Indeed, some of the songs are even almost impossible to find in old bootlegs and if found, the quality is less than acceptable.
Nostalgia is something that never comes easy, particularly if you are hell bent on living the present,” says Kerr in the liner notes of the record. “I never dreamed we’d play these songs again. All that was followed by an end-of-the-year short tour based on these same records, where Simple Minds played each night five songs from each album.Īnd now those live songs have been captured in a double cd simply entitled 5X5 Live. But that was not enough and, after some greatest hits releases and tours and solo projects and other stuff, in early 2012 Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill decided to reissue their first five records, including b-sides and live takes, in six CDs – with the twin records Sons and Fascination and Sister Feelings Call being included separately – under the name X5.
So, to that conscience of their own legacy followed the rescue of some of those early tracks onstage, such as “Sons And Fascination” or (what I personally think is their best song ever) “This Earth You Walk Upon”. Also, that some big current names such as Manic Street Preachers, Primal Scream or The Horrors have cited and even been inspired by those seminal songs by Simple Minds, helped Kerr and Burchill to revisit their first years. This record was not like Sons and Fascination actually, but it was indeed their most thorough and most solid since 1997’s Neápolis (if we don’t count the lost album Our Secrets Are the Same, due to be released in 1999 but that got lost in the middle of the merging battles between Chrysalis, EMI and other companies). In a way, it all began during the recording sessions of 2009 Graffiti Soul when Jim Kerr realized how varied and experimental their first years were and, somehow, wanted that feeling to be all over Graffiti.
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