Empires and Dance

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Empires and Dance
Empires and Dance cover
Studio album by Simple Minds
Released September 1980
Recorded 1980
Genre New Wave
Length -
Label Arista Records
Producer John Leckie
Professional reviews
Simple Minds chronology
Real to Real Cacophony
(1979)		 Empires and Dance
(1980)		 Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call
(1981)

Empires and Dance is the third album by Simple Minds, released in 1980. It reached #41 in the UK Albums Chart.

The opening track "I Travel" was released as a single in 1980, failing to chart. Following the release of this album, Simple Minds transferred to Virgin Records, where they met with much greater commercial success. Arista tried to capitalize on this success by re-releasing "I Travel" as a single in 1982, and again in 1983. Both times, it still failed to chart.

The song's lyrics refer to European politics, as well as Brian Eno's first Ambient series' record, Music for Airports:[1]

Europe has a language problem,
Talk, talk, talk, talk, talking on.
In central Europe,
Men are marching,
Marching on and marching on.
Love songs playing in the restaurants,
Airport playing Brian Eno.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "I Travel"
  2. "Today I Died Again"
  3. "Celebrate"
  4. "This Fear of Gods"
  5. "Capital City"
  6. "Constantinople Line"
  7. "Twist/Run/Repulsion"
  8. "Thirty Frames a Second"
  9. "Kant-Kino"
  10. "Room"

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ "I Travel" at simpleminds.org
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