'Sparkle in the Rain' vs 'Joshua Tree'

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vs 'Sonic Temple'

― dave q (listerine), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

Was "Sparkle in the Rain" the rubbish album with the version of "Street Hassle" on it?

― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

Half-rubbish but yes.

Sonic Temple wins, obv.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

the joshua tree is overplayed, to be sure, but if you can at all try to listen to it with fresh ears it's still pretty awesome.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

"Sparkle in the Rain" was when the neds (sorry Ned) in Glasgow started really getting into 'The Minds', thus ruining them for the cool kids

― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

... tho conveniently they started to get shit around this time anyway

― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

One of Simple Minds worst albums vs. an album generally considered U2's best (which it isn't btw). "The Joshua Tree" wings, but wouldn't have been anywhere near competing with "New Gold Dream".

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

geir in classic anti-lilywhite (the producer, not the world view) mode.

the opening monster THWACK on "up on the catwalk" >>>>>>>the entire u2 discography (haha, not really, but not far off either).

this comes up on every simple minds thread, but i'll say it again, the seeds of future suckassness were sown on Sparkle, but there's still a lot of good stuff on it.

mekons put it best when they sang re bono "the dublin messiah, scattering crumbs"

― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 21 September 2006 02:54 (nineteen years ago)

this comes up on every simple minds thread, but i'll say it again, the seeds of future suckassness were sown on Sparkle, but there's still a lot of good stuff on it.

Some of the songs seem quite OK, and they probably would have been great if they had sounded like the ones on "New Gold Dream".

Nevertheless "Real Life" > "Once Upon a Time" > "Sparkle In The Rain"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 21 September 2006 08:44 (nineteen years ago)

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