Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call

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Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call
Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call cover
Studio album by Simple Minds
Released 1981/2002/2003
Recorded 1981
Genre New wave, Synth rock
Length 78:59
(originally 43:50 + 35:09)
Label Virgin Records
Producer(s) Steve Hillage
Professional reviews
Simple Minds chronology
Empires and Dance
(1979)		 Sons and Fascination / Sister Feelings Call
(1981)		 New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
(1981)


Alternative cover
Sister Feelings Call cover
Sister Feelings Call cover

Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call is the current (2002/2003 CD re-issue) common title for what were once two technically separate LP releases by Simple Minds, both assembled from the same sessions and released at the same time and, in some instances, sold as a double-LP set. Since the current CD version contains all the tracks once split onto two LPs, with their respective track running orders preserved, Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call may be considered a single album with a near 80-minute running length.

Viewed as vinyl LPs, Sons and Fascination is the fourth Simple Minds album, released in 1981, with Sister Feelings Call the fifth. The two were released simultaneously, Sons and Fascination being the main feature, and Sister Feelings Call included as a bonus disc with the first 10,000 copies of the original release. The apparent reason for having two single LPs was Virgin Records' reluctance to release all the material as a double LP. As a result, Sons And Fascination came out as the somewhat more coherent album, leaving Sister Feelings Call with tracks that were rejected for the main feature. Despite this policy, Sister Feelings Call may be viewed as a fully-fledged album or at least as the second disc in a double set.

Upon its first CD release in mid-1980s Sons and Fascination came with tracks from Sister Feelings Call added directly after the main set, so that the CD played as a single long album. Due to technical limitations, the disc's running length having to fit within 74 minutes, two tracks from Sister Feelings Call, "League of Nations" and "Sound in 70 Cities" were dropped. However they appeared on the CD single of the 12-inch version of "The American" and would re-appear in album form in 2002 and 2003 when remastered re-issues of the double set were released under the title Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

Sons & Fascination (Original single LP, September 1981) UK #11

  1. "In Trance as Mission"
  2. "Sweat in Bullet"
  3. "70 Cities as Love Brings the Fall"
  4. "Boys From Brazil"
  5. "Love Song"
  6. "This Earth That You Walk Upon"
  7. "Sons & Fascination"
  8. "Seeing Out the Angel"

Sister Feelings Call (Original single LP, September 1981)

  1. "Theme For Great Cities"
  2. "The American"
  3. "20th Century Promised Land"
  4. "Wonderful in Young Life"
  5. "League of Nations"
  6. "Careful in Career"
  7. "Sound in 70 Cities"

Sons and Fascination Includes Sister Feelings Call (Original single CD, mid-1980s)

  1. "In Trance as Mission"
  2. "Sweat in Bullet"
  3. "70 Cities as Love Brings the Fall"
  4. "Boys From Brazil"
  5. "Love Song"
  6. "This Earth That You Walk Upon"
  7. "Sons & Fascination"
  8. "Seeing Out the Angel"
  9. "Theme For Great Cities"
  10. "The American"
  11. "20th Century Promised Land"
  12. "Wonderful in Young Life"
  13. "Careful in Career"

"League of Nations" and "Sound in 70 Cities" were omitted from this CD.

Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call (2002/2003 CD re-issue)

  1. "In Trance as Mission"
  2. "Sweat in Bullet"
  3. "70 Cities as Love Brings the Fall"
  4. "Boys From Brazil"
  5. "Love Song"
  6. "This Earth That You Walk Upon"
  7. "Sons & Fascination"
  8. "Seeing Out the Angel"
  9. "Theme For Great Cities"
  10. "The American"
  11. "20th Century Promised Land"
  12. "Wonderful in Young Life"
  13. "League of Nations"
  14. "Careful in Career"
  15. "Sound in 70 Cities"

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Additional personnel

[edit] Miscellanea

  • This was the last Simple Minds album to have the same line-up as all its predecessors. Drummer Brian McGee left just after recording the set, and was replaced by Kenny Hyslop as part-time member for the upcoming tour.
  • "Boys from Brazil" is inspired by the novel, as Kerr has said in interviews. The line "babies cannot manage crocodiles" is likely inspired by the Lewis Carroll logic puzzle: "All babies are illogical / Nobody is despised who can manage a crocodile / Illogical persons are dispised."
Simple Minds
Jim Kerr | Charlie Burchill
Mel Gaynor | Andy Gillespie | Eddie Duffy
Discography
Albums (mk.1): Life in a Day | Real to Real Cacophony | Empires and Dance | Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call
Albums (mk.2/3): New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84) | Sparkle in the Rain | Once Upon a Time | Street Fighting Years |
Real Life | Good News from the Next World | Neapolis [UK release] | Our Secrets are the Same | Neon Lights | Cry | Black & White 050505
Live and Compilations: Themes For Great Cities 79/81 [US release only] | Celebration | Themes - Volume 1: March 79 - April 82 |
Themes - Volume 2: August 82 - April 85 | Themes - Volume 3: September 85 - June 87 | Themes - Volume 4: February 89 - May 90 |
Live in the City of Light | Glittering Prize 81/92 | Glittering Prize 81/92 [US version] | The Promised [European release]|
The Early Years 1977-1978 [withdrawn] | The Best Of Simple Minds | The Best Of Simple Minds - Night Of The Proms Edition | Early Gold | Silver Box [5-CD boxed set] [UK release]
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