Silver Box
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Silver Box is a 5-CD box set of demos, radio sessions and live recordings by Scottish rock band Simple Minds, released in October 2004, which also includes Our Secrets Are the Same (as disc 5), the band's long-delayed studio album which could have been their twelfth studio album of original material, had it been released in 1999/2000.[1]
Overview
The 5-CD box set Silver Box is mostly made up of previously unreleased demos, BBC sessions and various live recordings from 1979 to 1995.[2] As a final bonus disc, it also includes Our Secrets Are the Same, a genuine studio album of original material. Originally recorded between April and June 1999 and originally planned to be released on its own in late 1999 / early 2000, Our Secrets Are the Same was delayed many times and ultimately cancelled until its final inclusion in the box set.[1]
Critical reception
The few professional reviews the compilation received commented on the previously elusive album Our Secrets Are The Same positively. Adam Sweeting, writing for The Guardian newspaper, opined, "The album, dating from 1999, was scuppered by legal wranglings, but it's some of the best music the band have made in 20 years. Tracks such as "Death by Chocolate" or "Happy Is the Man" recall something of their old pioneering spirit, and show a fascination with the process of recording rather than with prancing about in front of a sea of cigarette lighters."[2] He dismissed most of the third and fourth discs as evidence of the band's progression into "overblown" stadium rock, but admitted: "If you chucked out most of discs three and four from this beefy five-disc box, you'd be left with some fascinating insights and lost nuggets from the past and near-present of Simple Minds.[2] Rob Fitzpatrick writing for the NME agreed, saying, "By CD3, "Waterfront" – a neat throb of a single – is bloated into ten-plus minutes of pointless noodling and "Ghost Dancing" is so clearly similar in sound to U2's "The Unforgettable Fire" it's embarrassing. By CD4 it's time for "Belfast Child". God no! Miraculously, though, CD5 the band's 1999 'lost' album has some really good music on it in fact it's a lost gem that some fans have never heard or even know about.[3]
Uncut meanwhile admitted that the new album would be the main source of interest, but thought that the music still owed much to U2, writing, "It finds Kerr and Burchill still a bit in the slipstream of '90s U2 – tastefully epic, techno-fringed and extravagantly exasperated ("Death By Chocolate" and "Neon Cowboys") with the wickedness of a world gone wrong."[4] Martin C. Strong meanwhile, in The Essential Rock Discography, complimented the band's new music: "The album's savvy pop smarts harked back to their early 80s purple period, only underlining the shortcomings of Néapolis, while the sassy momentum of "Jeweller to the Stars" could've easily regenerated Kerr and Co's contemporary credibility."[5]
Track listing
Adapted from the box set liner notes.[6]
Silver Box (November/2004. Virgin Records)
Disc 1
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Disc 2
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Disc 3
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Disc 4
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Disc 5: Our Secrets Are the Same
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Personnel
Credits adapted from the box set liner notes,[6] except where noted.
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References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Family Tree: Simple Minds #13". Dream Giver Redux. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."People: Malcolm Foster". Dream Giver Redux. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
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