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new gold dream (81,82,83,84)
composers
Words And Music: Simple Minds
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© EMI Music Publishing
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The song was first called Festival Riff and developed during writing sessions at Fife in 1982. Parts were similar to
The Velvet Underground's What Goes On and Kraftwerk's Autobahn.
"We nailed New Gold Dream right away. Derek was playing this really fast pumping bass and it
meant nothing, and just before that I'd been doing this guitar riff thing and it meant nothing either. Then by accident we put the two together
and Jim went off his nut, he went 'Yeeees! Fucking brilliant' Then we just went for it right away." - Charlie.
"It was like a festival - we pictured it as being something like Kraftwerk, motorway music. Up in Fife, once we got a cassette
version of it, we recorded it onto the audio channel of a video cassette of Jean-Michel Jarre in China, and it was great
watching him do his concerts in China with Festival Riff coming out." - Pete Walsh.
When it came to recording the song, Mike Ogletree and
Mel Gaynor recorded their drum parts simultaneously at four o'clock in the morning.
The final song lasted ten minutes. Pete Walsh edited it down to produce the extended mix and
album mix. More of the orginal track can be heard on the DVD-Audio version of the album.
The dates were added at the last moment. "After an album obsessed by fear we'd made an album looking to the future. In spire of everything.
That explains the years to come. Also, 1984 was taboo. New Gold Dream went against that. It said: let's hear the news, good or bad" - Jim.
"For many, the New Gold Dream album remains our finest work. The song
and the album certainly mark the point where artistically, everything fell into place" - Jim
lyrics
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New gold dream,
She is the one in front of me, the siren and the ecstasy.
New gold dream,
Crashing beats and fantasy, setting sun in front of me.
New gold dream,
And the world goes hot,
And the cities take,
And the beat goes crashing,
All along the way.
She is your friend until the ocean breaks.
And when you dream, dream in the dream with me,
And when you dream, dream in the dream with me.
81 - 82 - 83 - 84.
81 - 82 - 83 - 84.
New gold dream,
Sun is set in front of me, worldwide on the widest screen.
New gold dream,
Burning bridge and ecstasy, crashing beats and fantasy.
Dream in the dream with me.
And the world goes hot,
And the cities take,
And the beat goes crashing,
All along the way.
She is your only friend until the ocean breaks.
And when you dream, dream in the dream with me,
And when we dream, dream in the dream with me,
81 - 82 - 83 - 84.
81 - 82 - 83 - 84.
New gold dream,
The siren and the ecstasy, she's the one in front of me.
New gold dream...
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