Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call
Sons and Fascination is the fourth studio album by the Scottish rock band Simple Minds. The album was released simultaneously with the album Sister Feelings Call.
History
With the separation of Zoom Records the band parted by John Leckie, producer of the first three albums, and Steve Hillage committed. Hillage expressed ( by Rupert Hine ) and Regent's Park Studios along with his stamp on the sound engineers Hugh Jones and Alan Jakoby production in the Farmland Studios. The mastering took place in London in the Townhouse studios and the Tape One Studios. The production sounds uniform effects were used more sparingly and set the accuracy to the forefront in order to implement the ideas of the band in the sound. The entire production pointed in the desired direction of the band: audible, but experimental music that was produced clean.
In this concept album, the band processed an extensive tour through the United States with concerts in seventy cities. During the recording more songs than can be pressed on a vinyl LP emerged. The band did not want to give up the recordings and publish Virgin not a double album.
Publication
Sons and Fascination therefore appeared simultaneously with Sister Feelings Call in September 1981 on Virgin Records. In a first run of 10,000 copies, both albums were sold separately packed and shrink-wrapped together in foil. Virgin decided to further conditions, both albums separately to market and sell Sister Feelings Call as a mini album with a reduced price.
With the re-release in CD format in 1985 five tracks on the album Sister Feelings Call were integrated into the album Sons and Fascination. It was only with the release of a digitally remastered version of 2003 gathered all seven tracks from Sister Feelings Call on the album. 2012, the album was in the X5 box set of Virgin Records with five bonus tracks released again.
Love Song and Sweat in Bullet were released as singles.
Title list
Original publication Sons and Fascination
Bonus Tracks
Sister Feelings Call Original publication
Bonus Tracks
Sons and Fascination ( Includes Sister Feelings Call) CD, 1985
Sons and Fascination / Sister Feelings Call Remastered CD, 2003
Occupation
- Jim Kerr ( vocals)
- Charlie Burchill (guitar)
- Derek Forbes ( bass)
- Brian McGee (drums, percussion )
- Michael MacNeil (keyboards)
Chart success and Certification
Sons and Fascination reached in September 1981 in the British album charts and number 11 was certified by the British Phonographic Association in November 1986 with a gold record.
Reception
The Süddeutsche Zeitung moved the sound of the album " from infernal Maschinengeknatter and elegiac drama " to.
Dave Thompson sees only a few stand-out tracks, "because the impact of each is fascinating" ( " but the momentum of each is spellbinding ").
Andy Kellman of Allmusic called the album as a "substantial part of the Simple Minds Puzzles" ("a substantial piece of the puzzle Simple Minds " )