SIMPLE MINDS - Sparkle In The Rain (40th Anniversary Edition) - 4CD Box Set [NOV 15]

4CD - Limited 40th Anniversary Edition Box Set. Includes 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. 

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: 

Disc 1: 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

Disc 2: 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

Disc 3: LIVE-Barrowlands Glasgow 1984 (part 1)
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

Disc 4: LIVE-Barrowlands Glasgow 1984 (part 2)
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