Simple Minds remake improves on the original

Winny_Pooh

I really like this. KT Tunstall is an inspired addition, the guitar parts are cool and bass playing perfect. 

Grunfeld

That works.  Stands on its own merits. 

Fretwired

I think they should remake a lot of their albums as the songs are strong but ruined as they are drenched in 80's reverb hell and dodgy production.

That remake was pretty cool.

Phil_aka_Pip

Never liked 'em. "Remake improves on original" leaves me thinking about polishing turds.

Emp_Fab

Maybe I'm weird but (don't answer that)...  but, I like the 80's original, drenched in reverb, versions.  I don't like this acoustic version.  I keep expecting Tunstall to go "Woo-Hoo" a-la Cherry Tree - the groove is almost identical.

Zoolooter

Hands down prefer the original - never liked Tunstall, always thought she was annoying and bland.

octatonic

Very very nice.

Iamnobody

I’m in the prefer the original camp. This one didn’t hold my attention at all. 

JezWynd

Doesn't work at all. Their material was designed for epic sonic landscapes. And that tambourine is bloody annoying.

ICBM

Er... no.

I love Simple Minds and like a lot of KT Tunstall, but that just sounds like a bad mash-up of Promised You A Miracle and Black Horse & The Cherry Tree, as Emp said.

The original is so perfect it's impossible to improve on, like the whole album it's on - one of the iconic albums of the early 80s. It would be possible to do something different and good with it, but this is not it.

english_bob

I tried listening to "Glittering Prize" the other day. The production bothered me far less than the fact that any time Jim Kerr held a note I could swear I heard Homer in the background saying "why you little..."

robwright

I didn’t realise that they had an album of acoustic remakes - checking it out now 

Roysterdoyster

They toured that acoustic album last year,with KT Tunstall supporting and featuring with them on that song. Saw it in Belfast. T'was really good.