Coincidiendo con la próxima gira ‘5×5 European Tour’ de Simple Minds, que pasará el 15 de febrero por La Riviera de Madrid y el 16 por la Razzmatazz de Barcelona, la emblemática banda británica lanza ‘X5’, una caja en edición limitada con sus cinco primeros álbumes: ‘Life In A Day’, ‘Real To Real Cacophony’, ‘Empires and Dance’, ‘Sons and Fascination/Sister Feeling Call’ y ‘New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)’, que se se presentan con abundantes extras y material difícil de encontrar.
Son discos fundamentales en la historia del pop y esta edición incluye las versiones originales y abundantes extras (caras b, inéditos, remezclas), todo remasterizado. El lanzamiento coincide con la gira de Simple Minds 5×5 European Tour, que comienza en Lisboa el 14 de febrero y finaliza en Dublín el 4 de marzo tras pasar por Madrid y Barcelona.
El contenido de la caja especial X5 es:
Disco 1: Life In A Day
Someone
Life In A Day
Sad Affair
All For You
Pleasantly Disturbed
No Cure
Chelsea Girl
Wasteland
Destiny
Murder Story
Bonus Tracks:
Special View (b-side of Life In A Day)
Garden Of Hate(b-side of Chelsea Girl)
Disco 2: Real To Real Cacophony
Real To Real
Naked Eye
Citizen (Dance Of Youth)
Carnival (Shelter In A Suitcase)
Factory
Cacophony
Veldt
Premonition
Changeling
Film Theme
Calling Your Name
Scar
Bonus Tracks:
Kaleidoscope (I Travel bonus flexi-disc)
Film Theme Dub (I Travel bonus flexi-disc)
Premonition – Live at Hurrah’s Club, New York: 24/10/79 (b-side of Changeling 7″)
Disco 3: Empires And Dance
I Travel
Today I Died Again
Celebrate
This Fear Of Gods
Capital City
Constantinople Line
Twist/Run/Repulsion
Thirty Frames A Second
Kant-Kino
Room
Bonus Tracks:
New Warm Skin (b-side of I Travel 7″)
I Travel – Extended 12″
Celebrate – Extended 12″
Disco 4: Sons And Fascination
In Trance As Mission
Sweat In Bullet
70 Cities As Love Brings The Fall
Boys From Brazil
Love Song
This Earth That You Walk Upon
Sons And Fascination
Seeing Out The Angel
Bonus Tracks:
Sweat In Bullet – Extended Remix
In Trance As Mission – Live at Hammersmith Apollo, London: 25/09/81 (b-side of Sweat In Bullet 12″)
This Earth That You Walk Upon – Instrumental (b-side of Love Song 12″)
Disco 5: Sister Feelings Call
Theme For Great Cities
The American
20 th Century Promised Land
Wonderful In Young Life
League Of Nations
Careful In Career
Sound In 70 Cities
Bonus Tracks:
The American – Extended 12″
League Of Nations – Live at Hammersmith Odeon, London: 25/09/81 (b-side of ‘Sweat In Bullet’ single)
Disco 6: New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)
Someone Somewhere In Summertime
Colours Fly And Catherine Wheel
Promised You A Miracle
Big Sleep
Somebody Up There Likes You
New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)
Glittering Prize
Hunter And The Hunted
King Is White And In The Crowd
Bonus Tracks:
Promised You A Miracle – Extended 12″
Glittering Prize 12″ Club Mix
Someone Somewhere (In Summertime) – Extended 12″
Soundtrack For Every Heaven (Someone Somewhere In Summetime 12″)
New Gold Dream – German 12″ Remix
In Every Heaven (New Gold Dream DVD-Audio)
