Talk:Simple Minds

message: No John Giblin ? Major omission !  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.30.141.195 (talk) 07:06, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Past and Present members section

message: I would like to make more emphasis on their live album (In the City of Light), which I consider a major selling success (currently this is referred in less than a sentence).
Please comment...
H. Moreira 12:40, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, what would you like to add? Even as a long-time SM fan, I find it hard to say very much about it - the article seems reasonable to me. If it was a major sales success perhaps the number of copies sold could be mentioned. In terms of its content it is really more or less an early 'greatest hits' compilation. I enjoy it a lot myself, but it doesn't mean it's especially noteworthy. Graham 23:22, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  More focus on "In the City of Light", a marking spot on Simple Minds carreer? 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Simple Minds-New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) (album cover).jpg

message: you could list out appearances of the simple minds, like the breakfast club.
also, a simple minds poster is often clearly visible in ferris's room in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (a movie, 1986) Nnnudibranch 00:46, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  an "in popular culture" section? 

message: Robin was a backing singer not a lead singer for a tour
:Not according to the sleeve notes for Live in the City of Light, where she is credited as "additional lead singer". Seems fair to me, she completely dominates that album. 121.216.4.206 (talk) 07:08, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Robin Clark 

message: Wheres the evidence about an illness? this is a copy of an interview he gave for a national newspaper  Mick McNeil interview
--Pandaplodder (talk) 13:54, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mick McNeil 

message: Andy Gillespie (keyboards) is back in the live band for the current tour. ReggyRaccoon (talk) 04:34, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re: Current line-up 

message: The line about the group being seen as "New Romantics .. alongside Duran Duran" needs taking out. Simple Minds had nothing to do with the New Romantics, as anyone who lived in the UK in the 80s can testify. Vauxhall1964 (talk) 01:03, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Totally agree. SM were never seen as a New Romantic outfit, even during the New Gold Dream period. If anything they were seen as making synthpop acceptable to 'serious' music fans (i.e. the people who read NME rather than Smash Hits). --Ef80 (talk) 20:13, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Romantics?? 

message: The article as it is currently structured reads a lot like original research in some sections and particularly in the section headings.   121a0012 (talk) 07:57, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  OR 

message: I just wondered why only a handful of their singles have their own articles on Wikipedia? Many less well-known groups do have them. Great songs like 'Speed Your Love To Me' and 'Glittering Prize' deserve this, and they did reach the UK Top 20. I think this would make the Simple Minds article on Wikipedia more complete. Laydsb (talk) 14:19, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Singles? 

message: It has been proposed on Simple Minds concert tours to merge it into Simple Minds. My answer is 100% no. Simple Minds concert tours has too much detail (currently it is 14,971 bytes in size) to be merged into this article. SethWhales talk   10:22, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger of [[Simple Minds concert tours]] into [[Simple Minds]]? 

message: I was shocked to see the state of this article. I made some edits to try to address some of these faults:
1) Original research; we cannot use unattributed discussions of the subject. Some of the section headings also fell into this category.
2) Verify! All items recorded in this article should be verifiable to a reliable source. This still needs more work.
3) Fannish amounts of detail. We do not need to know every last thing; we just need to summarise the most important things.
4) Recentism; As it stands, the article is biased towards the 2000s and the 1980s is thin on the ground. This isn't right; if anything it should be the other way around.
5) Articles on living people cannot be sourced using tabloids. Proper sources are required. See point (2). --John (talk) 05:48, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Just to note my agreement with all the above and that what was reverted was most likely by a sock.  --Escape Orbit (Talk) 20:42, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some comments 

message: This is a long  sprawling  history  of the band. I'm  here because I  came to  look  something  up  about  Mel Gaynor whom I  knew in  the 80s. His coming  and going  at  Simple Minds is what  I  found out, but  in  reading  through everything here, I found very  little dedicated to the band's actual  Stilrichtung and its evolution. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:33, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  More sections needed 

message: This section is a mess. It should really only include the main studio albums, without any details on what specific versions there are. All that goes into the discography article. Also, an album that appears as part of a boxset and has not be released as a stand alone CD/LP, should not be included. Karst (talk) 23:43, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  - the videography looks bad as well. I came to this article not knowing much about the band and feel like it is over explains a lot of things or it's not summarized in a neat manner. --Jennica✿ /  talk 01:25, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Judging by the comments on this Talk page, this has been a persistent problem. Sourcing would be one issue, there are two or three books from the 1980s, but after that it becomes difficult. Ideally it should follow the U2 template.Karst (talk) 07:37, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discography 

message: Simple Minds has finished recording a new studio album, its 17th, wrote Kerr on March 21, 2017.  The album is now being mixed and mastered for release.
"Today is Charlie's last day of recording on what is destined to be our new album - Simple Minds 17th to date. In a few hours he will pick out the last few beautiful notes, and most probably blast out some last minute ideas. With the exception of the odd backing vocals to be added at a later date, I have also finished with my involvement in the recording. And so that is that! Another chapter in our story written, another effort complete. So what will we do tomorrow, the day after an entire album recording has been concluded? We will get up early and start thinking about our next album - our 18th. This is how we live, it is the rhythm of our lives." http://www.simpleminds.org/sm/news/n2017/index.htm
Possible new songs for consideration include: Chrome Heart, Fire Fighter, Harmonize, Human Trafficking, Love's Bonfire, Machines, Photograph, Planet Zero, Signal And The Noise, Solstice Kiss, Traffic, Tsunami and Utopia. http://www.simpleminds.org/sm/discog/na/nalp1.htm  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Erichtoll (talk • contribs) 20:41, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Upcoming 17th Studio Album 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Please recognise that Berenice is not a session musician but a key part of the current line up. Its very disingenuous to not include her. 80.189.246.153 (talk) 00:04, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Berenice Scott is a current member of the band and not just a touring musician! 

message: they probably didn’t even sell 10 million. whether its fans or the management, i notice time after time the estimated album sales is wildly inaccurate, taking from a dubious source with no credibility of music industry. Billboard, RIAA, and others are credible.  Some newsweek article quoting an interview is not. Sales figures are not something everyone has access to either and is very rarely accurately referenced in public. Shhsbavavaa (talk) 11:03, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: It's very common for record companies and bands' PR agents to inflate record sales, and you'll see questionable figures all over Wikipedia on musical artists articles.  However, we must go with what sources say.  It is not acceptable for Wikipedia editors to suggest they have managed to sum up every possible record market in the world, and reached a different figure that is better than what sources say.  That's original research.  --Escape Orbit (Talk) 12:00, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh I would safely say they have sold 60 million records given they were huge sellers in the eighties 5 no.1 ukalbums 89.184.61.146 (talk) 03:45, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  simple minds did not sell over 60 million so i deleted it 

message: Simple Minds have been associated with many genres over the years, but I can´t see any source that rock music is one of them. Edo (talk) 10:32, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rock band?