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No John Giblin ? Major omission ! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.30.141.195 (talk) 07:06, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
I concur. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.143.15.14 (talk) 07:36, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
Discography twice? Renamed one. --jae 23:19, Dec 28, 2004 (UTC)
I would like to make more emphasis on their live album (In the City of Light), which I consider a major selling success (currently this is referred in less than a sentence).
Please comment... H. Moreira 12:40, 6 November 2005 (UTC) H. Moreira
Call me crazy, bored or maybe it's because I couldn't get to sleep, but I decided to rewrite the entire Simple Minds article, in order to better consolidate information that was repeated in several places, as well as add information of interest about a number of different albums. I also thought it was important to contextualize some of their less successful works within what was going on in music at that time, especially during the early 1990s. To that end, I also added subheadings to break up the article and make it easier to follow.
I also categorized the albums by date and added a number of different releases that weren't included, mostly the Themes box sets.
Oh, and all those minor changes? That's what happens to you when you undertake a major writing project at 4:00AM in the morning. :-)
--TARDIS 04:32, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello, if you are going to rewrite the article, why do not put more focus on their instrumentals? 1980s' tracks such as "Somebody up there likes you" (for the landscape synth sounds), and "A brass band in African Chimes" (for both the synth work and the drum line) were not only great, but can be regarded in many respects as influential for the ambience music of The Orb, Aphex Twin, FSOL and so on. skysurfer 14:15, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
I wondered that, too. Maybe they think that listeners are not interested. The instrumental versions of some songs are even beautyful. Hey, Mr J. Kerr, that doesn't mean that we don't like your voice ;-) skysurfer 17:57, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
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you could list out appearances of the simple minds, like the breakfast club. also, a simple minds poster is often clearly visible in ferris's room in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (a movie, 1986) Nnnudibranch 00:46, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Robin was a backing singer not a lead singer for a tour
She is listed as an associated with the band on the official SM website http://www.simpleminds.org/sm/people/rc1.htm but I see her name has been taken off anyway Pandaplodder (talk) 23:22, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
Wheres the evidence about an illness? this is a copy of an interview he gave for a national newspaper Mick McNeil interview
--Pandaplodder (talk) 13:54, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
Andy Gillespie (keyboards) is back in the live band for the current tour. ReggyRaccoon (talk) 04:34, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
The line about the group being seen as "New Romantics .. alongside Duran Duran" needs taking out. Simple Minds had nothing to do with the New Romantics, as anyone who lived in the UK in the 80s can testify. Vauxhall1964 (talk) 01:03, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
The article as it is currently structured reads a lot like original research in some sections and particularly in the section headings. 121a0012 (talk) 07:57, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
I just wondered why only a handful of their singles have their own articles on Wikipedia? Many less well-known groups do have them. Great songs like 'Speed Your Love To Me' and 'Glittering Prize' deserve this, and they did reach the UK Top 20. I think this would make the Simple Minds article on Wikipedia more complete. Laydsb (talk) 14:19, 30 March 2011 (UTC)Laydsb
It has been proposed on Simple Minds concert tours to merge it into Simple Minds. My answer is 100% no. Simple Minds concert tours has too much detail (currently it is 14,971 bytes in size) to be merged into this article. SethWhales talk 10:22, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
I was shocked to see the state of this article. I made some edits to try to address some of these faults:
1) Original research; we cannot use unattributed discussions of the subject. Some of the section headings also fell into this category.
2) Verify! All items recorded in this article should be verifiable to a reliable source. This still needs more work.
3) Fannish amounts of detail. We do not need to know every last thing; we just need to summarise the most important things.
4) Recentism; As it stands, the article is biased towards the 2000s and the 1980s is thin on the ground. This isn't right; if anything it should be the other way around.
5) Articles on living people cannot be sourced using tabloids. Proper sources are required. See point (2). --John (talk) 05:48, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
This is a long sprawling history of the band. I'm here because I came to look something up about Mel Gaynor whom I knew in the 80s. His coming and going at Simple Minds is what I found out, but in reading through everything here, I found very little dedicated to the band's actual Stilrichtung and its evolution. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:33, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
This section is a mess. It should really only include the main studio albums, without any details on what specific versions there are. All that goes into the discography article. Also, an album that appears as part of a boxset and has not be released as a stand alone CD/LP, should not be included. Karst (talk) 23:43, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
Simple Minds has finished recording a new studio album, its 17th, wrote Kerr on March 21, 2017. The album is now being mixed and mastered for release.
"Today is Charlie's last day of recording on what is destined to be our new album - Simple Minds 17th to date. In a few hours he will pick out the last few beautiful notes, and most probably blast out some last minute ideas. With the exception of the odd backing vocals to be added at a later date, I have also finished with my involvement in the recording. And so that is that! Another chapter in our story written, another effort complete. So what will we do tomorrow, the day after an entire album recording has been concluded? We will get up early and start thinking about our next album - our 18th. This is how we live, it is the rhythm of our lives." [1]
Possible new songs for consideration include: Chrome Heart, Fire Fighter, Harmonize, Human Trafficking, Love's Bonfire, Machines, Photograph, Planet Zero, Signal And The Noise, Solstice Kiss, Traffic, Tsunami and Utopia. [2] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Erichtoll (talk • contribs) 20:41, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
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Please recognise that Berenice is not a session musician but a key part of the current line up. Its very disingenuous to not include her. 80.189.246.153 (talk) 00:04, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
they probably didn’t even sell 10 million. whether its fans or the management, i notice time after time the estimated album sales is wildly inaccurate, taking from a dubious source with no credibility of music industry. Billboard, RIAA, and others are credible. Some newsweek article quoting an interview is not. Sales figures are not something everyone has access to either and is very rarely accurately referenced in public. Shhsbavavaa (talk) 11:03, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
Simple Minds have been associated with many genres over the years, but I can´t see any source that rock music is one of them. Edo (talk) 10:32, 2 March 2024 (UTC)