dylan, someone to ABC.' Record Collector InterviewRecord Collector #364July 2009.
Simple Minds studio albums chronology. Sparkle in the Rain (1984), Once Upon a Time (1985), Street Fighting Years (1989). Alternative cover. Alternative cover. Alternative cover. UK picture disc cover. Once Upon a Time is the seventh studio album by Scottish pop rock band Simple Minds,.
' andwere so crammed, the sound was so heavy, the way it feels before a storm breaks.When the storm is over, the air is clear and clean. That's what New Gold Dream felt like.' -. The band had a head start:they'd already recorded and releasedand both(aka )and were demoed. (Allthese recordings were made during a 10 day rehearsal period at Rockfield Studios in January 1982). Just before the second leg of the,recorded a, during which theyexclusively premiered.
As the second leg of the tour continued, andbecame new songs in the set-list. After the tour, and plans turned to the new album was first choice for producer but he was unavailable.Virgin also suggested Martin Rushnet. However the band had other ideas. Impressed withhis work on the remix and,pushed for nineteen year oldas producer for the album. With onboard, Virgin told him that theywanted the magic and atmosphere of the band's live sound.
Sodecided to record as a live studio album. The band retreated to an old farmhouse in Fife (which they called the 'Vibe Factory') where they started work on the new album. travelled up to Fife to listen to the tapes and make some suggestions.' They would jam for two hours on the same song, and then we would listen to it back on cassette, pick the good bits and make thesong around that.
A lot of it was what they'd call pure shit, or not very good anyway, and there were some magic bits that maybe werenever captured on the album.' -. By the end of the Fife sessions, the band had assembled several demo tapes.
These included the(later to become),(later to becomeand(which became). They then relocated to Townhouse Studios in London to record the basic tracks. ' As always, the music came first, and there was something of beauty about it. It suggested that sort of lyric. And the fact that suchideas came up - things of light - rang a bell in me, that was the first sign.' -.
It quickly became apparent that style wasn'tsuited to the album. Brought in a session drummer, to add extra power to the backing tracks.
Multiple takes of the same songs were recorded to multi-track. Then assembled thebest parts of each take for the master. This would have profound consequences later when the DVD-Audio album was produced. Herbie Hancock was recording in the studio next door.
Grabbing the opportunity, the band asked if he'dlike to play a solo on the album. Hence his synth solo during. The dates in the title of the album were added at the last moment: ' After an album obsessed by fear we'd made an album lookingto the future.' -. ' I think we definitely had Walshy right off his nut. He was supposed to have stopped smoking and drinking, he was saying tous 'I very rarely drink' and all that. At the end of the album he was chain smoking with fucking bottles everywhere'.
With the backing tracks completed, the band moved onto The Manor,Virgin's recording studio in the lush Oxfordshire countryside, to complete thealbum. It was renamed The Leisure Centre: ' Whenever we came up against aproblem we'd go and have a game of table tennis or a swim or go fishing, and just have some fun andgo back in' -. ' I remember phoning up and saying 'We've really kinda surpassed what weshould be.' He was going, 'It's two o'clock in the morning, what are you rabbiting on about?' -. With the album reaching completion, the band were invited back for another session.
Theyrecorded three exclusive tracks from the album: (logged at the BBCunder its original name of ),and. ' During the writing of the album we often went for walks.
Around Perth you find a lot of Celtic crosses, crosses that seem to spring up from the earth. We thought itwas a very powerful symbol. They were in the ground which produced the water we drank, so why not?' -. had already used the symbol on the sleeve ofand so they decided to continue the idea, using a cross for the cover of New Gold Dream. The 'flaming heart' design was influenced particularlyby crosses found in France.
' We knew what we were doing when we used that cross. It created a lot of controversy and some people even got angry, but when a hard rockband puts devils and creatures from the depths of hell on its cover, no one blinks an eye. But when you want to use something of beauty, everyonestarts wondering whether it's the right thing. Hang on, this is kind of heavy, isn't it? A born again Christian! Why born again? I've never beenaway.'
-. ' The image of the cross shocked us but we couldn’t deny it felt right and, more to the point, looked striking and beautiful.He designer was tripping on the music and lyrics, and the idea of faith,of mysticism and spirituality. He felt that from what he was hearing and it influenced his work.' -. pressed in the UK had gold inner sleeves; for subsequent pressings, purple innersleeves were used.
