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Swimming Towards the Sun by A Tribute to Simple Minds
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fave it Modern Rock | 80's Rock
15 tracks | 76 minutes
Released Feb 2003
on BlowFish Music / Idaho
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:15 Scar lyrics BUY MP3 04:15 Scar lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:15 Scar
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:36 New Gold Dream lyrics BUY MP3 04:36 New Gold Dream lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:36 New Gold Dream
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:44 Seeing Out the Angel lyrics BUY MP3 04:44 Seeing Out the Angel lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:44 Seeing Out the Angel
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:13 Oh Jungleland lyrics BUY MP3 05:13 Oh Jungleland lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:13 Oh Jungleland
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:52 Someone Somewhere in Summertime lyrics BUY MP3 04:52 Someone Somewhere in Summertime lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:52 Someone Somewhere in Summertime
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 06:38 Alive and Kicking lyrics BUY MP3 06:38 Alive and Kicking lyrics "GIFT MP3" 06:38 Alive and Kicking
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:50 Soul Crying Out lyrics BUY MP3 05:50 Soul Crying Out lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:50 Soul Crying Out
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:12 She's a River lyrics BUY MP3 03:12 She's a River lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:12 She's a River
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 06:17 Hypnotised lyrics BUY MP3 06:17 Hypnotised lyrics "GIFT MP3" 06:17 Hypnotised
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:45 Life in a Day lyrics BUY MP3 03:45 Life in a Day lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:45 Life in a Day
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:47 The American lyrics BUY MP3 04:47 The American lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:47 The American
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:04 Hunter and the Hunted lyrics BUY MP3 05:04 Hunter and the Hunted lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:04 Hunter and the Hunted
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:48 Waterfront lyrics BUY MP3 04:48 Waterfront lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:48 Waterfront
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 07:12 Don't You Forget About Me lyrics BUY MP3 07:12 Don't You Forget About Me lyrics "GIFT MP3" 07:12 Don't You Forget About Me
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:25 70 Cities as Love Brings the Fall lyrics BUY MP3 05:25 70 Cities as Love Brings the Fall lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:25 70 Cities as Love Brings the Fall
Contains classic tracks spanning albums from Reel to Reel Cacophony to Good News from the Next world--covered and reinvented by indie bands from all over the world.
Bio / Background
Swimming Towards the Sun is a collective tribute to Simple Minds from 15 different indie bands. The opening track by Simon Hayward is a mellow and radically reinterpreted rendition of Scar, from the album Reel to Reel Cacophony.
The listener is then strapped into a virtual rocket which is New Gold Dream by techno masters, The Echoing Green. The adrenaline keeps pumping with Piston Picnique's radical reinvention of Seeing Out the Angel. This track, in particular, got rave reviews from Jim Kerr, lead singer of Simple Minds. He even claimed that Simple Minds would play Angel in that style soon in one of their live shows! Oh Jungeland is a tight cover of the original, but with vocals that feel more emotional than the Simple Minds version. Blow Up then takes Summertime to places where no one could ever imagine--possibly making one think of how Martin Fry and ABC would have covered the song.
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