Real Life

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This is a truly great album. May I stress the word album? Yes, I think I will. What has unfortunately been lost in today's world of digital downloading is the TRUE ALBUM EXPERIENCE. An album experience where every song has its place and fits a certain flow. This is one of those albums. Track one feels like a track one. Track two feels like a track two. The last track feels like a great closer, etc. You get my drift. The album can be listend to straight through, taking the listener on a beautiful ride through all different themes, moods, and paces. I had already heard "See The Lights," "Let There Be Love," and "Stand By Love" on their 82>92 best of compilation. Those three tracks are all stellar, but I'd have to say my favorite tracks are the title track "Real Life," "African Skies," "Let The Children Speak," and "Banging On The Door." "Real Life" takes the title. The song is amazing. I seriously got my $$$'s worth with this track alone. I must have had it on repeat in my car for 3 straight days. Simply amazing. The video is great too, which you can see on their Visual History DVD. The emotion displayed in the singing of "African Skies" is unparalleled by most artists. I can continue but I think my point has been made. Buy this album for a truly rewarding listening experience. Anyone who writes this album off as over-produced or a sellout or adult contemporary needs to have their head examined. Not the case at all. Just true art with a fantastic effect.

Like this album a lot. Great start to career.

Superb production from Lipson aka Trevor Horn crew!!! He brings the band and the sound together as one, which is what production is all about. Songs are well crafted. Sparked memories from the time the album first came out. A classic of its time!!

Really good album from Scrotlands finest. Underrated. Play loud!

Great record! Almost as good as their best work(in my opinion) Sparkle In The Rain.

Highly recommend this cd! Love it, love it, love it! The singing is amazing, listen to several songs over and over and over. Like someone else said, a hidden gem! Awesome music, guitar playing is also reminiscent of David gilmour from Pink Floyd, just more mellow.

If pressed, it would be really difficult to choose which Simple Minds CD could be called the greatest of their career. Would it be "Street Fighting Years," or "Real Life"? My head tells me that the answer would be "Street Fighting Years," but if I base that decision on which CD I listen to the most, hands down it would be "Real Life."Whether this is the "best" or "second-best" CD in Simple Minds' *amazing* body of work, by any standards this is absolutely great music. And rather surprisingly so, since this was the first CD to emerge after the departure of keyboardist Mick MacNeil. But the results speak for themselves."Real Life" may be slightly less ambitious and more focused than "Street Fighting Years," but it is cut from the same cloth. The same sense of deep compassion and universal caring that makes "Street Fighting Years" so moving runs through this CD also, and musically, it's nothing short of brilliant. There are so many highlights that it doesn't make sense to list them individually. Perhaps "Ghost Rider" is distinctive because it's so *average* on a CD that is so exceptional. What a nice problem to have.Charlie Burchill's guitar playing is extraordinary on this CD especially. The emotional, soaring-singing guitar Charlie gives us are thoroughly transporting on such tracks as "See The Light," "Stand By Me," "Let The Children Speak" (a brilliant song built around the much earlier instrumental "Themes for Great Cities"), the moving and soaring "Banging On The Door," and of course, the (two) title tracks (beginning and end).This may be a less contemplative CD than "Street Fighting Years" and it may represent a slightly-less ambitious working through of some of the same ideas, but in every way, "Real Life" is fantastic and hugely successful. And when you add in the CD that followed, the (undeservedly derided) "Good News From The Next World," you can see three CDs that carry a common theme, are musically related, and above all else, are all simply fantastic.

Ist genau meine Musik! Kann ich rauf und runter hören!!!

Spedizione, imballaggio e cd tutto ok.Album piuttosto sofisticato, dalla musica ricercata di questo grande gruppo rock. Un album che mi suscita tanti bei ricordi del passato. Il mio album preferito dei Simple Minds.

Para mí uno de sus mejores álbumes de este grupo pero de este álbum destaca una canción sobre todas las demás SEE THE LIGHTS qué suena más a pop discotequero de los 80

Excellent

Having followed Simple Minds since the release of the new gold dream album in the early 1980s they have enjoyed an extraordinary amount of success during the 1980s and early 1990s.Real Life was the follow up to the acclaimed album Street fighting Years and the album signalled the end of the band commercial peak.The album saw a return back to the rock roots and at this time the band had gone through a few personnel changes only leaving regulars Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill and Mel Gaynor.The album has many classic signature Minds tunes with the stand out real life and let there be love. It also features let the children speak which has the theme from there 1981 track theme for great cities and sounds great. Also travelling man bears an uncanny resemblance to waterfront.The CD is a very easy listening one and real no weak tracks that you usually find on most albums. Simple minds always give value for money and giving there previous releases this album would rank quite highly. Not quite on the coat tails of Once upon a time but equally has some great songs that have been well crafted.