The purple of the album titles and inner sleeves (second pressings) was based on the colour of acardinal's habit. Came up with the idea when the Pope visited Scotland (and, incidentally,used Simple Minds' sound system to address the Glasgow crowd). Gold and purple inner sleeves were also used in other countries except these included the lyrics, printedaround a simple cross. As this artwork is stylised and repeated for each country, it's assumed thiswas original design. In the UK, the lyrics wereomitted, leaving just a book logo. featured unique artwork.
The booklet included new graphics and different pictures ofthe band, whilst the sleeve featured a compacted version of LP cover. The CD cover usedwhite instead of gold, giving it a cold, frosy appearance (it isn't known if this was intented ora mistake by the printers).
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For the USA, A&M pressed up a special; this became known as the'purple splashed gold' version of the album. (It's actually transparent vinyl in whicha small amount of purple and gold colours have been added). A large number of these were 'gold stamped' and sentout as promotional issues. A cassette and CD were also available. All the A&M pressings featured the edited version of the title track (which isn't noted onthe sleeve). The originalfeatured an extended version of the title track (which isn't indicated on the sleeve either) which became known asthe German 12' Remix.
In Canada, Virgin pressed up a of the LP. Again,this was transparent vinyl with a small amount of yellow colouring added. of the album is highly prized by the collectors for its unique sleevewhich removed all the religious images. Like all Yugosalvian releases, it was delayed, not appearing until April 1983.
' That's why I called it a coffee-table album. Not to be nasty, but that's what it is: a coffee-table album. They should havesold New Gold Dream in furniture stores, because it can brighten a room.' -. The Super-Audio CD version of the album was sonically created from the stereo master and again added nothing special. However, for the DVD-Audio, Ronald Prent returned to the original multi-tracks to create a true 5:1 Surround Soundrecording.
Prent and discovered a host of unused takes and extrainstrumentation. So rather than recreate original arrangements, they decided toextended the songs and add the missing effects. The take of isespecially interesting as it features the studio cues and banter. Unfortunately the multi-tracks andwere missing, so the original stereo versions of these songs were included. Also discovered were the sessions for, a choppy instrumental basedaround one of drum rhythms, but left unfinished (and relegated to B-side status onthe. Amazingly they found a take with vocals, and so as a bonus, the newlydiscovered was added to the album as a bonus track.
Everyone who loves New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84) should absolutely seek out this version of the album. ' I have the most beautiful memories of New Gold Dream. It was made in a time between Spring and Summer and everythingwe tried worked. There were no arguments. We were in love with what we were doing, playing it, listening to it.
You don'tget many periods in your life when it all goes your way.' -. ' had this confidence and swagger about it, as well as this new positive feeling. Wherever we worked, up in Fife,at the Manor in Oxfordshire or at the Townshouse in London, it seemed to be sunny all the time.
The storm had broken and there was this beautifulmorning. That’s what New Gold Dream sounded like.' On New Gold Dream I introduced some Alabama Soul into the mix for the first and last time.,and I had a complete blast writing the music for the songs as instrumentals.never added lyrics or melodies until after the instrumentals were all basically written. (That'show you get great instrumentals like.)would show me the song ideas he had on cassette and at the keyboards then I wouldshow him my funky rock grooves on the drums and we would start jamming to create these great new grooves and rhythmic textures combiningarpeggiator, vintage drum machine with playing and my drumming. This was the core ofevery song on the album.
The addition of big bass lines andmagical guitar colorings to this new sound thatand I were creating sealed the deal on what was the creation of a unique newSimple Minds sound being created by a unique group of Simple Minds musicians. It turned out to be thecreative zenith of our career, then we both moved on in different directions never to create together again. Likewise the sound ofthe band and the albums they released would never capture that same creative energy.
ScotAlabama (yours truly) added the subtlecomplexity and irresistible rhythm of a funk rock groove to one of the best trance grooves around. Thus you have New Gold Dream.Message on FacebookJuly 2019. The album was remastered in 2002 as part of.It was released as a limited edition vinyl replica CD and standard edition CD.
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