80s thread - The best of the 1980s

I was a big Simple Minds fan bitd, starting with New Gold Dream and working my way backwards. Kind of lost interest after they got big with Breakfast Club soundtrack song.

I always particularly liked the instrumental track they would include on each album, real gems that let the imagination go:





 
I was a big Simple Minds fan bitd, starting with New Gold Dream and working my way backwards. Kind of lost interest after they got big with Breakfast Club soundtrack song....
I've always loved Simple Minds too, having heard their early stuff like Promised You A Miracle and then of course Don't You Forget About Me which broke them in the States. However, I just recently heard Belfast Child for the first time, a song that went to #1 in the UK but didn't even chart here in the US...probably due to the fact that it deals with UK politics. This is a great song and it's kind of nice to just discover this as it seems just as relevant now but in a different way if you apply the lyrics not to The Troubles, but to the problems from unwanted invaders causing problems in Ireland.

 
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