Simple Minds - Sparkle In The Rain

Release Date	22/11/2024
Format	LP Blue/ CD Boxset
Label	UMR
Catalogue Number	6525325/ 6527392

Opaque blue coloured vinyl pressing of the sixth studio album by Scottish rock band Simple Minds. Long regarded as one of the jewels in the band’s catalogue, 1983’s ‘Sparkle in The Rain’ kicked off a run of three consecutive Number 1 albums in the UK for Simple Minds and delivered the classic hit singles ‘Waterfront’, ‘Up on The Catwalk’ and ‘Speed Your Love to Me’.

The ‘Sparkle in The Rain’ box set is now available in a cut down format from the original Super Deluxe set released in 2014.

Long regarded as one of the jewels in the band’s catalogue, 1983’s ‘Sparkle in The Rain’ kicked off a run of three consecutive Number 1 albums in the UK for Simple Minds and delivered the classic hit singles ‘Waterfront’, ‘Up on The Catwalk’ and ‘Speed Your Love to Me’.

This 4-CD Box Set version comprises a host of bonus material including; B-sides and extended mixes; BBC sessions; a previously unreleased Glasgow Barrowlands concert; a booklet containing sleeve notes and interviews plus track-by-track annotation. It was extensively re-mastered originally in 2014 at Abbey Studios, London.

Tracklist

LP

 

Side A

1. Up On the Catwalk
2. Book Of Brilliant Things
3. Speed Your Love to Me
4. Waterfront
5. East At Easter

Side B

1. Street Hassle
2. White Hot Day
3. "C" Moon Cry Like a Baby
4. The Kick Inside of Me
5. Shake Off the Ghosts

 

CD

 

CD1: Sparkle in The Rain

1. Up On the Catwalk
2. Book Of Brilliant Things
3. Speed Your Love to Me
4. Waterfront
5. East At Easter
6. Street Hassle
7. White Hot Day
8. "C" Moon Cry Like a Baby
9. The Kick Inside of Me
10. Shake Off the Ghosts

CD2: B Sides & Rarities

1. Waterfront - Edit
2. Hunter And the Hunted - Live B-Side
3. Waterfront - Remix (Extended)
4. Speed Your Love to Me - Edit
5. Bass Line - B-Side
6. Speed Your Love to Me - Extended
7. Up On the Catwalk - Edit
8. A Brass Band in Africa - B-Side
9. Up On the Catwalk - Extended
10. A Brass Band in Africa Chimes - B-Side
11. Waterfront - Single Version

CD3: LIVE-Barrowlands Glasgow 1984

1. Shake Off the Ghosts [Intro]
2. Waterfront
3. Up On the Catwalk
4. The Book of Brilliant Things
5. Glittering Prize
6. The American
7. King Is White And, In the Crowd,
8. Speed Your Love to Me
9. Someone Somewhere in Summertime

CD4: LIVE-Barrowlands Glasgow 1984

1. Promised You a Miracle
2. Big Sleep
3. New Gold Dream [81,82,83,84]
4. Love Song
5. Radio One Session 11/09/1983
6. Waterfront
7. Kick Inside
8. New Gold Dream