LP: A Real Long Time Ago Demos 79
Sleeve Description
A blue sleeve with a laughing clown (holding up a smiling cresent moon) on the
front, and the shots of the group through bars (from the
New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84) sleeve) on
the back, with incorrect track information.
Tracks
- No Cure
- Chelsea Girl
- Wasteland
- Destiny
- Murder Story
- Someone
- Life In A Day
- Someone [Not Listed]
- Life In A Day
- Sad Affair
- All For You
- Pleasantly Disturbed [Not listed]
- Special View
- Love Is Alive [Doesn't exist]
Format
12" transparent vinyl
(Supposedly the limited edition version, but I've never heard of a black vinyl copy.)
Catalogue Number
Bestial Records (Germany)
Rating
1/5 - Very wowwy sound
Additional Information
Avoid this item at all costs
With the
New Gold Dream typeface and pictures,
this bootleg looks as if it was produced around 1982-1983. This was the
same time that Virgin Records were buying the Simple Minds back
catalogue from Arista Records. I guess some bootleggers felt that
albums like Life In A Day would be
deleted and decided to make a quick profit out of Simple Minds' new
popularity.
That's all this is - a very, very badly recorded, pressed and packaged
version of Life In A Day. There are
no demo versions on this album. (Love Is Alive is actually
a line from Special View).
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