As we head towards the release of the fantastic ‘New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) Deluxe Box Set’ we plan to post a special commemorative lyric card each week in the run-up. “They were very focused. It’s super easy, we promise! You will receive a verification email shortly. Charlie and I also had a hitch-hiking trip round Europe when we were seventeen, and the people we met and the things we did gave us a sense that anything is possible, if you get up and make the move.”, “Jim and I didn’t panic at Arista,” Burchill confirms. Nick Hasted For him it was a family. “His bass lines on the album were very melodic, very much like Joy Division/New Order. (Classic Rock) 08 July 2016. And they were listening to bands like Can. If you handle gold in your dream, you will be unusually successful in all enterprises. Wherever we were, we were living it. He was protective of the fact that they had a very unique sound.”, Kerr and Burchill, who had both just turned 21, seemed sharp, together young men to Walsh, not prone to fucking up. Share. Just looking at him playing was so elegant. “One of the greatest things that happened to us was to have the madness to believe, Charlie and I, that we could put something together that people would like,” Kerr says today, talking on the phone from Sicily. Dream about finding gold watch and putting in on. Receiving watch as a gift in a dream. Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, "New Gold Dream" as written by Derek Forbes Charles Burchill, Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. Starting in May 1982, recording the new album began back in The Townhouse. Orange Juice would come down with Rip It Up.”, Not that it was all cultural exchange and bon mots at the bar. If you had a dream about receiving gold, it means that your financial situation will be great in the future. As with their earlier TV appearances, seeing them made a powerful impact on old acquaintances back in Glasgow. “And when people started using ‘new romantic’ as terminology it all felt vibrant and flamboyant compared to the late seventies.”, As Walsh watched them in Liege, he began formulating how Simple Minds could benefit. New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) is not only Simple Minds best album, but, in my opinion, one of the best albums of the ‘80s. “We’d work from noon until nine or ten and then go out,” Kerr says of their schedule. “It can feel very fragile when you walk up to the microphone if you’re not convinced of your idea. Simple Minds sounded like a mixture of a lot of artists, and we were trying to give them their own identity. All rights reserved. And everything on it at the time was vocal-led; Heaven 17, Human League, Spandau Ballet, ABC, Talking Heads, Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry and Grace Jones was what they were listening to – and competing against. Lyrics to 'New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84)' by Simple Minds. On the way to Australia, Charlie and I decided to get off in India, because we were reading Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children. To find gold, indicates that your superior abilities will place you easily ahead in the race for honors and wealth. Please deactivate your ad blocker in order to see our subscription offer. Simple Minds relished their belated Top Of The Pops debut. It was well-known for being riotous,” Burchill recalls. New Gold Dream, the title, the artwork, the language of a lot of the songs, resonates that to me.”. Mentally and physically, your world either ends at the end of your street or it begins there; your mind ends within you, or you’ve got a mind that wanders.”. His work with Burchill remixing Love Song had already impressed the guitarist. New Gold Dream She is the one in front of me, the siren and the ecstasy New Gold Dream Crashing breats and fantasy, setting sun in front of me New Gold Dream And the world goes hot And the cities take And the beat goes crashing All along the way She is your only friend until the bitter end She is your only friend until the ocean … New Gold Dreamers: (l-r) Charlie Burchill, Derek Forbes, Jim Kerr, Mel Gaynor, Mick MacNeil. The idea was to cross them over into a more mainstream position. New gold dream She is the one in front of me, the siren and the ecstasy New gold dream Crashing beats and fantasy, setting sun in front of me New gold dream And the world goes hot And the cities take And the beat goes crashing All along the way She is your friend until the ocean breaks And when you dream, dream in the dream … Receiving plaques to commemorate selling out three nights at Edinburgh Odeon in August 1981. There was no one we knew back then in Glasgow that had a record deal, or toured, no source of reference. Promoting it in London, Kerr had to look at the trees in Hyde Park to remind himself which month it was, so fast were things moving. New Gold Dream She is the one in front of me, the siren and the ecstasy New Gold Dream Crashing beats and fantasy, setting sun in front of me New Gold Dream Indeed the landmark 1982 album that song first appeared on, New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84), influenced heavily U2’s The Unforgettable Fire, as well as later bands such as the Manic Street Preachers. “I’m looking at smoke plumes coming out of Mount Etna. If you handle gold in your dream, you will be unusually successful in all enterprises. All that positive backdrop led us to the early writing sessions for New Gold Dream.”