''Silver Box'' is a 5-CD box set by Scottish rock band Simple Minds, released in October 2004. It includes ''Our Secrets Are the Same'' (as disc 5), the band's long-delayed (1999/2000) twelfth studio album of original material.

Overview

''Silver Box'' is mostly made up of previously unreleased demos,

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Critical reception

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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. Rob Fitzpatrick writing for the ''

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'' 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 "

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" 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. ''

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'' 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

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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." 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

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Track listing

Adapted from the box set liner notes. ''Silver Box'' (November/2004. Virgin Records)

Disc 1

Disc 2

Disc 3

Disc 4

Disc 5: ''Our Secrets Are the Same''

Personnel

Credits adapted from the box set liner notes, except where noted. ;Musicians *

Jim Kerr James Kerr (born 9 July 1959) is a Scottish singer and the lead singer of the rock band Simple Minds, becoming best known internationally for "Don't You (Forget About Me)" (1985), which topped the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in the United States. Ot ...

– vocals *

Charlie Burchill Charles Burchill (born 27 November 1959) is a Scottish musician and composer, best known as the guitarist of Simple Minds. He is one of the founders of the group. Style During Simple Minds' early to mid-1980s period, Burchill's guitar had a dis ...

– guitar *

Mick MacNeil Norman Michael MacNeil is a Scottish songwriter and keyboardist born 20 July 1958 on the Isle of Barra, Scotland. He is best known as a former member of the group Simple Minds. MacNeil joined the band in 1978 and left in 1990. He released the ...

– keyboards (disc 1; disc 2; disc 3: 1-8) *

Derek Forbes Derek Forbes (born 22 June 1956) is a Scottish bassist, vocalist, and occasional guitarist. He is mostly associated with the Scottish band Simple Minds, having joined in time to record their early demos in 1978 and stayed with the band during ...

– bass (disc 1; disc 2: 1-11) * Brian McGee – drums (disc 1; disc 2: 1-4) *

Kenny Hyslop Kenneth John Hyslop (born 14 February 1951 in Helensburgh, Scotland) is a Scottish drummer. He joined the band Salvation with Midge Ure, which later became Slik and, after Ure's departure, some of the remaining members formed the Zones. He also ...

– drums (disc 2: 5, 6) *

Mike Ogletree Mike Ogletree (born 1 May 1956) is a Scottish drummer and guitarist of Afro-European descent. A founding member of the Scottish rock band Café Jacques, he is best known for his work in the new wave bands Fiction Factory and Simple Minds.Larki ...

– drums (disc 2: 7-9) *

Mel Gaynor Mel George Gaynor (born 29 May 1959) is a British drummer, best known as the longtime drummer for the rock band Simple Minds. Biography Gaynor was born to a Jamaican father and an Afro-Brazilian mother. He began drumming at age 11 and had ...

– drums (disc 2: 10-12; disc 3: disc 4: 1-10) *

John Giblin John Giblin, is an active session musician, contributing mainly as an acoustic and electric bass player, and spanning genres of jazz, classical, rock, folk and avant-garde music. Best known as a studio musician, recording film scores and cont ...

– bass (disc 2: 12; disc 3: 1-8) * Robin Clark – vocals (disc 3: 1-7) * Sue Hadjopoulos – percussion (disc 3: 1-7) * Malcolm Foster – bass (disc 3: 9,10; disc 4) *Mark Taylor – keyboards (disc 3: 9,10; disc 4) * Mark Schulman – drums (disc 4: 11-13) * Bono – vocals (disc 2: 11) ;Technical *

Trevor Dann Trevor John Dann (born 6 November 1951) is an English writer and broadcaster best known for his radio and print journalism with BBC Radio, ''Q magazine'', ''Mojo'', and ''The Guardian'', and his critically praised 2006 "Darker Than the Deepest Se ...

– producer (disc 1: 4-7) * John Owen Williams – producer (disc 2: 5,6) *John Sparrow – producer (disc 2: 7-10) *Nick Gomm – engineer (disc 1: 4-7) *Mike Robinson – engineer (disc 2: 5-10) *Simon Heyworth – mastering (disc 1-5) ;''Our Secrets Are the Same'' *Jim Kerr – vocals *Charlie Burchill – guitar, keyboards, producer, mixing * Kevin Hunter – guitar, backing vocals, producer *Eddie Duffy – bass, additional percussion *Mark Kerr – drums, backing vocals *Chris Fudurich – additional keyboards, engineer, mixing *Recorded April–June 1999 at CaVa Studios in

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and Jim Kerr's house.

References

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