Almost the entire original line-up of the Scottish Simple Minds plays on the album Neapolis, namely Jim Kerr (vocals), Charlie Burchill (guitar), Derek Forbes (bass), Mel Gaynor (drums and Mark Taylor (keyboards). To put it mildly an unstable album. Songs like the opener Song for the Tribes and Superman v Supersoul sound borrowed from the later U2 albums, but still belong to the better songs. War
… Babies exudes the old atmosphere of a song like All The Things She Said Yet most of the songs don't really convince. Even the single Glitterball, which in terms of sound is definitely a nineties song, does not seem to me to pretend to bring the band back in the charts. the all instrumental Androgyrny and the lyrically ridiculous Killing Andy Warhol. (CK)more
