Theme for Great Cities (Simple Minds) [2020]
from Echoes (Complete Cover Collection) by Handful of Snowdrops
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Originally composed by Simple Minds and taken from their album "Sister Feelings Call" from 1981.
Back in 2015, when Michel and I decided to produce an additional EP (+) along with our comeback album 'III', we were not sure we had enough original material to make that worthwhile, so we came up with the idea of including an "interesting" cover. We threw nearly 40 titles in the air, tried three of them but quickly decided on Colin Newman's "Better Later Than Never". That decision left both remaining skeleton tracks, Tears For Fears' "Watch Me Bleed" and Simple Minds' "Theme For Great Cities", to gather virtual dust on an old hard drive… well, UNTIL NOW!
Back in 2015, when Michel and I decided to produce an additional EP (+) along with our comeback album 'III', we were not sure we had enough original material to make that worthwhile, so we came up with the idea of including an "interesting" cover. We threw nearly 40 titles in the air, tried three of them but quickly decided on Colin Newman's "Better Later Than Never". That decision left both remaining skeleton tracks, Tears For Fears' "Watch Me Bleed" and Simple Minds' "Theme For Great Cities", to gather virtual dust on an old hard drive… well, UNTIL NOW!
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from Echoes (Complete Cover Collection),
released August 7, 2020
Music by Simple Minds - 1981
Cover performed and produced by Jean-Pierre Mercier
Music by Simple Minds - 1981
Cover performed and produced by Jean-Pierre Mercier
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Handful of Snowdrops Quebec, Québec
Handful of Snowdrops is a postwave band from Quebec City, Canada, with the most dedicated fanbase any artist could dream of.
HoS could probably be the biggest small and unknown independent band in the world! :D
Active between 1984 and 1993, HoS returned with 'III' in 2015 and still going today.
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