Simple Minds are one of those bands that simply stuck around too long. I think that all but their most diehard fans would agree with this - but the rest of us would probably disagree on when they should have called it a day. Personally I love this era, all the synths and New Romanticy eyemakeup and stuff; but then again that's the Simple Minds that were around when I first started listening to what we now call alternative music (what did we call it then? I can never remember) and, hence, the first Simple Minds I knew. I can certainly understand why fans of their earlier, somewhat darker material might have considered this unacceptably mainstream.
In thinking about it, I actually find it hard to believe this was 1982.
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