Simple Minds – Sparkle In The Rain – CD

Reissue, Deluxe Edition, Expanded Edition, Box Set, Anniversary Edition

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.

Disc: 1
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
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
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
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