5X5 Live
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SIMPLE MINDS 5 X 5 LIVE
PRAISE FOR 5X5 Live
"Simple Minds go back to the good stuff – and now everybody loves them. Result!" 4/5 live review, Q Magazine
"Simple Minds are suddenly alive and kicking again." 4/5 live review, Guardian
"An electric passion is rekindled." 4/5 live review, Daily Telegraph
Following the universal acclaim earlier this year for Simple Minds' landmark
5 X 5 shows and the accompanying
X5 box set,
on November 19th EMI will release a double live album of the tour.
5X5 Live features five songs from the band's
first five albums plus bonus tracks, as the band played slightly differing sets in different cities.
The tour, which took place between 14th February and 4th March, saw the band playing sets that included
songs from the albums: Life In A Day,
Real To Real Cacophony,
Empires and Dance,
Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call
and New Gold Dream (81, 82, 83, 84),
all of which were released in a prolific period from 1979 to 1982. These five albums have had a massive
cultural impact from the time of their release during the birth of the new wave electro scene in the
late 1970s, through the dance revolution of the ‘80s and ‘90s, to the music of the
Manic Street Preachers and the recent sound of The Horrors’ Skying
album, making them five of the most vital albums of the post-punk period and the last 35 years.
The album comes as a 2-disc set in a clamshell box with a 24-page booklet and a 25" x 25" tour poster.
It's an incredible memento of an amazing tour.
5X5 Live is a testament to what an incredible live
band Simple Minds are, especially considering they were playing some of these songs
for the first time in decades and performing them with such vitality and passion, proving why they
are one of the most successful UK bands of all time.
- CD1:
- 1. Intro
- 2. I Travel
- 3. Thirty Frames A Second
- 4. Today I Died Again
- 5. Celebrate
- 6. Life In A Day
- 7. Calling Your Name
- 8. Scar
- 9. King Is White And In The Crowd
- 10. Hunter And The Hunted
- 11. Wasteland
- 12. Love Song
- 13. This Fear Of Gods
- 14. Pleasantly Disturbed
- 15. Room
- CD2:
- 1. The American
- 2. 70 Cities As Love Brings The Fall
- 3. In Trance As Mission
- 4. Sons And Fascination
- 5. Sweat In Bullet
- 6. Changeling
- 7. Factory
- 8. Big Sleep
- 9. Premonition
- 10. Promised You A Miracle
- 11. Someone Somewhere In Summertime
- 12. Theme For Great Cities
- 13. Glittering Prize
- 14. Someone
- 15. Chelsea Girl
- 16. New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84)
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