Simple Minds - In Trance As Mission Lyrics

this is one top tune 😉

Great influences. Genesis. Peter Gabriel. Talking Heads. Magazine. Joy Division. Etc

CSI Season 2 ep 23 brought me here.

I grew up in Laramie, Wyoming. Dick Cheney's Wyoming, 1970s- 1980s. We would take the bus to Denver every couple of months and go to a mystical vinyl store: Wax Trax. There we found Simple Minds, Ultravox, New Order and Gary Numan (among others). We played this in the middle of the Wyoming woods. And I listen to this, or some early Simple Minds at least once a week. I always will.

One the first very first Bass Lines I HAD to learn many year's ago.

the golden years....shared to the Netshows Radio "Program 104" Playlist on youtube

The bass line remains Supper's Ready - Steve Hackett

Genesis 'Apocalypse in 9/8'

This is TIMELESS, takes you wherever you want!!!

thats right

Too much speculation about the minds ,they wrote some shite when starting(everybody does)they wrote some shite later on,but in between they have written some truly great songs,some of their later stuff is actually anthemic,cmon the minds

Great to know music other people don’t,

Simple Minds between 1980-1982 were simply WOW!!. Imho they made their best albums in that period.

I can only completely agree! I have their albums after that, but those earlier beat it!

I think Phil C is right about the Ian Curtis croon. And surely that bass sound, and a title that echoes Transmission, are also a conscious nod to Joy Division. But this is still glorious, their finest hour. After the lovely New Gold Dream they lost it, as everyone knows. Thanks for posting and lyrics, but you missed: "I see a town by the track / can't see the road for the tears", which feels like the centre of the whole song.

Wouldn't say they lost it just diversified like U2 did after the unforgettable fire album

Love this album! Never understood why people compared them to boring/depressing U2. Simple Minds were the exact opposite. Creative, original, unpredictable, progressive, compelling. They created a seriouly unconventional Progressive Rock/Punk hybrid and there is nothing quite like it.

you're so right - absolutely the antithesis of lazy, lumpen U2 dreariness.

Totally agree there. I think the bulk of the U2 comparrisons came in the mid 80's after this golden period of the band had passed and, along with U2, were becoming more global and stadium-filling!!....

CSI: Las Vegas season 2 Episode 23 "Hunger Artist" at 16:50-brought me here. Great beat. Followed it to the artist of it from a TV Show. It is worth my time in searching to do so. Simple Minds... Hmm... They knew how to reach complex minds with their music.

arrhh vinyl and walkmans lets go back please

Love this.

I play bass because of Derek.

This bass was done on a sampler

It goes on a bit.

yeah it does a bit but still good :-)

Weirdest thing....Jim Kerr's vocals sound mysteriously haunting...very much like Ian Curtis the lead singer of Joy Division-an influence at the time? You gotta wonder!!!

New breaches are opening on the highway, a radiant panorama, new chains of feeling are taking shape an access towards mysterious hectic wealth hidden in a distant province...

This was the peak. The entire 2 LP's were magical.

Jonn Blackwell what about New gold dream??

@Zé Maria Pérez together they are the perfect trinity

yes they were

This takes me back. I was working in Vlaanderen in Holland and then in Dublin in the winter of late 1982 and early 1983 and it was (in those two places, at least) a very cold and foggy winter. Walking around in the evening - particularly in midweek when no one was around (and Dublin was dead and very "Victorian" in those years -before the EU money came through....) with this on the Walkman was a sublime experience.

Totally understand. I've got a vivid memory of playing this album on my Walkman on a train from Coventry to Glasgow - the bass intro to this song will always be an urban journey. They just made fantastic soundtracks to life in those first four albums.

Che fortuna vivere in Inghilterra in quel periodo, nella mia città comunque esisteva un mitico locale che si chiamava Suburbia dove si ascoltava la new wave e il punk inglese grazie alla passione di pochi ragazzi che periodicamente andavano a Londra ad acquistare dischi!

I too love the first albums in the early 80's with my walkman on the train to go to Holland ... Beautiful period

First time I ever heard this song I knew that I recognised the bassline, dawned on me today that they neatly nabbed it from Genesis' "Apocalypse in 9/8"!

oh yeah. it definitely comes from there.

In my opinion Empires and Dance remains their tour de force. Cloyingly atmospheric and picaresque.  A kind of modern day Pilgrim's Progress across a disaffected late seventies landscape.  I feel that they were great until Once Upon A TIme, forget that and the subsequent atrocities.  But at their best they scaled heights that U2 could never reach.  Can you imagine Bono creating Today I Died Again? Nope, me neither.

HERE THEIR BEST IS SPARKLE IN THE RAIN AND U2 ONE IS OCTOBER....AND YES,I PREFER SIMPLE MINDS SPARKLE IN THE RAIN

I always thought half of Empires and Dance was too derivative and was clearly influenced by Joy Division. This album and especially New Gold Dream don't sound like anyone else.

​@The Blissful ZombieThe Joshua Tree is the best album by U2 - especially the B side.....Achtung Baby a second best. Neither will reach the heights of Empires and Dance or New Gold Dream

@The Blissful Zombie each to their own but I find Zooropa very hit and miss and many songs haven't really stood the test of time - they do sound 'very 90s'....good on them to release such an experimental album at that stage of their career, but The Joshua Tree achieved a good combination of commercially successful hits (With or Without You etc.) with others that are more lyrical even if less mainstream (In God's Country, One Tree Hill, etc.). Sorry I meant the second side of the vinyl album, not the B-sides, even if they are brilliant too

SM and U2 both created some
Great records but for me, SM pre 84 had the edge (pun intended)

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yeah, a double with Sister Feelings Call. These and New Gold Dream are the 3 greatest Minds albums...

I love this album - remember buying it and it had the bonus lp that was just as good. Happy vinyl days.

Sister Feelings Call

best album they ever did was this one, sons and fascination

Colshy TheComedian I PREFER SPARKLE IN THE RAIN

Epic. Maybe one of the best records ever.

Travelling. Roads. Humid. Foreign country. Can't see the road for the tears.Hot city night. Stream of consciousness. Driving. Don't know where I'm going. Driving with the bassline. Relentless. Just what is going on? Just one moment in time.Thanks. Breathless. Mind's all over the place. Why did she have to do that? Walk on in lights...what is going on? My hands are grabbing....why did she have to do that? Can't see the road.

@Spiboy The original live version had a longer intro. It didn't start with Dereks bass. It was very effective when his bass came in. Shame that intro wasn't on the album version.

This was re-introduced into the live set last year!! Sounded great! Not played live for approximately 27 years (i think???)