I'm not saying I can't see why someone would think it was a neat song, and it's definitely the song that made me first pick up a Simple Mind compilation in like 1995. But the neatness of it eroded really quickly when I discovered almost everything from that point on was a rehashed version of it, with lesser and lesser returns each time. Regardless of whether or not it's fair, it's pretty human to start holding the "original" so to speak in less and less esteem with each mildly polished turd that comes in its wake.theplatypus wrote:I understand. It's not a Simple Minds song. It's a song that happened to be performed by Simple Minds. But it seems silly to begrudged the song because of how the band reacted to its success.
A few years later when someone suggested I pick up Life in a Day and Empires & Dance and I went back and really looked into the first era of their career, it was put into an even different perspective. All of the sudden there were probably 30-40 songs that gave me a bigger jolt of excitement than Don't You Forget About Me ever gave me, even when it was the song that made me go check them out to start with. So ultimately it becomes a case where something you love is forever defined by something that strikes you as being ultimately kinda mediocre on its own (I told Kaius in my first response that I don't hate the song, I'm pretty indifferent to it at this point), but also really detrimental to what you actually love about it in the long-term.
I listened to two minutes of this. Just... the worst.