. I thought their songs were ready-made with hooks and very melodic parts, but obscured by long arrangements. “If I think about ABC’s Lexicon of Love or New Gold Dream or The Associates, it was colourful music, colourful clothes, colourful everything,” Burchill says. By That may have been responsible for some misguided music. People would give you stuff as well, and it all went into the pot.”, There were more fruitful discussions when Kerr and Burchill returned to the Columbia in London, an already notorious rock’n’roll watering hole, where the whole band were staying. The band’s first Top 30 album, 1979’s Life In A Day, hadn’t been matched commercially by it’s follow-ups on Arista Records: Real To Real Cacophony and Empire And Dance, which, though admired by the rock press for their cinematic, atmospheric strengths, saddled them with a ruinous £140,000 debt, battering morale. It was like he was almost in a trance. “He struck me as being more elusive than Charlie,” Walsh recalls. Although Ogletree came up with the odd drum part on New Gold Dream he was felt to be too slow in the studio and soon relegated to percussion. “They had these big pubs you could play, with thousands of people. He couldn’t relate to it. “I’m standing talking to you just now on a small terrace,” Kerr tells me. New Gold Dream Lyric Cards. But, believing that life was without limits, they recorded the album New Gold Dream. “It wasn’t a cool, posey hang-out scene, it was just people were busy, and they were coming back at night and playing you their stuff. Released in April 1981, the single finally cracked the UK Top 40 for Simple Minds, peaking at No.13. Bath It would all have been European, and giving us a sense of all the great stuff that was out there, even if much of it went over our heads. Louder is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Watch on gold or massive chain. “I remember even on New Gold Dream we were heavily criticised for sounding over-optimistic,” Burchill says, of an album that lifted your head out of dole queues, to the skies. NEW GOLD DREAM (DVD AUDIO) Noel Megahey -19th August 2005 (UK) Originating from a Glasgow punk band called Johnny and the Self-Abusers, Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill formed Simple Minds in 1978 and moved into experimental avant-garde pop with progressive and Krautrock influences through early albums … We were all kin in that if you went through all our record collections… I’m not sure Martin Fry, say, would have been a fan of Krautrock, but he would have been a fan of Roxy Music. But everyone wanted to be doing well, wanted the spotlight. They felt really charged, and we fed off of that.”, For Kerr, “the penny dropped then, and we started thinking: maybe we can be pop stars as well. “I wanted to capture that sound that I’d heard, that excitement. Also in and out were drummers, as Simple Minds’ drum stool continued to spin. Sometimes you get a song at the right moment.”, Quickly taped for a Radio 1 Kid Jensen session, Promised You A Miracle was done at The Townhouse studio in West London. And that line’s not a kick in the arse away from ‘Everything is possible’. Mick was an anchor for Charlie to weave in and out of.”. “The music sounded fully fledged,” Kerr remembers. “I saw a really good mate recently who I hadn’t seen since those days,” Kerr muses. Seeingone’s house turning gold in a dream means that a fire will consume his house. “That was a huge thing. Meaning of old watch. For the next move, 20-year-old Pete Walsh, fresh from making Heaven 17’s hit album Penthouse And Pavement and with a CV as engineer which included Stevie Wonder, was suggested as producer. Minting gold in a dream represents evil, death or destruction. You have to come close to radio’s average sound. “A lot of it was pretty. 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New Gold Dream She is the one in front of me, the siren and the ecstasy New Gold Dream Crashing beats and fantasy, setting sun in front of me New Gold Dream And the world goes hot And the cities take And the beat goes crashing All along the way She is your friend until the ocean breaks And when you dream, dream in the dream … Seeing broken chips of gold or a whole coin of gold in a dream means meeting with the ruler of the country or with the governor of town. He was replaced by Walsh’s friend Mel Gaynor (still with Simple Minds today). “There were four hundred people there, and it was quite goth but really electric,” Walsh remembers. If you have dreamed that you have stolen gold, it is not a good sign. But Burchill is on Kerr’s side, neither man into half-measures: “You either believe in the dream,” he says, “or go for the mundane and banal, which is nothing changes, nothing happens.”. We let the songs develop slowly, but kept them short, and light. In some ways we had.”. Buying a pair of gold watch. Virgin were much more musical, cooler people. Posted at 14:27h in Promotion Info by Simple Minds. New gold dream / She is the one in front of me, the siren and the ecstasy / New Which is where Promised You A Miracle came in.”, “There was a far brighter, more optimistic slant on what we were doing,” Burchill remembers of the music he and keyboard player Mick MacNeil started to write in January 1982 in the band’s default base, rehearsal rooms at Rockfield studios in Monmouthshire, Wales. New Gold Dream She is the one in front of me, the siren and the ecstasy New Gold Dream Crashing beats and fantasy, setting sun in front of me New Gold Dream And the world goes hot And the cities take And the beat goes crashing All along the way She is your friend until the ocean breaks And when you dream, dream in the dream … Simple Minds New Gold Dream Lyrics. “Bands from the ‘provinces’ all started staying there,” Kerr explains. We’d bitten off more than we could chew when we got there! Don’t have an account? Even as it climbed the chart the band were in The Old Mill, a church-like former pig farm in Fife, preparing music for what became New Gold Dream. And it seemed to suggest that there was a whole world out there, and stuff to experience, and stuff to get into. One of Scotland's finest exports, Simple Minds deliver a strong synth-reared release on New Gold Dream.This album harks the darker side of the band's musicianship, and such material alludes to their forthcoming pop-stadium sound which hurled them into rock mainstream during the latter part of the '80s. And we heard the beginnings of a new kind of sound. They knew that they were good.”, The band had returned from Australia at the end of 1981. “We got our first gold record down there,” Burchill recalls fondly. At weekends we played European festivals, and we would come back buoyant from that as well.”, “It was a great time,” Burchill agrees, “because we were jamming a lot, and Jim would have weird working titles, like Gold or Glittering or Summertime, defining the direction with a word or two. And ultimately that identity came from Jim. Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. As the 80s dawned, Simple Minds were in crisis. This live-for-the moment thing was starting to be celebrated. He influenced them in the end. “Promised You A Miracle was written then, way before the album. Guitars and synths glisten and glide, retaining the cinematic scope and atmosphere of earlier albums. The guitars are very distinctive on the whole album that followed, and very different to how I’d played before – cleaner, more melodic, lighter.”, Kerr’s exultant line ‘Everything is possible’ in Promised You A Miracle described Simple Minds’ mood then. Kenny Hyslop quit after Promised You A Miracle and was replaced by Mike Ogletree. I can tell you why we wanted it: because it wasn’t so long ago when we were drowning in debt and looking like we were about to get dropped [from their label], and playing to two men and a dog in Dortmund.”, Back in the studio, Walsh watched the crucial contributions of bassist Derek Forbes and keyboard player Mick MacNeil. New Gold Dream She is the one in front of me, the siren and the ecstasy New Gold Dream Crashing beats and fantasy, setting sun in front of me New Gold Dream And the world goes hot And the cities take And the beat goes crashing All along the way She is your friend until the ocean breaks And when you dream, dream in the dream … But optimism defines Simple Minds’ two main men, ever since they looked at the crumbling, violent Glasgow in which they grew up and saw only the possibilities on the horizon. And probably that led to hubris, and stadium rock.”. Then you had people like The The’s Matt Johnson, coming in and really sounding wonderful. It was very vivid and very moody.”, Walsh met Kerr in his hotel room after the show. Listen online and get new recommendations, only at Last.fm This dream means that you will receive some bad news very soon. “Me and Charlie were also watching French films like Godard’s Alphaville,” Kerr continues. “There was the atmosphere at the gig and also the atmosphere of the music, the way the keyboards and guitars were linked together. New Gold Dream still sounds like a classic album. New gold dream She is the one in front of me, the siren and the ecstasy New gold dream Crashing beats and fantasy, setting sun in front of me New gold dream And the world goes hot And the cities take And the beat goes crashing All along the way She is your friend until the ocean breaks And when you dream, dream in the dream with me And when you dream, dream in the dream … ‘Everything is possible,’ Kerr went on to sing in Promised You A Miracle, the single which epitomised Simple Minds’ unquenchable optimistic spirit and set them up to jostle with U2 for stadium success. Everyone at the record company said: ‘That’s a hit’, based on the song but also our momentum. Finally, only what became the title track was left to do. - If we dream, we try to BUY SOMETHING that has a good meaning, WITH GOLD, tells us that we can get something good that is related to the meaning of what we buy, however we are in … - If you dream of a BOX MADE OF GOLD OR OTHER FINE MATERIAL and is adorned with precious stones, means good fortune in money. I always loved the German director Werner Herzog, and he had a movie at the time called Fitzcarraldo [about a deranged effort to, among other things, haul a steamship over a mountain in the Amazon basin]. They were really hot and sweaty and quite mad. New Gold Dream originated in Simple Minds' unexpected popular and commercial success during an Australian tour with Icehouse, following the release of Sons and Fascination.The band was prompted by this experience to write "Promised You a Miracle" upon their return to Europe.In a 2012 interview, singer Jim Kerr … There was a problem. Thank you for signing up to Classic Rock. But such heights were dauntingly distant as the 80s began. And the songs come from everything that you’re taking in. © New Gold Dream lyrics performed by Simple Minds: New Gold Dream She is the one in front of me, the siren and the ecstasy New Gold Dream Crashing beats and fantasy, setting sun in front of me “I loved the romance of that,” he says. And the storm broke, and then the next day you have a beautiful morning. “The books, too, like The Tin Drum and Camus – it wasn’t enough to have a record collection, you needed to have a book collection too. “That’s how the music felt, and the language it brought out in me,” he says. We worked a lot on diction, and getting the hook lines and melodies repetitive and memorable.”. New gold dream She is the one in front of me, the siren and the ecstasy New gold dream Crashing beats and fantasy, setting sun in front of me New gold dream And the world goes hot And the cities take And the beat goes crashing All along the way She is your friend until the ocean breaks And when you dream, dream in the dream … “It might have been one of those amazing sound-checks – like, fucking glorious,” he says, “and I probably went back feeling: ‘This is the dog’s bollocks, and I’m going to write this as though it’s the dog’s bollocks.’ This is where we are now, this is where we’ve been, and where we’re going. Sons And Fascination reached No.11 but its single, The American, stalled outside the Top 40, leaving Simple Minds still without a hit song. New effects and new amplifiers drastically changed the colour and played a huge part in things back then. As a humane gesture from Walsh, the two drummers played the song New Gold Dream together, surrounded by a forest of mics. 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