{"title":"Simple Minds","description":"\u003ch2\u003eSimple Minds Vinyl Records \u0026amp; Music Collection\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExplore Simple Minds vinyl records at UMusic Shop South Africa. Discover new wave through physical releases that bring the artist’s musical identity, individual recordings and visual presentation into one collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSimple Minds: the music and the story\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScottish band Simple Minds developed from post-punk and electronic experimentation into a large-scale, melodic rock sound. Their music often uses repeating instrumental figures, spacious production and Jim Kerr’s voice to create a sense of rising momentum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA collection spanning several periods reveals the movement from the band’s earlier, more exploratory textures toward a larger, anthem-oriented sound. Jim Kerr’s voice provides continuity while the arrangements change scale around it. Forty offers an accessible route through that development, making it possible to hear rhythmic detail, keyboard colour and the shape of a chorus as different parts of the same evolving musical identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCatalogue highlights\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForty: The Best of Simple Minds provides a retrospective route through that development, linking different periods rather than presenting one studio moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe move from more experimental early records toward larger-scale songwriting makes a retrospective particularly useful, showing how a continuing band identity could support changing musical ambitions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eForty: The Best Of Simple Minds: Explore the vinyl presentation of this recording, keeping the programme and its physical presentation together.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy collect Simple Minds?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDirect melodies and distinctive instrumental choices work together, making a complete programme useful for hearing how electronic or guitar textures can change the emotional meaning of an accessible pop song. Vinyl gives the sleeve artwork and playing sequence a tangible place in a music collection. The visual design and the moment of placing a record on the turntable become part of returning to the music. The particular pressing or package defines the edition, so explore the individual release for its track list and stated presentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplore Simple Minds at UMusic Shop South Africa and choose a physical release to make part of your own music collection.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"simple-minds-forty-the-best-of-simple-minds","title":"Simple Minds - Forty: The Best Of Simple Minds","description":"\u003cp\u003e2019 Marks 40 years of the Scottish band Simple Minds existence and to celebrate that UMC are proud to announce a new compilation album that covers all 40 years of the bands recorded output including a new song For One Night Only that makes its first appearance here. Formed in the seventies Simple Minds have become one of the most successful bands ever to come from Scotland selling over 60 million records worldwide and chalking up twenty studio albums and numerous top 10 singles the band are truly global. 40: The Best Of – 1979 – 2019 is a newly complied anthology that covers the bands career from the very beginning to present day, it has been compiled in conjunction with the band and presents the very best of the bands extensive catalogue. The album was remastered at the world-famous Abbey Road studios and have new art by long-time collaborator Stuart Crouch which represents the 40 years. The band embark on a UK tour in February 2020 to support and celebrate the 40 years of their career.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UNIVERSAL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41496518590660,"sku":"060257799888","price":747.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0406\/7927\/6700\/files\/8c0dbbd481cfdbdaafbb0ca65d00b835.png?v=1763715798"}],"url":"https:\/\/umg.africa\/collections\/simple-minds.oembed","provider":"UMG Africa","version":"1.0","type":"link"}