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Real Life by Malcolm Foster Peter Vitesse Simple Minds (CD, 1991)

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Real Life by Simple Minds (CD, 1991). Excellent condition, the disc like New. Real Life is the ninth studio album by Scottish rock band Simple Minds, released in April 1991.[4] This was the first Simple Minds album recorded without keyboardist and original band member Mick MacNeil, who left the band shortly after the previous tour completed in 1990.

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Product Identifiers

Record LabelVirgin

UPC5012981266028

eBay Product ID (ePID)13050140384

Product Key Features

Release Year1991

FormatCD

GenreAlternative, Rock

ArtistMalcolm Foster, Peter Vitesse, Simple Minds

Release TitleReal Life

Additional Product Features

Country/Region of ManufactureUSA

Number of Discs1

ReviewsRolling Stone (6/13/91) - 2.5 Stars - Fair - "..sketches passing for songs ...what might have been the band's most cohesive record misses, if only by frustrating inches."

Additional informationSimple Minds includes: Jim Kerr (vocals); Charlie Burchill (guitar, keyboards); Peter Vitesse (keyboards); Malcolm Foster (bass); Andy Duncan (percussion). Simple Minds' first '90s album is also the first album where the group is reduced to the duo of singer Jim Kerr and guitarist Charlie Burchill, plus backing musicians. Kerr and Burchill, always the band's musical core, handle the transition from band to duo with grace; REAL LIFE sounds more like a classic Simple Minds album than anything they'd released since 1984's UP ON THE CATWALK. In places, however, the resemblance is slightly too close. The single "Travelling Man" bears more than a little likeness to the 1984 hit "Waterfront"; even more blatantly, "Let the Children Speak" is simply the 1981 instrumental "Theme for Great Cities" with added new vocals and lyrics by Kerr. On the other hand, better that Kerr and Burchill plagiarized themselves than repeat the Springsteen-meets-U2 sound that marred 1989's STREET FIGHTING YEARS.